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To: Totilo From: Bashcraft RE: Subtac Eht The father-in-law recently took Mini-Bash to Kobe for the day to check out this 50-foot-tall statue of Gigantor. The 50-ton statue is actually 59 feet tall, but is not standing up straight. Gigantor was created by Kobe’s own Mitsuteru Yokoyama. The statue is in Kobe’s Wakamatsu Park, a…
You know, there’s something about MMOs that makes my skin crawl. Can’t stand them. Yet whenever EVE Online pops up – like it has with this trailer, for new expansion “Dominion” – my resolve weakens. Just a little. Dominion is EVE’s 12th free expansion, and it’s out today.
You laughed when Reggie bet the farm that New Super Mario Bros. Wii would outsell Modern Warfare 2. We laughed too. But last weeks British sales charts show he may be onto something. Because Modern Warfare 2 has already been toppled from its perch, after only two weeks on sale. And it’s been toppled by…
The post-apocalyptic martial arts manga Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) is coming to the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 in Japan in March 2010. Dubbed Hokuto Musou, it’s part of Koei’s successful “Musou” series of games. Get ready to punch people into BLOODY EXPLOSIONS! As we previously posted, the manga debuted…
From April Fools joke to cult hero, World of Warcraft‘s Pandaren have come a long, long way. Now, they can go a little further, and join you slobbing it at your desk. For a limited time, Blizzard will be selling action figures of their most special fat panda, Chen Stormstout. They’ll be $50, and available…
Halo Legends, Microsoft’s collaboration with some of the biggest productions house of the anime industry, has a Japanese release date. The film will be released February 16, 2010 on DVD, Blu-ray and digital platforms. The ¥5,980 Blu-ray version is a two-disc set, while the ¥4,980 DVD version comes on three discs. Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production…
Texas-based developer Vigil have been working on a Wargammer 40K MMO for years now. And in all that time, have shown only a single piece of concept art. Let’s add a little to that, eh? A friendly source has sent us these pieces of concept art for the game, used in the early stages of…
Taiwanese player 小灰 from the TW-Wrathbringer guild hasn’t actually “beaten” MMO World of Warcraft, because you can’t actually beat the open-ended game. But damn, his stats are impressive. According to website MMO Champion, the player has completed all the achievements except for the recently added “BB King” and is the first player to reach 986/986…
As seen on Iron Forge, via GameSetWatch.
From the International Robot Expo in Tokyo comes this Gundam robot brawl. Warning: Not for those squeamish about robot violence. Gundam vs. Gundam [Japan Probe]
World of Warcraft has been compared to many things over the years. Everquest at first, then later, crack. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen it compared to street gangs in LA. Earlier this year, scientists from the US and China published a paper called “Human group formation in online guilds and offline gangs driven…
Erotic game “Real Kanojo” (“Real Girlfriend”) has widescreen, 3-D and even webcam face tracking. That is, if you have a decent gaming computer. But what if you don’t? Well, you get mangled graphics like this. Real Girlfriend is real scary, yo. Real scary. The stuff of nightmares! ハイスペックエロゲ『リアル彼女』を低スペックPCでプレイすると・・・ その2 [はちま起稿]
You may have seen one of these clips before, where a custom level is built for Super Mario World that automatically plays a tune. But you probably never saw one playing the part of all four members of Queen. [thanks denki!]
The latest entry in the Metal Gear Solid will be hitting the 2010 in Japan on March 18 game mag Famitsu reports. Starring Naked Snake, the game takes place in Costa Rica during the 1970s — 10 years after Metal Gear Solid 3 and chronicling the rise of Outer Heaven. Check out our impressions from…
Next week sees the release of Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 on PSP in Japan. Or, as its known in the game’s homeland, Winning Eleven 2010. To celebrate, there’ll be a Winning Eleven PSP-3000 on sale. Adorned with both the logo for the Winning Eleven series and the UEFA Champions League – the game’s main selling…
As previously posted, clothing designer Mark Ecko is ready to remake his game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. The game is a story of how, with love and courage, one man heroically spray painting crap on a wall can triumph over oppression and give a voice to people yearning to be free. Or just make…
When Capcom release “Final Fight: Double Impact” next April, you’ll not only be getting two retro side-scrollers for your money, but some different graphics modes as well. Here are your options. You get four: the original sprites, the hideous “HD Smooting”, and either of those can viewed in a standard 4:3 letterbox view or a…
According to game site Aeropause Games, Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka has apparently left Konami. He has worked at the company for the past 16 years. Yamaoka’s trademark music and sounds are very much part of the Silent Hill experience. He has been producer of the series since Silent Hill 3. If this is in…
Stardock’s claim that it holds 10% of the PC digital download market have been shrugged off by two of the company’s main competitors, Direct2Drive and GamersGate. GamersGate CEO Theodore Bergquist tells Kotaku that “We have daily direct contact with all major publishers out there, we can benchmark most of our numbers with both Steam and…
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