To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: RUN! Mini-Bash practiced Japanese calligraphy the other day at home! He’s pretty good and seemed to have a natural knack for it. What you missed last night Japan Goes Bananas For Pokémon: Black And White Michael Jackson, The Online Game The Pokémon Movie For Grown-Ups Do You Love Cars As…
The future is a mysterious thing. Best to be prepared. So make your video games scalable. Devil’s Third, the upcoming game from Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki and Valhalla Games, is slated for the PS3 and the Xbox 360. In an interview with Japanese website Game Watch Impress, Itagaki says that his team is…
Fighting game Super Street Fighter IV is getting a bunch of new costumes, previously hinted at here. Go ahead, check em out, have a look at them. CAPCOM：SUPER STREET FIGHTER IV 公式サイト｜システム [Capcom]
On September 18, Pokémon: Black and White went on sale in Japan. It probably did pretty good, right? No, no it didn’t. It did amazing In its first two days on sale in Japan, Black and White sold 2.63 million copies. By comparison, 2006’s Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl sold 1.58 million in its first week…
Like previous Fables, Fable III lets you play home-owner. Unlike previous Fables, however, Fable III lets you put skulls on a bookcase, then blame it all on the butler. This housing demonstration video shows the kind of stuff you’ll be able to do to your home in the game, and if it’s all a bit…
Providing one more reason to never stop playing World of Warcraft, it turns out the game’s latest expansion includes a quest that’s basically a stripped-down version of Popcap’s excellent Plants vs Zombies. There’s sun. There are spitting plants. There are the undead. There’s a lawn. There’s even lawnmowers as a last line of defence. This…
Well, check it out on DVD and Blu-ray. The big screen version of Scott Pilgrim graphic novels raked in a disappointing box office. Thank goodness for DVD and Blu-ray! Scott Pilgrim vs. The World will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 9 with a whole host of bonus features. Perhaps the film will…
What Is This, Half-Life 2? Nope, too many bright lights, too many sex workers. Instead, this is Grand Theft Auto IV’s version of Times Square. Only now it has a gravity gun. This mod, for the PC version of the game, is obviously a little shaky, particularly given how wonky it is when selecting targets.…
Planet Michael is a massively multiplayer online game devoted to the music and life of the late Michael Jackson. No, this is not a joke. “We put a focus on something that will truly allow fans to immerse themselves in a Michael Jackson-like universe or music-video-like world and interact with each other and then go…
This is what happens when Paul Robertson, of Scott Pilgrim and Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight fame, sits down and designs something with Meat Bun, of rad gaming t-shirts game. The collaborative shirt is called “Snack Attack”, and features an “immoderate indulgence of tasty Japanese treats”, meat buns and some familiar video game ladies…
The Japanese game industry is dead. This week has been a flashback of last year’s Tokyo Game Show — complete with gloom and doom from Capcom’s Keiji Inafune. “I think Japanese gaming is dead,” Inafune told the New York Times. “When I say these things, I’m called a traitor. But I love Japan. I want…
Normally, cosplay photos tend to focus on Japanese titles, or the really big games. Crysis is neither of those, so it’s nice to see the PC gaming crowd represented in the adult dress-ups scene. This is Anthony Le, doing a fine job of impersonating the star of the first Crysis, Nomad. He built the suit…
For £9/€10 a month, Xbox 360 owners in the UK, Spain, France and Italy will later this year get access to the Zune Marketplace.
China might already have its own version of Monster Hunter. That isn’t stopping Capcom from moving forward with launching MonHun in China. Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto has revealed that Capcom is in talks with a “major” Chinese online game company to bring PC game “Monster Hunter Frontier Online” to China. The game launched in Taiwan…
Corporate “he said, she said” can be a little boring at times, but Activision boss Bobby Kotick calling Halo creators Bungie “the last remaining high quality independent developer” is too good to pass up. Speaking at an investor’s meeting, Kotick said “Bungie are a very unusual company. They’re probably the last remaining high quality independent…
Arcade cabinets, retro game consoles and CPUs. “Hardware Girls” isn’t just photos of beautiful hardware, it’s also pics of beautiful girls. Photographer Julie Watai photographed 25 models for her latest photobook. Watai released a photobook called Samurai Girl in 2006. Last December, the multimedia artist shared her thoughts on East vs. West cosplay in a…
That short, blurry, fan-made trailer for a live-action Pokémon movie didn’t do the thing justice. So let’s watch the thing, in full, in its original form. While the blurry shots from the first trailer helped hide the cracks in the special effects, it also robbed this fan project – called Pokémon Apokélypse – of much…
Richard Marks has an impressive resume: He has created the EyeToy, the PlayStation Eye and the PlayStation Move. He also likes buttons. “Buttons are irreplaceable as an input device,” Marks tells Edge Magazine. “Too many buttons are overwhelming, but one single action button is very powerful feeling.” Continuing, Marks adds, “For core games you really…
Dean Fraser’s Springfield Punx website – where the artist renders celebrities and famous characters as if they’d appeared in The Simpsons – has long been a favourite internet time-waster. Especially now there’s game characters on it. We’re surprised it’s taken Dean this long to start on the world of video games, but we’re not complaining,…
More Colorful Than Your Game Room Comment by: Demonbird Nominated by: kyoshizen How dare you assume my game room is less colorful. Let me paint the picture for you, Every surface is covered in LED lights. Each one a different hue of a different color. The walls, floors, I have them sticking out of the…
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