The Japanese Girlfriend Pillow Resurfaces (Or Does It?)

In the past few weeks, the international media has been reporting on a Japanese pillow that’s shaped like a woman’s lap. It’s being sold at Narita Airport, outside Tokyo, and the foreign press is lapping the pillow up and claiming it’s experiencing a resurgence. But is it really? Dubbed the “Hizamakura” (“lap pillow”), it originally…

How To Build Your Own Nintendo 2DS

Here’s Francis, proving that in addition to fury, he can also make videos of a more helpful nature. In this case, a handy instructable on how to build your own Nintendo 2DS It’s a lot cheaper, and easier, than you think. How To Get a Nintendo 2DS [YouTube]

Moneysaver: It’s 3am So Here Are 36 Great Game Deals From Amazon

Amazon has launched another killer sale and we’re bringing the best of it to you first. There are around 1800 items discounted but as always we’ll pick our favorites based on price, quality of game, and rarity of discount. [Amazon] Buy Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for $7.50 and get $5 off Dark Souls…

Future Gran Turismo Will Feature This Guys’ Sweet Car

Every year, developers Polyphony Digital hold the Gran Turismo Trophy, an event which sees the winning car immortalised with a promise to appear in a future GT game. Not just the overall make and model. The actual, individual car. This year’s winner is a gorgeous 1953 Aston Martin DB3S Sports, owned by Brian Classic. You…

This Isn’t Cosplay, It’s An Action Figure

We know, threeA make good Halo figures, but damn, these two new ones are just pushing the envelope. The envelope marked “Exquisite Giant Halo Figures”. The two latest figures from the Hong Kong toy company are again from Halo Reach, this time of Emile and the Spartan Mk V EVA. Both figures stand 13.5 inches…

Oh, Nothin’, Just Thinkin’ About Some Great Game Art

Artist Karla Ortiz, who has worked at NCSoft and Ubisoft, and also done stuff for Wizards of the Coast, is currently doing some stuff with Lucasfilm. She is very good. I’ve posted some of her work below, but really, you’re going to want to go to her site to see more, it’s fantastic stuff. To…

Assassin’s Creed: Better When Nobody Has A Neck

Reader Mads, inspired by the creepy TF2 mod we posted recently, let us know about something similar he did to Assassin’s Creed II. Cracking open the game’s code, he was able to find stuff that let him mess with the game’s field of view, timing, weather, cameras and…necks. Assassin’s Creed 2 – Camera Mod and…

Let’s Help Nintendo Choose Next Year’s “Year Of ” Star

The best thing about 2013 is that it’s the Year of Luigi. So it’s going to suck when 2014 comes around and it’s not the Year of Luigi anymore. Unless… …unless we can keep the good times rolling and make 2014 the Year of Blathers. Or the Year of Birdo. Or the Year of Any…

You’ll Think Valve Made This Team Fortress 2 Video, It’s That Good

Given the quality of Valve’s own “Meet The…” shorts for Team Fortress 2, it’s natural to expect/pray for the company to make a movie based on the popular shooter. One look at this clip, though, and you’ll see they won’t ever need to. End Of The Line is a fan-made project that takes every single…

The Last Of Us’ New Box Art Is Just Beautiful

The Last Of Us’ box art was pretty good, but it’s got nothing on this new take, which is the work of designer Cory Schmitz You might be able to get away with printing these off from the jpgs below, but for the real thing, you can pick up prints at PAX. The Last Of…

Mortal Kombat Kebab Wizard Is Russia’s New National Hero

Good lord, this guy goes HAM on an order of shawarma—enough that you gotta think, not only can he make your order, he could probably mess you up with that scimitar if he wanted to, huh? Nevermind that—this video by Хорен Аветисян is also a good reminder that it’s impossible not to get pumped when…

How These Guys Made A Music Video Using Kinect

The Xbox 360 Kinect camera may have been intended for use with video games, but many of its most interesting uses were unlocked once the device was hacked. Suddenly, people had access to a cheap, relatively easy to use motion capture device. Nice! Film director Andrew Gant used the Kinect, along with several other cameras,…

Watch The Fastest Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Run In The World

Speedrunner Cosmo Wright is on a roll—last week, he was able to nab the world record for fastest Ocarina of Time run, beating it in nineteen minutes and fifteen seconds. Today he’s back with another record: the fastest Wind Waker playthrough as of this writing. You can watch it for yourself. The time is four…

Dragon Age‘s Save File Solution Lets You Rewrite Your History

For those who haven’t fully completed both Dragon Age I and II or, worse, lost or deleted their save files, the third installment of the series will let them build (rebuild) an entire backstory before jumping into Dragon Age: Inquisition This is good because it doesn’t appear they have a clear solution for actually importing…

These Conversations Remind Me Why I Love The Ninja Turtles

I was trying out the new game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows and after hearing a couple of these conversations between the brothers I decided to just stop and record them all. Take a look! Oh, and Mikey is obviously still the best turtle. TMNT: Out Of The Shadows is out now…

Calvin & Hobbes Creator’s Life Lessons Become Beautiful New Comic

Not a day goes by that I don’t somehow, consciously or subconsciously, live out a lesson I learned from Calvin & Hobbes. I sense I’m not alone in this. As much as I’d have loved it if comic-creator Bill Watterson had kept working forever, there’s something bittersweet about the fact that Calvin & Hobbes is…

The Internet Reacts To The 2DS Reveal

Think what you will of the recently-unveiled Nintendo 2DS, but at the very least we can’t say that it’s a hardware reveal that went unnoticed—Nintendo’s curiously-designed budget handheld started getting reactions from the internet almost immediately. Even just the headlines announcing the handheld anticipated bafflement or reacted to the console—we wrote that the 2DS name…

Oh God, Uwe Boll’s on Kickstarter, Raising Money for Postal 2

Well, it finally happened. Uwe Boll, maker of terrible movies in general and terrible video game adaptations in specific, has gone to Kickstarter in search of money for his next flick, which of course is a sequel to 2007’s wretched Postal. He’s raised $2 so far. Boll, the creative force behind flops based on House…

Good Lord, The GTA V Soundtrack Is Going To Be Amazing

Long have the Grand Theft Auto games existed in their own musical stratosphere, so far beyond other games’ soundtracks that a comparison seems almost unfair. It’s no surprise to hear that GTA V will have a phenomenal soundtrack, given the tracklist info that’s already leaked. But now that Rockstar has begun to announce official info,…

Readers of our sister site Lifehacker are sharing the secrets of How They Work—detailing the gear, the software and whatever else gets them through their day. One of those readers helps make Call of Duty. This is how he works…