Yesterday a snow storm blew through Tokyo, blanketing the metropolis in white. For Tokyo, this was the first snowfall of 2013, and residents did not let the opportunity for some winter fun pass them by. Creative types sculpted nude torsos, sea creatures, and of course numerous manga, anime, and video game characters. Then, there were…
The Assassin’s Creed movie has a writer, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and that writer is Michael Lesslie. Who you’ve probably never heard of. He wrote a big play in London called Prince of Denmark, as well as a few short films. And… that’s about it for this. Lesslie joins Michael Fassbender on the team,…
Let’s just say this is a story about what happens to the Pokemon left behind and leave it at that. Wait, no. Let’s also say this is creepy as hell, and that you’ve been warned. OK, we’ll leave it at that The Pokemon Hoarder [00mosama00, via Go Nintendo]
You may have noticed. I like Crusader Kings II. I like it a lot. But I like it for all kinds of reasons, many of which I didn’t get space, or time, to dwell on last year. Like the way that, very quietly, the game has been continually and fundamentally updated by the development team…
It wasn’t official, of course, but thanks to the magic of bootleg cartridges, there was indeed a version of Nintendo’s classic platformer ported to Sega’s rival console. The game is a little janky, and missing some features altogether (no Yoshi, for example), but as you can see, there’s some kind of Super Mario World experience…
Science/tech nerds Waterloo Labs, who are no strangers to Mario projects, have truly outdone themselves this time with the creation of a real-life game of Mario Kart Transforming four regular karts, they feature weapon launchers. But that’s just the start of the “realness”. Strung up over the course were item boxes which would be scanned,…
There are certain parts of the internet today that got very excited about Star Drive, an upcoming 4X space game. They’re excited because, a long time after the game was little but a twinkle in its developer’s eyes, it’s shaping up to be everything a nostalgic 90’s gamer/serious space nerd is looking for. Seeing as…
This video is actually from all the way back in 2008, but was only just posted on the website of Epic Games. It was made by Tal Peleg, a fan whose skills with animation eventually landed him work in the games business, first on Dead Space 2 and now with Uncharted developers Naughty Dog. I…
Flowcharts sure can be helpful. They allow us to break down life’s challenges in a logical way. They can help us decide what to eat, or whether or not to ask our friends to give us a loan. And, if we’re a wizard in Middle Earth, they can help decide whether to call in the…
Eric has compared the dangerous smog in Beijing to Silent Hill. Fair based on the pics available yesterday, sure, but new images show things look far worse, especially when the sun starts to go down. Unless you’re a Blade Runner fan. That image up top is not a still from Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic. Nor…
I’ve been enjoying DmC: Devil May Cry, Ninja Theory’s reboot of Capcom’s violent, venerable dude-juggling series. Evan likes it, too I even like protagonist Dante’s total makeover as a brown-haired, sexy as eff guy, all swagger and sword-swinging. But could it be… (HARD-HITTING INDUSTRY NEWS ALERT)… that the dude has no penis? This video, posted…
Over the last couple of weeks, Jurassic Park has been just about everywhere. On websites. On social media. Beneath the earth, frozen in amber. We’ve all got Jurassic fever, and it’s been wonderful I blame Far Cry 3 for my own Jurassic fixation. That game’s lush island setting is just begging for some dinosaurs. And…
Check out a very cool chronicle of personal messages from developers, hidden in the code of classic games.
Months back, when Bioware came out with the news that finally, finally, a gay-romance option would be included in Mass Effect 3, something stood out to me. It was the way they explained why it was becoming an option: not as a political statement, but as a business decision of sorts. Players asked for it,…
Not everyone is a fan of Ninja Theory’s new take on Devil May Cry‘s cocksure antihero Dante. In fact, many longtime fans of the series are downright apoplectic. Ninja Theory doesn’t appear to have let that get to them, though. In fact, they use this early-game easter egg to thumb their nose at critics. Spoilers!…
Lucky, lucky. It’s not often you get to barely escape a death, nevermind see how your demise could have gone down. This Battlefield 3 player, YouTube user MrChult, got out of his vehicle at just the right time. That’s some Final Destination shit right there. Hopefully they did something worthwhile with that life! BF3 Best…
This is NRA: Practice Range. It’s a new iOS game released apparently by the fine folks at the National Rifle Association, who have graciously decided to make it both free and available to kids aged 4+ so that anyone, no matter how old they are, can practice using guns to shoot things. There are three…
If you read a recent piece on video game violence, there’s a good chance that somewhere in that article, included is a screenshot of a Dishonored neck stab. Last year was the year of the neck stab, after all. Rock, Paper, Shotgun spoke with the developer that coded that move in-game—Joe Houston—and he had Opinions…
On Friday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met at the White House with video game industry leaders and researchers to talk about school shootings, violent video games, and Blastman III Today we spoke to attendee Chris Ferguson, a professor at Texas A&M and a leading researcher on violent video games, in order to find out…
Continuing the amazing list of personal games that touch on difficult subjects comes this Twine game called “What’s in a Name?” It’s about how someone learns they are bisexual, only to second-guess themselves because some folks in the LGBT community aren’t accepting of that sexuality. The idea is that you’re either straight, or you’re gay.…
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