“Sweaty Hands” or “Why I Hate Touch Screen Gaming”

Time to level with all of you. I have an embarrassing secret. My hands sweat… a lot. This condition (hyperhidrosis, if you want the fancy medical name) has been a part of me ever since I was a little kid. Luckily, aside from being cripplingly embarrassed whenever I had to hold someone else’s hands (something…

You Fight A Guy Riding A Tiger On A Motorcycle. That’s Killer is Dead.

Famitsu has released two trailers showcasing Killer7 mastermind Goichi Suda’s upcoming crazy violent, crazy… crazy action game, Killer is Dead The first video gives us an impression of what combat will look like; very stylized, very colorful, and very fast. Protagonist Mondo Zappa slices, dices, and drills his way through baddies monstrous and humanoid alike.…

Did One Piece‘s Creator Rip Off This Japanese Art? Or Is It an Homage?

One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has been accused of copying others before. So please don’t be surprised that people online in Japan are doing that today. Above you can see the cover for One Piece Chapter 526, which was titled “Adventure in the Great Prison” and released in 2008. 2008? Goodness. And now years later,…

In Project Diva F, the Dreamcast Controller Controls People Too!

Project Diva F is an enjoyable music game starring popular virtual idol Hatsune Miku. And like most games these days, there are more than a few Easter eggs for those paying attention. Moreover, as Project Diva F is a game made by Sega, many of these Easter eggs are callbacks to other Sega-related products. My…

This Space Sim Trailer Gives Me Warm Fuzzies of the Freelancer Variety

Above you can see Starlight Inception, Escape Hatch Entertainment’s successfully Kickstarted space simulator, coming out this August on PC, PS3, and Vita. With this, Kinetic Void, Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen on the way, I’d say we’re looking at a full-scale Kickstarter-backed genre revival. And it is glorious

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron‘s director and character designer, Sawaki Takeyasu, has secured the rights to the game’s IP. Takeyasu’s studio Crim, which he founded in 2007, just announced it negotiated the El Shaddai IP from Ignition Entertainment. “This acquisition entails prequel, sequel and all other derivative rights of the existing game,” the official…

This Japanese KFC Website Might Make You Feel Sick

Nothing like creating fast food websites that can make your customers feel ill! Warning: this post contains imagery that actually might make you dizzy or sick. Are you ready? Here we go: These illustrations are the work of Akiyoshi Kitaoka, who is a psychology professor at Ritsumeikan University that studies visual perception. Above, you can…

First Look at the Kiki’s Delivery Service Movie

In Japan, they’re making a live-action Kiki’s Delivery Service movie. Today in Japan, a photo of Fuka Koshiba, the actress playing Kiki, was released online. The photo was taken on the first day of the movie’s principal photography in front of Kiki’s house in the movie. So, I guess, that means this is the final…

A Sports Game Metal Gear Fans Should Keep An Eye On

This brief, teasing video is for Konami’s upcoming Pro Evolution Soccer 2014. It’s a bigger deal than this clip is making it out to be, though, as it’s going to be the very first game released on the publisher’s new Fox Engine. The same thing that’ll be powering the upcoming Metal Gear games (though Pro…

The World’s Most Boring Viking Game Is A Blast

There’s a point, maybe around an hour in, where you might feel a little disappointed with The Old Gods, a new Viking expansion for epic strategy game Crusader Kings II that was released this week. When you think Vikings, you think looting, pillaging, beards, fire, axes, mayhem. Yet this expansion delivers almost none of that.…

Blurring The Lines Between Video Game Concept Art & Cosplay

Justin Murray, a concept artist who worked on Injustice: Gods Among Us, sent us some pics of his contribution to the game. But he didn’t just send the art. He brought it to life. With cosplay. Teaming up with his girlfriend Jia Jem, Murray went down to the same Chicago locations they shot scenes from…

When A Star Wars Hotline Broke AT&T

If you suffer under the yoke of AT&T, and enjoy tales of their suffering, this will cheer you up: back when Empire Strikes Back launched, an automated call-in line designed to market the movie broke part of the network. How? This was 1980, and the technology for that sort of stuff just wasn’t there yet.…

Darksiders III Sounded Great. Pity It’ll Never Happen.

The Darksiders series isn’t really dead. Nordic games owns it, and will presumably do something with it. But the series as we knew it, developed by Vigil Games, may as well have died earlier this year when Vigil went off and joined Crytek and left Darksiders behind, where no major publisher on Earth wanted anything…

Why The Xbox One Is The “Blackest Black” A Black Can Be

The Xbox One is not just black. It is “liquid black”. There’s an element of marketing fluff behind this, of course, and the console’s design team are not short on marketing fluff, but behind all that, there’s some interesting reasons for the decision. No, really. Here’s an excerpt from a design piece on Microsoft’s new…

EA’s Getting Rid Of All Online Passes, Not Just For New Games

Earlier this month, publisher EAmade the decision to stop offering controversial “online passes” with its upcoming games. It’s now getting rid of them for its older games, too. A new FAQ on EA’s site explains the move, saying “we are in the process of eliminating Online Pass requirements from existing EA games. This process will…

The Story Of An Indie Game’s Life (And Impending Demise) On Steam

There are literally thousands of games on Valve’s Steam service, and a growing number are small, independent titles. You’ve probably never even heard of many of them, but for the tiny teams (or sometimes individuals) behind them, their success or failure can be literally life-changing. Take Lunar Flight, for example. The game, developed solely by…

Let’s Take A Closer Look At That Multiplayer Dinosaur Hunting Game

Last time we took a look at The Stomping Land—that DayZ-like survival game, only with dinosaurs—we learned about the general ideas behind the game. This time around, we have a couple of videos which detail hunting tactics, setting up camp, and customization options and more. So far, still looks great. Of course, I’m less interested…

Marine Vet Justifies His Argument For Xbox As “Anti-Empathy Machine”

Today on televison, somebody said something reasonable about violent video games. Karl Marlantes, an author, Marine veteran and author of the book “What It Is Like to Go to War” fielded a question on C-Span2 about the long-term effect that unrealistic depictions of war in media and specifically gaming will have on the military. Despite…

Why Tim Schafer Has A Second Kickstarter

“Look, we just made $70,000! Not that I have it up on auto-refresh or anything…” That was beloved game designer and Double Fine Games founder Tim Schafer watching the growing total for Massive Chalice, less than an hour into the company’s latest Kickstarter game development funding campaign. Double Fine, of course, helped birth the onslaught…

It Looks Like Wind Waker and Plays Like Super Mario 64. Fantastic.

We’ve been covering the delightful A Hat In Time for a while now, but not only have the developers recently launched a Kickstarter to help fund the development, I also finally got a chance to play it. Now I can tell you that without a doubt, this is project worth supporting. If you’ve not heard…