This Sure Seems Like Fez with JRPG Elements

Japanese social game maker Gloops just announced a new role-playing game with a very familiar bit. It’s not clear if the game makers were influenced by Fez, but the stages and the 2.5 gameplay mechanic certainly scream Fez, namely in how it’s used to find doors and items. Even some of the art style in…

A Shocking Number of People Want This Fugly Anime Car

This isn’t only the most hideous car offered for sale this year on the planet Earth, but also expensive and rare. There’s only one of these cars in existence. And nearly six hundred people put in orders to buy it at 7-Elevens in Japan. Yahoo News reports that there were 588 orders for the one-of-a-kind…

Dragon Dating Simulator is Certainly a Thing

An Austrian team is looking for funding for a game called Dragon Dating Simulator, in which… well, you date dragons. It looks highly unusual. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Have a peek at the trailer below: “We think dragons today are suffering from a substantial image problem,” reads the rather tongue-in-cheek Indiegogo page.…

Goodness, Orange-Flavored Potato Chips Sound Gross

But, you know what, they might not taste so bad. Right? Right?? C’mon, let’s just be glad this isn’t orange and toothpaste. Later this month, “mikan” (orange or tangerine in Japanese) potato chips go on sale nationwide in Japan. [Photo: masayothi] Actually, they’ll be out December 22, reports Street Girls Snap. The chips are from…

Red Faction: Guerrilla, the free-roam action game where you blow up buildings on Mars, just got a free “Steam Edition” update on PC. Among other things, the patch moves the game to Steamworks, adding leaderboards, achievements and trading cards, and completely removes Games for Windows Live. Full patch notes here

A Sneak Peek at Where Naruto Is Created

To mark the upcoming feature-length The Last: Naruto the Movie, Japanese television took at look at where Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto, well, creates Naruto With the manga’s current run wrapped up and a mini-series in the works for next spring, Mezamashi TV sent pop star and manga fan Rina Ikoma to check out Kishimoto’s studio.…

A Game About Spanking. Consensual Spanking.

Hurt Me Plenty is a game about spanking. Consensual adult spanking, not debatably-traumatic-for-small-children spanking. It aims to do one thing games are notoriously terrible at: be sexy. (Warning: might be mildly NSFW, though not really.) The free game, as you may have surmised by now, is about spanking dudes. For the time being, it only…

​What Are You Playing This December?

It’s December, which means that there are five thousand new video games to choose from. What to do in the face of so many video games? Start playing, I guess. For my part, I’m playing… well, everything. Too many things. Lots of open world games; I’m making my way through Far Cry 4, which I…

Guy Beat Dragon Age: Inquisition Solo, On Nightmare Mode

If you’re skilled enough, you don’t need a party to play through the new Dragon Age—even on the hardest difficulty available, soloing Inquisition is totally possible. It won’t be easy, but at least one player has managed to do it. Meet BOYvsVIDEOGAME. This brave player went through Dragon Age solo on nightmare mode, and you…

Watch Someone Fling Far Cry 4’s Elephants Into Space

While it’s ostensibly a game about humans, Far Cry 4’s insane and aggressive animals have become the breakout stars of Ubisoft’s new shooter. And since this is a Far Cry game, players have been having quite a bit of fun poking and prodding at the beasts. Just how fierce has the “man vs. wild” mindset…

You Can Now Livestream Games On Steam

Ever since the dawn of the Twitch livestreaming age, it’s seemed like a no-brainer for Steam to add some sort of quick and easy broadcasting option. And yet for some reason (hint: it’s Valve), they’ve taken their time. But finally, it’s here. Valve explained the new feature, called broadcast, on an update page. Finding a…

Heroes Of The Storm Welcomes Warcraft‘s Mightiest Sorceress

Along with some holiday-themed outfits and the introduction of timed stimpack buffs, the latest update for Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm does frost mages everywhere proud. You show ’em, Jaina. Lady Jaina Proudmoore, leader of the Kirin Tor and ruler of Dalaran. She’s been kicking ass in Warcraft since back before there was a world…