In the West, Microsoft is king. Well, queen. In Japan, it’s not — not by a country mile. The software giant needs every ally it can find. But even its most ardent supporters seem restless. Tokyo-based arcade developer Cave brought a handful of its shoot’em up games to the Xbox 360 instead of the PS3,…
Upcoming PSP game Final Fantasy Agito XIII has a new name (Final Fantasy Type-0), a release timeframe (Summer 2011 in Japan) and will come on two UMDs. Two! Madness.
Diablo III isn’t even out yet, but already we have a chance to check out the game’s Female Monk in action, courtesy of these amazing cosplay shots from model Christina. Also known as ZerinaX, Christina is a giant in the world of cosplay, having taken out the top prize at last year’s Blizzcon convention, an…
Amiga fans, rejoice: there is a new Cannon Fodder game in development! It’s being handled by GFI
After years of build-up and waiting, Final Fantasy XIII was released to so-so reviews. The game was a disappointment. But, if at first you don’t succeed, try again. Regardless of fan bickering or indifference, the game was a monster hit for Square Enix, moving over six million copies. The game’s developer, Square Enix, is working…
Tom Saville, an animator at Bungie Studios, had a great job on Halo: Reach. He got to do all the stabbings. Here, then, is a highlight reel of his work. Which means it’s two minutes of stabbings. OK, so that’s not all he did, as there are space ostriches and Noble Team member Jorge in…
Ninety-Nine-Nights is being turned into a PC MMO (with art by former SNK man Falcoon) for Japan and Taiwan.
Actress Milla Jovovich starred in all four Resident Evil films. While the movies are based on the games, her character is not. And man, that pisses off some internet nerds. Jovovich tells website CVG that the reason her character Alice was created was to avoid restrictive game story lines, which could change due to internal…
If you play Portal 2 on PS3, you can play with people on a PC. Neat! And to make sure as many people as possible are doing just that, the PS3 version of the game will include the PC version. All players have to do once they get the game is link their PlayStation Network…
You know how the next Elder Scrolls game has a fancy new engine? Why not read all about it. There’s even pictures!
When you were 14-years-old, what were you doing? Robert Nay is 14, and he’s programming a hit game. The eighth grader programmed the free physics-based puzzle game Bubble Ball for the iPhone, which knocked Angry Birds from the top spot on Apple’s free app chart after being released on December 29. It’s clocked over 2…
While every second person in China has their hands on a PlayStation Phone, the honour of the world’s first PSP2 “unboxing” goes to the crew at Way of the Rodent. OK, not really. Not only did they get an early look at the handheld (OK, not really), but it’s the Ivory Coast Special Edition to…
Sola Aoi, star of adult films like Oral Infection and Perverted Neighbor, has already captured the imagination of China with her ample talents, but is looking to do the same with her singing voice. The Tokyo native’s popularity exploded in China during the past few years as her adult videos made the internet rounds. The…
While everyone was having a great time at Nintendo’s big 3DS showcase in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago, some people weren’t having the greatest time afterwards, with a Japanese magazine reporting widespread cases of discomfort after use. Weekly tabloid magazine Friday claims that, having interviewed a range of people during and after the event,…
Don’t look now, but the Xbox 360 nearly outsold the Wii in the US last year.
You pull the trigger in a game, and a series of 1s and 0s determines whether you did anything in the virtual world. You pull the trigger on this thing and a real gun shoots at a real, living creature. Last year, Jay Williams – the man whose property the contraption was discovered on –…
With hackers showing the world what Kinect is truly capable of, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft decided to release its own, official PC support for the Xbox 360’s motion sensing camera. PC gossip site WinRumors reckons that Microsoft “is currently preparing an official Kinect SDK and driver support for Windows based…
This girl has. And her somber realization upon waking up that, no, sorry, you can’t double jump like Alucard or Samus or the Scout, is a good way to start an open thread. Don’t you think? Can’t say that I’ve ever been fooled into thinking I had double-jumping skills, but of course I’ve dreamed of…
Steve Ballmer, head honcho at Microsoft, argues that Kinect for the Xbox 360 is the way to get 15-year-old girls cursing up a storm on Xbox Live in a new interview with USA Today The animated Microsoft CEO ends that quote by saying “we haven’t done as good a job drawing in that broader set…
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