Her name is Nao. And today, she rules the internet—and our hearts. The woman beatboxing is named Aibo, and she’s been beatboxing for about two years. You can catch more of her videos, such as this cool beatboxing in Shinjuku vid, on her YouTube channel JAPANESE MPC CAT NAO [YouTube Thanks, Luke!]
You see them in anime. You see them in manga. And yes, you see them in video games. Octopus tentacles are, and have been for centuries, common tropes. But in Japan, octopus are not just creatures that pop up in popular culture, they are creatures that pop up on the dinner table. Japanese fishermen catch…
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Cosplay specialist Chris “ammnra” Myles, who knows a thing or two about amazing Mass Effect costumes and props, has commemorated the release of Mass Effect 3 with another piece of incredible craftsmanship. This Omni Tool is made from laser-cut acrylic, which was then heated and manually shaped until it resembled something you could slide onto…
How cute. It’s not at all scary, of course, but then, the 3DS game its promoting – Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir – doesn’t look terribly terrifying either Still, it’s a neat idea for Nintendo of America, even if it is nowhere near as cool as the company’s Japanese equivalent for the same game, which…
The new iPad is faster than its predecessor, sure, but the main selling point is its glorious retina display. Problem is, nearly every game on the App Store was designed for the previous models, meaning they’re not exactly making the most of that 2048 x 1536 resolution. Some developers, though, were either ready for the…
Remember back to 2010, dear readers, and you may remember a cute little comic about Link and Epona by British writer and artist Louis Roskosch Well, the book that comic was due to appear in is now finished, and it looks just lovely. It’s not all about Zelda, but there’s a lot of video game…
Brian Sum is a concept artist who has worked for Canadian developers BioWare since 2007. Before that, he’d been at Sierra and Microsoft’s FASA Studio. As a senior concept artist working on Mass Effect 3, Sum has produced some stunning vistas for many of the game’s galactic locations, ranging from the inside of alien starships…
What happens when the team at Taiwanese animation house NMA and Capcom get together for what looks like a little marketing? Street Fighter X Tekken becomes Angelina Jolie X KONY 2012. And the world is a better place for it.
Apple’s new iPad has already sold 3 million units, and it hasn’t even been on sale for a week. This is important video game news, but I understand, there are a lot of people who like to pretend that isn’t the case. For them, here is video of a man shooting a new iPad. Not…
With Mass Effect 3 hogging the headlines for all the right (and wrong) reasons this month, BioWare feels now is the time to reveal that the Dragon Age series is in for what sounds like a serious bout of self-reflection. After the second game in the series bitterly disappointed many fans, and with it now…
Teaming up with French band Sna-Fu Grand Desordre Orchestre, artist Pierre Manry has made a clip for the group’s song Dream O Rama that is one enormous tip of the hat to the video games of yesteryear. If you like what you see, the band has alternate versions hosted on their site, like one as…
When people get all misty-eyed about the amazing, original Syndicate from 1993, they often overlook something. The game’s ending. Or, to be more accurate, its complete lack of one. Maybe they never finished the game, I don’t know, but I did. And it was a tough game. So getting to the end I was expecting…
It’s time to put a smile on your face and a dangerously high level of cholesterol in your arteries! It’s time to hunt for treasure and wield ancient magical powers! It’s your chance to play as the world’s most famous clown! No, not Charlie Sheen – it’s time to take on the role of burger-shifter…
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Artist’s Credit: Glenn Rankin/Smithsonian Institution Greetings, readers. Today marks the 12th Monday—and week—of the year. Yes, that’s a dozen particularly dreadful rings of the alarm clock since your bright-eyed days of resolution-making. I don’t count the weeks, mind you. It’s just that Google Calendar allows for the display of Week Numbers. Useful? Nah, just strange.…
Sega’s Binary Domain, the robot-shooting title the Yakuza have been working on when they should have been working on Yakuza 5, is making the jump from consoles to PC. It’ll be out next month.
Since 2010, Microsoft has been working on a gaming display system so small that it wouldn’t need to be sitting on an entertainment unit or even held in your hands. You could wear it in a pair of glasses. Or in a stupid helmet. The company sees two avenues for such technology: the glasses are…
The Mass Effect 3 Datapad is a free iPad and iPhone app that lets people read about the game’s alien races and other lore while they are on the go. It also lets them raise their Galactic Readiness in their Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or PC versions of the game via a simple mini-game in…
As has become something of a yearly tradition for Electronic Arts, the publisher is shutting down the online servers for eleven of its games. On April 13, EA will kill the online servers for FIFA 10, Bloom Blox, and MMA, among other titles in its library that it says are “no longer feasible” to keep…
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