This is 20 year-old Abbas Alizada. He totally looks like Bruce Lee, from his physical features to his ability to pull off martial arts moves. It’s no surprise that the Kabul native’s nickname is “Afghan Bruce Lee.” According to Reuters, Alizada is from a family of ten kids. His parents didn’t have enough money for…
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, really. But game creator Fumito Ueda mentioned The Last Guardian in this week’s issue of Dengeki PlayStation. And from the sound of it, the game could be headed to the PS4. Dengeki PlayStation polled numerous developers about, well, PlayStation. Questions included asking them what their most memorable title on…
Yakuza: Zero sure looks fantastic. Check out this gameplay video (footage starts about four minutes in), which shows off the game world and some very realistic puddle reflections.
Melon bread is loved in Japan. Besides being a favorite snack, it also pops up in manga and anime. And now, people can wear it on their heads. Or at least a beret that looks like the bread. Yay! Above, these are hand-made melon bread berets from Marisan Bakery. You, of course, cannot eat these…
Dragon Quest is getting a music rhythm game with Theatrhythm Dragon Quest. Slated for the 3DS, it’ll be out in Japan next March. No word yet about an international release.
The 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 looks spectacular. I’d certainly like to have one, but some people want one bad. So much so they’re apparently willing to part with large amounts of cash for the limited edition hardware. GameSpot reports that the console, which is limited to only 12,300 units worldwide, sold out within minutes of…
Simon Stålenhag is a Swedish artist who has done concept art for film, commercials and video games. He’s also half of the development team behind 16-bit platformer Ripple Dot Zero You’ll notice a theme running throughout his work. Like Super 8, if Super 8 had been any good. You can see more of Simon’s work…
Yes, Aviary Attorney stars birds. You’ll remember that the feather-flaunting ex-dinosaurs have also taken our dating simulators. What’s next? Far Cry? Wait… oh nooooooooo Despite the rather comical premise, this one looks to play it pretty straight and let the absurdity of bird lawyers paired with some gorgeous period art do the talking. Or squawking.…
We’ve seen Uncharted 4 in action.Here’s a closer look at the star of the game, Nathan Drake—and how Naughty Dog updated the character. This panel, which comes from last week’s PlayStation Experience show, has the Naughty Dog team talking about how they drafted the newest Nathan Drake model. In short, there was a lot of…
Video games don’t usually get into the Christmas spirit. Which is a shame! So it was nice to see that, upon reinstalling Crusader Kings II yesterday, I ran into this: a new holiday soundtrack to one of the most bloodthirstygames ever made. Seems it came out last year, as free (and optional, you can disable…
Getting through Crota’s End isn’t easy—but with some key pieces of information, you’ll be able to do it in no time. Here are some pointers by TeftyTeft Games on some of the things you’ll have to look out for while playing the new Destiny raid, including: The new ‘weight of the darkness,’ which limits your…
In video games we do many things. We run, we jump, we punch, we shoot and we climb That fact is most apparent in Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series. From this perspective Nathan Drake isvideo game man par excellence. He is the master of the video game verb. He is Mario, Kratos and Indiana Jones all…
Elite: Dangerous is shaping up to be the best open galaxy/virtual reality space trucking game this side of the Milky Way (which it includes all of), but controversy recently blotted out its starry sky when Frontier yanked a long-promised offline mode right before release. Worse, not everybody was offered refunds. In a recent interview with…
2014 was a big year in video games. Maybe not the biggest, but alongside some disappointments came some truly great games. This video covers pretty much all of them. Not all of them. If you’re a fan of Generic Indie PC Crafting Hybrid Game Still In Early Access On Steam, you might not find your…
Forget the bustedremake. Forget the cash-hungry mobile games. The best SimCity Maxis ever made is still available, and as of now it’s a free download on EA’s Origin store. I’m of course talking about SimCity 2000, the game that struck the perfect balance between accessibility and the finer tuning of city-management. More devoted fans might…
It’s easy to get caught up in the jumpscares of Five Nights at Freddy’s and leave it at that. But underneath those scares, there’s a very disturbing story hiding in the background of the series—and players are still hard at work at trying to figure out all the details. Concretely, what players know is that…
What better way to make the wait for Fallout 4 news more torturous than to look back on some of what made the older games so excellent? Fallout is a series full of difficult choices, yes. But it’s also a series where you can horde a billion tiny T-Rex toys in your casino suite, if…
Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s second big patch went out today, largely focused on the RPG behemoth’s PC version. I took it for a spin and discovered a few tiny tweaks paired with a big change for the worse: my character’s scars are gone—her face pristine as fresh plastic—and I’m not alone in that. The patch, released…
The hints that your special gamer people have been dropping? You’ve caught them. The money required? You’ve saved it. They deserve something bigger, something cooler. And you’re going to give it to them. Here are some finer things that just might make their holiday game run a lot more more sparkly. Corsair Gaming K95 RGB…
Ever since Super Smash Bros. came out for the Wii U, players have been playing around with the game’s new stage builder. While many fans have focused on recreating their favorite stages from past games, one idea has stood out because of its novelty: turning Smash into a particularly silly version of…basketball? That’s right. Shortly…
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