Everyone’s Favorite Reverse Tower-Defense Game Gets A Real Sequel

Anomaly: Korea wasn’t really a sequel to Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a “reverse tower-defense” game released in 2011 in which you maneuver tanks and convoys around a battlefield and direct them to blow away alien towers. (Lots of people loved it.) This one really is a sequel. The folks at development studio 11 Bit have just…

Yoshi’s Unlicensed Adventure Available on Android, At Least Until Nintendo Figures Out How to Remove It

If you’re a Hungarian Android developer looking to cut game design corners by co-opting an existing character, you might want to go a little more obscure than one of Nintendo’s most beloved characters. Spotted by the keen eyes over at NeoGAF, Era’s Adventures is a real game you can purchase on Google Play for $1.99.…

Don’t You Forget About This Fan-Made Remember Me Trailer

A video game about memory manipulation. Simple Minds’ hit 1985 single. A pairing of Capcom’s Remember Me and “Don’t You Forget About Me” seems so stunningly obvious that a tweet from writer Jordan Garland must have come from the collective unconscious of us all: YouTuber Nixemus took that idea and made it happen and the…

Should Competitive Gaming Be On National TV? Experts Are Divided.

Competitive gaming has millions of fans. Its biggest stars earn six-figure salaries. Yet it’s nowhere to be found on American television. You may happen upon bowling, lumberjack contests, or even rock-paper-scissors while channel surfing, but nary a match of StarCraft or League of Legends More and more people are devoting their lives to playing in…

Real Racing 3 is a Beautiful Game Strangled By Freemium Nonsense

In 2009, Australian developer Firemint released Real Racing for the iPhone, stunning mobile gamers with amazing visuals and setting the standard for realistic mobile racing games. In 2010 the studio released Real Racing 2, adding licensed cars from major manufacturers and online play for up to 16 players. In May of 2011, EA acquired Firemint,…

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Is The Next Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft Confirms. Now, About That…

The worst-kept secret in gaming is no longer “secret,” as Ubisoft has revealed the cover art for the next Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. The game stars a new pirate assassin and turns its focus to the Caribbean, mixing open-ended ship-based exploration and combat with land-based adventures on a number of Caribbean islands.…

Kenji Eno Speaks His Mind In This Unpublished Interview

Last week, Japanese game designer Kenji Eno passed away at the age of 42. Eno was well known for his survival horror games, D, Enemy Zero, and D2, as well as his unique and sometimes eccentric opinions and behavior, like the development of the Sega Saturn game, Real Sound, a video game that features no…

Something’s Starting Up with Final Fantasy XI

How mysterious! A tweet from the official Final Fantasy XI account read, “The heck is this… Is something starting up…?!” Included was the above image. Back in 2011, former Final Fantasy XI Hiromichi Tanaka mentioned that Square Enix was considering a straight port of FFXI to the PS Vita. But at that time, it was…

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New Smash Bros. Could Be Impacted By Designer’s Bad Arm

“I wonder what games I can play with just my left hand?” writes Masahiro Sakurai, designer of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series, in his Weekly Famitsu column. Get your mind out of the gutter; this is serious. Over the past several weeks, Sakurai has written in his column about his condition which has…

What Is The Most Popular Sushi in Japan? Let’s Find Out.

Sushi is delicious. There’s a variety of different kinds, but certainly everyone has his or her favorite. And if you do the math, you should be able to deduce the most popular kind of sushi in Japan. So let’s do that. Math. Nari Nari reports that Asahi polled 830 people across Japan (443 men and…

Here’s What You’ll Want To Know Before Watching Gundam Unicorn

Brace yourselves. I’m about to give some people a migraine from rolling their eyes too hard. I am a massive Gundam fan. So much so that I probably straddle the line of “geek” and go straight into “nerd” territory. Heck, I even know why Char chose to take on the name “Quattro Bajeena” for the…

Sorry China, This Pig-Faced Fish Is Not Real

I’m no marine biologist, but I’m pretty dang sure that fish don’t have pig faces. There are hogfish and pigfish. But little pig eyes? Pointy pig ears? Nah. That’s bunk. Call it a hunch. Yet, this photo has become a hot topic on uber popular Chinese bulletin board, TT.mop. With river pollution a serious problem,…

Ninja Boobies and a Price Cut Help the PS Vita in Japan

The PS Vita isn’t dead in Japan. Yet. Kidding! (Well, sorta.) Earlier today, the PS Vita’s Japan-only price cut went into effect. Along with the cheaper portable, Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus (and its limited edition pack) also went on sale. Thus, there was a line at the Yodobashi in Tokyo’s Akihabara. Granted, this doesn’t mean…

Some of the Best Pranks from Japanese TV

On Japanese TV, there are lots of comedy shows. And on those comedy shows, there are often pranks. And, boy, Japanese pranks can be so cruel, but also so epic. Japanese comedy shows typically aren’t centered around pranks. They are often elements of the shows, as are the games known as “batsu geemu” (罰ゲーム). These…

Get a Good Look at the PS4 User Interface

Today, screenshots showing the PS4’s user interface have popped up online. 2ch, Japan’s largest online bulletin board, is pointing to a series of images on Japanese site Game no Hanashi The images looks like the user interface Sony showed at its recent event in New York City, and depict the user home page, which lists…

Um, This Sure Is A Lot Of Ass Cheek For A Nintendo-Licensed Product

Nintendo is about as family-friendly as video game companies can get. This goes double for the company’s merchandise, which normally begins at t-shirts and ends with plush representations of cute little Mushroom Kingdom characters. So it’s strange to see this figure of Tharja from Fire Emblem Awakening on the 3DS turn up, not only because…

Watch A Virtual City Be Built Before Your Very Eyes

You’ve probably heard the term “procedurally-generated” thrown around gaming in the last few years. It’s fancy tech, which at its most basic level means something that’s built randomly each time you ask it to be built, but it’s certainly more complicated than that, as content still needs to follow certain rules. The best way to…

Minecraft + Goats Screaming Like Humans

It’s been inching its way through the rest of the internet all week long, so it was only a matter of time before “goats screaming like humans” made its way into video games. You can see the original clip (itself based on an old Usher joke vid) here—1:23 might be the funniest thing I’ve ever…

A Look At The StarCraft Game That Never Was

American artist Jason Felix has been working in the video game business for over 13 years now, and has had his artwork contribute to the development of series like Dead Space, Prince of Persia and even the ill-fated StarCraft Ghost He’s also done some movie work, most recently with Blur Studios on Girl With The…