Another month draws to an end. Say goodbye to November by talking here about video games. Thanks to Roth for today’s image. Tomorrow is December, so go ahead and nominate your favorite old public-domain painting for December’s installments of Talk Amongst Yourselves. Please provide the artist’s name and the name of the paining. Don’t post…
In June 2009, Microsoft premiered a terrific hype trailer – “product vision,” they called it – for the device that would become this season’s Xbox 360 Kinect sensor. Vision trailers tend not to match reality. How close did Microsoft get? Here is that Kinect trailer, shown at E3 2009, back when the Kinect was still…
To: Totilo From: Bashcraft RE: It’s Beginning To Smell A Lot Like Christmas No real Christmas trees here in Osaka. Just small fake ones. But look, booze from North Korea! A friend brought it to me from Korea a while back, and I did try it. Haven’t worked up the courage to finish it yet……
Here’s a hint: It’s one of these 408 titles. (Oh, that top pic is a hint, too!) According to Japanese publisher Enterbrain, New Super Mario Bros. Wii has crossed the 4 million sold mark in Japan, making it the first Wii title to do so in The Land of the Rising Sun. New Super Mario…
Tomorrow in Japan, arguably this year’s most eagerly awaited game, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, goes on sale. It’s retail price is ¥5,800 (US$69). Buy it and make a profit. At least one store is offering ¥8,000 ($95) for unused copies of the game. Other used game shops are expected to pay retail or close to…
An industry body in the Middle East has gone and done something fascinating: they’ve launched a ratings system for games based not on a nation’s classification laws, but on the tenets of the Islamic faith. This makes it a world first, a system aimed at transcending national borders and laws and appealing directly to the…
The world of Fallout: New Vegas is a bleak and empty one. Nuclear holocausts will do that to a people. What everyone in the game needs, then, is a little dancing This mod brings a little dancing. Actually, it brings a lot of dancing, importing a ton of motion-captured dance routines into the game, then…
People are hacking Kinect, doing all sorts of amazing things with it like mapping their rooms and turning into a bloated mutant. But when does the screwing start? Sex tech website Slashdong wonders just that. Well, with it possible to teach Kinect to track boobs, then surely laying pipe must be around the corner, no?…
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Racing wheels open up a new level of play for driving games. They also take up space and many require tables to clamp onto. Shame there isn’t a coffee table that can transform into a racing set-up. Oh, but there is. After several prototypes, the RACE-STAR ConverTTable is finally going into production and priced at…
Major League Soccer will be getting a little more backing from a video game company next season, as EA Sports has revealed it’s become a major sponsor of expansion team the Vancouver Whitecaps. With the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live logos appearing on the playing strips of the Seattle Sounders, EA’s deal with the Whitecaps…
Toshihiro Nagoshi, the producer behind the Yakuza franchise, is moving from the gritty urban streets of Japan to somewhere more celestial: space. In the latest issue of Famitsu, Nagoshi talks about his upcoming project, Binary Domain. The game differs from his previous titles in that not only it is multi-platform and sci-fi themed, but it…
A figure of Dead or Alive star Kasumi is never going to be the classiest thing in the world, but then, Kasumi isn’t the classiest girl in the world, either, so I guess in this case things are working out just fine! She’s priced at around USD$80. That’s a lot of money for a piece…
One Wii console, one Wii Balance Board and apparently all 408 games released in Japan. Yours for a cool one million yen. That’s over US$11,000. Japanese used game shop Enterking is offering this limited one-off bundle for the Japanese New Year sales period. The complete bundle is largely used, sure, but Japanese gamers tend to…
Get ready for some feel-good times, as a man and his lady agree to be wed after a night spent dining, drinking wine then playing classic Nintendo RPG series Earthbound. This kind of stuff is sweet at the best of times, but hacking a copy of Mother 2 (or, as it’s known in the West,…
Same-Sex Marriage Thrives In Frontierville Comment by: NixNada Nominated by: Taggart451 Yeah, but this is the internet. You might THINK you’re cyber-marrying some guy, when in fact “he” is actually a hot 19 year old girl. You gotta be careful. Are The PlayStation 3-Exclusive Assassin’s Creed Missions Worth It? Comment by: DrDankstone Nominated by: D-K…
When people engage in the art of cosplay, we normally expect to see them dress up as characters from a video game, not a video game console itself. And when they do dress up as a console, we’d expect to see them dress up as a, well, console. Not what this lass is wearing, which…
One does not become a kabuki actor, it’s a male-only birthright. There are kabuki dynasties, and only the oldest son can star in kabuki theater. One of Japan’s most popular kabuki actors just got his face smashed in. And it might cost him his career. Ebizo Ichikawa XI, 32 years old, was born Horikoshi Takatoshi…
With one Kinect motion-sensing camera, we can see part of our surroundings in 3D. With two, however, we can actually generate 3D models of our surroundings. Oliver Kreylos, the man behind the first of these kind of videos, has got hold of a second camera and with it built an adorable little 3D model of…
One of the best parts about Halo: Reach was that, for the game’s all-important change of pace, the developers swapped out the awful Flood and replaced them with an enjoyable space battle sequence. So it’s a shame to hear that there was an original – if half-baked – plan to have a lot more space…
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