Raw maguro (tuna) is served with rice as sushi or without as sashimi. One Japanese company is now introducing phony maguro you can eat. Imagine that! This faux sashimi is actually konnyaku (こんにゃく), which is a rubbery jelly made from a variety of potatoes. It’s actually very healthy and high in fiber. Natural tomato coloring…
Last month, there was a Counter-Strike Online 2 contest. The top prize was a pig. Like, an actual pig. Ladies and gents, we have a winner. As previously mentioned, Counter-Strike Online 2 is licensed from Valve, but developed by Nexon Korea for Asia. It runs on Valve’s Source engine. And…twenty-four year-old Yoon Hee Wook was…
A few years ago, a Singaporean man named Batman bin Suparman, which means “Batman, Son of Superman” in Malay, became an internet sensation. Well, the named crusader is back. He’s not fighting crime. This time, he’s committing it. Reuters reports that Batman bin Suparman was incarcerated on Monday. He is sentenced to two years and…
Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation, based on the game series of the same name, was not on my list of the five anime you should have been watching this past summer, but it may be the anime of last season that gamers will get the most out of. This is because it is chock full of…
Meet Broly. He’s allegedly a member of the Knights Templar Cartel. Maybe make that “was.” He might have been killed or captured. But one thing for sure, this guy sure snapped lots of selfies. According to website Vice (via Borderland Beat and Kotaro), Mexican drug cartels dig their social media and are using it for…
This is the new Amazon Playstation Network Store, an alternate venue to purchase digital Playstation content for Playstation 3, Playstation 4, and Playstation Vita. The downside of going all digital for the next-gen consoles was going to be restricting yourself to only one storefront for potential deals, but now that’s not an issue. To celebrate…
Educational outfit Glasslab Games have taken Maxis’ misguided SimCityand tried to wrestle something genuinely useful out of the thing. They’ve come up with a modified version of the game called SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge!, which not only modifies the core experience, but also can be used to track the way students are learning – and applying…
SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works is an upcoming book by Darren Wall that looks like one of the best pieces of Sega nostalgia you’ll ever get your hands on. It features 20 interviews with “original Sega team members”, and has all kinds of stuff like design docs for Mega Drive games and hardware concepts. This…
Rakuen isn’t a game about space marines, or fast cars, or professional sports, or multi-hit combos. Instead, you play a sick young boy stuck in a hospital, who is transported to the fantasy world his mother reads him stories about. Its developers claim inspiration from Maniac Mansion, To the Moon and The Legend of Zelda:…
With it’s co-op shooting, Bullet Bros initially looks like Contra, or Gunstar Heroes, or any other retro game where two bros go guns blazing into a 2D battlefield. But then you see the tanks. And the grappling hooks. And the piggybacks. The game’s loaded with physics, as you can see in the trailer, and also…
This is a solo Eggplant run in Spelunky. On camera. If you don’t know how hard that is, this guy should really have been playing the Chariots of Fire theme in the background the entire time Recommendation: No, really, he should have. Mute the commentary and put the theme on yourself
Polish artist Wojtek Fus works for Platige, an effects and animation house who you’ll be familiar with for their effortson games like The Witcher 2 and Cyberpunk. You can see more of Wojtek’s work at his DeviantArtand CGHub pages. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…
Think of this as the internet’s best collection of the worst Street Fighter bonus rounds. I think one there at the end, where the dude falls down the stairs, is faked. The rest? Embarrassingly, painfully real. Ultimate Martial Arts Fails Compilation 2013 [Uniformedia, via Geekologie]
Interference is a platformer about stealth. And darkness. And sci-fi. Oh, and stopping the game to move the levels themselves around. There’s a comment that flashes up during this trailer that says “This is what the Flashback remake should have been”. Which pretty much sums it all up. Interference is currently taking pledges on Indiegogo,…
At the end of this month, Nintendo will be re-releasing a game. It’s beautiful. An all-time classic. And it’s…not a video game. Going back to the company’s roots, back when it made real games, this exquisite Mahjong set will go on sale in Japan for just under USD$200. Which isn’t cheap, but look at this…
I remember reading a magazine article twenty years agothat was about virtual sex. And how gadgets and games were going to change the way we knock boots forever. Well, it didn’t really happen, but hey, twenty years later and humanity is giving it another shot. This is the VR Tenga demo, made for an Oculus…
It was only a matter of time before video-game a cappella master Smooth McGroove took on the Zelda theme. Now, he has—or rather he, his cat and his seven doppelgängers have. This version of Link to the Past‘s famous overworld theme is one of Smooth’s more percussive recent works, and it sure does get me…
Trophies on the PlayStation 4 are coming back with a twist. Sony’s new console won’t just store your achievements—it’ll tell you the rarity of each Trophy you earn. We saw the new feature in action today during a demo of the PS4’s system interface at a big press event tied to the console’s Friday launch.…
We watched the PlayStation 4’s interface in action this morning at Sony’s big review event, and we got to see some of the cool little hardware quirks that make this system really feel next-gen. Seriously. For a while I’ve been skeptical about these new machines, but once you see the PS4’s interface in action, that…
All-Seeing Eyes: check out this article by Fast Company that asks interesting questions, like: should we care about how much gaming tech like the Kinect can see, particularly when it comes to our bodies? Should developers censor their imaging tech in any way? Something to chew on.
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