Dateline, America: In preperation for the launch of the XBox 360, Microsoft totally overhauls cuddly XBox lead designer J. Allard into a lean, mean, stylish, shaven, earringed, soul-patched XXX-treme-inator (the soulpatch is most visible on this lovely 320dpi image, suitable for framing).
Dateline, Japan: The Japanese XBox 360’s “coming soon” ads forego any sort of gameplay […]
True Crime: New York City claims to have modelled the most realistic Manhattan ever, based on over 11,000 photographs taken by 6 location scouts. Putting that claim to the test, The New Yorker Magazine sat two professional New York City tour guides down with the game. They were overall impressed with the level of detail, […]
Sure, we could place the blame on inferior 3D hardware, a lackluster library of games, or being rushed to market before the rest of its generation of consoles, but the real reason for the Sega Saturn’s failure in the U.S. was the absence of Segata Sanshiro. A parody of a Japanese judo movie from the […]
This is old news to us cutting-edge, “in the know” hipsters, but it has occured to me that not everyone is that cutting-edge, so this might be new to some people. Inspired by Namco X Capcom, the crossover tactics game that came out in Japan in May, a couple of animators decided that their favorite, […]
Alrighty, here’s one of the posts where I talk about my half-baked and reactionary thoughts of the moment, and then everyone gets their panties in a bundle, and then later I change my mind, and everyone calls me a hypocrite, and it haunts me for the rest of my life. With that caveat, I’d just […]
Just a quick update that there’s finally a flash teaser for the Silent Hill movie. I am still anxiously awaiting a real trailer of some sort.
Update: Full trailer now available HERE! I continue to have unwavering faith that Christophe Gans can make an excellent video game movie where so many have failed before.
I know what you’re thinking. Your jaded, internet-savvy generation has seen it all. You use the goatse image on your Valentine’s cards, and sing the “Uncle Fucker” song with the whole family every Christmas. That whole upskirt fighting game video was shocking on Thursday, but it’s almost been a whole week since you saw that, […]
The doujin soft game company Team Shanghai Alice is actually just one guy named “ZUN”, who specializes in “bullet hell” vertical-scrolling shooters. ZUN does all the design, ZUN does all the programming, ZUN does all the art, ZUN does all the music. The results are pretty impressive for just coming from one person, and innovative […]
A doujin soft group calling themselves “Game Programming Study Club” has created the most Japanese fighting game EVER. 行殺! Spirits (”Line-Kill Spirits”) is a 3D fighting game that features little girls beating up on each other; nothing new there. The kicker, however, is that any damage you do to your opponent will slowly regenerate unless… […]