According to Chinese site NetEase, iPhone 5 parts are floating around Shenzhen, where the device is supposedly assembled. Floating around for a price, that is. The site has numerous photos of what’s purported to be iPhone 5 parts, but it adds (via MIC): “…taking a peek at it will cost you money. If you want…
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Extend is a music game starring virtual idol Hatsune Miku. It plays similar to most music games. When a shape lines up with its corresponding shape-outline, press the button on the PSP that matches the shape. The game also includes an edit mode which not only allows you to remake the…
If you’re Japanese and you’re in Korea, you might want to check your email or play some computer games. Good thing the country has thousands of net cafes (called PC bang). Too bad this one is run by a jerk. The above image is making its way through cyberspace in both South Korea and Japan.…
Because, let’s face, it: Pokémon are already pretty damn cute. Yet, Japanese artist Ginger Ale is turning up the adorable meter up to ten (eleven?) for this series of Pocket Monster art. Love the pastels, and the whole watercolor look. There’s a nice children’s book vibe going on that really doesn’t exist in the games…
Tokyo police arrested a 21 year-old Chinese man for violating Japanese copyright law. The man, a student at a Japanese vocational school, was taken into custody for selling phony One Piece figurines. Since February 2011, the man allegedly sold approximately 1,300 fake One Piece figures via online auctions, earning ¥5 million (US$63,000). The man got…
Last year, a ton of Xbox 360 owners began complaining that they’d been “hacked”, and because much of the money stolen ended up being spent on EA’s FIFA 12, it was believed the game was somehow responsible. It wasn’t, of course. The truth, at least in some small part, was far more complicated than that.…
Or, depending on where you are in the world, start it! This clip is for Toybox, an interesting combination of a puzzler and a shooter that can best be described as the video game equivalent of trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time. It looks fun, but part of…
Tom Goodfellow’s custom arcade cabinet, christened the Replay, isn’t here for the games inside it, or the things it can do. It’s here because it looks terrific. Call that vain if you must, but that’s the point. It’s a designer arcade cabinet. Goodfellow sums it up as: A design of simple clean lines that has…
No doubt inspired by these recent gifs on the very same topic, reader Steve has gone and made a video with “gameplay” footage of the greatest game that never existed: Pokémon vs Zombies. What makes it great isn’t just the fact it’s combining two blockbuster series. It’s that it’s combining two series that, as you…
Frenchman Paul Chadeisson is a concept artist who has worked on games like Shootmania, card games like Star Wars Galaxies and cartoons like Tron: Uprising. You might have seen his name last week, though, for the work he’s done for Dontnod on Capcom’s upcoming Remember Me, which we once knew as Adrift You can see…
Sleeping Dogs has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the year. Part of the game’s appeal is the fact it’s set in Hong Kong, which raises the question: why aren’t more games based around one of the world’s most iconic and populous cities? The answer may well be that this old thing scared…
While these days the release of a new model of hardware is kind of a big deal, signifying as it does important changes in components, capabilities or even a complete redesign, back in the day some companies used to be able to flood the market with different versions of their console and nobody even noticed.…
Artist Timothy Anderson has combined two of mankind’s greatest creations – Star Wars and spaghetti westerns – and combined them in this series of posters, in which George Lucas’ sci-fi trilogy is shown off like they were the kind of movies Clint Eastwood would star – and squint in – a lot. The bad news…
Did you know that, over the weekend, there was an indie game get-together called Jean Claude Van Jam? And that it was all about making games based on Jean-Claude Van Damme? And that it happened only a few days after Van Damme gave perhaps the greatest Street Fighter-related interview of all time? What an amazing…
The first five seconds are absolute terror. You reach for the stop button. But then…then you find your foot tapping. Your head nodding. And damn it, for the 1000th time, you’ve enjoyed a cat-related nerd video when you know you should know better. [via Topless Robot]
Julius Perdana has built a replica model of a Crysis nanosuit that manages to look better than a professional, factory-made action figure Which is remarkable, given Perdana’s is made out of paper Yes, believe it or not, this is papercraft. Originally designed to coincide with the release of Crysis 2, he’s now produced an updated…
Just in case the words “Command & Conquer” and “free-to-play” hadn’t got you wary enough for the upcoming C&C Generals 2, there’s now this: the game is releasing without a singleplayer story mode. While acknowledging that one could come later, Bioware Victory general manager John Van Caneghem told PC Gamer that his team “really want…
Okay, yes, it’s actually not that hard to program a bunch of floppy drives to play a song. But Il ove the way that YouTuber MrSolidSnake745 does it—this is the same gent who did the hhTalk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good chatting, see you on Friday.
By day, Iki Ikram works as an artist at Uncharted developers Naughty Dog. By night, he’s a keen photographer. In this gallery of images, which he calls simply “dogs”, Ikram manages to combine the two. Each portrait is a developer at Naughty Dog. There are programmers, and there are artists. There are people you’ve never…
A little while ago at QuakeCon, Tim Poon had a go at a new level in Bethesda’s much-anticipated sneaking/killing game Dishonored. Back from Gamescom. the fine folks at VG 24/7 have posted this video in which Dishonored co-creative director Raf Colantonio walks players through that level, in which they must identify the right “Lady Boyle”…
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