Dead Or Alive, Kasumi’s A Pricey Figure

A figure of Dead or Alive star Kasumi is never going to be the classiest thing in the world, but then, Kasumi isn’t the classiest girl in the world, either, so I guess in this case things are working out just fine! She’s priced at around USD$80. That’s a lot of money for a piece…

Is This The Biggest Wii Bundle Ever?

One Wii console, one Wii Balance Board and apparently all 408 games released in Japan. Yours for a cool one million yen. That’s over US$11,000. Japanese used game shop Enterking is offering this limited one-off bundle for the Japanese New Year sales period. The complete bundle is largely used, sure, but Japanese gamers tend to…

True Love Is Found In Nintendo Classics

Get ready for some feel-good times, as a man and his lady agree to be wed after a night spent dining, drinking wine then playing classic Nintendo RPG series Earthbound. This kind of stuff is sweet at the best of times, but hacking a copy of Mother 2 (or, as it’s known in the West,…

A Week In Comments

Same-Sex Marriage Thrives In Frontierville Comment by: NixNada Nominated by: Taggart451 Yeah, but this is the internet. You might THINK you’re cyber-marrying some guy, when in fact “he” is actually a hot 19 year old girl. You gotta be careful. Are The PlayStation 3-Exclusive Assassin’s Creed Missions Worth It? Comment by: DrDankstone Nominated by: D-K…

Dressing Up As A Video Game…Console…Mascot?

When people engage in the art of cosplay, we normally expect to see them dress up as characters from a video game, not a video game console itself. And when they do dress up as a console, we’d expect to see them dress up as a, well, console. Not what this lass is wearing, which…

Bloody Bar Punch Up Isn’t Kabuki Theater

One does not become a kabuki actor, it’s a male-only birthright. There are kabuki dynasties, and only the oldest son can star in kabuki theater. One of Japan’s most popular kabuki actors just got his face smashed in. And it might cost him his career. Ebizo Ichikawa XI, 32 years old, was born Horikoshi Takatoshi…

Two Kinects Can Make A Model Of The World Around You

With one Kinect motion-sensing camera, we can see part of our surroundings in 3D. With two, however, we can actually generate 3D models of our surroundings. Oliver Kreylos, the man behind the first of these kind of videos, has got hold of a second camera and with it built an adorable little 3D model of…

Halo: Reach Could Have Had A Lot More Spaceships Blowin’ Each Other Up

One of the best parts about Halo: Reach was that, for the game’s all-important change of pace, the developers swapped out the awful Flood and replaced them with an enjoyable space battle sequence. So it’s a shame to hear that there was an original – if half-baked – plan to have a lot more space…

Can A Man Jump Over A Rocket?

Find out, as the same methodology used on TV to sort myth from busted fiction is applied to the multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Whether it’s shooting down unmanned helicopters, protecting yourself from death by remote control car or surviving being crushed by radiation blast doors, this video breaks down (or upholds!)…

There Is No Try…

What a bummer of a way to start the week. Maybe we can take consolation in chit-chat about happy things, not necessarily video game related things, in this nightly open thread. I’m going to go cheer myself up with some beer (a Mothership Wit), finally finishing the not-very-good Splatterhouse and watching The Empire Strikes Back…

What Is This Season’s Video Game ‘Fruitcake’?

Many of you are about to be on the receiving end of gifts this holiday season, many of those gifts being video games. Unfortunately, for some unlucky giftees, you’ll be getting the video game equivalent of a fruitcake. For instance, you may find a copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen or James Cameron’s Avatar: The…

Rumor: Is Uncharted 3 Going To The Desert?

After exploring the South American jungles of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and the Himalayas in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, where will half-tucked treasure hunter Nathan Drake find himself next? According to an informed source, Drake’s going to the desert. The same source that says an Uncharted 3 reveal is due on or around the Spike TV…

Salman Rushdie’s Simple Theory On Peace Through Nintendo

Booker Prize-winning author and famous fatwa target Salman Rushdie has a simple solution for how one should liberate Iran, the country whose former Supreme Leader once issued a death sentence against the novelist. Rushdie puts his faith in Nintendo. “I often think that the best way to liberate Iran is to just to drop Nintendo…

Infinity Blade Unsheathes For iPad, iPhone In December

Shadow Complex creator Chair Entertainment brings its Unreal Engine powered action game Infinity Blade (formerly “Project Sword”) to a finite number of iOS device on December 9th, bringing very pretty sword fighting games to iPads and iPods everywhere. Chair and Unreal maker Epic Games have dated and priced ($5.99 USD) the “action-RPG sword fighting adventure,”…

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It’s Beginning To Smell A Lot Like Christmas

To: Ashcraft From: Totilo Re: Leslie Nielsen, R.I.P. What you see here, Ash, is the way Christmas trees are sold in New York City. This row was propped up along Houston Street this morning. I spotted it while I was on my way to work. Couldn’t miss it. Can you smell the pine needles? I…

The King Of Donkey Kong Country Returns References

Nintendo’s Donkey Kong Country Returns makes homage to on-again, off-again Donkey Kong high score champ Billy Mitchell, Steve Wiebe’s nemesis in the documentary The King of Kong. How so? See the patriotic neckwear worn by this giant monkey idol? Eagle-eyed NeoGAF member Lijik spotted the reference to hot sauce maker and Donkey Kong master Billy…

Cowboys & Aliens Director Says His Job Is Like Playing Red Dead Redemption All Day

Future summer blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens—based on the 2006 graphic novel of the same name—may draw some influence from another Western, Rockstar Games San Diego’s Red Dead Redemption. Director Jon Favreau—of Iron Man film directing fame—says that he and star Daniel Craig “kicked off” filming of next year’s sci-fi Western mash-up with a little Red…

Kinect Sees 2.5 Million Sales In 25 Days

It took ten days for Microsoft’s Kinect to hit one million sales. Now Microsoft reveals that the device has sold 2.5 million units in 25 days. This can only mean one thing: Someone is buying 100,000 Kinects a day. It’s either that, or Kinect is simply selling at a relatively steady rate. The latest numbers…

The Problem With Sex As A Video Game Goal

As you thumb through dialogue trees in Mass Effect, trying to find the best lines to seduce slinky space-warrior Ashley, you’re engaging in what the developers hope is an advanced form of simulated human interaction. Throughout the game, Ashley slowly warms to your own personal Commander Shepard, even reeling off some flirtatious lines of her…