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A Week of Cosplayers Doing What They Do Best
While all eyes were on Japan this week at the Tokyo Game Show, where cosplay is almost as big a draw as the games themselves (at least on the weekend), those engaged in the art elsewhere quietly had one of the most impressive weeks we’ve seen in a while here on Fancy Pants. Seriously. If…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 -
The World Would be Cooler if it Was Made Out of Polygons
Designers Jeremiah Shaw & Danny Jones have set up a site called Geo a Day. The idea is simple. It’s a “daily exercise in exploration of shapes and form”, meaning every day we get a new image made entirely out of geometric shapes. It’s like children’s television, video games and graphic design got together and…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 -
This Brand New Neo Geo Game Will Make You Move Your TV
From the same guys who brought you Gunlord, comes NEO XYX, a shooter for the Neo Geo that…yes, this will be a Neo Geo game. On a cartridge and everything. Because it’ll only be made in a small run, and because it’s being made for a dead console that uses expensive cartridges, don’t be too…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2012 -
“He Threatens to Stab me if I Don’t Give Him a Copy of This New JRPG”
Website CollegeHumor has a section called Works Sucks. It’s a place where the downtrodden and downbeat can swap stories, comparing how awful their jobs are and hopefully finding solace in the fact their shitty job isn’t as shitty as someone else’s. Amidst all the complaints from factory workers and IT victims, this one popped up…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2012 -
One of These 17 Beautiful Screenshots is Your Next Desktop Wallpaper
Joanne, aka PixieGIrl4, is a video game “photographer” in the same vein as guys like Duncan “Dead End Thrills” Harris She is very, very good at what she does. Below you’ll find some of her best “screenshots” (click to embiggen), which are captured using tools and tweaks that can – and often does – melt…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2012 -
Murdered EVE Online Player Was a CIA Agent, According to the Infinite Wisdom of Glenn Beck
Continuing his blossoming love affair with the video game community, conservative pundit Glenn Beck has waded into the tragic events surrounding the death of State Department employee Sean Smith in Libya earlier this month Not to pay his respects, though. He’s bringing it up to accuse Smith and his colleagues of either working with the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2012 -
Sports Video Games Try to Hold On, with Infinite Diversity in Finite Releases
The question was put forth this past week, in a podcast where I was a panelist: Are sports video games in a golden age? “No,” seems to be the most obvious answer. Ten years ago, we had competing simulation titles in college football, college basketball and in professional hockey at least, to say nothing of…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 -
What Really Happened to Abe Lincoln? Skyrim has the Answer.
Two mods, the “Now you F**ked Up Mudcrab” mod, and the “Posh mudcrabs” mod combine for a near virtuoso reenactment of the climactic dialogue in The Whitest Kids You Know’s “What Really Happened to Abraham Lincoln.” [NSFW, language] I’m a little unclear, however. Despite the mudcrabs’ remonstrations, has the player in fact fucked up? YouTube…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 -
For a Change, Here’s a Borderlands 2 Easter Egg in Another Game
Barely a week into its release, Borderlands 2 is sprouting Easter eggs like—OK, the hell with it, it’s already a mixed metaphor—mushrooms after rain. Fine. Borderlands 2 is paying homage to so many other great games, here’s Torchlight II paying tribute to its fellow alumnus of the Class of Sept 17, 2012. Image uploaded by…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 -
Strange Xbox Live/Time-Warner Outage Now In Its Second Day
This is the best part of Internet outages—when the Internet service provider blames the hardware, and vice versa. The customers really don’t care what the problem is. But a “a subset of Time/Warner ISP users” that haven’t been able to connect to Xbox Live since noon yesterday still can’t get into the system today. The…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Brief Boxes
The Sega Saturn lasted about three years in North America. It hung on twice as long in Japan. These two cosplayers paid tribute to it (more specifically, to the console’s Hitachi and JVC models) at Tokyo Game Show. It’s been a while since we had a cosplay exploitable, and if any is good for the…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 -
ChrisWarcraft’s Weekly NFL Quest, Level Three: Banish the Gold Farmers of the West [Update]
Haven’t you heard? Football is a role-playing game. Or at least, that’s how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, seems to be approaching it. Each week in the NFL, ChrisWarcraft characterizes his upcoming game in terms of an MMO quest. We’re going to chart his progress and…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 -
Scenes from the Tokyo Game Show Part 2, Electric Boogaloo
The first public day of this year’s Tokyo Game Show drew a whooping 95,000 people. Year after year, the crowds seem to get bigger and bigger. Here’s a look at what it’s like covering the show, dealing with the crowds, and soaking up the atmosphere once the public days kick off! In case you missed…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 23, 2012 -
The Cosplaying Ladies of the Tokyo Game Show
You’ve seen the cosplaying dudes of this year’s Tokyo Game Show. And now? Now, it’s the ladies’ turn. These are some (by no means, all) of the female cosplayers, doing their thing and showing off their fancy outfits in the Tokyo Game Show’s cosplay alley.
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 23, 2012 -
The Crowds, Oh My God the Crowds
The Tokyo Game Show is a crowded place. It’s not so bad on the business days where the attendance is around 25,000 people. On the public days, the amount of people usually skyrockets to over 80,000. But today it hit an all time high at 95,000 people. You may have seen that many people at…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 23, 2012 -
The New Macross Movie Has a Rockin’ First Trailer
Announced back with the release of Macross: Do You Remember Love? on Blu-ray, the new movie Macross FB7: Listen to My Song! premiered its first trailer at Saturday’s Macross 30th Anniversary event on the Namco-Bandai stage at the Tokyo Game Show. Macross FB7: Listen to My Song! is the first major crossover between any two…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 23, 2012 -
At Least Doctor Who Still Appreciates the Nintendo Wii
While the people from this particular planet are packing up their Wii consoles and preparing to trade them in for the next big thing, the last survivor of the planet Gallifrey is having a wonderful time flailing about in front of the television. In yesterday’s episode of Doctor Who, Matt Smith shows Wii Sports Tennis…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2012 -
Brain Kissing, Giant Bugs, and More Excitement from Tokyo Game Show’s Third Day
And Kotaku‘s Tokyo Game Show coverage continues! Here’s the day three round up, with all the news, impressions, and fun in one place. If you missed the previous festivities, Kotaku has you covered: Day 1 and Day 2 The First Guy in Line Didn’t Come to Play Games Meet Keita Wada. The 24 year-old was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 23, 2012 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The More You Know: The Winners
We have five dual finalists in this week’s roundup of the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest, which asked for recognizable mashups of G.I. Joe with video games. Luckily, we have 19 overall candidates, which ejected from an airplane at the last minute, or weren’t shot by grossly inaccurate lazer fire from an M16, or managed to survive…
By Owen Good Published September 22, 2012 -
Six-Hour Xbox Live Outage Strikes Some Time-Warner Subscribers
For six hours now “a subset of Time/Warner ISP users” have had problems connecting to Xbox Live, says Microsoft. The problem appears to be regional. Kotaku staff have had trouble connecting in New York, but were able to get online in the Southeast. There is no word on what the trouble is or who it…
By Owen Good Published September 22, 2012