They’re Making a Live-Action Lupin the Third Movie

The Japanese movie industry is turning beloved manga and anime Lupin the Third into a live-action feature film. How thrilling. Or nerve-racking. Or both! The movie is slated for a summer 2014 release. Above, you can see the first official promo image from the flick, courtesy of its official site and IT Media The movie…

Real Cat Would Rather Die Than Play Super Mario Bros.

I freakin’ lovedthe new Super Mario Bros. But I’m a human, with hands for loving video games. I’m not a cat, dressed up like Mario and forced to re-enact the moves of a video game for the enjoyment of humans on the internet. Mega64: SUPER MARIO 3D WORLD [Mega64, via Dtoid]

Virtual Grand Theft Auto Looks Like A Lot Of Hard Work

In this video, we see a dude playing Grand Theft Auto IV’s PC version using one hell of an elaborate virtual reality rig. The highlight is not the gameplay footage on the right. It’s the dude footage on the left. While the idea of being sucked into Liberty City may sound appealing on paper, when…

Video Game Taxi Surprises, Confuses Real Passengers

The guys behind Guild Wars II took some taxi cabs, decked their interiors out in fantasy livery, dressed the drivers up as game characters then set them loose to pick up actual passengers. Things seem to go surprisingly well! Though most footage was captured during the daylight hours. I’m sure trying to clean puke and…

A Battlefield 4 Item Worth $2500, And You Can’t Even Use It

A gold battlepack in Battlefield 4 – full of the game’s best gear – is a rare and wonderful thing. But not as rare and wonderful as a gold-covered version of it worth $2500. Art dealers Cook & Becker are selling some expensive prints of some of the game’s concept art, but alongside those images…

Classic Wolf: Philipp Smart re-imagines Telltale’s Fables game The Wolf Among Us as a classic 90s Lucasarts adventure game. I’d play the hell out of it.

​Buggy Game Pulled From Steam, Funny Videos Remain

Yes, the following videos are from a game that is (or, was) available for purchase. Specifically, from Ashes Cricket 2013, which was released in a sad state and then unceremoniously pulled from Steam. Rock, Paper Shotgun‘s got the whole story, and also shared this video from Matt Whitehorn: I’m no Cricket expert, but I’m fairly…

Activision Is Going To Make So Much Money From This Skylanders App

Available today for iOS, the Skylanders Collection Vault is an app that tells kids exactly how many Skylanders their parents still need to buy them, while letting them compare their paltry collection to the kid down the street whose mom and dad love him more. It’s so awesome. No really, it’s brilliant. Call of Duty…

Lil’ Guardian Pyro has been named the overall winner in this year’s Saxxy awards. You can check out the other winners here, and the complete list of nominees here

What The Inside of an Xbox One Kinect Looks Like

We’ve seen what’s inside an Xbox One.What about the Kinect it comes bundled with? That part of the hardware has bits and circuits in it, too! And now, thanks to iFixitYourself, we can see what’s inside the new Kinect. They also break down some of what’s changed from the first Kinect, too—like for instance, did…

‘School Shooting’ Video Game Also Found at Sandy Hook Killer’s Home

Yesterday, we sought to list all of the video games investigators found in the home of Adam Lanza, the shooter who killed 26 people—20 of them children—at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 last year. We missed one and, as its title suggests, it’s kind of important: “School Shooting.” But we’ve never heard of…

The guys over at the indie gaming collective Babycastles have just announced that they are seeking donations for a permanent gallery space in New York City. We have covered some of their events before, including a game of Pac-Man projected on an entire room. For more, visit their site

​Super Mario 3D World Gets The Musical Treatment It Deserves

Sure, Super Mario 3D World is a great game — but how is it as a musical? From the people that brought you Pokémon – The Musical, comes a musical tribute to the recently released Super Mario 3D World. It’s energetic musical theatre, features a badass Princess Peach, and makes me wish these guys would…

Mod Skyrim, Get Job At Bungie

Want to get a job at Bungie, one of the world’s most respected video game studios? Easy. Spend thousands of hours writing a Skyrim mod so detailed and intricate, it feels like an expansion pack. That’s what Alexander J. Velicky did, and now he says he’s taking a designer position at the studio best known…