Trevor Grove – who works at collectible giants Sideshow – has spent some spare time recently doing exactly what he does 9-5. Only this time instead of sci-fi movie stars or video game characters, he’s sculpting Breaking Bad’s Walter White. He’s done three figures in all, with the bodies cannibalised from Hot Toys pieces, with…
As part of its fortieth anniversary, Japanese burger chain Lotteria is rolling out two burger towers: one is a cheeseburger tower, and the other a fried shrimp burger. Where the hell are the puns, you ask. The name of the cheeseburger is actually “Super Cheese Day” (スーパー・チーズデー), which sounds like “Super Tuesday” (スーパー・チューズデー) in Japanese.…
Add Haruna Anno, retro game idol and retro game museum curator, to the chorus of cries saying that Resident Evil has lost the plot. Anno notes how Resident Evil is (er, was) the pinnacle of survival horror, and she seems upset that the series has gone from a survival horror game to a shooting game.…
You know how hard it is to cover something in stickers? Like how to get the stickers just right, so they are totally smooth, straight, and free of air pockets? This is like that, but bigger. And on a city bus. A fleet of buses is getting “wrapped” for the “Machi Asobi” otaku (geek) event…
Japanese variety show Waratte Iitomo! (“It’s Okay to Laugh!”) is the longest running, continuously hosted live program in the world. It’s a cultural institution in Japan, and its host, Tamori, is iconic—like the Milton Berle of Japan. And today on that show, guest Lily Franky brought a special guest: his girlfriend, a love doll. Lily…
Last month, rioting broke out in China during a rash of anti-Japan protests. While those protests got plenty of news coverage in Japan, the country’s own protests haven’t. Perhaps the networks are worried footage of such protests would further fan the flames in China… YouTube user Gimmeaflakeman (via Japan Probe) has uploaded footage of a…
In World of Warcraft‘s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, there’s a new race of panda people called Pandaren. Last week in Beijing, there was a flash mob of thirty ladies dressed as Pandaren, reports Xinhuanet. That apparently means hot pants and panda hats. Yes, this was a stunt to promote the expansion pack, with the…
At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix announced a high definition remake of the first Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. It’s called Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX. In the upcoming leaked issue of Famitsu, Kingdom Hearts designer Tetsuya Nomura was apparently asked whether or not there…
Level-5’s international American branch just launched a website with a spinning black box. Oh. Okay.
The inmates at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in The Philippines first captured the internet’s imagination a few years back by doing dance routines. There was Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, and the Haruhi dance from the Haruhi Suzumiya anime. This time, they’re back, burning up YouTube with their take on “Gangnam Style”. There’s been criticism…
Think you have it rough? Try being a World of Warcraft player in China. You have to deal with Western gamers who think all Chinese gamers are gold farmers as well as unfair stereotypes at home. And that’s not all of it! Chinese gamers are taking to micro blogging site Sina Weibo to vent about…
Guild Wars—especially Guild Wars 2—is beautiful. The world is lush and lovely. And the gear? The gear looks great. The lack of subscription fee might pull players in, but the gameplay and general pizazz keeps them around to save Tyria. And of the more dedicated players, some show their fandom by dressing up. That’s what…
As we know, Terraria, a game that on PC went from “huh a side-scrolling Minecraft” to “holy crap it’s sold over a million copies” at the speed of light, is coming to consoles Here’s what it looks like. So, yeah, exactly the same! Terraria Teaser Trailer [HD] [Machinima]
Tetris-inspired furniture may not be new, but in this case, it’s never looked better. Brazilian industrial designer Diego Silvério, along with his pal Helder Filipov, have come up with this surprisingly presentable concept for Tetris furniture that works throughout the house, from the living room to the bedroom. I’m not sure that kitchen one looks…
The crunch: it’s a phenomenon most developers are familiar with. But what happens when you are deep in the crunch without a team to back you up? How does that change things? How do you survive? Dean Dodrill, the creator of Dust: An Elysian Tail, was only one man—how did he manage with little to…
A while back, Fez developers Polytron released a shirt featuring a not-real gaming handheld called the Polytron Portable Pro. It’s now been upgraded to two newer, more contemporary ideas for a not-real handheld. Apparently inspired by Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 synthesizer+, but looking just as much like a Speak-and-Spell, I’d buy one in a heartbeat. No…
Montana native Richard “Flaptraps” Anderson is an artist with a decade’s worth of experience in the fields of video games, motion pictures and advertising. Having spent eight years at Guild Wars developers NCSoft, he’s since moved on to work with the very talented people at Framestore, and recently helped out on the creative side on…
Remember Star Wars Uncut? That brilliant project where artists all over the world could submit their own interpretations of fifteen seconds’ worth of Star Wars, then have it all cut into the one insane movie? Well it’s back. With Empire Strikes Back Uncut And just like last time, it looks like it’s going to feature…
Upcoming indie PC title Blackspace is a strategy game. Sort of. There’s combat, and destruction, and you even build bases, but watch the video above and you’ll see it feels different You’re controlling a single unit, the “Lander”, making it appear more like RTS hybrid games like Airmech or Herzog Zwei than a straight-up strategy…
The more I look at the new model of the PS3, the more I hate it. It looks like a budget console, only without the budget price, and goes against Sony’s recent good run of making improvements to hardware with later revisions. So it’s with delight that I settled in to watch tech site iFixit…
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