Fairly or unfairly, Star Wars creator George Lucas is often pegged as public enemy number one for a variety of reasons. But for sci-fi author David Brin, there’s another baddie: Yoda. Brin, a NASA consultant and a Dreamcast game scribe, has discussed his distaste for both Lucas’ work and the Jedi Master on multiple occasions—such…
PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale supports arcade sticks. How original.
Samus Aran is iconic. So are the Metroid heroine’s outfits. Yes, outfits—plural. Unlike many characters, who have a single set of trademark threads, Samus has two: her Power Suit (or its upgrades) and her Zero Suit. Some fans did not like the advent of Zero Suit Samus, saying it not only sexualized a strong female…
The IT Crowd. Friends. How I Met Your Mother. Even in the West, these popular sitcoms have influenced other shows. But in China, one show isn’t exactly “inspired” by these programs. The Shanghai television program in question is Ipartment (which loosely translates as “Love Apartment” in Chinese). It features a couple of guys, a couple…
Sony’s PS Vita sure is struggling! Launching new hardware isn’t easy—just ask Nintendo. But while Nintendo was able to turn the 3DS around, Sony hasn’t done that yet with the Vita. Japanese celebrity and Pokémon queen Shoko Nakagawa might have the logical answer. Nakagawa, who has done Zelda commercials for Nintendo, recently seems to have…
As previously mentioned, the Disgaea Team’s newest role-playing game is not a new Disgaea, but The Paradox of God and the Fate Revolution. The game follows a high schooler who suddenly turns into God. He, along with the seven angels, makes people’s wishes come true. When the game was first shown last month, game maker…
This isn’t a joke. It’s a true story. Late last week a photo of a lady binding a sex doll to a tree appeared online. Info was scant, but now reports out of China state that the woman, who lives in the city of Shangdong, was fed up with cars speeding through a pedestrian crossing.…
Back in 2005 (2005!), Koei revealed Ni-Oh! for PS3. The game was supposed to be based on an unearthed script from Akira Kurosawa (Yojimbo, Seven Samurai). But it was never released. Ni-Oh! just…vanished. In a recent interview with Famitsu, Tecmo president and co-founder Yoichi Erikawa confirmed that the game still existed. “We just finished the…
New BlazBlue arcade game is getting a PS3 version in Japan. And Xbox 360? Um…no word yet.
You know the Sonic Cycle meme, right? Gamers hear about a new Sonic game, they get excited. Then, the game comes out, and it’s a huge disappointment. With that kind of letdown baggage, you’d think Sonic would not make a good lucky charm. Then again, you’re not Puerto Rican runner Javier Culson, and you didn’t…
According to recent research, there may actually be a less slingshot-intensive way to calm down Angry Birds
Codemasters has seen fit to develop a second Grid game. The first, released in 2008, was pretty damn great, as you’d expect given the fact many of the team from the respected TOCA series had worked on it. The sequel, Grid 2, will be out in 2013.
Papercraft isn’t just useful for making tiny recreations of famous video game characters. You can also make terrific animated shorts with it. This clip, by Israeli student Neta Cohen, was the first piece of animation she’d ever done. If you can believe that. If she turns around and says it’s also the first papercraft she’s…
Because landing on Mars is the hottest thing this year, Lunar Flight – the terrifyingly realistic space landing simulator – is being updated to include a map of the Martian surface, meaning you can recreate the sensation of touching down on an alien world over and over and over again to your heart’s content. While…
This is a customised Transformers action figure that gives Autobot leader Optimus Prime a day job. No longer can he just drive around as a giant truck for the hell of it. No, now he’s got deliveries to make. Deliveries of sesame seed buns, all beef patties and, if he can find the room, special…
How many Street Fighters are there? There’s loads. Unless you’re a hardcore fan, likely way more than you thought there were. Considering Street Fighter II started with only eight playable characters, you can blame the later games, when Capcom went a little crazy This awesome poster by artist Ken Wong puts 57 of them in…
Fallout 3 was released in 2008. In that time, all kinds of gorgeous video games have come and gone, including Bethesda’s own Skyrim. But you wouldn’t tell by looking at these screens. You’d think they were for Fallout 4, a thing I’m pretty sure doesn’t even exist yet. That’s the power, and the beauty, of…
The North American Super Nintendo looked…OK. The Japanese and PAL version looked hot. Oh, how things could have turned out differently, had early concept art become reality. These two early designs for the SNES, drawn at a time when they were still calling the machine the “Nintendo Entertainment System 2”, were hideous. Where the final…
This incredible animated gif doing the rounds this week (though first published in February) is taken from Paragon Sexa Doll (パラゴンセクサドール Doll), a Japanese “visual novel” developed by Heart Soft and released in the early 80s on the NEC PC-8801, a primitive PC that was pretty big in Japan. Visual novels are barely games; like…
Unless the game has been designed with touch-screen (or tilt) controls in mind, moving around in mobile game is often an exercise in pain and frustration. So much so that I want to find the man/woman who first invented the virtual d-pad and set their hands on fire. Not to worry. There’s always the GameKlip,…
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