Iron Man is perhaps the most popular character from The Avengers in Japan. It’s not just Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as the witty, egomaniac Tony Stark, but the iconic sleek red and gold mechanical suit he dons that make the man of gold-titanium alloy that people love so much. Meet Keiji Yamaguchi. In The Avengers,…
Activision’s FPS sequel will be breaking new ground when Call of Duty: Black Ops II allows players to broadcast live in-game multiplayer streaming to YouTube from the Xbox 360 and PS3. As previously mentioned, the new functionality is a first for modern consoles, allowing them to transmit gameplay in real-time. The streams will be viewable…
Here are some new details about the eagerly anticipated Grand Theft Auto V. According to website CVG, ShortList Magazine, which apparently revealed the above image on its website, wrote this about the game’s main character: The protagonist is an “East Coast gangster”, who moved to the game’s Los Santos setting (Rockstar’s take on LA and…
Japanese comedian Hard Gay, who is hardly gay, was roped in by Microsoft Japan to promote Halo 4 at a recent event in Tokyo. While Hard Gay, whose real name is Masaki Sumitani, hit it big in Japan back in 2005, he hasn’t appeared that much on television of late, save for the occasional appearance…
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Or Tobidase Doubutsu no Mori as it’s known in Japan) is out in stores in Japan today, and as part of a two-week coverage piece, Weekly Famitsu gathered 50 questions from fans for the four developers, Director Aya Kyougoku, Director Isao Moro, Sound Director Kazumi Totaka, and Design Leader Kouji Takahashi…
If you are familiar with the Japanese manga Beelzebub, you probably know that delinquent Tatsumi Oga cannot be separated from Baby Beel by several meters. Doing so results in instant death. This image, which is making the rounds on Japanese websites and bulletin boards, shows Oga and Baby Beel. It looks like it’s from the…
Online games require time. Time isn’t something that ten year-old Xiao Liu has. See, her mom has been limiting how long she could play online with her friends. That has made the girl upset. How was she to level up and keep up the pace with her friends? Not having enough time to grind, Xiao…
Angry Birds has Golden Eggs. Angry Birds Star Wars, however, has Golden Droids. YouTube user AngryBirdsNest has gone through and provided helpful walkthroughs so you can snag the Golden Droids. Have a look in the above gallery. More on AngryBirdsNest’s site AngryBirdsNest [YouTube]
Earlier this month in Tokyo, Bandai showed off some of its latest figurines. Iconic characters were recreated in sculpted plastic. Many of the figures were aimed at older collectors, and one set in particular depicted stood out: the crucifixion of the Ultramen. Ultraman is an iconic Japanese superhero. Kids grow up watching his adventures on…
Angry Birds Star Wars is now out on the Apple iTunes Store.
I think we better get indoors. That pug is easily startled, but he’ll soon be back, and in greater numbers. Banthapug [YouTube, via Neatorama]
LA Game Space is an ambitious idea to seize an old warehouse in the Arts District of Los Angeles, California and turn it into what sounds like a home for game design and independent titles. Its creators aren’t looking to turn it into a store, or an arcade, but something a little more serious and,…
Because Halo wears its love for James Cameron’s Aliens on its sleeve (and its legs, and its face), this machinima video splicing the classic sci-fi flick with Halo’s HD remake is about as perfect a union as you’re going to find. If you think you’ve seen it before, you might have! Haliens did almost exactly…
We’ve featured the work of Ubisoft artist Gilles Beloeil here on Fine Art before, but you know what, that was for Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Since Assassin’s Creed III is just out, now’s probably a good time to cover his more recent work on the series. Unlike the pieces we saw the other day, which were…
Still not happy with the way the Mass Effect saga drew to a close, a team of modders have released something for the PC version of Mass Effect 3 called MEHEM. Or, the “Mass Effect Happy Ending Mod”. SPOILERS TO FOLLOW. You can see the edited and re-composited ending above. I…don’t see much happy about…
In the last ten years, while Microsoft has published all kinds of awesome games on the Xbox 360 (and has lately been quietly publishing XBLA games on the PC), it’s published exactly three of its major shooters. Halo, Halo 2 and the first Gears of War It’s a stupid move, one that seems increasingly stupid…
Poor Origin. Powered by EA, the company everyone loves to hate, and going up against Steam, the service everyone loves to love, it’s had a rough start to life. But EA has, ever so slowly, been improving the service, and the biggest improvement of all is rolling out with the next update. The publisher has…
Oh, Megan Fox. You’re often annoying. You’re hot. You’re in bad movies. It’s unclear whether or not you take acting, or yourself, seriously. I’ve always sort of gotten the sense that you’re pretty cool, but that somehow it’s not coming across. But my mixed feelings aside, this Acer laptop ad from last week where Ms.…
Embattled gamers have weathered many a console war over the past thirty years. But above the Xboxes and Gamecubes, the PlayStations and the Dreamcasts, one war stands apart: Super Nintendo vs. the Sega Genesis, the World War II of the console wars. This illustration by Daniel Dussault, titled “Za Konsoru Uozu 199X,” takes a fresh,…
A patch update for FIFA 13 corrects the “invisible ball,” plus other glitches and crashes folks had complained about.
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