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From Game Boy To Virtual Boy, An Exhibit Of Gunpei Yokoi’s Legacy
Gunpei Yokoi, who sadly killed in an auto accident in 1997, was a gaming wizard. A new exhibit in Tokyo’s Harajuku pays its respects to Yokoi’s legacy. During the 1960s and 1970s, Yokoi created a wide array of toys for Nintendo. Later he would create Nintendo handheld devices like the Game & Watch and the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2010 -
Gundam Or Burning Alive? Hrm…
Last August, a 29-year-old factory worker was arrested for setting his house on fire. The cause? An altercation with his mother over Gundam figurines. Yoshifumi Takabe was accused of dousing his room in kerosene and lighting it ablaze with a lighter after his mother disposed of his “precious” Gundam plastic model figurines. Takabe intended to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2010 -
The SNES & Genesis Never Looked Better
Or, for that matter, did the NES, until Ozcan got his hands on them. He’s customised the three consoles to amazing effect, the graffiti stylings giving the machines a fresh look without ruining the design of the actual casing. I’m glad to see that it’s not actually a Genesis, either, and that ol’ Doc Robotnik…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
Gran Turismo 5 Designer Responds To Italian Controversy
Officials from the Italian city of Siena are ticked that the city’s Piazza del Campo is a track in Gran Turismo 5. There have been legal threats with Siena saying it’ll seize the game. What does that mean for the game’s November release? The issue, as Kotaku previously posted, is not just the buildings. It…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2010 -
Fight Begins Online, Continues With Fisticuffs And A Knife
Late last week, two men from New York got into a heated argument while playing a PS3 game online. Normally, that’s where the beef would end, but in this case, it was only the beginning of hostilities. Eric S. LaChapelle, 24 (left), had been playing an undisclosed PS3 game online against Corey J. Chalich, 18…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
Is This The End For Yakuza?
Sega’s Yakuza series began in 2005 when the first game was released in Japan on the PlayStation 2. A sequel followed the following year, and to date there have been five games. That includes one spin-off. Another spin-off is slated for the PSP later this year. An ad depicting the destroyed Kamurocho, the in-game version…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2010 -
Rumor: $50 Million Video Game Cancelled
You may have already deduced this in light of the complete absence of marketing for the game in recent months, but CVG report that long-in-development-hell, ex-Midway game This Is Vegas has finally been put out of its misery. Yes, the open-world game that nobody ever wanted, never looked remotely interesting and never looked like it…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
What Wii Party And Mario Party Have In Common
Mario Party games, those party games featuring…Mario, aren’t actually made by Nintendo. They are made by Hudson Soft. And it’s no wonder they are similar to the newly released Wii Party. Nintendo has a long history with Hudson, going back to the Nintendo Entertainment System days, releasing games like Bomberman. In 1998, Nintendo and Hudson…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2010 -
Why GameStop’s “Store Of The Future” Is Anything But
Having trialled them in select regions for almost two years now, GameStop last night officially opened their “store of the future” in Palo Alto, California. Get a good look, because it’ll soon be the past. The concept store, a prototype of the kind of changes the mega-retailer will be rolling out to its 6000 stores…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
This Costume Is One Thousand Bucks
Some cosplayers make their own costumes. Some buy them. The price range for costumes can go from affordable to totally not. The costume you are looking at costs ¥98,650 (US$1,172). It’s the duds for “Purple Heart”, the goddess version of Neptune, the main character of role-playing game Neptune The game is a send-up of the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2010 -
Metal Gear vs Modern Warfare vs Internet Memes
War has changed. Where once the stars of Modern Warfare and Metal Gear fought mercenaries and other bad men, today they are taking on…internet memes. The crew from the Metal Gear x Modern Warfare spoof video we featured last month have, in their downtime between a second and third episode of their crossover tale, decided…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
The Dreamcast Will Not Die
By all accounts, the Sega Dreamcast should be dead. But it’s not. The Sega Dreamcast launched in 1998. While it was discontinued in the West in 2002, Sega continued to officially support (and repair) the console up until 2007. And while Microsoft could have given Dreamcast games a second life (but didn’t), that doesn’t mean…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 25, 2010 -
Capcom Promises: No More Racist Games!
There were some that perceived Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 to be a racist game. Not in intent, perhaps, but certainly in its imagery and execution. Well, Capcom have certainly learned their lesson! Capcom’s senior PR manager Melody Pfeiffer has told Gamasutra “Since the RE5 controversy, we have become much more aware of how important it…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
The Day Before Halo: Reach’s Invasion
The Halo universe is famous for explosions and the colour purple. But pregnant British women? Never seen one of them in a Halo game before. This is yet another live-action trailer for Halo: Reach, showing the lives of some of the citizens of Reach the day before the Covenant invasion. They’re OK, but Microsoft, the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
Dies Caniculares
It’s a Tuesday in August, the least interesting day of the year’s least interesting month. Some might argue February, but at least that has the TV sweeps, so you can watch Swamp Loggers of the Luftwaffe on the Histovery Channel. Anyway, here’s our open thread for the evening, as we wait for the rest of…
By Owen Good Published August 24, 2010 -
One Mother Loving EarthBound Cosplayer
If you think Linda Le aka Vampy’s EarthBound cosplay is adorable, wait until you get a load of her Morrigan from Darkstalkers. Vampy is an incredibly attractive cosplayer who loves the classic Super Nintendo role-playing game EarthBound, the anime Lone Wolf and Cub, and of course, dressing up as characters from anime and video games.…
By Mike Fahey Published August 24, 2010 -
How They Made That BioShock Infinite Trailer
If you liked the BioShock Infinite trailer, check out the season finale of Irrational Behavior, the in-house podcast of the studio behind the next game. Did you know they composed riffs of the original BioShock music for it? Did you know how hard they tried to fake out people who saw it? Where does the…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 24, 2010
