It’s About Time Japan Got a Decent Game Museum

“There’s a middle-age Europe-themed amusement park in Japan that’s getting a game museum.” “… Wut?” So, apparently in Nagasaki – the place that was nuked in WWII (not Hiroshima, the other place) – there’s a theme park, a la Disneyland or Universal Studios, that has a middle-age European motif to it. Called “Huis Ten Bosch”…

Tangiers is described as a “dark and uneasy” stealth game. Well, its new trailer is exactly that. The Thief-inspired, somewhat recently Kickstarted PC stealth-em-up is nearing its beta development phase, and is expected to get a release date within a couple weeks.

AMD Calls Nvidia Program “A Clear And Present Threat To Gamers”

AMD and Nvidia have for years been locked in a struggle for dominance in the graphics card market, but this week that competition spilled over into something a lot nastier. Instead of competing over specs and release dates, AMD’s Robert Hallock has told Forbes that Nvidia’s Gameworks program – which lets developers implement a range…

Looks Like Harmonix’s Shooter Is Going Back To The Drawing Board

Harmonix, of Rock Band fame, turned some heads recently when they announced a musical…first-person shooter. That game, Chroma, has already been through some early alpha testing, and it doesn’t sound like things went that great. An email being sent out by Harmonix to testers thanks them for their input, and says that “Based on the…

New Movie is About Satanic, Killer RPGs

Are you ready to RPG? ARE YOU READY TO RPG? RPG! RPG! RPG! *does a keg stand while rolling a few D20s* No but seriously though: I can’t help but laugh at this trailer for Dark Dungeons, a film based on a 1984 comic made by a Christian fundamentalist. The comic was about students who…

This Is Why You Like Bacon So Much

Meat is great and all, but bacon holds a special place in the pantheon of broiled flesh and seared sinews. Why do we find it so very delicious compared to other meats? Why is its scent so intoxicating? Here’s a video that explains it all—with science!

There’s A Great Game Beneath Monster Monpiece‘s Awkward Anime Stroking

Update 5/28/2014: Monster Monpiece is finally out in North America (Europe gets it next week), and the sentiment in this Japanese preview still holds: It’s a great game, but damn that embarrassing girl-stroking mechanic. In PlayStation Vita game Monster Monpiece, players increase the powers of collectible cards by vigorously rubbing pictures of young women until…