Persona 4‘s Train Station Is Real (And It’s Closing)

Persona 4 takes place in a rural town called “Inaba.” And the town’s train station, Yasoinaba Station, is where the game’s protagonist arrives on the scene. The station is based on an actual place, and soon it will be gone forever. The real station is Isawa Onsen Station (石和温泉駅) and is located in Yamanashi Prefecture.…

Policeman in Trouble After Forcing Others To Eat Too Many Burgers

A police sergeant in Osaka, Japan came under fire for repeatedly forcing subordinate officers to eat large amounts of food. The sergeant has since left the force, reports the Japanese media. According to Yomiuri Online, from February 2010, the 40 year-old sergeant began forcing four subordinate officers into gluttony. In over ten occasions, he ordered…

Yakuza 5 was first released in Japan in December 2012. It is now January 2014 and there’s still no word on a Western release. Fix this, Sega!

Hey Link, Lay Off The Lon Lon Milk

Just think, somewhere out there is a parallel universe where we all grew up watching La Légende de Zelda, a European stop-motion animation series starring this chubby, lovable hero. (This is actually a 3D image done in our own universe by Gerard Dunleavy, via Blue Dog’s Eyes)

GTA V Looks Pretty Good As A First-Person Game

Hey look, more mods for the console versions of Grand Theft Auto V. Unlike the last one, however, this one is a little more practical. It gives you a proper first-person viewpoint (not the static one already in the game) while controlling a vehicle. It doesn’t look like it works while on foot (the camera…

Even Wii U DLC Is Getting Cancelled

Warner Bros. has reportedly cancelled all upcoming DLC for Batman: Arkham Origins. Seems the poor Wii U just can’t catch a break. Companies cancelling games (or failing to announce ports) for the console is bad enough, but not even bothering to bring over DLC? That’s some of the easiest money to be had in video…

Report: Windows 8 Update Will Bring Back The Desktop (By Default)

Here’s where embarassing corporate backpedalling is a good thing: according to The Verge, the next update for Windows 8 will see every machine boot straight to the desktop mode by default. You know, like we used to, in the good old days. While there’s long been an option to boot straight to the more conventional…

The Sad, Lonely Beauty of DayZ

Yes, there are zombies and other players to worry about in DayZ…but have you ever taken a moment to appreciate the world around you? “Other Places,” the video series by Andy Kelly that celebrates beautiful video game worlds makes a return today, this time highlighting Chernarus. In order to make the video, Kelly had to…

How To Fix ‘How To Fix Nintendo’ Articles

Articles about how to fix Nintendo are doomed. Doomed. If articles about ‘how to fix Nintendo’ do not follow this advice immediately, there might not be any more ‘how to fix Nintendo’ articles. Could you imagine that? I know. It’s scary. Small, niche video game websites without ‘how to fix Nintendo’ articles. I don’t know…

A Simple Game That Can Teach You About Design

I never really understood complementary colors, which makes sense, because I did horribly on that section of Color. It’s an incredibly simple game that will drive you mad trying to get a perfect score. Color is from Method of Action, who host a course called Design For Programmers. As you might imagine, the course attempts…

The Heroes and Villians of The Legend of Zelda, In Samurai Form

Man. I can’t be the only one that would play a Zelda game in this style, right? It’s it’s sumi-e, to be specific—it’s a type of Japanese brush painting. You might already be familiar with the style if you’ve played Okami. Either way, the Link above was drawn by artist myCKs—and there’s more where that…

Controllers? Pft. Watch This Guy Play Tekken With A Piano.

Sure, there are a lot of amazing fighting game players out there. But how many of them can kick ass and play the piano at the same time? In the lineage of Soul Calibur with a fishing controller and the Doom Piano comes the Tekken piano. Using a Arduino and several other parts, one young…

I Don’t Think You’re Ready for The Floor Is Jelly. Ok, Maybe You Are.

The Floor Is Jelly seems like a pretty normal platformer with some bouncy floors thrown in. Which it is, but the way it uses those bouncy floors creates a series of really interesting new challenges. I saw a hint of some different mechanics in the trailer, but I thought maybe it was just something thrown…

Super Bowl Player Spent All Week Playing Pokémon

The week before the Super Bowl in NY/NJ, some NFL players spend their time on the field. Others like to party it up in New York’s lavish nightclubs and restaurants. But Nate Irving? Nate Irving likes to play Pokémon The Broncos linebacker revealed this juicy tidbit in a Wall Street Journal article published today. Some…