Growing up, I was a very thin kid. Thanks to an amazingly high metabolism, I could eat anything I wanted, as much as I wanted and never gain weight. Once I did nothing but eat junk food and play games over winter break in high school and lost 5 pounds—dropping me to 119 pounds. My…
In China, one airline isn’t just flying the friendly skies. It’s cosplaying in them. Spring Airlines, a Shanghai-based budget airline, is dressing up its male cabin attendants as butlers and its female ones as maids. Some in China are pleased with the cosplay promotion, comparing it to Japan’s maid (and butler) cafes. Others are not.…
Chain establishments can start to blur together. They start to seem the same, because they all look the same. That’s not always true for Starbucks, especially in Asia. Some of its ubiquitous coffee houses are not only unique, but so cool. Yes, most Starbucks in Asia do look like the Starbucks you’d see anywhere in…
Like most shonen anime and manga, One Piece is filled to the brim with crazy attacks and special moves. But what would these attacks be if they weren’t all given names to be shouted at maximum volume whenever said attack is used? With everything from the Gum Gum Elephant Gun to the Mirage Tempo: Fata…
The concluding episode of the Tyranny of King Washington DLC for Assassin’s Creed III, Redemption, is now available for PC and Xbox 360 (with the PS3 getting it tomorrow). Let’s celebrate with a trailer of spirit wolves, collapsing towers, and lots of cannon fire.
Bill Gates is dedicating his life to helping others. But let’s not judge him on that. Let’s judge him on how he shakes hands. Because that’s important. The above photo is all over the South Korean press. Gates is shaking hands with President Geun Hye Park. He has one hand in his pocket. That’s a…
It looked like any other boring old email. But, as noted by Reddit user Sarranoob, it was anything but. It was an email in disguise. When the email’s image isn’t uploaded, it reveals an Autobot logo. Sure, this is just marketing, but it’s clever marketing. In case you missed it, here is Kotaku‘s review of…
A speedrun is normally something you associate with a video game, when a player tries to get through a game as fast as is humanly (or sometimes inhumanly) possible. Here, though, we see a movie speedrun. An animated whirlwind tour of Star Wars: Episode IV. Funny how good the movie is even when you’re not…
The Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod continues to impress, but this time, not for technical reasons. This time, it’s for reasons of limousine races and Parappa music. Just Cause 2 Multiplayer – LIMOUSINE FRUSTRATION [YouTube, via Destructoid]
It was one of the year’s feel-good stories when Lab Zero Games raised over $800,000 so they could make more content for indie fighting game Skullgirls. It’s one of the year’s saddest stories, then, that Paypal is being really weird with the studio’s money. Most of the contributions to Lab Zero’s IndieGoGo campaign were paid…
No doubt tired of doing work for other people’s games, British art studio Atomhawk has announced plans to develop a game of their own. It’s called The Realm, an adventure game that’s aiming for both the PC and tablet devices. What’s worth a look are two things: Atomhawk do good work, as we’ve seen before.…
Ah, Gunpoint. It’s been a while. Nice to see you again. And see that you’re still looking terrific.
This game was made by one man. And is entirely hand-drawn. Using actual paper and ink. Jesse Gallagher is the developer/artist behind Paper Sorcerer, a successful Kickstarter project that’s due later this year on iOS and Android. It’s an old-school RPG, but it’s the art that’s got me leaning closer, not the genre. Gallagher tells…
Your next baking session can crack jokes like it was 2007 now that official Aperture Science cake mix has been made available. It comes with the candle, 275g of cake mix, 50g of cream powder, chocolate flakes and 80g of liquid thickener. All you need to complete the thing are some cherries and a post-apocalyptic…
There’s a “strong possibility” that Relicwill be working with Games Workshop on a new Dawn of War game somewhere down the line.
Our pals at Gizmodo were lucky enough to take a trip out to Hasbro recently, where they sat in with the folks responsible for designing the company’s prototype action figures. In the amazing video above, we get to meet some of the people behind the toy’s design, see how models are built in 3D printers…
Set your iPhone’s alarm, Amazon’s got Gold Box deals on video games, and we’ve got all the details right here. Starting at 3am EST, Amazon will be running limited time sales on several games and accessories. The deal ends either when time expires or when stock is sold through. We’re going to list the offers…
It started with album covers, but if you’ve been browsing Tumblr or forums this week you may have seen it jump pretty swiftly to video games. “It” being people recreating video game box art using nothing but stock clip art, MS Paint and everyone’s favourite font, comic sans. The results are…horrifying, at first. But when…
Jeremy Hsu has written a great story over on Motherboard about the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, and how it “contrasted powerful displays of U.S. technological prowess with living ethnological exhibits of indigenous peoples from around the world”. In other words, how it was BioShock Infinite. On the ground.
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