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Buy Your Very Own Knight Of The Old Republic
Darth Revan, the “star” of classic role-playing game Knights of the Old Republic, has been immortalised in polystone. It’d be cooler if it was carbonite, but that stuff doesn’t do fine details as well. Standing 6 1/2-inches tall, this half-bust has the guy masked and holding two lightsabers, the colours of which you can swap…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedDragon Age Brought To Life (With No Money)
Leo Kei Angelos loves Dragon Age. But he doesn’t have buckets of cash to squander on an expensive movie tribute. Nor does he have actress Felicia Day. He does have snow, though. Fake blood, too. “To do something epic like Dragon Age justice without a lot of money is challenging, to say the least,” Angelos…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Contra Goes Medieval, Japanese-Style
This is Contra. Just not as you know it. It’s the hardcore 80’s shooter reimagined by William “xiabaosg” Chua, who depicts Bill and Lance as fuedal Japanese warriors. You can see more shots of the piece over on Chua’s Facebook page. Scroll a bit further down and you can see an equally-badass picture of Link…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Game Is From The Future. THERE’S NO TIME TO EXPLAIN.
Tiny Build Games, a small indie team, is working on a platformer called No Time To Explain. And it looks amazing. Using the same gun to both jump and shoot looks neat, sure, but I just like that voice acting. Having an art style that looks like something Dan Paladin (of Alien Hominid and Castle…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Akihabara Killer Sentenced To Death
On June 8, 2008, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato drove a rented truck into a crowd in Tokyo’s geek paradise, Akihabara. He got out and began stabbing random pedestrians. In his wake, seven were left dead and ten injured. Today in a Tokyo district court, Kato was sentenced to death. The presiding judge stated that Kato was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
LEGO Pikmin? What An Awesome Idea
After over two years of hard work, Filip Johannes Felberg has completed his masterpiece: a recreation of the entire cast of Pikmin in LEGO form. When we say the entire cast, we mean it: Captain Olimar, every Pikmin, every enemy and even every type of plant found in the game can be found in Felberg’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Voice Actress Gives Pin-Up Modeling One Last Shot?
In January 2010, voice actress Chiaki Takahashi blogged that she was releasing one more book of pin-up pictures and then calling it a day. She was retiring from cheese cake modeling. If recent news is to be believed, Takahashi is coming back. Known for her voice work in fighting game BlazBlue and sim The Idolmaster,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Is How Assassin’s Creed Was Meant To Be Played
The Glorious PC Master Race believe themselves a superior class of gamer because of stuff like this. And really, when you see it, you can’t blame them. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood may have been released late on the PC, but there are certain benefits to be had playing it on a personal computer. Like being able…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ryu Isn’t So Nice In Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Tomorrow, Japanese arcade gamers will get the chance to try out Evil Ryu in Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition. He’s like regular Ryu, only because some of his attacks are more powerful, they’re slower.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Biggest Fan Movie Build Up Ever
As early as 2008, there were rumblings of an ambitious UK-based Halo fan film. The following year, the film’s director, Pete Cooper, revealed he planned to raise £30,000 (US$48,000) for the picture, dubbed Halo: Operation Chastity. That’s low budget, but still five times what Robert Rodriguez needed to make El Mariachi It’s 2011, and there…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedIt’s Like The Inflatable Robot’s On Drugs
In Taiwan, an inflatable Android robot was enlisted to promote the Sony Xperia Play cell phone. But it wasn’t just any inflatable robot, it was a dancing inflatable robot. Whoever was wearing this Android outfit has a lot of energy – maybe a little too much energy. If people ever ask you if Android is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Your PS3 Headset Isn’t As Badass As This Guy’s
When el8id games on his PS3, he doesn’t use a regular Bluetooth headset. He uses a military-issue helmet from the 1980s, making him look more like “Maverick” than “some guy playing a video game”. Buying the helmet for $22 from a thrift store, el8id kept some of the original wiring and components inside and replaced…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 -
UncategorizedIf Pokémon Aren’t Slaves, Then Why Do You Call Yourselves Masters?
It’s about time somebody thought of the Pokémons. They’re people too! Well, not people…pocket monsters. But when you cut them, they bleed, and…well, no, they don’t do that either. They just faint a lot. Look, just stop capturing these poor creature and enslaving them, OK? It’s not right.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallSega’s Most “Shameful”, “Sick” And “Disgusting” Video Game
No, we’re not talking about Sonic The Hedgehog, in which an animal makes out with a human. We’re talking about Night Trap, a Sega CD game released in 1992 that may have been the stormiest tea cup in video game history. Developed by Digital Pictures, a studio that specialised in the full-motion-video-laden games of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 - Uncategorized
Forza 4 Has 500 Cars, Lets You Touch Them (And Drive With Your Face)
We’ve known that Forza Motorsport 4, when it releases later this year, will support Kinect as a control method. A marketing survey now hints at what some of those features might be, such as head tracking to move the game’s camera, and a casual mode that allows players to steer with their hands, similar to…
By Owen Good Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedI Think It Works
Folks, we’ve got some Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP to play tonight on this here iPhone, so you’ll have to excuse me for making tonight’s open thread so abrupt. But here’s a new trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger to get the conversation going. I, personally, dig it. Oh, if you’d like to purchase…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
PS3 Hacker Didn’t Flee, Did Hand Over Hard Drives, Says Lawyer
The attorney for George Hotz, the hacker being sued by Sony for jailbreaking the PlayStation 3, denies that Hotz fled to South America to avoid a court order and says he has delivered his impounded hard drives as required to a neutral party. Sony, in a court filing, had alleged the drives were delivered with…
By Owen Good Published March 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Onion Exposes ‘Shaken Manchild Syndrome’
Are video game-playing, comic book-reading manchildren the victims of an unexposed crime? The Onion News Network’s Fact Zone takes a look at the epidemic of basement dwelling twentysomethings who are the subjects of violence from frustrated parents. Celebrity spokesman Ben Stiller throws his weight behind the cause. What a terrible, terrible tragedy… Cases Of Shaken…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2011
