League of Legends Cosplay Is Out of This World

League of Legends champion cosplay is always exciting, especially so when the subject is one of the less… humanoid ones. Here’s a stunning Thresh, portrayed by Darkgodmaru, who even edited the image, choosing an angle that makes it look like it’s an actual screenshot from the game. Here’s a stunning Hecarim, also a non-humanoid champion…

Kraven Stalks The First Trailer For The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Game

Cunning, resourceful and deadly, spiders are some of nature’s most perfect predators. Movie universe Peter Parker has potential, but he’s going to need help to hone his abilities. Enter Kraven the Hunter, teaching stalking 101 in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game. Kraven the Hunter is one of Spider-Man’s most memorable villains, largely thanks to…

You Power Up Characters with Kisses in This JRPG

Please stop releasing games on portable consoles that I end up being too embarrassed to take out of the house. This is Exstetra, a JRPG for the Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita that was released late last year. The game had managed to get under my radar, but I picked it up at the store…

I’d Have Expected More Glamour from a $5,000 NES Cartridge [UPDATE]

But nope! For that kind of luxury, you need to pay at least three to five times as much As spotted by Wired, over at eBay, one gamer is apparently saying goodbye to his collection of NES carts, which includes this original, “Super Rare” Nintendo World Championships cartridge. Since its condition is, as the eBay…

Smash Bros. Creator Loves Lightning Returns‘ Battle System

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the third and final(?) chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII saga, came out in Japan last November, and what do you know, it’s pretty good. At least Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai thinks so. I think at this point, saying Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is the best installment of…

Learning English Made All Gooey-Cute

For many in Japan, learning English is hard. Good thing Nanami is here to help. Who the hell is Nanami? Nanami is the star of upcoming 3DS download title Let’s Study with Nanami! English Daily Conversation. Voice actress Nao Toyama brings Nanami, and this is not the first Nanami English game. This time around, students…

You Can Upgrade the Un-Upgradable Steam Machine. But it’s Not Easy.

Alienware, purveyor of pre-built PCs of all shapes and sizes, has recently revealed their plan to introduceyearly upgrades to their model of Valve’s PC-slash-console-hybrid Steam Machine, justifying the decision by saying that their machines will not be upgradable. Turns out, that’s not quite the case. “We’ve purposefully designed the Alienware Steam Machine to be smaller…

Shovel Knight hits PC, Wii U, and 3DS on March 31, which should be good news if you’ve been itching for some high quality retro-platformin’ action. Also, there’s a lovely new trailer for you to watch above. Enjoy!

Japanese Developers on the PS4’s Strengths and Weaknesses

The PlayStation 4 comes out in Japan in one month. The privileged who got to pick up theirs out west have been enjoying it for over two months now, but over in Japan gamers and developers alike are anxiously awaiting its release. This week, Weekly Famitsu gathered the opinions of some notable Japanese game developers…

“There is a lot of power in [Xbox One and PS4], and I don’t want to say we’re using them to their capacity, but we’re fairly close to doing so. On [Xbox 360 and PS3] we probably would have had to sacrifice nearly half of our vision.” CD Projekt RED founder Marcin Iwiński, in an…

Adam West: Batman, Mayor, Star Of Terrible Video Games

The real joy of seeing Adam West do anything on the screen is that, even at his worst, he can make the most dreadful thing fun. Because he is Adam West. From the 60s Batman series to Family Guy, that’s been the rule, and it applies also to Golden Nugget, a game which might sound…

Own A Vita? Go Play OlliOlli, Right Now

Looks like myexcitement for OlliOlli was justified. This game is the bees kneepads. Out now on PlayStation Vita, OlliOlli is a skateboarding game that takes after the Tony Hawk series in its love of combos and scores, but strips almost everything away except the tricks. So you play it in 2D. There’s a handful of…

A Guide To American Football For “Liberals, Ladies & Limeys”

The Super Bowl is coming up. It’s one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Weirdly, this is in spite of the majority of people on this planet not knowing how the hell American Football is actually played. This video is here to help. The name is a joke; it’s actually a damn fine…

Fire Glass: take a look at how one firefighter is using Google Glass to help him kick ass and be a hero. It’s amazing.