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Photoshop Disaster, Diet Disaster
Westerners notice it. The clothes run slightly smaller, and a medium in Japan would be a small—or even a petite—back home. Barring the exception here or there, Japanese people tend to have smaller frames. People are, generally speaking, thin. So what the hell is up with diet ads like these? The above photos appeared recently…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 24, 2012 -
BioShock: Infinite Has Never Looked Better
Comic book artist Alex Garner had so much fun with his Portal 2 fan piece that he decided to do his own take on upcoming game BioShock: Infinite The result pays homage to the iconic Saturday Evening Post covers of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker “But after drawing my layout, I discovered that the smart folks at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 24, 2012 -
Ministry: Just One Fix
Sorry if this finds you groggy and early in the morning. Though, really, what better way to blow out the cobwebs than with a little Ministry circa 1992? Having been around for over three decades, Ministry have been called a lot of things over the years, most of them with the word “industrial” somewhere in…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012 -
Portal 3 Box Art Has a Sex Joke. It’s Fake.
If you’ve played any of Valve’s Left 4 Dead games, you’ll know how the zombie hand (and fingers) played into each subsequent installment. Artist VutiAru wondered if the still-unannounced Portal 3 could do the same thing and created this concept box art. According to VutiAru, it hints at a total new direction. That it does.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 24, 2012 -
How Much Junk Gets Uploaded to YouTube Every Second of the Day
Trailers. Walkthroughs. Cat videos. Whatever it is you waste your time watching on YouTube, have you ever considered the sheer scale of content being uploaded to the service’s servers? YouTube has, and has put together this awesome site to help you visualise it. Basically, every second that passes in the real world, an hours’ worth…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012 -
Jailed Megaupload Founder Loses His Call of Duty Crown
Bizarrely, the imprisoned founder of file-sharing site Megaupload – Kim Dotcom, formerly Kim Schmitz—was also until this week the world’s number one Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gamer on Xbox Live. A week in the slammer will do things to your top ranking, though, and while he’s been cooling off in a New Zealand…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012 -
Forget MacBook Pro, This Guy Is Playing His Xbox 360 at Starbucks
At Starbucks, you see people with their iPads, their MacBooks, and, yes, their gaming portables. What you don’t usually see are people with their home consoles. There’s a reason for that! “Home consoles” are called “home consoles”, because gamers play them at home. “Portable consoles” like the 3DS and the PS Vita are created for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 24, 2012 -
Idiot TV Program In Serious Trouble For Using Game Footage as “News”
Late last year, a British documentary used footage from a video game and amazingly labelled it as a secret IRA recording. It has now, a few months later, been given a severe dressing-down. British communications regulator Ofcom, which began an investigation into the incident last October, has this week issued its report on the matter,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012 -
The Occupy Movement Needs an Arcade Cabinet. Help It Get One.
The Oakland branch of the Occupy movement is moving off the streets and into an abandoned building later this week. In doing so, they get facilities like kitchens, meeting rooms, etc. All that’s missing is an arcade machine. So Anna Anthropy wants to build them one. It’ll run on batteries, move on wheels and should…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012 -
Cube World is Quietly Becoming My Most Anticipated PC Game of 2012
The last time we say indie PC game Cube World, it looked interesting. Fast forward six months and a lot has changed. For the better. The voxel-based 3D adventure game, which is procedurally-generated yet each time includes a proper game, now looks gorgeous. So much so the team was very nearly bought out by Minecraft…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012 -
Creep Out Your Nintendo Console With Giant Stickers of Cats. Or Horses. Or Seals.
I’ve been meaning to post about these for years now, but they keep slipping my mind. Or does my mind sweep them out to preserve its own sanity? Probably the latter. Shitty peripheral company Kamikaze Gear offers these decals for the Wii and DS that are so awful they flip right back around again and…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
BioWare Bans Old Republic Player For Using Internet Meme
“I’m 12 and what is this”. If you don’t know what that means, here. Everybody back on the same page? OK, so we can all have a laugh at this poor guy’s expense when he was banned from Star Wars: Old Republic for using the line. Posting “I’m 12 and what is this” in a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
Hacked PS3 Lets You Play Battlefield 3, Red Dead Redemption on the Vita
Enterprising hackers, who have cracked open the PS3’s v3.55 firmware, now have a pretty neat feature running on Sony’s new handheld: the ability to remotely play games like Battlefield 3 on a PlayStation Vita. While remote play itself is nothing new, having been enabled between the PS3 and PSP (and already some Vita games), it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
Way More Universal Microtransactions are Coming to the PS3
Upcoming shooter Dust 514 won’t just be the first PS3 game to link to an MMO on the PC. It’ll also be the first to support a framework for the purchase of microtransactions on the PlayStation Network using a virtual currency. Asked by Develop whether developers CCP would be using their own form of in-game…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
Rumor: Microsoft Killing Microsoft Points, Will Use Real Money Instead
Good news, haters of arbitrary online currencies! The end for Microsoft’s confusing “Points” system may be near, if a report on Inside Mobile Apps is to be believed. The mobile site claims that Microsoft’s Points will be “phased out” by the end of 2012, with transactions to be listed in a user’s local currency instead.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
The Terrific Game of Thrones Board Game is Full of Violence and Betrayal, Void of Sex
Lies, bloodshed, betrayal! Power and influence, secrets and whispers, fragile alliances shattered in heartache and death! Also, lots of intense, weird sex. These are the things I think of when I think of Game of Thrones. Christian T. Petersen’s A Game of Thrones: The Board Game has all of that stuff. Well, except for the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 23, 2012 -
The Solar-Powered House of the Future, Controlled With Xbox Kinect
The brainy brains at SCI-Arc and Caltech have designed an entirely solar-powered house that is clean, green, and energy-efficient. It’s also remarkably easy to use, thanks to the fact that the entire thing is powered by Xbox’s Kinect motion controls. Fastcodesign breaks it down: The Compact, Hyper-Insulated Prototype Solar House (CHIP) has an Xbox Kinect…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 23, 2012 -
A Lannister Always Pays His Debts
Terrible Triangle | Jamie and Cersei Lannister gang up on poor Ned Stark via their character cards from A Game of Thrones: The Board Game Why The Apple Trackpad Might Be The Best Video Game Controller Ever Made I was designing a user interface for someone else’s social game the other day, and I was…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 23, 2012 -
They Hired Rob Riggle to Sell You On Call of Duty: Elite
Starting tomorrow, the Call of Duty Elite ‘season’ begins with the first of four planned packs of DLC. Activision seems to believe that The Daily Show‘s Rob Riggle (a former serviceman himself) is the guy to sell it to us, and their new commercial features him taking a testosterone-y tour of Elite services, from study-able…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 23, 2012