Social Game Company President Sued for an Alleged Forced Abortion

According to reports out of Japan, the president of social gaming giant Gree, Yoshikazu Tanaka, is being sued for allegedly making a young woman get an abortion. Gree is one of the biggest social game companies in Japan. Forbes said its founder is Asia’s youngest self-made billionaire and called him one of “The World’s 12…

A Look at Japan’s Modern Day Samurai

You might think that the samurai no longer exist in Japan. That the samurai officially vanished when they were banned from carrying swords in the late 19th century. That might be true, but samurai still exist in Japan. Today, they just wield glowsticks instead. This Cup Noodle ad is titled “Present-Day Samurai” (現代のサムライ or Gendai…

Free Expansion and iPad Port for Space Roguelike FTL Arrive Next Week

Exploded ships and frustration galore, now on the go—but only on iPad. If you’ve only got an iPhone, you’re out of luck. You’ll have to stick with the PC version On next Thursday, the much-hyped and much-awesome free expansion for FTL, the so-called advanced edition update, will be arriving alongside the exclusive iPad version of…

Mike Tyson Finally Meets Street Fighter, Punches Dudes In The Face

Considering he had a character in the game – Balrog – based on him, it’s a wonder it’s taken someone this long to bring the worlds of Mike Tyson and Street Fighter together. It takes a while to warm up, but once he really starts swinging, it really gets going. Balrog Highlight (Mike Tyson Street…

A Disease Gives People Superpowers, But Slowly Kills Them

Saying they have a “Stunning Dystopian Sci-Fi Plot” might be a bit much, but I can forgive Fictiorama Studios for the hyperbole since their upcoming adventure game looks really cool. Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today is a classic 2D adventure that’s coming to PC, Mac and iOS. They say it features “space-time distortions, a dystopian…

Hey, It’s A New WW2 Shooter!

Let’s party like it’s 2004. Despite most bigger studios having long moved on from what was once the hottest genre-setting matchup in video game history, there’s still room for a World War Two shooter. Or, at least, Enemy Front hopes so. Instead of having you fight the same old cliched battles one more time, though,…

Molyneux Orange: remember that fantastic comic strip about our most recent interview with Peter Molyneux? Chandana “Eka” Ekanayake of Uber Entertainment actually made a game about it!

Oh Hell Yeah, Titanfall’s Matchmaking Is Getting Fixed

Titanfall: pretty great game, yeah? Well, with one exception—the shoddy matchmaking system that continually fails to pit players against similarly skilled players. The good news is that thanks to an update, that’s gonna start changing. Here’s what the new matchmaking update brings: 1. Searching for teammates and opponents will now sometimes take more time to…

Crimea’s attorney general in upcoming game Riot

The Riot team teased that the game will feature special characters. Previously: Riot gifs

Dolphin Lundgren from Super Time Force.