The PS Vita has a beautiful OLED screen. You don’t chuck OLED screens in your backpack or your pocket! You need to put the Vita in a pouch. Or a case. Like these. Today, Sony revealed a handful of new PS Vita pouches and cases. There are white and blue carrying pouches, priced at ¥1,800…
Like really dirty games. You know, porn. Online retailer BD-Game is selling Blu-ray versions of adult PC games, meaning that the PS3 can play them. The adult games offered are hardcore. They include chesty sister wifey game Shimai Tsuma, the stomach churning Lolita-at-home title Hajimete no Orusuban, inevitable tentacle game Inda no Hime Kishi no…
In an interview with Dengeki PlayStation, Sony’s Yoshio Matsumoto said that the company is still looking into offering UMD owners the opportunity to re-download their games on the Vita for a special price. At last month’s Sony press conference, Sony also mentioned it was looking into a solution for UMD owners who want to experience…
There’s an established, if corny description of the art of Gears of War: “destroyed beauty”. I don’t like typing it, I especially don’t like hearing it. Beauty doesn’t need to be defined like that because even the most smashed up thing in the universe can be beautiful if someone simply thinks it is Take the…
For over a decade now, it’s been the holy grail of online gaming: combine a shooter and a strategy game in the one package and make it work. Many have tried, notably World War II Online, but none ever really got there. Heroes & Generals is trying to get there. In development at Reto-Moto, a…
Did you blink? Well, you missed it. Halo: Helljumper is an upcoming fan-made web series that is slated to premiere next January. Hopefully each episode is longer than six seconds. To learn more about the web series and to see production stills, check out Halo: Helljumpers‘s Facebook page You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author…
A Dutch site recently held a competition asking people to take a stock PC case —in this case a Corsair 600T—and spice them up a little. The results are spicy Given the fact the modders couldn’t craft their own cases (tasked only with designing a case), what they came up with is still impressive. There’s…
The dudes from Japanese car site Cliccar get out of their boring civvies and got dressed up as Mario and Luigi. Then, they hopped in two street legal X-Karts and took to the avenues and boulevards of Tokyo. Priced at ¥ 379,800 (US$4,900), the X-Kart is a self-styled “mini sports car”. It weighs only 95…
When the PS Vita goes on sale Dec. 17 in Japan, it will cost ¥25,000. With the weak dollar, that’s US$326. So it’s best to go by the portable’s American pricing: $250. With that in mind, how much are Vita games going to cost? According to Famitsu, Uncharted: Golden Abyss costs ¥5,980 for the cartridge…
Along with its big update, which is free, Gran Turismo 5 is also getting some paid DLC, which includes new cars, new courses, new clothes and…new paint colours. There will be four packs made available on October 18. One has 15 new cars, including the Red Bull X2011, touring cars and three karts. It’s $8.…
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of Sonic the Hedgehog. And nothing says “old, possibly dead but worth a token remembrance anyway” like commemorative postage stamps. Making things even less exciting is the fact they’re from Belgium, so most of us can’t even use them. At €4.99, you’re paying €1 per stamp…
Put down that leaked Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim manual! And watch this clip. This clip is from the folks responsible for June’s live-action Gears of War 3 fan trailer Fan film director Blake Armstrong and his crew at Try Force Productions turned their attention to the upcoming Skyrim via a live-action trailer, which they churned…
Quick history lesson for those who don’t know: there’s a character in Final Fight who in Japan was a sexy lady. A sexy lady you had to punch in the face. Her name was Poison. Fearing this may not go down well overseas, in the West she was turned into a he. It was the…
This past weekend, a parking lot in Tokyo’s Odaiba glimmered with geek pride. This weekend saw the Ita G Festa expo. Gear-heads gathered and showed off more than their appreciation for automobiles. They showed off their appreciation of covering their cars in otaku decals. “Ita” refers to “itasha”, which literally means “painmobile”. The removable decals…
Having teased one of the new Terran units due in the next instalment of StarCraft II, Heart of the Swarm, developers Blizzard are now showing the outline of a new Zerg unit. And here it is. Scan your eyes over it from left to right and it looks like, yup, a Zerg. Scan from right…
A Reddit user has posted what looks like the final retail manual for the upcoming Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Now, while a manual is normally grounds for zzzzzzzzz, in Skyrim’s case, it’s got information on stuff like skills, lock-picking and – sigh – encumbrance. And if you don’t give a shit about any of that?…
British actor Clive Owen is a badass. A man’s man. He’s got a deep voice, a heavy face, and is usually in movies where he kills things, or is at least around things being killed. Did you know, however, that between leaving the UK and making it big in Hollywood he appeared in one of…
When do we get the Seinfeld of video games? Why won’t there be any major new gaming consoles? And just when will get video game technology implanted in our brains? At GDC Online in Austin, Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell predicted and expounded upon many things. He opened the GDC’s narrative summit with a wide-ranging talk…
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Multiplayer is finally coming to Mass Effect, BioWare confirmed today. Next year’s Mass Effect 3 adds four-player cooperative multiplayer missions and the campaign “bonus” Mass Effect 3: Galaxy at War. BioWare’s Chris Preistly explains, in detail, on the game’s official forums. Mass Effect 3‘s four-player co-op missions—there’s no “versus” multiplayer, they say—lets players “choose from…
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