Blizzard tells VideoGamer it has spent more development time focusing on “content and cool features” than on anti-piracy tech. What’s more, DRM is described as a “losing battle”. This attitude, however, sounds like a winning one.
After sitting out fighting game The King of Fighters XII, jiggly ninja Mai Shiranui is returning for KOFXIII. And she’s bringing butt floss with her. To mark the occasion, Mai is getting a 1/5 scale “Hip Line Ver. Omega Style”. (In Japanese, “hip” also refers to one’s backside.) This will be released in December 2010…
Cosplay nut Gixxer85, from Malaysia, doesn’t just like dressing up as Master Chief, he likes having people – professional people – take his photo while doing so. Taking to an abandoned office building with his custom-built Spartan suit and custom-built weapons, Gixxer85 certainly looks the part. Without seeing him run around sticking grenades on things…
Eurogamer Portugal, attending a press event in Spain earlier this week, reckon Namco Bandai’s Katsuhiro Harada revealed that his team is already at work on Tekken 7. While this seems like more a pre-E3 slip of the tongue than a genuine product reveal, it’s hardly the stuff of night terrors. A seventh Tekken game? Why…
David Hayter is a rarity. He has made a name for himself in voice games as a voice actor and in movies as a Hollywood screenwriter. With a foot in both worlds, no doubt he has a unique point of view on video game movies. Over at the MTV Movies Blog, Hayter gives his opinion…
Hey, Josh! Stop making fun of teen werewolves, OK? They’re people, too. With feelings. And a love of Tim Burton films. They just want to be left alone, in a world of black lipstick, sewing scissors, Twilight novels and feelings Josh, we don’t care that your Van Helsing jokes are surprisingly witty. Or that this…
Stephen Perry, who was a writer for 1980s cartoon ThunderCats, recently went missing. His van was found last Sunday. Inside it, a man’s severed arm. Stephen Perry, police now report, is dead. The 56-year-old writer went missing from his Zephyrhills, Florida home, which authorities discovered was ransacked. His roommates, James Davis (45) and Roxanne Davis…
Sega has been teasing the release of an all-new Total War game for the last week or so, with a full reveal set for E3. Looks like their cover may have been blown by some sloppy pre-show organisation, however. Booking some press visits for the upcoming trade event, Turkish site Oyungezer says it was pencilled…
Quest of Persia takes inspiration from Prince of Persia, but the game, its developer points out, is more Persian. The full story over at Slate.
Wooden Super Robot Taisen Statue carved by Jason. As seen by Akiba Blog
Sanrokumaru (literally 3-6-0) is Microsoft’s new mascot in the Japanese market. He’s a talented guy! Not only can he throw a baseball, but he can maintain a giant fighting robot as well. This is a new commercial for Virtual-On Force, the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade port of Sega’s 2001 arcade game (and successor to last…
And what a horrible, horrible photo. At a recent press conference in Japan, director Paul W.S. Anderson showed off some new images of upcoming film Resident Evil: Afterlife. RE character Jill Valentine was rumored to appear in the film. Seems like she is! The women on the screen is actress Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine.…
The impending release of a new, multiplayer Castlevania game called Harmony of Despair looks a lot more likely today, after a rating for the rumoured title turned up on Australia’s Classification Board website. It’s been listed as an Xbox 360 title (most likely Xbox Live Arcade), and…that’s about it. There’s nothing new to add from…
Right now, you all might be digging your own holes. The recent rash of suicides at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory has shined a light on the fact that large companies like Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have contracted out the manufacturing for devices like the iPad, the Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 to Chinese…
Hey, Final Fantasy XIII fans. Want to see Square Enix rip you off on the iPad? Again? At ¥700 (USD$7.50), and out today in Japan, there’s an app for that
Here’s your first look at Killzone 3 in action! Sorry it’s not in 3D. And sorry there’s no sound. And sorry it looks like it was shot in a strip club. Enough apologising, though, because we didn’t film this. Some guy did, obviously without Sony or Guerilla Games knowing about it, Sony did, then some…
Tony Stark in diapers! Directed by Patrick Boivin and starring his lovely little daughter. Iron Baby [DannyChoo]
It’s not just match-fixing allegations making waves in Korea’s Starcraft scene; Blizzard has just caused an uproar by switching official broadcasters, a move that “threatens the infrastructure and funding of pro Starcraft in Korea”. More on Team Liquid
Following the deaths of over a dozen of its workers in recent weeks, Nintendo has declared it will be investigating the working conditions at Foxconn, one of the Chinese companies responsible for manufacturing the Wii. Sixteen employees have jumped from the rooftops of Foxconn buildings over the past few months, attempting to commit suicide rather…
The iPad finally goes on sale in Japan today. The country’s TV news have been covering the launch as well as another product on sale in nearby China: the iPed. According to this TBS news report, the iPed is on sale in Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen is the location of the largest Foxconn plant, where the…
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