To start with, a fair bit of warning: I am not what you would call a Monster Hunter fan. The first (and last) game of the series I played was Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and that experience left me feeling that Monster Hunter just wasn’t the series for me. But then I saw Monster Hunter…
Naruto might be the namesake of manga and anime juggernaut Naruto, but the star of this mesmerizing animated GIF is a dancing Itachi Uchiha and his co-star Kisame Hoshigaki This image originally appeared on a Japanese internet thread called “I also made my own animated GIF lol.” Look at how he snaps off that shirt…
So you have a Vita and love Japanese games. We’ve already shown you how to make a Japanese PSN account and how to reset your Vita region to access the Japanese PSN on a non-Japanese Vita, but why go through all the hassle? Well, maybe you’d rather download the games you want to play instantly…
Thought it was odd that Sony didn’t show off the PS4 at… a PS4 reveal? Well, you’re not alone! It was odd. But it was also understandable, seeing as how, you know, Sony doesn’t know what the final retail machine will look like, either. In an interview after this week’s unveiling, Hiroshi Kawano, President of…
For two years now, a pair of fencing aficionados have been running Golden Gate Knights, a service that “offers experienced instruction in saber choreography.” In other words, they teach you how to sword fight like you were in a Star Wars movie. One of the ones where people actually fight, too, not the old man…
The official description on this video simply says “An RC Car chase made entirely out of cardboard, hot glue, and spray paint.” That doesn’t do it justice. What you’re seeing here is a Hollywood car chase scene created with remote control vehicles and home-made props. It’s just… wow. The Cliche RC Action Chase [FinalCutKing]
On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, talk show host Jimmy Fallon checked out the new PS4 controller and Killzone: Shadow Fall Fallon plays through the Shadow Fall demo as does comedian Anthony Anderson. Fallon shoots up a wall, while Anderson unleashes on a bunch of… air conditioners? PlayStation 4 Demo of Killzone: Shadow Fall [YouTube]
Next Media, the Taiwanese news team now internet-famous for their bizarre animated sequences, have today turned their attentions towards the announcement of the PlayStation 4 I don’t remember transforming robots as part of the presentation. Which is a shame.
I’m finding it increasingly difficult to get excited about DOTA 2, since my dalliances with League of Legends ended in me promptly uninstalling League of Legends, but I still check the game’s blog every single day. Why? Because there’s always the chance Valve will release more character art of the game’s heroes, which are some…
Director Scott Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill have been speaking with Crave about the upcoming Deus Ex movie project, and things are, at least from a philosophical standpoint, sounding promising. “…the chief philosophy is we’re not making a video game movie, we’re making a cyberpunk movie”, Cargill says. “We’ve taken a look at what’s…
The Last Guardian should be out by now. It’s not. It could have been shown off at the PS4 unveiling. It wasn’t. Fans looking forward to the game have every right to wonder what the hell is going on, then, and to them, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida would like to say he’s sorry.…
You can love a good old-fashioned video game manual for any number of reasons. It might be enormous, like Falcon 3.0’s, or slightly crazy, like Star Wars’. Rarely, though, are they genuinely beautiful. Not like this. This is the manual for the Sega Master System version of Fist of The North Star, released in Japan…
Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder, out of curiosity to see if there was a way his young daughter could watch Game of Thrones with him, googled the term “censored game of thrones”. And whaddya know, such a thing existed. People have gone to the trouble of taking complete seasons of HBO’s smash hit show, carefully editing…
I’ve been in this job since 2006. That’s somehow become a long time ago, at least in internet years, but I can still remember the days before I worked here, when I put on a tie and sat on a train and went to work in an office every day just like most other people.…
In place of tonight’s off-topic post, I thought I’d turn it over to you guys. What did you think of the PS4 announcement? And based on what you saw at last night’s PlayStation 4 event, will you buy one when it comes out later this year? What Did You Think Of The PS4 Announcement? Based…
Remember the dancing CELL soldiers from Crysis 2? No? Well, either way, the easter egg is back in Crysis 3—all you have to do is press a certain button while in a certain menu. Check out this video by Game Front to see what I mean. Also visible: frogs and robots. And, sure, Prophet himself…
New DLC for the fantastic roguelike, Spelunky: more characters (like a robot!), and also more maps.
One of the biggest surprises of Sony’s Wednesday evening press conference was the appearance of Braid lead designer Jonathan Blow. The outspoken indie game creator revealed this his team’s next game, The Witness, would make its console debut on the PS4. That’s led to some confusion that the enchanting puzzle game might only come out…
Now all Mario needs is a gun—then this would be truly modern No but seriously though: take a look at this awesome rendition of a Mario level by freddiew, which shows us what playing the franchise in first person could look like. Well, if Mario was a little grittier. You might remember freddiew from this…
Watch Dogs came out of cover last night and Ubisoft’s open-world hacking game had a strong showing that built on the buzz of its surprise unveiling at last year’s E3. Among the things announced about Watch Dogs was the fact that it would be debuting first on PS4 Last June, Ubisoft kept mum on which…
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