This week the Chinese city of Pingdingshan got an eyeful. Twenty minutes of a Japanese adult film were broadcasted on a big screen display, for all to see. Police arrested a furniture store employee for piping the film through a PC to the big screen. The big screen was part of an advertisement for the…
Reebok and Japanese figure maker MegaHouse are teaming up for a limited edition set of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex sneaker. There will be only five hundred pairs in the world. In the world For the collaboration, Reebok’s Insta Pump Fury was redesigned to look like Ghost in the Shell‘s Tachikoma—those fictional walker…
Today Nintendo revealed a new portable: the Nintendo 3DS XL. It’s a larger version of the Nintendo 3DS with bigger screens and a slightly better battery. Rumors of a larger 3DS swirled. But time and time again, Nintendo wasn’t exactly up front about the new 3DS. Or was it? Right before the E3 gaming expo…
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It feels like forever since we’ve seen new footage of the 3DS iteration of Nintendo series Animal Crossing. Luckily, then, the company’s overnight Japanese press conference gave us over two minutes of gameplay footage. The Animal Crossing Channel [YouTube]
Regardless of your thoughts on underpants or Neo Geo cabinets, there’s one thing we should hopefully all be able to agree on: video game comedian Keith Apicary / Nathan Barnatt can dance So much so that it looks like Warner Music have given him a chance to showcase that in front of a wider audience,…
Already revealed for Japan, Kirby’s Dream, a collection of six classic Kirby games for the Wii, is coming to North America. The game is outfitted with new challenge stages and even has a Kirby museum that will teach you thinks like when the Endeavour space shuttle made its maiden voyage, when the European Union was…
I’ve been keeping a bit of an eye on the upcoming Heroes & Generals, because it looks like one of those PC games that’s too good to be true. Promising to combine strategic overlays with multiplayer combat, it’s the kind of WW2 game I’ve always dreamed about. I don’t know if that’s what we’ll actually…
Nintendo’s upcoming Pokémon Black & White 2 have previously only been shown off in Japanese. Let’s break that up a little, and check out this new English-language trailer. While the games are out in Japan this weekend, they’ll be hitting Western shores sometime this “Fall”
Nintendo’s unveiling of an all-new model of the Nintendo 3DS, the 3DS XL, is strange one. Let the usual excitement over new hardware die down and you’re left wondering who, exactly, needs this thing? Revisions of hardware are usually there for one of two reasons: either you’re correcting a clear fault in the original or…
Here are the first official images of the new Nintendo 3DS XL Note that the units with the silver and red exterior casings share the same black interior, which is why there’s only the one image of the inside of a “black” 3DS.
The new 3DS XL is, well, quite a lot bigger than the “old” 3DS. Want to see just how much bigger? Here you go.
First there was Square’s new next-gen engine. Then Epic’s Unreal Engine 4. Now we’re getting another look at what the graphics of tomorrow may/will look like, thanks to the latest benchmark trailer from the folks at 3DMark. Used to, well, benchmark a system, 3DMark’s clips are always big on effects and fancy visuals, so as…
So there’s a new Super Smash Bros. game in development, and Namco Bandai is the game’s lead developer. But, what does that mean? Listen to what Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai said about the upcoming game: Currently, the prototype prepared by Namco Bandai Games and Namco Bandai Studios’ special team looks pretty good, and it’s…
So, Dark Souls on PC isn’t exactly shaping up as the greatest port of all time. Not to matter, so long as the game is playable, you can play it, and still squeeze drops of enjoyment from all that death and frustration that the series is famous for. Only thing is, can you play it?…
The first direct sequels to Pokémon games, Pokémon Black and White 2 will be out for the DS in the U.S. this fall, Nintendo said today. They’re out in Japan this weekend.
Hi, Nintendo. Welcome to the DLC era. Nintendo of America’s Reggie Fils-Aime has revealed today that, when New Super Mario Bros. 2 is released on 3DS on August 19, it’ll be supported post-release by new, paid downloadable content. After making very sure he promised that this wouldn’t be affecting development on the core title, Fils-Aime…
Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle is coming to the U.S. this November, Nintendo said today. Released in Japan for 3DS last year, this is the fifth installment in the puzzle-heavy Layton series. It will be out in November. Nintendo will release new puzzles for the game, once per day for 365 days. Update…
Dutch designer Bjørn van der Linden is the man to thank for this Nintendo 3DS mock-up, which goes that extra ten miles by placing the thing in lifestyle images and website snaps that look just like ones Nintendo would actually use. It’s got a retro NES theme, similar to Nintendo’s own older (and amazing) Game…
The screen is 90 percent bigger, with larger bottom and top screens. It’s called the Nintendo 3DS LL in Japan and the Nintendo 3DS XL in the West. The top screen measures at 4.88 inches and is 90 percent bigger, while the bottom screen is 4.18 inches and is also 90 percent bigger. For the…
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