Odd Man In Cave: “Stop Naming Princesses Zelda”

A tradition based on a great tragedy that only seems to breed more tragedy? Awkward Spaceship has a point — maybe Hyrule needs to revisit its princess naming policy before everything explodes. There are plenty of perfectly good princess names out there that won’t cause powerful evil to arise and threaten the land. Princess Bubblegum…

In an ideal world, we could jump into this 8-bit Breaking Bad game right after the finale of the series. Sadly it’s just an imaginary start screen—a pretty neat one, nevertheless—of an imaginary game, The Legend of Heisenberg, made by Filippo Morini Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the…

The Short Life Of The PS2 In China

China’s game console ban might finally be lifted, so it’s a good time to look back at the case study that was the PlayStation 2. During the course of the 13 year-old console ban, the one home console that was allowed to be sold, albeit for just a short time, was the PlayStation 2. The…

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey has five new screenshots to its name—actually stills from the adventure game’s upcoming twenty to thirty minute vertical slice demo, which will be shown off in the coming months The shots star Kian Alvane, one of the game’s playable characters. Check ’em out below.

Haunting PS3 Exclusive Has Unlikely Inspirations

More often than not, your typical video game is inspired by movies, manga, or other video games. PS3 exclusive Rain is different. Typical, it’s not. “Initially, we were thinking about what would surprise everyone,” Rain game designer Yuki Ikeda recently told me at Sony Computer Entertainment’s Tokyo headquarters. “And we thought we hit on something…

League of Legends Fan Favorite Gets A Catchy Parody

You have to be in a League of Legends World Championship finalist team to get the attention of devoted fans and get an awesome The Offspring parody song—like this one from The Yordles on YouTube. SK Telecom T1 and its Mid laner, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok—whom this tune is dedicated to—will participate in the World Championships…

The Future of Gaming in China, According to an Industry Veteran

Richard Tsao has had his fair share of interesting stories about China. Tsao, who headed up Ubisoft’s Chengdu office, will be leaving China for personal reasons; but even as he leaves the Middle Kingdom, Tsao says China’s game industry is still the place to be. In 2007, Tsao started Ubisoft’s Chengdu office with the goal…

A cloud version of Dragon Quest X is coming to Japanese smartphones and tablets. It will be released between December 2013 and February 2014. Subscription fees are TBA.

A Group of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim Modders Are Making An RPG

An open-world fantasy RPG, predictably enough. The group, Druid Gameworks, is working on a Skyrim-esque PC RPG which wants to put more emphasis on player choice. Unwritten: Echoes of Twilight, as they call it, eschews the Elder Scrolls series’ main-quest-side-quest structure in favor of a more exploration-based system, where you basically unlock different quests and…

China Lifts Their Console Ban… But with Strings Attached

You’ve probably heard that China has a video game console ban. Over the last year, there have been rumors that the 13 year-old ban would be lifted—and last Friday evening, a sneaky online posting by the Chinese government seems to have confirmed that the ban has indeed been lifted. This past July, the State Council…

China’s Transformers Are Junk in Disguise

There’s more than meets the eye with these Transformers. You are actually looking at scrap—discarded car, motorcycle, and machine parts—that has been lovely sculpted into the iconic robots. Thank Chinese Transformers fans for that. Twenty-three Chinese diehards created Transformers robots like Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Bumblebee from junk. As ChinaNews (via ShanghaiIst) explains, some of…

Do You Love Breaking Bad Enough To Build A LEGO Mosaic?

Well, this guy does. Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White is looking quite brooding and mysterious on his LEGO portrait, done by Andy Bauch of HippoBricks.com. Bauch says constructing the portrait took 10 hours and required 2000 LEGO pieces, with the end result, a thirty by thirty inch mosaic mounted on a one-inch wooden frame, weighing…

Oculus Rift Makes Virtual Idol Handshakes Possible

The future! It’s here, and it’s brought virtual reality handshakes with Hatsune Miku. Aren’t you happy to be alive in 2013? YouTube user Netkick recently showed off a Oculus Rift tech demo which uses the Novint Falcon pistol peripheral and a rubber hand. As shown in the video below, you can shake hands with virtual…

SNL Korea Serves Up GTA V Parody Set in Old Korea

How about a Grand Theft Auto V set during the Joseon Period? SNL Korea recently did a Grand Theft Auto V parody. Have a look. When the mom shows up (and starts pounding her kid), she says, “This is why you are turning violent.” SNL KOREA 시즌4 – Ep.30 : GTA조선 [YouTube Thanks, Sang!] To contact…

Why Is It So Hard To Keep Playing Video Games?

How did I do it? When my Super Nintendo arrived I remember playing it during the Christmas holiday. Nine hours a day. Every day. For two weeks. I had no reason to stop, no responsibilities. My Mum once rattled my bedroom door making a big fuss about how I should go outside and play and…

Ten Indie PC Games You Must Keep An Eye On

There are so many small teams out there working on so many promising PC games that it’s often impossible keeping tabs on them. You read about them, you like the looks of them, then the world keeps spinning and you forget all about something you may otherwise have loved. That’s a shame. So we’re going…

The Mouse Of The Future Might Be This Weird Little Thing

This is the iMotion, a controller concept by Intellect Motion. It’s a mouse, that you hold in the air, which doubles as a motion-sensor, and triples as a means of getting haptic feedback. All of which sounds awfully ambitious, not to mention tiring (holding the thing in the air for prolonged use doesn’t look ideal),…

Orbitor, a very pretty game we’ve looked at previously, has been signed to a console publishing deal. So expect to see it…everywhere.

1.26 Billion Facebook Profiles, All In The One Place

Artist Natalia Rojas, who calls herself a “creative technologist”, has devised a way for a single webpage to host all 1.26 billion Facebook user profiles. What’s more, it’s interactive, meaning you can actually find yourself amongst this sea of humanity. It’s a staggering image. Organised by the date a user joined, you can track people…

Let’s Appreciate Grand Theft Auto V’s Panoramas For A Second

Using GTA V’s in-game Snapmatic app – and a very steady hand on the right thumbstick – reader Timothy made some panoramic shots of Los Santos by stitching photos together in Photoshop. They’re great! Grand Theft Auto 5 Panoramas [Flickr]