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I Don’t Eat Much Meat These Days
To: Crecente From: Bash Not sure why. I like beef just fine! But I’m only eating it maybe twice a month. Domestic beef is on the pricy side in Japan. People do buy Australian and U.S. beef, but Japanese beef is more popular, I guess. These Japanese steaks are about US$33 for both. Meat can…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2010 -
UncategorizedToast This Zelda Wine Glass Cover
When YouTube user Sp0ntanius covered the tune “Song of Healing” from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, he didn’t do it with traditional instruments. He did it with wine glasses and water. And he did it with himself. Several Sp0ntaniuses play the tune in a one-man-band and even help each other out by filling their…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Monster Hunter Juice Is Yellow
Japan’s biggest PSP franchise Monster Hunter Portable is getting a beverage for players to drink and think about hunting monsters. It is yellow. Starting December 17, a Monster Hunter version of Japanese drink Dodekamin is being released in The Land of the Rising Sun. It is laced with honey in a special “hunter blend” and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Video Games Are Not Art, They Are…Cars
Sounds nutty. But let me explain! So much of the tired old argument that “video games are art!” is based upon a direct comparison of this medium to another. Comparing the emotions, characters, setting, art style and soundtrack to that found in film, television or to a lesser extent comic books. Those things are (usually,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Won’t Be Making Games For Offline Loners Anymore
If you’re the type of gamer to shun online interactivity and retreat into your own little video gaming world when you play, you won’t like what EA Games’ boss Frank Gibeau has to say. Chatting with trade site Develop, Gibeau says “I volunteer you to speak to EA’s studio heads; they’ll tell you the same…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Resident Evil Game With No Story
Horror series Resident Evil is coming to the upcoming Nintendo 3DS with Resident Evil: Revelations and Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. Revelations is only 20 percent done, but The Mercenaries is 70 percent finished. Why is that? Well, probably because The Mercenaries 3D is a Nintendo 3DS port of “The Mercenaries” modes from the past…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sex Club Game Has Japanese Players By The Balls
Japanese entertainment company DMM.com offers a whole host of services, like PS3-based movie rental. But what it’s mostly known for is pornography, whether it’s selling adult movie downloads for the PSP or just selling straight-up adult movie downloads. It’s not surprising that DMM.com’s venture into hardcore online gaming is just that, hardcore. Dubbed “Virtual Sex…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Resistance 3 Wishes You Were Here
Resistance 3 is giving off a very Half-Life 2 vibe, with the tattered remnants of humanity fighting a war of survival against an alien oppressor. So why does everything look so bright and cheery? This collection of concept art and screenshots for the upcoming PS3 shooter show an America overrun, the evil Chimera practically victorious…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Shenmue Operator In Trouble With The Law
While Facebook might be all the rage in the West, in Japan, it’s all Mobage-Town. The service is attracting big titles like Shenmue and is a hit with players. It’s not a hit with investigators. The site’s operator DeNA is under investigation for unfair competitive practices, Reuters reports. According to Sankei News, this past summer,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Space Marines Aren’t Fans Of The Clean Kill
Space Marine — the upcoming action game set in the world of Warhammer 40,000 — has a taste for a bit of the old ultra-violence if these new screens are anything to go by. I mean, there’s blood. There’s shooting things in the face. There’s more blood. There’s a chainsword in the guts. There’s even…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
With These Cards, Show Your Po-Po-Po-Pokémon Face
There are Pokémon cards that are used to play the Pocket Monsters card game, and then there are these. And these are magnificent. Nintendo is releasing a set of Pokémon playing cards. There are, of course, a Pokémon Black set and a Pokémon White set, with two Zekrom cards as the Joker for the White…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Turning WikiLeaks Into Video Games
The whole drama surrounding whistle-blower organisation WikiLeaks has made for the juiciest political story in years. So it was only a matter of time before people started turning it into a video game. Freshly-minted project WikiLeaks Stories is more interesting than just a single game based on Julian Assange and his team of international activists,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
GT5’s Toy Car Logos Are “Embarrassing” (And Gone)
Real driving simulator Gran Turismo 5 features an Easter Egg for lovers of model cars. The undercarriage of a GT5 auto sports the logo of die-cast collectible maker AUTOArt. Enjoy it while you can, because that logo will soon be erased. According to Gran Turismo 5 designer Kazunori Yamauchi, the developers collaborated with AUTOArt, receiving…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2010 -
UncategorizedThis Might Be The Perfect Street Fighter Combo
As someone who is more often on the receiving end of Street FIghter combos, I can only look at this man string together 149 hits in a row and applaud. Street Fighter IV player Desk has found what must surely be the “perfect” combo in the game, using Chun-Li to string together 149 uninterrupted blows…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
For Idols, Even Twitter Following Is Scandalous
Yu Darvish, the half-Japanese half-Iranian pitcher for the Nippon-Ham Fighters, is a popular guy. He’s tall, handsome and a brilliant pitcher. And he’s being followed by Japan’s biggest voice actress. Aya Hirano hit it big with anime otaku in 2006 when she voiced the title character in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, as well as…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: The God Of War Will Slaughter Mortal Kombat
According to reports circulating online this evening, the latest issue of the Official Playstation Magazine contains the news that Kratos, star of the God of War series, will be a playable character in the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot. While he won’t be a part of Mortal Kombat’s story mode, he will be available in regular…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
You Will Soon Be Able To “Play” Gran Turismo 5 From Your Computer
One of Gran Turismo 5’s more hardcore features is the game’s “B-Spec” mode, which lets you manage a car race instead of driving one. Soon, part of this feature will be coming to a PC (or Mac!) near you. Since all you’re doing in B-Spec mode is issuing basic commands like “enter the pits” or…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Is Not A Shot From Red Dead Redemption: The Movie
Though it could easily be. No, this is “mere” cosplay, Ben Van Dyken giving it 1001% with his John Marston costume, getting not only the threads right, but the dirty dirt and even the locale for the photo shoot. These shots in the gallery to your left are just the start; Van Dyken has also…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
See The 193 LEGO Vic Vipers Of ‘Nnovvember’
The star of Konami’s classic side-scrolling shoot ’em up Gradius has been remixed, re-imagined and rebuilt hundreds of times in LEGO brick form, perhaps most notably by late brick enthusiast Nate Nielson. So it was remixed again this past “Nnovvember.” “Nnovvember” is the month LEGO fans build their own interpretation of the Vic Viper, adhering…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 7, 2010