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Wii U Launch Line-Up Dries Up As Several Big Games Slip

As with just about every other major console that has ever launched, promises and plans for the Wii U’s first few months are thinning into the reality of a system plagued with a lack of early releases. Today, Nintendo announced looming Wii U release dates for a couple of major games for their new console,…

Nintendo Spring Line-Up Brings Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon to 3DS on March 24

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon comes to the 3DS on March 24, one highlight among several release dates Nintendo announced for its spring lineup this morning. Additionally, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity arrives in North America on the same date. (It released in Japan in November.) Other dates given in the lineup have LEGO City…

Bow Before Your New God Of Ninja Turtles Cosplay

There can’t be many harder characters to cosplay as than Krang, the wonderfully bizarre villain from the original TMNT animated series. Partly for his size, yeah, but also for the fact he’s a talking brain who lives in a giant clear tank right where a human’s guts are supposed to be. Which should make accurate…

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will be out worldwide some time this fall on the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Bandai Namco games is working with Tencent Games to release a Naruto online game for China.

Sony Settles with Kevin Butler Actor Over Wii Brouhaha

Jerry Lambert, who played phony Sony exec Kevin Butler, has reached an agreement with Sony. The actor appeared in a Bridgestone ad, playing a rival game console, the Nintendo Wii. Media Post (via Eurogamer) reports that Lambert agreed that his contract with Sony excluded him from promoting rival game machines, and that doing so was…

Once Again, Japan and America Apparently Have Different Taste in Men

Last summer, Japanese love simulator Be My Princess was re-released for Westerners. It wasn’t only the language that was changed. The princes were, too. Voltage Entertainment, the folks behind that game, is once again bringing one of their Japanese dating sims to the West. Nemuranu Machi no Cinderella (眠らぬ街のシンデレラ) is getting localized as Glass Stilettos…

I Pity The Fool Who Doesn’t Enjoy This LEGO A-Team Van (That Actually Moves)

It wouldn’t be enough for a replica A-Team van to simply sit there. The A-Team drove around real fast smashing into stuff, so damn it, replica LEGO models should too. Hats off to LEGO builder vmln8, then, who has done just that, building the team’s van and sticking fully-functioning remote controls inside it, which can…

Final Fantasy: All the Bravest‘s special brand of insanity is now available on U.S. iTunes for a down payment of $3.99.

New Bill Wants To Turn Game Labels, Sale Restrictions Into Law

Democratic congressman Jim Matheson has introduced a bill known as “H.R. 287″, which is the latest attempt to introduce tighter controls on the way video games are sold in the United States. Despite the presence of ESRB labels on games sold in the US, and retailer policy to forbid the sale of adult-only games to…

Apple’s Stance On Controversial Games Is A Little Insulting

Apple has had some problems recently with “serious” titles on its iOS store, which have been falling foul of some rather tight restrictions of what can and can’t be represented in a game. We’ve seen a Second World War game barred for using historically-accurate Japanese flags, and more recently, a game about Syria knocked back…

A Wii U Commercial Was Pulled Because A Single Person Complained

In Britain, the Advertising Standards Authority operates under a fairly simple rule. If even a single person complains about a commercial, they take a look at it, and if they agree, they can pull the ad from the airwaves. Which is exactly what happened recently with a Wii U commercial. You may have actually seen…

Boy, These Nintendo Consoles Are Gorgeous

Slovenian artist Zoki64 paints old video game consoles, turning the old into things that look brand new. Anyone can paint on a console, that’s the easy part. What’s so good about Zoki64’s work is that he pays attention to the finish, and not just the paint, giving his consoles a gloss that makes them look…

Report: Microsoft Replacing Xbox Chat With Skype For Next Console

According to “A person familiar with the matter”, website CVG is reporting that, as part of Microsoft’s continuing efforts to consolidate Skype (which it now owns) as the standard communications platform for the company’s products, it’ll “become the default chat service on the next generation Xbox console”. What would this mean, exactly? Who knows, the…

Oh God, It’s A Bad Lip-Reading Of The Entire NFL

At this point, I feel like I don’t have to introduce “Bad Lip-Reading,” the mega genius works of music and misinterpretation whose ranks include Twilight ‘s gummi bear and Michael Bublé’s “Russian Unicorn,” that second one better known as my Actual Favorite Thing On The Entire Internet. Now, he’s turned his attention on the National…

I Have A Complicated Relationship With Sleep, But That’s Not Uncommon If You Like Games or Tech

I can tell you exactly when it all started—two years ago, on a December night, at the behest of an online pal who was surprised that I’d never stayed up all night before. That was the night that I ruined whatever semblance of a normal sleeping schedule I had before, instead adopting something that includes…

Microsoft Has A New, Real Warthog To Drive Around In

A few years back, Microsoft had special effects wizards WETA build a replica Warthog vehicle from the Halo universe. It was awesome, but with the ol’ jalopy undergoing a subtle redesign for 343’s new Halo games, I guess they needed a new one. So they had a new one built. Aria Group, who make replica…

Aeria Delivers the Mighty Immortalis Unto the Collectible Card-Craving Masses

While Aeria Mobile’s latest entry in the engorged collectible card game market isn’t nearly as pretty as Pirate Maidens, it makes up for it by having a name that sounds suspiciously like the ancient mouthwash of power. Behold Immortalis, more than 650 cards and 70 quest zones’ worth of minty fresh fantasy battles. Like a…

Let’s Play Devil’s Advocate And Consider Dead Island’s Severed Torso As A Piece Of Art

Anytime something shocking or awful is done by the video game industry, you’ll have people chiming in that we should leave it alone because it’s actually art and so it has a right to exist (because apparently being art means the ability to exist without criticism and any criticism is actually the equivalent of censorship!)…

How To Bake Myst‘s Delicious Mushroom Bread

It’s hard work, solving puzzles. Sometimes, a gal or guy might get hungry. Good thing there’s Daniella Zelli’s Gourmet Gaming, there to tell us how to make all of our favorite video game dishes, from Konami Wall-Turkey to the Grand Theft Auto burger to Dishonored‘s apricot tartlet. And now, she’s tackled the venerable puzzle/exploration series…