Let’s be honest. There are two types of fan films: crappy looking ones and great looking ones. Freeman’s Days? It looks great Based on Valve’s Half-Life games and from a host of Russian Half-Life players, Freeman’s Days follows the games’ silent physicist in his adventures in Half-Life 2. Unlike most Half-Life fan creations, the question…
Remember when game machines used to have street dates? China doesn’t. Hong Kong-based game publication GameWave snagged a Nintendo 3DS a day before it will go on sale in Japan. No word whether the portable was given to GameWave by Nintendo or not. Reports indicate that the portable, which was apparently skimmed from shipments from…
Tomorrow morning Japan time, Nintendo is launching the successor to the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo 3DS. Getting a Nintendo DS on launch day back in 2004 was not a problem. The 3DS could prove more difficult. Crud. Back in 2004, Nintendo was coming off the disastrous GameCube. Rumors swirled that the company was going to…
Nintendo is recommending players take breaks every fifteen minutes while playing the 3DS in 3D. Who plays video games for fifteen minutes? Nintendo is not alone. The fifteen minute break interval is also what the Korean government is recommending while viewing 3D. Capcom realizes that most players don’t play in chunks of 15 minutes. At…
Real hair or fake hair, it doesn’t matter. Akihabara salon Fuwat will totally cut them both. Located five minutes from Akihabara Station and opening last fall, the salon has a sandwich board out front, like many salons. But the game-inspired drawings, like the cat from Monster Hunter, provide a hint at the otaku-friendly service offered…
Moca coco or anchovy? Hrmmmmmm……….. All I Want From Skyrim Is To Go Hunting On A Sunny Day Many people’s favourite experiences with the last Elder Scrolls game — Oblivion — probably revolve around dungeons, magic, horse-riding and Sean Bean. Mine are a little more sedate. Turning A Dead Xbox Into A PS3 Controller Aussie…
Gunner Wright voices engineer-turned-hero Isaac Clarke in Dead Space 2. And he’s more than ready to tackle any foreseeable film role. “I feel like we already shot a film, one that you can play,” Wright tells horror site Hell Descent. “As for DS2 live action, I already have the plasma cutter so lets roll camera…give…
This spring, the story of pro gamer Mike Ross is getting the feature-length documentary treatment. The film is a portrait of how Ross spent 2010, traveling around the country and competing in Street Fighter. Focus is the documentary debut of filmmaker Steve Hwang and gets its premiere screen this Saturday at the Art Center College…
Back in the day, computer programmers used BASIC. Some still do! But for those who missed the BASIC years or for those who’d like to revisit them, there’s this. Petit Computer is a DSiWare title that is, ahem, basically a BASIC interpreter for the Nintendo DSi. The touch screen becomes a virtual keyboard, while the…
When Yuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima isn’t dressing up as girls from bullet hell shooters, he’s kicking people’s ass. He’s a professional K-1 kick boxer. But is he any good at fighting games? To find out, he’s playing female idol Rose Gardenfairy. Something tells me that that isn’t her real name. As they fire up “Phantom Breaker”…
Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki tells 1Up that Dark Souls will be 1.5 times bigger than its spiritual predecessor Demon’s Souls. “It may feel even bigger to the players,” he added.
There are games you pick up and play. And then, there are games that you cannot put down. Glass Tower 2 seems to be one of the latter. Glass Tower 2 is not a new title, originally getting a 2010 release. But it’s recently taken the top spot on Apple’s Free App charts, surpassing the…
According to Swedish reports, cops in the city of Helsingborg suspect that fifteen teens have moved beyond energy drinks to stay awake while gaming and are snorting cocaine. Apparently, these youngsters have too much money. Swedish paper the Metro is blowing the incident out of proportion, alerting readers of a new trend — you know,…
Back in 2008, before the stabbings, Akihabara was a carefree place. Otaku (“geeks”) roamed from shop to shop, maids passed out fliers and cosplayers posed up a storm. The Akihabara Massacre changed all that, but things are normalizing. Want proof? The area’s most famous flasher is ready to hit the streets of Akiba once again.…
Ah, children’s clothes. I quite like these doggy shoes as does Micro-Bash. I believe he wears them almost everyday. There was a choice between bear shoes and doggy shoes, and we went with the doggy shoes ’cause the kid likes dogs. I think we made the right choice! America’s Favorite Video Games, All In One…
Inazuma Eleven (“Lightning Eleven”) is a soccer role-playing game from Level-5. Samurai Eleven is a soccer sim from Square Enix. You’d think if someone was going to make a clone, they’d at least change the sport. And the font. You’d think. Level-5 is the studio responsible for games like Professor Layton and White Knight Chronicles.…
Forget for a moment that the 3DS is hitting U.S. retailers in late March. In early March, black and white Pokémon DSi units are coming to the States, each priced at US$179.99. The bundles were released in Japan last year.
wi-fi | by 小檜山 貴裕 [Kohiyama Takahiro’s Tumblr via Tiny Cartridge] Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
Before the Nintendo 3DS was called the 3DS, it had a codename. It was a prototype that Nintendo was developing as the Nintendo DS’s successor. And initially, it did not have 3D. The portable’s console manager Hideki Konno tells Famitsu that the planning for the DS’s successor commenced when the original DS was finished, complete…
Fishing, Graffiti, AR Shot, Mii Pics and Star Pics are among the titles purported to be heading to the Nintendo 3DS’s AR Games, reports GameLife. While the other games are fairly self-explanatory, Star Pics is an augmented reality title that uses Nintendo characters like Mario, Link, Kirby, Metroid’s Samus and Pikmin (Mii Pics supposedly uses…
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