One of the bigger surprises today wasn’t just the reveal of Bayonetta 2, but the news that it’s been locked down as a Wii U exclusive. Good news for anyone looking to pick up Nintendo’s console, but bad news for 360 and PS3 owners who had no such plans. People like this. Here, for your…
Like Wii Sports was to the Wii, Nintendo is going to need something small, fun and easy to learn if “new” players are going to get hooked on the upcoming Wii U. Nintendo Land is surely going to be that game. Well, provided you actually buy it, since only the “premium” version of the console…
Not for the games, we knew about those already. This is what the actual console’s box will look like when it goes on sale in the US in November. I like it. Classy. It’s simple, it’s bold, it doesn’t try too hard to sell you on STUFF, at least not on the front.
While Nintendo made public announcements earlier this morning about the Wii U’s price and release date in Japan, they were mysteriously silent on the final specs for the console. A post on VGleaks has appeared this morning, though, claiming to have info directly from Nintendo’s restricted developer’s site. Take this with a grain of salt,…
When the Wii U goes on sale in Japan on December 8, the cheaper of the two hardware bundles available will be priced at ¥26250. If you want to buy a second Wii U controller, though – and remember, the system does support two, even if early games won’t – you’re going to have to…
Tonight, for the first time, Nintendo will be divulging concrete information on its upcoming Wii U console for the Japanese market. Release dates, prices, specs, the works. While much of it will be of direct relevance only to the Japanese market, we should be able to divulge hints as to Western availability and pricing from…
Well, they did. Never mind they spend their entire lives scrounging an existence atop a wet, post-apocalyptic wasteland. It’s all they know and they’re happy with that, OK? Wind Waker Love [DeviantArt, via sollybot]
Capcom’s online store in Japan is selling these Mega Man hoodies. Just looking at them, they appear to be like any other poorly-imagined video game hoodie, straddling the fence between design and cosplay and satisfying neither. That is, until you fold the arm back. Oh my God that’s a mega buster you can fold out…
Believe it or not – and I’d forgive you for not believing it, given the mod’s torturous history – but this is reportedly a shot of notorious Half-Life remake Black Mesa. Like, its gold master disc. Meaning the thing is actually done Well, mostly done; as we told you last week, the mod won’t contain…
We won’t know the exact details of the Japanese Wii U launch until 4pm Tokyo time. That’s soon, but to pass the time until then, let’s speculate a little about the console’s price. While we could just guess wildly, plucking numbers out of thin air, let’s instead look at that mightiest of historical tools: precedence.…
Sensible Software. If you know what that means you’re probably smiling already. If you don’t, well, you sure missed out. A British studio most prolific – and successful – in the late 80s and early 90s, Sensible developed for platforms like the Spectrum, Amiga and PC, and became famous for two things: adorable little pixel…
You might think the most important new feature in Steam’s “Big Picture” mode is, well, its big picture. But for many hardcore PC gamers, who don’t use the service on a TV screen, the real good stuff can be found with the tweak of a command line. Users in the Big Picture beta have found…
Four very fake, very awesome Adventure Time labels for old Famicom cartridges, for those dreams where you’re running through Super Potato with a basket under your arm, $500 in your pocket and a need to play a 1980s game based on a 21st century cartoon. They’re from simplyAWFUL, a site that specialises in this kind…
Open Source Filmmaker, a community bringing together some of Steam’s best movie creators, recently held a themed event called “Turret Week”. Members had to create short, original films about Portal’s turrets. While most Source Filmmaker clips are still rough, unoriginal affairs using Team Fortress 2 models, these are wonderful, capitalising on the short timeframe and…
I’ve seen my fair share of Borderlands cosplay over the years. Some great, some awful, most somewhere in between. I’ve never seen any this good, though. German cosplayer MadameSpontaneous stars as Lilith, though her pals look just as good. Some of the pics are supplied by the cosplayers, others are from Trochly Photographers While getting…
Sure, racing games have it easier than most when it comes to making things look pretty, but still. Come on. Just look at this. There are enough jaggies to make me think it’s almost a 100% genuine screenshot, but enough of everything else to think that, yeah, maybe the new iPhone 5 will be pretty…
While not a full-blown computer, as we’d know them today, a Turing Machine is nevertheless an important part of the history of the field, and its design is still studied and referenced today. You can build working representations of the idea out of everything from computer parts to LEGO, but what’s blowing my mind today…
It’s been a good run for true horror games lately. Amnesia scared people’s socks off, Slender is doing much the same, and now we’ve got an update to Cry of Fear, one of the ten lucky games to have been “greenlit” by Steam earlier today. Cry of Fear is a total conversion mod for the…
Sean Smith, the US State Department official killed by “militia” in Libya yesterday, was a senior figure in the EVE Online community, and frequent member of the game’s Council of Stellar Management (CSM), a fan-elected governing body. A player of the sci-fi MMO from its early days, where he played under the handle “Vile Rat”…
Game site countdowns are annoying as hell. So perhaps it’s karma that the one planned for Fuse, the latest game from Insomniac and EA, has backfired, with a “last-minute legal rights issue” preventing it from actually ticking over to a new trailer. Instead, there’s just…an apology. You can read a full statement from Insomniac boss…
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