If you thought Anime Expo 2014, held the other day in LA, was just for nerd stuff and cosplay, think again. It was, very secretly, also the filming location for an action movie trailer. Cosplay Los Angeles made this neat clip, filming various cosplayers over the weekend doing all kinds of TENSE and HEROIC things…
Andrew Domachowski is an artist who has worked at places like Disney and Microsoft. He also has some ideas about Smash Bros. You can see more of Andrew’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click…
Smoking Simulator is, thankfully, a little more involved than the name suggests. This isn’t a simulation of the act of smoking. It’s a simulation of the act of trying not to (or to) kill everyone around you one the smokes run out. The game was made for the same Indie Game Maker contest as Purrkour,…
Crysis is a first-person series. There is no third-person perspective. And we should be forever grateful for that. Why? Because this. This is what happens when you tinker with the game and see things from outside the player’s body. Because it’s an FPS, there is no head. There is also no concern given to things…
On the left, here’s a character from the new series of Doctor Who. Does he look at all familiar? Maybe he’s, ahem, calibrating your memory? British fans and media, including Eurogamer, have been quick to point out the similarities between the character and Mass Effect’s Garrus, especially since some of the show’s creators are on…
A Mario Kart game came out recently, and some people at Kotaku said it’s the best ever. Others disagreed. This quickly leads to jokes about Mario Kart DS, the merits of balloons and arguments over just how close to perfection Double Dash got. To appease the great Pecking Order, then, and to settle the debate…
Dark elves are pretty sweet, you know? They’re like elves, only cooler In Skyrim, dark elves—known in The Elder Scrolls lore as the Dunmer—were relegated to a ghetto in a single city. But if you played Morrowind, you got to interact with them a whole lot more often. That’s because Morrowind the game is set…
Tired of “Videogames”? Thanks to a new Chrome extension from engineer Doug Tabacco, you can now replace every instance of the one-word usage of “videogames” with the two-word “video games.” Although whatever your browser says, the one vs. two-word debate will rage on…
Photographer Andrew Cull and some friends have held a little contest to see who can take the best “portraits” of Skyrim characters. The winners are absolutely ridiculous Sure, it helps that in each shot the visuals appear to have been modded to within an inch of their lives, but whatever, they’re still great “photos”. There…
As awesome as owning Pokémon would be, it would undoubtedly come with some drawbacks—just like owning real pets would. But if the newest Pokémon trend is anything to go by, it would be kind of hard to stay mad at our Pokémon. Right now, tons of artists are taking the “pet shaming” meme and are…
Do Nintendo Miis dream of virtual sheep? Probably. But they also dream of much more peculiar things than that in Tomodachi Life. Like an altar to an old NES accessory, for one. StreetPass Princeton got a glimpse into one of the whackier dream sequences I’ve seen come out of Nintendo’s new sim game, and the…
Maybe you haven’t heard of lewd visual novel Sakura Spirit, which is currently available on Steam. That’s OK, because Sakura Spirit’s Steam reviews are here to help. Even if you have no interest in playing it, it’s hard not to be struck by the reviews of Sakura Spirit—most are silly. And given that the game…
This morning, Nintendo dropped three Smash Bros. bombshells named Lucina, Robin, and Captain Falcon. The Internet was quick to react. For starters, you must check out this new art by Kozaki Yusuke (via TinyCartridge): Of course Twitter was quick to respond to the big reveals with jokes: There’s some concern that Lucina is just a…
At first it doesn’t look so bad. Two and a half stars out of five isn’t terrible. That average score, given by nearly 500 iTunes users to the two-week-old Civilization Revolution 2, isn’t glorious, of course. But maybe Civilization Revolution 2 is at least mediocre? That’s partly right. It also costs $15, and it might…
“I’m bisexual,” Nicky says to his mother. “Sexually attracted to both men and women.” “You can’t be both,” his mother snaps back. “You have to pick one.” “That’s…not how it works,” Nicky responds. “At all.” His mother does not understand. As you continue to have this conversation, gliding your cursor over increasingly painful dialogue prompts,…
You know what game was actually pretty damned good? Batman: Arkham Origins. You wouldn’t know it by looking around online. While the game does have its supporters, a cursory tour of the Internet gives the impression that most Batman fans thought it was a disappointment. Released last fall, Origins had a lot working against it.…
Today’s gaming highlights: Some of the best moments from the biggest fighting game tournament of the year, plus incredible world records in both Spelunky and World of Warcraft! EVO 2014 In the Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 semifinals, Justin Wong almost got knocked out in a neck-and-neck match against FilipinoChamp, but he pulled off an…
You’re one of them. The accomplishment addicts. The trophy trackers. You need to get them all. Well, here are some PS4 trophies you might not want—or be able—to get. The PS4 is a young system that’s still in the early stages of building out its software library. Still, the system is home to a few…
It’s been eight months since The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds came out for 3DS, and already, speedrunners have pretty much hacked it apart. Here’s a new World Record run, set by speedrunner Anwonu. He beats the game in an hour and 31 minutes—and that’s with a few mistakes that could’ve shaved off…
Though we detailed some of this last week, here’s some footage of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire’s new mega, secret bases, and yes, Pikachu dress-up. Too cute. Here’s what The Pokemon Company has to say about the Pikachu cosplay: First introduced in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, Pokémon-Amie returns in Pokémon Omega Ruby and…
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