These are the 89 Best Buys Where You Can Play Nintendo’s E3 Games

Nintendo just released the list of more than 75 U.S. cities where Best Buy stores will be holding public, playable demonstrations of games the company will be showing off at E3. The demos will take place during four-hour blocks on two different days during the week of E3. The list of games to be shown…

Nintendo’s President Is a One-Man GIF Generator

I always get excited for Nintendo Direct—not just because of the possible announcements, but because Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata always makes some adorable or funny thing that’s totally unexpected from a company president. Even if it’s a video game company. Here’s a look back at some of these memorable appearances, which show Iwata has a…

This Company of Heroes 2 Trailer Likes to Get in Close and Personal

From somber to frentic to somber again. Company of Heroes 2, Relic’s followup to their 2006 real-time strategy game, will be released for the PC on June 25. Hopefully, actually playing it won’t be as much of an emotional rollercoaster as watching the trailer. [Thanks, DSOGaming!]

Quick update to the League of Legends mess in South Korea. Riot Games, as tipster Sang points out, is offering a ‘Silent Night Sona’ skin to those with log-ins between May 23 and May 31. Apparently, the ‘Silent Night Sona’ skin was previously seen as a badge of honor among diehard Korean players because it…

Marvel Heroes Early Access Delayed Due to “Serious Issues” [UPDATE]

Diablo-like super hero MMO Marvel Heroes is having launch troubles. Namely, the game not being ready to launch yet. Early access players found that they were unable to log in, even though it was seven days before launch day—the advertised date Ultimate Pack buyers would have been able to start playing. On their blog, the…

Phony Iron Man Fighting Urinary Tract Infections in China

Iron Man? More like Medicine Man. Or in this Chinese TV spot, Kang Zhi Ba Man. In China, Kang Zhi Ba is a brand of pharmaceuticals, and this commercial is for Norfloxacin capsules, which are used to treat urinary tract infections as well as typhoid fever, intestinal infections and gonorrhea. As recently noted by MIC…

Outrageous Japanese Fashion Wants To Go Global

Big hair. No, like, really big hair. Tanned skin. And incredibly long nails. Meet the young women of Black Diamond. They’re keen to go worldwide. In Japanese, this style of fashion is dubbed “gal” (ギャル or gyaru). The look flies in the face of traditional Japanese notions of feminine beauty: pale skin and black hair.…

Adventure Games Are Much Better in Stop-Motion

Remember The Neverhood? The all-clay adventure game from 1996? Doug TenNapel, its creator, is joining forces with Pencil Test Studios to bring you Armikrog, a spiritual sequel starring a crash-landed alien and his talking dog. They’re raising $900,000 through Kickstarter. Good luck to them!

This Music Game Cheat Sure Is Unusual

When you think of Japanese music games, you probably think of people doing elaborate dance routines. If you want to rack up a high score, you need to move. Or do you? Above, you can see YouTube user Aicecream777 dancing her heart out while playing Dance Evolution Arcade, the Japanese arcade version of the Kinect…

Make This Incredibly Realistic LEGO Gun

You are looking at a replica 92FS built entirely of LEGO. Impressive, right? Well, you too can put together your own. Here’s how. This how to is from Jeff Boen’s The BrickGun Book, which is a building guide for life-sized LEGO handguns, including the 1911, the BG22 with Magazine, the Desert Eagle, the MAC-11, and…

Get So Close To An Xbox One You’ll Think You Can Touch It

Seeing as precious few people on Earth have actually been up-close with an Xbox One in the flesh, why don’t you check out this 3D model of the console, which you can explore right here. You can rotate, pan and zoom to your heart’s content, getting close to all the lines, ridges and ports there…

The Closest You’ll Ever Come To Seeing A Real Pokemon Museum

Artist RJ Palmer has taken his “realistic” series of Pokemon illustrations and put them all on the one image, which is available as a poster. I am so in love with the “human silhouette for scale” bit it’s not funny. You knew you were onto a good thing as a kid when a dinosaur book…

How To Build A Healthier PC Gaming Table For Under $200

You love your PC. It’s a place you can work at, but more importantly, it’s a place you can game at. The thing is, if you’re using a traditional desk-and-chair setup, the more you game on the PC, the bigger the problem you’re creating for yourself. I don’t want to sound like your mother here,…

Because You Always Wanted A PC That Looked Like A Drone Terminal

This is AIO’s DRN-STN. It is bonkers. Pitched as an all-in-one solution for a gaming PC, it’s essentially a desktop case (one that fits all standard components) with a 24″ monitor crammed in one side and an exterior designed like something you’d find in a multiplayer round of Battlefield. So, yeah, it’s PC gaming’s ugly…

Far Cry 3’s Jason Brody, Standing Sadly In The Rain

Herve Groussin is a senior concept artist at Eidos Montreal, the developers behind Deus Ex and the upcoming Thief reboot. He had until recently, however, been working at Ubisoft for a very long time, during which time he contributed on everything from Assassin’s Creed (where we’ve briefly featured him previously) to Far Cry 3. Before…

Blizzard’s Next Big MMO Goes Back To The Drawing Board

Blizzard’s follow-up to World of Warcraft, a project known only by its codename Titan, has been in development since 2006. And it’s going to be in development a lot longer, after the company announced today it was making some significant changes to both the game and the people working on it. Responding to a report…

Video Game PR Issues Beautiful “No Comment” In Haiku

The Yakuza games are some of the very best on the PS3, so Sega’s silence on a possible localisation of Yakuza 5 is killing me The publisher has since broken that silence, however, responding to a Yakuza fansite. In haiku. Like every single Japan-related PR communication should be. The poem, sent to Yakuza Fan, reads:…

This Navi Is Not Annoying. Far From It.

This is Madison Kimrey, and she’s eleven years old. She is also the first human on Earth to successfully cosplay as one of the most annoying characters in Nintendo’s long, storied history. Seriously, next time you play Ocarina, imagine that instead of a nondescript blue ball your sidekick was Madison, annoyance replaced with this slightly…

One Does Not Simply Screw Up A LEGO Set This Badly

One of the newest playsets in LEGO’s Lord of the Rings line is the Council of Elrond. A key moment in the events of the trilogy, it’s notable not just because it brings the Fellowship of the Ring together, but because the internet has transformed one line into perhaps the series’ most memorable. It’s crazy,…

These Guys Make The Best Damn Trailers In The Business

They don’t use expensive pre-rendered cinematics. They don’t license famous old songs. They don’t play on TV during the NBA playoffs. But that doesn’t matter. Niche PC publisher Paradox Interactive still makes the best video game trailers in the world regardless. Above, you can see their latest, for the very hardcore, very PC game Crusader…