Capcom is releasing a slew of Japanese social games that feature some of its most famous characters.
Popular in Japan, parfait is a tasty treat. And you know what’s good in parfait? Bananas. Except in the Japanese city of Akita, where banana parfait is very, very bad. This “banana parfait” photo has gone viral in Japan. The dish was served up in front of Akita Station in Akita Prefecture. Price: ¥180. Memory?…
Since 1955, Miffy has delighted children. The character has also delighted graphic designers and illustrators who seem to have been influenced by Dick Bruna’s work. Take Hello Kitty (and her friends)—they look like Miffy, no? While his work is popular in Asia, Bruna has continuously voiced his dislike for Hello Kitty—the Japanese cat’s rabbit friend…
Phoenix Wright is coming back to the courtroom (what ever happened to Apollo?) in the upcoming Ace Attorney 5 for the 3DS, but his trusty companion, Maya, may not be with him. Screenshots released from Capcom show the defense lawyer back from his time off as a poker player and pianist to “fulfill a promise.”…
Today, remote play is coming to God of War Collection, GoW HD & GoW II HD, ICO, Shadow of the Colossus & TOKYO JUNGLE
When players enter the world of Sleeping Dogs, one of the first characters they meet is Wei Shen’s childhood friend, Jackie Ma. The voice actor who plays Ma was one of Hong Kong’s biggest stars—that is, until his private sex photos were leaked online. In 2008, superstar Edison Chen sent his laptop in for repairs.…
Trials Evolution is heading to the PC nearly next year. It’s optimized for the PC—and some other stuff. I wasn’t really paying attention, but focused more on trying to imitate this raspy voice. Triaals Evoluution. Nope, still can’t do it!
There’s a new Call of Juarez game in town. It’s dubbed Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. Here’s the game’s debut trailer, which features actors. Good thing this is a movie! Oh wait. In Gunslinger, players are a bounty hunter out to get folks like Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Jesse James, etc. Gameplay brings back the…
Renaud Charpentier, of Total War devs Creative Assembly, may have a point. So many “bad” games, which to be fair most people would call simply “average”, aren’t offensively terrible. They’re just boring. Bland. “Competent”. The ones that stick with us, even if they don’t play so well, stick with us for a reason. Like, say,…
Resistance and Ratchet & Clank developers Insomniac took to the spotlight at E3 2011 and revealed Overstrike. A game that we’ve basically not seen since. Well, it’s back, and with a new name, and once I stop thinking it sounds like the name of a racing game, I’m sure everything will be just fine. This…
As hinted at a month ago, Paradox Interactive, masters of the big PC strategy game, will be shrinking one down for play on something a little more portable. Hearts of Iron, the company’s big World War Two series, will be hitting the iPad on October 4. Those wondering just how it’s been shrunk down, there’s…
Well, not just for you. Fans of Wasteland, RAGE, Borderlands or any other game set in a post-apocalyptic desert are more than catered for at Wasteland Weekend, which will be held in the Mojave Desert at the end of the month. While originally conceived as a Mad Max-inspired event, it’s since taken on wider influences,…
The last time we featured the art of Nick Carver was in 2008, when the dude was looking for a job. Today, he seems to be doin’ OK, as he’s a senior artist at Blizzard. Having spent over five years at Free Radical, later Crytek UK, Carver has been at Blizzard since 2009, where he’s…
Howard & Nester was a comic staple of Nintendo Power for much of the magazine’s run, but there’d always been one storyline kept out of the public eye. Until today. This issue was never intended to run in the magazine; instead, it was specially made and given to former Nintendo of America icon Howard Phillips…
While there are plenty boutique arcades and bars across the world that are home to old Asteroids cabinets, and private collectors who own working versions of Centipede, they account for barely a drop in the ocean of the total number of arcade cabinets manufactured in the 1970s and 80s. We’d like to think those machines…
Until now, we’d only seen artwork and a screenshot of the upcoming Wasteland sequel, but here’s your first look at the game in motion. OK, so there’s not much motion at all, and the scene in question is the same from the screenshot, but the point of this was to show off the game’s various…
Naughty Dog’s presentation of The Last of Us at PAX over the weekend ran for over fifteen minutes, and contained plenty of new footage for the upcoming game about post-apocalyptic interpersonal relationships / surviving hordes of angry plant people. It’ll be out next year.
Scans? Who needs ’em when you’ve got actual screenshots of the newest entry in the Ace Attorney series, which not only sees the return of Phoenix Wright, but marks the series’ first foray into 3D visuals. These official images, released by Capcom, are a mix of artwork and in-game shots, showing the game’s new 3D…
Conservative pundit Glenn Beck has his fans, but famed video game developer Warren Spector reportedly isn’t one of them. Talking on his radio show earlier this week, Beck recounts the tale of when one of his staffers ran into the Deus Ex and System Shock legend at the recent GameStop Manager’s Conference (the employee also…
This new video from Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and wicked good looper/singer/music-maven St. Vincent is my jam. I mean… two of my favorite singers and a whole full-on sax-section groove. It’s like they’re trying to kill me with awesomeness. Best of all, you can preview the whole album, “Love This Giant” over at NPR.…
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