To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: I Should Read That Today was Halloween costume fitting day at chez Ashcraft. Micro-Bash is going to be a pirate. We didn’t ask him what he wanted to be. He’s one! Pirate is fine. Mini-Bash wants to be a racing driver on the McLaren Mercedes team. Anyone is okay, he…
“Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi” (“The Bridge over the Starry Sky”) was originally slated for release on December 11, 2009. Then it was delayed. A whole bunch. The next release date for the 18-years-old-and-up adult adventure game was penciled in for February 26, 2010. The release slipped to April 23. And that turned to May 28,…
Does the game industry have a Hollywood complex? BioShock designer Ken Levine seems to think so. “I think there’s a sense in the entertainment fields that video games are seen as the junior varsity,” Levine tells Develop. “There’s this feeling of ‘oh one day you can come up to our league’.” Back in the late…
You probably never stopped to look at one too closely, but if you had, you’d have noticed the Boos of the Mushroom Kingdom are made of thousands of tiny, individual horrors. As seen on Teefury
Granted, this mod – turning Starcraft II into what’s essentially Dead Space in the Blizzard universe – may never see the light of the day. But its creators deserve credit just for this demonstration video. The basic goal of the mod, called Project Vector, is to turn Starcraft II – a real-time strategy game –…
As previously posted, the Italian notebook maker is marking Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary with notebooks that white people everywhere should love. And if you don’t like the Moleskine journals, perhaps you like stop motion photography? Moleskine Pac-Man – Moleskine ® English [Moleskine via Technabob]
Ryan recently modified this Dreamcast as a commission piece, giving it this amazing Skies of Arcadia theme. He e-mailed us saying “People said I should email your website as you might enjoy it”. People were right It may not look like much at first, but that detailing on the case is some beautiful work (it’s…
There have been new Pokemon movies every summer since 1998. And in 2011, there will be a new Pokemon movie. The anime will be out next summer and tied into Pokemon: Best Wish!, the current Pokemon anime running on Japanese television. The embedded link below has some footage of the upcoming flick. Last year’s Pokemon…
To compensate for the stickiness of control pads and the low resolution of televisions, video games that involve shooting have long employed the use of automatic aiming. It’s a luxury about to be enjoyed by real soldiers in the field. Last week, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a $6.9 million…
A young woman named Yurina Takiguchi wearing a siren on her head is about to test drive a Fiat in Gran Turismo 5. She has never driven a car before and doesn’t have a license. Yep, this is Japanese television. Takiguchi is from the television program Sakiccho. She’s a student at the University of Tokyo,…
The crafty Michele Legendre, whose work you’ve seen before, has been a busy bee in the months since, coming up with fantastic video game felt toys like this Andrew Ryan, from 2K’s BioShock. For a whackjob megalomaniac, he’s looking downirght adorable, right down to his cute little golf club. He’s a commission piece, so this…
I get on my belly and inched forward. Looking through my scope, I could see several Greater Korean Republic troops making their way down a ridge. They were totally exposed. I fired. Pop, pop. Time to buy a drone. It was September during the Tokyo Game Show, and a group of the gaming press had…
NBA 2K11’s debut trailer. Snoop Dogg supplies the beats and is a playable celebrity in the blacktop pickup games. Answering the Jordan Challenges unlocks footage of his iconic highlights in-game.
When a game from a big publisher sells 26,000 copies, it’s a failure. But when an obscure Japanese role-playing game that’s been localised by three fans sells 26,000 copies, it’s enough to warm the darkest recesses of your heart. Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is a quirky little game which puts you in the shoes…
Another autumn, another Dream Party. The fall Dream Party was recently held in Tokyo, complete with cosplayers, booth companions and sticker-covered cars called “itasha” (“painmobile”). There is even moé pudding. As there should be? Dream Party is a twice-a-year bishoujo gathering in Tokyo and Osaka for game developers, retailers and fans. Some, but not all,…
You know that TV show Undercover boss, where corporate executives go and get a job schlepping it on the showroom floor? This is like that. Only for video game bosses. You spend so much time jumping on them and beating the crap out of them and shooting their faces off that you never really understand…
According to the Kinect manual, the controller-free peripheral needs between 6 and 8 feet of space. That’s important to know. Here is the manual’s exact wording: The sensor can see you when you play approximately 6 feet (2 meters) from the sensor. For two people, you should play approximately 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the…
I’d like to play NBA Jam, but I don’t really care for the NBA circa 2010. For me, the league’s glory days were the early 1990s, so this list of the new game’s unlockable characters makes for good reading. It can of course be classed as a spoiler of sorts, so if you’d like to…
Guillermo del Toro, director of Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, has a few kind words to say about the “intelligentsia” at a recent book signing in Portland.
A considerate reader has sent us images from the manual for Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral, and amongst the tips on USB cables and power supplies comes some disheartening news for owners of small living rooms. The manual shows, as you can see in the image above, that for a singleplayer game you’ll need six feet of…
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