Chinese Building Looks Like a Giant Bird Cage

It’s not every day you get to see a Chinese building that looks like a giant steel bird cage. Well, that day is today. According to Xinhua, one of China’s largest sites, the two-story building recently appeared in Wuhan, China. It’s actually a facade for a club, designed to look like a birdcage, complete with…

Simon the Sorcerer is now on Android. Adventure Soft’s classic 1993 point-and-click title can now be experienced all over again on Android phones and tablets, with (optional) modern features such as upscaled graphics and a remastered soundtrack. Note that there’s also an older iOS port, though by different developers.

What It’s Like to Watch Movies on the Oculus Rift

There is no doubt that the Oculus Rift VR headset, with its 3D display and tilt sensors, is designed for gaming. But that’s not all it can do. There are several apps that allow you to watch movies on it as well. [Note: The following observations were made on an Oculus Rift development kit, not…

American Developers Comment on Japanese Video Games’ Weaknesses

Back in the 1980s and 90s, if you played arcade games or console games, you played Japanese games. Lots of them. But maybe things have changed. Why? At a recently held game developers’ convention in Japan, Kento Kojima, a lead animator at 2K Games, gave a presentation on things he has learned working for an…

Tons of fighter jets and so, so many explosions. Strike Vector, Ragequit Corp’s excellent-looking multiplayer arena air combat game, sure is coming along nicely—as evidenced by this new gameplay trailer, shared by the developers over the weekend. The game itself is expected to drop early next year. Can’t wait!

Gatchaman Is So Full of Action Movie Clichés It Hurts

Gatchaman (i.e., Battle of the Planets) was one of the most popular anime of the 1970s. Now, 40 years later, this franchise is getting a new anime and a live-action film—which debuted in Japan this past weekend. Sadly, this attempt to reinvent Gatchaman has created nothing but a painfully clichéd action movie. Good – A…

This Japanese Horror Film Star Is Really Good at Baseball

Ever see the original version of The Ring? You know, the Japanese horror movie in which a character named Sadako climbs out of a television to KILL PEOPLE. Turns out, Sadako is good at baseball. Like holy crap good. Recently, Sadako threw out the first pitch at the Seibu Dome in a game between the…

The Mario Bros. Have Some Pretty Damn Sweet Parkour Moves

Which shouldn’t be surprising, seeing as they’ve starred in a metric ton of platformers but hey, video proof! In reality, the two extremely talented people you see here are Christian Russell as Mario and Ronnie Shalvis as Luigi, of CBR Stunts and Ronnie Street Stunts, respectively—although I’d suspect their normal line of work doesn’t have…

Puzzle & Dragons Z is coming to the 3DS in Japan on December 12. No word on a Western release.

Make Any Bad-Ass Figure Instantly Cute

Predator doesn’t look so scary when decked out in a frilly skirt, huh? In the last twenty-four hours, it’s become somewhat of a thing online in Japan to put hair scrunchies on figures. You see, the scrunchies look like dresses! The trend apparently began yesterday, after a 2ch user used a scrunchie to give a…

Old-school RPG fans, take note. Spiderweb Software, creators of classic turn-based RPG series Geneforge and Avernum, have revealed the second part of the Avadon trilogy, their newest franchise. Titled Avadon 2: The Corruption, the sequel is expected to arrive on PC and iPad this fall. Trailer’s above, go take a look.

Polygonal Pokémon Are The Best Pokémon

Artist Jan Carlos Garcia made these great Pokemon, stripping their designs back into a low-poly design that would have made the best early-90s virtual reality game ever made. Or, now that I think about it, the best low-poly fan update of Pokémon Snap for the Oculus Rift that nobody’s actually made yet. Low Poly Pokemon…

A Card Game That Makes You Do Terrible, Terrible Things

Terrible Things is a card game with a simple premise. Teams have to draw, describe or act out a terrible thing. If you can’t guess what it is, you have to do a terrible thing How terrible? Not, like, murder. An example the creators provide include…sticking your hand down the toilet. I’m sure booze –…

Video Game Art Show Looks Like One Of The Best Things At PAX

At this year’s PAX, the wonderful people from games site Attract Mode and merch wizards Fangamer are once again teaming up to present an art show/party that’ll be one of the highlights of the week’s festivities. It’s on Saturday, August 31, and runs from 7pm until midnight. There’ll be music and games to play, but…

Some Of The Earliest Images Of An “Adult” Link

Last month, we took a look at some of the earliest Zelda art available, some production and marketing pieces done by Katsuya Terada for A Link to the Past. Today, we’re looking at something similar, albeit a little rougher. The pieces you’re seeing below are ancient sketches by Terada that were published in a commercial…

41 Shooters That Were Made In Just A Week (And Look Pretty Good!)

Held earlier in the month, 7DFPS was a game jam that have people seven days to make a first-person shooter. Since that’s nowhere near enough time to program suitable hinge-shooting mechanics, people had to get creative, with impressive results. This video showcases 41 of over 200 entries, and while it seems like a blur, it…

The Perfect Cat Simulator Has You Smash Nintendos

Catlateral Damage is as accurate a cat simulator as you’ll ever play. Firstly because it lets you jump way higher than you think you should be able to, and secondly because the game only asks you to do one thing. Be a dick. The goal is to run and jump around your owner’s bedroom knocking…

LEGO Ghostbusters. Yes Please.

LEGO. And Ghostbusters. Two things that should have come together officially long ago, but for some reason, never have. Ah well. That’s where talented fans come in. And enough passionate ones to convince LEGO that Ghostbusters LEGO should actually get made. This set was designe by Brent Waller, who in addition to his LEGO skills…

Street Fighter II For The Virtual Boy Exists, Looks Amazing

And you thought the Virtual Boy was only good for tennis and tired failed hardware jokes. Coder Mr. Anon has somehow modified a homebrew fighting game engine to bring a bootleg version of Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting Edition to Nintendo’s ancient novelty “handheld”. This shouldn’t exist. And yet. It does. If you’ve got the…

The Xbox One Might Be Out On November 8

The PlayStation 4 is out in the US on November 15. The Xbox One? Well, it’s looking like it could hit the market a week ahead of its competitor. While Microsoft is yet to officially announce the big day, and “release dates” on retailer sites are usually little more than window dressing, we’ve heard from…