This Japanese Horror Film Star Is Really Good at Baseball

Ever see the original version of The Ring? You know, the Japanese horror movie in which a character named Sadako climbs out of a television to KILL PEOPLE. Turns out, Sadako is good at baseball. Like holy crap good. Recently, Sadako threw out the first pitch at the Seibu Dome in a game between the…

The Mario Bros. Have Some Pretty Damn Sweet Parkour Moves

Which shouldn’t be surprising, seeing as they’ve starred in a metric ton of platformers but hey, video proof! In reality, the two extremely talented people you see here are Christian Russell as Mario and Ronnie Shalvis as Luigi, of CBR Stunts and Ronnie Street Stunts, respectively—although I’d suspect their normal line of work doesn’t have…

Puzzle & Dragons Z is coming to the 3DS in Japan on December 12. No word on a Western release.

Make Any Bad-Ass Figure Instantly Cute

Predator doesn’t look so scary when decked out in a frilly skirt, huh? In the last twenty-four hours, it’s become somewhat of a thing online in Japan to put hair scrunchies on figures. You see, the scrunchies look like dresses! The trend apparently began yesterday, after a 2ch user used a scrunchie to give a…

Old-school RPG fans, take note. Spiderweb Software, creators of classic turn-based RPG series Geneforge and Avernum, have revealed the second part of the Avadon trilogy, their newest franchise. Titled Avadon 2: The Corruption, the sequel is expected to arrive on PC and iPad this fall. Trailer’s above, go take a look.

Polygonal Pokémon Are The Best Pokémon

Artist Jan Carlos Garcia made these great Pokemon, stripping their designs back into a low-poly design that would have made the best early-90s virtual reality game ever made. Or, now that I think about it, the best low-poly fan update of Pokémon Snap for the Oculus Rift that nobody’s actually made yet. Low Poly Pokemon…

A Card Game That Makes You Do Terrible, Terrible Things

Terrible Things is a card game with a simple premise. Teams have to draw, describe or act out a terrible thing. If you can’t guess what it is, you have to do a terrible thing How terrible? Not, like, murder. An example the creators provide include…sticking your hand down the toilet. I’m sure booze –…

Video Game Art Show Looks Like One Of The Best Things At PAX

At this year’s PAX, the wonderful people from games site Attract Mode and merch wizards Fangamer are once again teaming up to present an art show/party that’ll be one of the highlights of the week’s festivities. It’s on Saturday, August 31, and runs from 7pm until midnight. There’ll be music and games to play, but…

Some Of The Earliest Images Of An “Adult” Link

Last month, we took a look at some of the earliest Zelda art available, some production and marketing pieces done by Katsuya Terada for A Link to the Past. Today, we’re looking at something similar, albeit a little rougher. The pieces you’re seeing below are ancient sketches by Terada that were published in a commercial…

41 Shooters That Were Made In Just A Week (And Look Pretty Good!)

Held earlier in the month, 7DFPS was a game jam that have people seven days to make a first-person shooter. Since that’s nowhere near enough time to program suitable hinge-shooting mechanics, people had to get creative, with impressive results. This video showcases 41 of over 200 entries, and while it seems like a blur, it…

The Perfect Cat Simulator Has You Smash Nintendos

Catlateral Damage is as accurate a cat simulator as you’ll ever play. Firstly because it lets you jump way higher than you think you should be able to, and secondly because the game only asks you to do one thing. Be a dick. The goal is to run and jump around your owner’s bedroom knocking…

LEGO Ghostbusters. Yes Please.

LEGO. And Ghostbusters. Two things that should have come together officially long ago, but for some reason, never have. Ah well. That’s where talented fans come in. And enough passionate ones to convince LEGO that Ghostbusters LEGO should actually get made. This set was designe by Brent Waller, who in addition to his LEGO skills…

Street Fighter II For The Virtual Boy Exists, Looks Amazing

And you thought the Virtual Boy was only good for tennis and tired failed hardware jokes. Coder Mr. Anon has somehow modified a homebrew fighting game engine to bring a bootleg version of Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting Edition to Nintendo’s ancient novelty “handheld”. This shouldn’t exist. And yet. It does. If you’ve got the…

The Xbox One Might Be Out On November 8

The PlayStation 4 is out in the US on November 15. The Xbox One? Well, it’s looking like it could hit the market a week ahead of its competitor. While Microsoft is yet to officially announce the big day, and “release dates” on retailer sites are usually little more than window dressing, we’ve heard from…

I Guess Miley Cyrus Owns An Ouya Now

Everyone’s talking about thetwerking/Blurred Lines performance from yesterday’s MTV VMAs, but here’s a different funny detail: the gift bags that celebrities got last night? One of the things included is an Ouya console according to Mashable. There’s other hilarious inclusions, of course—spot the ‘ENDING ADDICTION FOR GOOD’? Or the chocolate syrup? Man, what a random…

Let’s Look At This Breaking Bad Star’s Audition Tape

If you’ve been keeping up with Breaking Bad of late, it’s kind of amazing to compare Jesse as we know him now to the Jesse at the start of the show—nevermind seeing Rapture Productions‘s footage of Aaron Paul, the actor who plays the character, auditioning for said role. Ah, how things have changed. Breaking Bad…

Hmm: here’s Engadget‘s interview with EA’s Peter Moore, where he says that EA doesn’t make offline experiences anymore and free-to-play business models will be “part-and-parcel with every major franchise we do now.”

Final Fantasy XIV (2010 Release): The Kotaku Review

On this, the eve of the official launch of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, let’s take a look back at the original release of Square Enix’s second Final Fantasy MMO, and reflect on the wrongs the new version is trying to right. — Originally posted 10/21/2010 — Forget Cloud, Squall, Tidus, and Lightning; in…

A cloth map, a guide book, a compass and three CDs — yum. Celebrating more than 25 years of mispronunciation, XSEED is bringing a special collector’s edition of Ys: Memories of Celceta to the PlayStation Vita this holiday season. It’ll be $59.99, and I bet it will smell amazing.

And The Newest PS3 Color Is… Blue

This blue thang is the newest PS3 model, to be available only at GameStop for $250 starting on October 8. To quote the press release: The new Azurite Blue PlayStation®3 system includes an Azurite Blue DualShock®3 wireless controller, a 250GB hard drive, a built in Blu-Ray™ player, and can hold over 1800 games, 140 movies,…