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It’s Game On In Japan’s Sex Hotels

In Japan, there is an array of hotel options. There are traditional inns, business hotels and places like Hotel Akaikutsu (above) where people go to screw each other’s brains out. And when they finish, they can play video games. Love Hotels have their origins in the post World War II years, when prostitution was legalized…

Rock Band Rocks Harder With Real Guitars

I haven’t played guitar since university, and haven’t done science since high school, so the particulars of this are lost on me. What I do know, though, is that rigging up a real electric guitar to play Rock Band is awesome. This isn’t a fancy controller made exclusively for Rock Band, it’s a real, honest-to-goodness…

Champions Online Goes Cheap Online

Massively-multiplayer superhero game Champions Online will go free-to-play on January 25.

Check Out The Inside Of A 3DS

Now that we know Nintendo 3DS units go walkabout from their Chinese manufacturing facilities, it was only a matter of time before one showed up that had been torn apart like it had been set upon by wild dogs. It’s rare to see an unreleased piece of hardware so…exposed like this, so technophiles and hardware…

Team Fortress 2 Is Art

Art student Christopher Wyant found a novel way to exhibit his works for a university project: display them as objects in a game of Team Fortress 2. To give his exhibition a little extra punch, Wyant inserted pictures of his ceramic works into the online shooter as stencils, took screengrabs of them, then posted those…

Two For Tuesday

Talk amongst yourselves, after dark, in this thread, where anything and everything from pop culture to nerdy pursuits to personal anecdotes goes down. And sometimes we talk about how pretty Sucker Punch looks. The studio dropped a new, widescreen look at Zack Snyder’s next movie about attractive women doing… something… in the form of a…

Sony Fires Back At PlayStation 3 Hackers

After having the PlayStation 3 opened up to hacks, custom firmware and software piracy, Sony is firing back—legally—at the groups responsible for cracking the console wide open. According to documents featured on the web sites of hacker George “geohot” Hotz and hacking group fail0verflow, Sony Computer Entertainment America is seeking a temporary restraining order against…

Who Knew Donkey Kong Could Be This Gorgeous?

Beautiful concept art for Retro Studios’ Donkey Kong Country Returns shows that this Wii game could have been a different looking beast. Artist Sammy Hall posted early design work for the Wii game at his blog and on the Concept Art forums late last year, showing off some concepts that didn’t make it into the…

StarCraft II’s Latest Upgrade Is Huge

Blizzard has released a big update (version 1.20) for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, adding new chat channels, customizable hotkeys, a Master League tier and an “extreme” graphics option. More on balance changes and bug fixes at Battle.net

A Touching Rendition Of Secret Of Mana

Porting a turn-based role-playing game to the iPhone is simple. Nailing the controls on a classic action RPG like Secret of Mana is another thing entirely. How did Square Enix do? This is a pretty faithful recreation of the original classic on the iPhone (or iPad, in this case), and the controls are about as…

James Bond Comes Back To Movie Theaters In 2012

James Bond will be coming back to the big screen for his 23rd film on November 9, 2012, starring Daniel Craig as the super spy, a film that’s reportedly a direct follow-up to 2008’s Quantum of Solace. The next Bond film was originally planned for a 2011 release, but financial woes at studio MGM pushed…

Epic Sends Me The Tiniest Gin and Tonic

Thank God I have adult-sized versions of this mini Gin and Tonic kit in my bar. Sadly, it does not fit into a briefcase. What you missed This Is Either The Best Or Worst Video Game Shopping Advice Microsoft’s Answer to Portable Gaming is Windows Phone 7 It’s Official: Verizon Gets the iPhone, Now With…

PlayStation Store Update: Get Back Into The Swing Of Things

Fans of faeries and prinnies will want to fire up the old PlayStation Network today, but don’t expect too much of this week’s serving of digital downloads for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. Music-wise, the North American PlayStation Store is rich with content, but with the advent of the new year, we’re still getting back…

The Next Contra Fights In February

Hard Corps: Uprising, Konami’s cartoonish take on Contra, hits Xbox Live Arcade on February 16 for 1200 Microsoft Points. That’s part of the Xbox Live Arcade House Party push.

At Least This Guy’s Excited About Mark Wahlberg In Uncharted

The popular choice for the role of Uncharted‘s Nathan Drake keeps things classy on Twitter, weighing in on the unexpected casting of Mark Wahlberg as the charismatic, half-tucked treasure hunter in the big screen adaptation.

What If Princess Peach And Zelda Just Like Being Kidnapped?

How do two strong-willed, independent women like Peach and Zelda wind up abducted all the time? College Humor presents the only answer that makes sense. Click to view This makes perfect sense. Ganondorf and Bowser always seem to go great lengths towards making sure their captives are as comfortable as possible. There’s certainly never any…

The Next Devil May Cry Is On The iPhone

Wait longer for the reinvention of the Devil May Cry series in the form of the game DMC. But wait only until the end of the month to see 2008’s Devil May Cry 4 turned into an iPhone game. Website Slide To Play says the game, Devil May Cry 4 Refrain, will have 10 levels,…

Zero. Maverick Hunter Zero.

An upgraded Zero, with his rad energy-based sword, makes an appearance in Daniel Kho‘s submission for the UDON Mega Man Tribute art contest! Maverick Hunter Zero by Daniel Kho / lordbaells Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.

Journey Creator Breathes His Game To Life

From his mouth to the screen, as seen in the PlayStation blog interview with thatgamecompany’s Jenova Chen about the artistic inspirations for his upcoming PlayStation Network game Journey. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.