That’s right, Marvin Gaye is getting a video game. Masaya Matsuura, designer of PaRappa the Rapper and former member of Japanese prog rock unit Psy-S, has revealed that he is making a game based on Marvin Gaye The game is titled War is Not the Answer and will be made for charity organization One Big…
Game developer Level-5 has released a series of popular Professor Layton games through Nintendo onto the Nintendo DS. Level-5, however, is planning its worldwide escape. The Fukuoka-based company is looking to publish the Professor Layton titles itself, cutting Nintendo out of the lucrative international publishing deal. Level-5 publishes the games in Japan; however, Nintendo releases…
You might think you are looking at a regular elevator. Technically, you are. It’s the stickers, promoting a new adult video game, that give it pizzazz. Would you like to step inside? This elevator is located at the Gamers retail shop in Akihabara. The computer game, Kudo Wafter, is rated 18-and-up. This elevator, however, is…
That isn’t a rhetorical question. Why? “I’m a fan first and foremost,” actor Michael Sheen told MTV. “That’s a big part of why I wanted to do it, because I was such a fan of the first film. I was like 11 when it came out and it just blew me away. I never thought…
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Attack of the Show host Olivia Munn, who recently played a reporter in Iron Man 2, is appearing as a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart over the next couple of weeks. A Comedy Central spokesperson tells Reuters that Munn’s appearance is a “tryout”, something that is not unusual for the network. However,…
Musician Trent Reznor has had a long relationship with game developer id. He scored Quake and did music for Doom 3 that did not make it into the game. No wonder there have been rumors about Reznor and Doom 4. When asked about that rumor, Reznor replied, “I haven’t been contacted by them and find…
Carleton College’s Goodsell Observatory gets pranked. As seen on The Star Wars Blog via Albotas
To: Crecente From: Bash RE: Quincy Not you Crecente. I know where you live. You live in Denver. Or so you say. Dun dun dun I live in Osaka, but I’m from Dallas. Got pinged today with word that at the A-Kon 21 convention in Dallas Japanese gaming circle Zero Zigen will be doing a…
It would look like this. Artist Kate Elizabeth, an New Orleans-based illustrator, created this stunning piece. As website Boing Boing points out, here is the original sketch, and here is her animation process Impressive stuff. Bravo! [Alex Litel via Boing Boing]
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Originally, PSP title Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was going to be named Metal Gear Solid 5. But it’s not. That doesn’t mean it is like the other Metal Gear games. According to Hideo Kojima, “nearly everything you can do with a portable system is in this game”. The game designer told game magazine PSM3…
Popstar Kylie Minogue’s latest music video features a bevy of young, attractive people taking their clothes off and fondling each other. I remember the first time I saw it, back before it was a music video packed with underwear. And when it was a 2004 Cannes Festival winning PlayStation 2 ad. The ad was written…
To Heart is a landmark in Japanese adult PC gaming. Released in 1997, the game is a visual novel and showed how adult themes could be woven into a moving story. It influenced a generation of visual novels. It spawned a sequel in 2004, ToHeart2, anime, manga and, now, a straight up rip off. Adult…
On Friday, a new Swedish film opens in, wait for it, Sweden. The picture is a parody of cop shows and is called Kommisarie Späck (Detective Blubber). The lead female character doesn’t look like she’s from police dramas. She looks like she’s from video games. That’s Joanna Dark hair! You know, the fiery-haired heroine of…
Japan has reached 5 million PSN accounts. Congrats, because that’s a lot
The title of the original Halo game is “Halo: Combat Evolved”. That’s not the title that the game’s developer wanted. Bungie wanted the game to be simply called “Halo”. Microsoft, who published the game, pushed the “Combat Evolved” subtitle onto the game. “Oh, man… the subtitle,” Halo designer Jaime Griesemer told Edge Magazine. “At the…
Has shovelware ever felt this good? Enjoy Your Massage! is an upcoming Wii title in which players get virtual massages on virtual backs for virtual relaxation. Here is the description from the Entertainment Software Rating Board: This is a massage simulation game in which players match patterns in order to perform back massages on clients.…
The most important building project of this year has gotten underway in Shizuoka, Japan. Construction on the life-sized Gundam statue is underway, reports Japan Today. The 18-meter mecha will carry a Beam Saber and be erected near JR Higashishizuoka Station. It will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of Gundam plastic models. It will…
The pressure was enormous. Legions of fans worried. Prince of Persia, the movie, was more than a summer blockbuster. “Maybe I’m being melodramatic,” says movie scribe Doug Miro. Then again, maybe he’s not. This was a Hollywood video game adaptation. “The reality is that this movie has to do really well,” Miro adds from LA…
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