Two Different Games, The Same Dang Character

On July 29, PS3 title Hyperdimension Neptunia was released in Japan. Late last week, Record of Agarest War 2 hit Japan. Hey, wait a sec… There’s something familiar, and it’s not just the game covers. Both titles were developed by Idea Factory and Compile Heart. While Hyperdimension Neptunia is a role-playing send up of the…

Microsoft Will Not Be Taking Kinect “Hackers” To Court

When people first started talking about messing around with the insides of the Kinect, Microsoft played bad cop, making legal threats. Thankfully, things have calmed down since then. A few weeks back, Microsoft said – in response to a “bounty” being offered to the first person to “hack” Kinect – that it would “work closely…

Show Some Brotherly Love For This Assassin’s Creed Art

Now that the game is on store shelves and impressing people’s pants off, Nicolas Collings — an artist at Ubisoft — has been able to share some of his work from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Men, women, faces, weapons, armour…there’s a nice variety of content on display, all of it showing just how many polygons go…

3DS Games Won’t Send Developers Broke, But…

Never mind that we don’t know how much a Nintendo 3DS game costs to buy, developers need to develop the games first. And that costs money. According to Harvest Moon publisher Marvelous Entertainment, Nintendo 3DS games cost — depending on the title — between ¥70,000,000 (US$838,976) at minimum and ¥100,005,000 ($1,198,598) at max. These, of…

Kinect Can Turn You Into Star Wars Kid

Star Wars Kid, one of the internet’s earliest celebrities, had to do his lightsaber combat the hard way. Now, with Kinect and a computer, anyone can look like the world’s biggest Star Wars nerd. Using a hacked Kinect, Yankeyan has rigged up this basic tool that can track a user wielding a wooden stick and,…

Make Your Own Cheapo Version Of The Nintendo 3DS

The Nintendo 3DS is a glasses-free 3D gaming portable due next February for ¥25,000 (US$299). That’s a long ways away! Let’s make a low budget version right now First you’ll need a Nintendo DS, DS Lite, DSi or DSi XL. Take your pick! Next? Next you’ll a lenticular lens sheet. Then? Then, you’ll need tape.…

This Guy Can Finish Myst Faster Than I Can Make A Cup Of Tea

I can’t remember if I ever even finished PC adventure game Myst. There was just so much sitting, and thinking, and doing nothing. This guy, he’s finished Myst. And he’s done it in under two minutes. Don’t believe me? Check the clip above, which clocks in at around 1:45. The guy has click madness, so…

The Games, Girls And Hardware Of Korea’s Biggest Expo

GStar, South Korea’s annual video game expo, ended on Sunday, but the show’s photos live on. The event showcased computer games like World at Warcraft: Cataclysm, arcade games like Tetris Giant, iPad games like Kart Rider, and console games from the PS3 and Xbox 360. Check out the festivities in the gallery below with images…

Let’s Dress Like It’s The End Of The World (And We’re Playing STALKER)

GSC Game World, developers of the cult PC shooter series STALKER, think there are people out there who would like to dress like someone who scrounges around in post-apocalyptic wastelands. So they’ve come up with an official line of STALKER clothing! You can’t buy any of these yet – GSC are just in the “prototype”…

Why Play Video Games When They Play Themselves

Woody Allen once said, “Showing up is 80 percent of life.” It seems to be 100 percent of new Xbox 360 game Joy Ride. Developed by Big Park Studios, Kinect Joy Ride is a launch title for Microsoft’s new motion peripheral. The game is one of the weaker titles in the Kinect retail launch line-up…

A Visual Guide To GStar

NSFW: Snake’s Behaviour In The Field Has Been Erratic (At Best)

It says a lot about the Metal Gear Solid series that the best description of its follies I’ve ever seen comes from an Irish comedian. The man on stage is Dara O’Briain, who as you can see, is such a big fan of the Metal Gear series (and plenty of other games!) that he devotes…

You Too Can Play Video Games In A Virtual Aircraft Sitting In Your Driveway

You don’t need to spend tens of thousands of dollars if you want to own your own flight simulator. You can just do what this guy did and build your own! Matt Thomas built this rig, called the Moving Axis AirCraft Simulator (MAACS), in a way that sounds astonishingly simple when you consider what’s been…

Green, Orange DSi Consoles To Go On Sale This Week

Interest in the Nintendo DS is drying up as people await the arrival of the new 3DS. Which means Nintendo has to resort to an old trick to keep shifting units: release handhelds in new colours. We’ve been passed this retail listing from Best Buy, showing some of the chain’s Black Friday deals. Alongside a…

The Great Hug Pillow Arrest

Some cops arrest drug dealers, murderers and master thieves. In Tokyo, Japanese police arrested a 25-year-old vocational student from China for selling knock-off hug pillows. Called “dakimakura” in Japanese, the term is used to refer to all types of hug pillows (even those orthopedic in nature), but in recent years, they have become synonymous with…

Sony Has ‘Exclusive PlayStation 3 Reveal’ The Day After Spike VGAs

The day after Spike TV’s Video Game Awards hit us with a deluge of new trailers, game reveals and celebrity guest appearances, Sony will hold an “exclusive PlayStation 3 reveal” event in Hollywood. What could it be? Uncharted 3? While the invite makes no mention of the game (or games) that Sony will have present…

Shaun White Skateboarding Visual Guide

Review: Shaun White Skateboarding’s Path Of Enlightenment

Some skating games show things that are, and ask you “why not?” Shaun White Skateboarding sees things that aren’t, and leaves you to ask “why.” Ubisoft hitches its hopes in the skating genre, populated by heavies like Activision’s Tony Hawk series and EA’s Skate, to Shaun White, a gold medalist snowboarder. The differentiator in this…

Think Clearly And Carry A Big Stick

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Fridays Folks have heard me complain about the lack of maintenance response in my apartment, so when a heating duct decided to offer some thoroughly maddening screeching, I knew I was gonna be on my own. It’s in a floor vent and I’d hit the sides of the thing with…

Ten Minutes Of Mega Man Online Gameplay Surfaces

The first two official trailers for Mega Man Online, the sidescrolling MMO, were both two minutes of nothing but cinematics. Here’s more than twice that amount, all of it gameplay. This went up earlier this week, apparently filmed by a Korean site. Opinions? Reactions? Yeah, you’ve got ’em. Let’s hear it. Thanks to Krakenstein for…