Amazon today unveiled an Android-powered Kindle tablet aimed at taking on Apple’s iPad, Bloomberg reports. The Kindle Fire will have a 7-inch display and sell for $199. Since it will run on Android, it will presumably be able to play movies, music, games as well as let people read books. Make sure to follow Gizmodo’s…
Flying | LOS ANGELES – At the 2000 E3, Sega held a rock climbing contest. (Photo: Access Communications, Vince Bucci | AP) Baby’s Anime Name Thrills Some. Baffles Others. Names are important. You have them from the moment you are born until the day you die. That is, unless you change it to “Cary Grant”…
A listing for Batman Arkham City Xbox 360 Bundle popped up on Amazon’s German site over night. The bundle seems to include a copy of the game, a single controller, a headset and a black 250GB Xbox 360. The 360 doesn’t appear to have any sort of branding, which is a bummer. I was hoping…
During this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Japanese website Inside Games thought it would be a good idea to film this year’s booth companions. Maybe it was. Inside Games also thought it would be a good idea to film them with a 3D camera. Meaning? Meaning if you have a 3D television, a 3D smartphone, a…
Gaming’s reached a turning point. Western games have more realistic graphics and physics than Japanese games. This isn’t good or bad. It’s true. There was a moment during the Tokyo Game Show, when I stood in line waiting to play the PS Vita. A trailer for Modern Warfare 3 rumbled across the big screen. It…
Polyphony boss Kaz Yamauchi has announced that an update to GT5, called Spec 2.0, will be out in the third week of October, with DLC due a week later. Sadly, no word on what’s actually in them.
The Legend of Zelda is a series that, over the years, has taken on a life of its own, developing a tone and depth to its universe not really present in any single game. You’ll rarely see shit get as serious as it does in this image by Zac Gorman, for example. And yet, despite…
EA has announced that it’s upcoming reboot of the Syndicate universe will be out in February 2012. That’s, not long after the game’s reveal, but remember, Starbreeze has been working on this game for years
Originally, Sony planned to release the PlayStation Vita on Dec. 3. Instead, the company is pushing it out on Dec. 17. In the upcoming issue of Japanese game magazine Famitsu, Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Hiroshi Kawano revealed that Sony had planned to launch the Vita on Dec. 3, but moved it back in order to…
You might not know it, but the amount of work that goes into designing a video game cover is mind-boggling. Everything from the characters to the angles to the colours is considered, checked and focus-tested to within an inch of its life. It’s a lot of hard work! Which is instantly, and wonderfully undone by…
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a prequel to the original game that took years to develop, cost millions of dollars and drastically re-imagined the look of the universe. That was cool with many people, but if you prefer the original, you should check out this fan-made project. Billed as another Deus Ex prequel, 2027 is…
Meet Sunny Lin. The Macau-born sexy pin-up cosplayed as One Piece‘s Boa Hancock—something that quickly drew the attention of the Japanese internet. That, in turn, got her on the evening news in Taiwan where she now resides. Online in Japan, new Sunny Lin fans are clamouring over the model, noting that if anyone looks like…
When we first saw the plans for a remake of Duke Nukem 3D, Mike wasn’t exactly confident it would ever be released. With good reason: it looks like it won’t ever be released. Despite initially getting the green light from IP owners Gearbox, the fan-made project has stalled, an announcement on Duke Nukem 3D Reloaded‘s…
When Microsoft launched Kinect in Japan, it roped in schoolgirl idols from girl group SKE48 to sell the thing. Just Dance Wii is following suit. The commercial features schoolgirls dancing to SKE48 sister group, AKB48. That pop outfit is no stranger to gaming. There have been two AKB48 PSP games In Japan, schoolgirls are often…
There once was a genre on home computers that was more awesome than any other. It involved space ships, and exploration, and trading, and combat. It was games like Elite, Frontier and Privateer These days, that genre is basically dead. Except for Drifter, which is trying to bring it back. And God bless it for…
A Final Fantasy Versus XIII job wanted ad lists PS3 package title experience as necessary, “or otherwise an Xbox 360 package title”. But Versus is a PS3 exclusive! Just like FFXIII was. Well, at one point. [Square Enix]
They may have helped save the Earth in the Halo series, but the UNSC’s ODST forces seem to be having a little trouble adjusting to civilian life now that the war’s over. Case in point: you don’t need armour to go to McDonalds. The drive-thru at McDonalds. Unless you’re Fahey, that is And you, uh,…
Names are important. You have them from the moment you are born until the day you die. That is, unless you change it to “Cary Grant” or “World B. Free” along the way. Yes, names are important—especially in Japan. Japanese fashion model Hikari Kamikawa recently gave birth to a happy and healthy baby boy. She…
From what we’ve heard, the next generation of consoles from Microsoft and Sony won’t be with us until around 2014. Now CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, suggests something similar. Of course, in an interview with IGN, he says nothing specific about new consoles. But he does say, when asked about a release timeframe for…
That’s not really Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson, of course. It’s just some guy. But still. Chuckle. September 27, 2011 [Mike Mitchell, via Gamefreaks] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
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