They Were Laid Off From Their Game Company. Now They Want To Change The Way We Play.

Jason Fader and his team were sitting in a bar, drinking. Commiserating. Earlier that day they’d all been laid off from their jobs at Obsidian Entertainment, where they helped work on games like Fallout: New Vegas and an unannounced project called North Carolina. When North Carolina was axed, Obsidian had no choice but to let…

You’ll be able to see Black Ops II‘s multiplayer played from Gamescom next week via livestream

One of the Worst-Rated Game Franchises of All Time Gets a Wii U Sequel

There are currently four games in the Game Party series of mini-game collections. The combined Metacritic average for these four games is 31. So why the hell is Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment releasing Game Party Champions for the Wii U? I’d say it has something to do with the Game Party series on the Wii…

Koei Tecmo Boss Kind of Sort of Announces a New Game

Tecmo Koei CEO, Yoichi Erikawa recently said in an interview with Weekly Famitsu that the alpha version of the long-missing game, Ni-Oh! was complete and that work on the game was continuing. But that wasn’t all. The interview between Erikawa and Enterbrain CEO, Hirokazu Hamamura, mainly covered the growth of Tecmo Koei since the two…

Attention All Comic Market Fans, Knock Off the Sexualized Bags. Thanks!

This Friday, the summer Comic Market (aka “Comiket”) steamrolls Japan. There will be tons of self-produced manga from famed artists and new talents on sale. A big chunk of it is sexy stuff, and so are the free bags that attendees get from game companies, retailers, manga makers—you name it. No wonder one illustrator is…

What Created this Chinese Ghost Town? A Crackdown on Fake Goods.

On August 6 in Shenyang, shops shuttered. Merchants vanished. On their shops, there were signs like “temporarily closed”. Online, people said parts of the city were nearly ghost towns. Many of the shops carried fake goods of one kind or another, and the rumor was that Chinese authorities were going to crackdown on these gray…

First Look at Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee HD

Here’s the debut screenshot for Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee HD, the hi-def remake of the 1997 PlayStation classic. The game will be a remake from the ground up, apparently, with both 3D graphics and 2D gameplay. Oddworld [Facebook via VG247]

Forgot those launch day woes! Hybrid is up and running, waiting to defy gravity on your Xbox 360.

Over 10 Billion Coins Have Been Collected In New Super Mario Bros 2…

New Super Mario Bros 2, the latest game in the Mario Brothers franchise was released in Japan on July 28th and already players are chugging away, gathering coins, coins, and more coins. One of the side objectives/achievements of the game is to collect a million coins, and it looks like hundreds of people have already…

This Robot Restaurant Review Doesn’t Answer This: How’s The Food?

Whenever some new wild restaurant opens in Japan, there’s a flurry of attention online. And then? Then, these one-trick-pony restaurants often just fade away. But before that happens, somebody needs to take one for the team. Website Yattar News did just that. The site checked out the Robot Restaurant, which is less a restaurant and…

Those real money prices on Xbox Live were “an error”. Microsoft is sticking with Microsoft Points. Unfortunately.

“Huge Boob” Producer Hopes For Interactive Hologram Technology. I Wonder Why…

Continuing its interview series with various game creators, this week Weekly Famitsu sat down with Kenichiro Takaki of Marvelous AQL to talk about his thoughts for the future. Takaki is famous for his hand in busty babe-featuring games like the Battle Vixens series, and the Senran Kagura series, as well as the non-busty babe-featuring Half-Minute…

DmC‘s Puzzling Use of the Words “Obesity” and “Stupidity”

The latest DmC: Devil May Cry footage shows off some of the game’s platforming as well as the giant wall-crawler, Succubus. That’s not all. In the trailer, words like “die”, “obesity”, “stupidity” flash in the background. “Kill Dante” also appears. Subtle, no? (Then again, when has Devil May Cry been subtle?) Not subtle, sure, but…

Why a Chinese Reporter Was Tied Up During a Typhoon

Mother Nature is dangerous business. Weather reporters in Asia (and elsewhere) are often sent into the eye of a storm—if anything, just so they can show how severe the weather is. And a typhoons are pretty dang severe. On August 8, typhoon Haikui hit Hepu County in China, sadly leaving two dead in its wake.…

Yakuza 5 Is Like Inception. A Video Game within a…Video Game.

It’s not uncommon for video game companies to reference their own games in…their own games. But Yakuza 5, never one to turn down a tie-in, has something else: Yakuza 5 features another company’s game. Namco’s Taiko no Tatsujin appears in Sega’s upcoming gangster opus. When you visit an arcade in Yakuza 5, you can play…

The Return of Japan’s Creepiest Action Figure

You know him, you love him, he’s creepy. That’s right, the infamous “hentai” (perverted) Woody figure is back. Kaiyodo’s Sci-Fi Revoltech Series No. 10 Woody figure has returned to retail. This month, the figure re-launched, going on sale again in Japan. With creepy Woody back on the prowl, no plastic figurine is safe. Geek site…

Sleeping Dogs Actually Cares About Its PC Version

Given the fact many publishers enjoy punishing PC players with sub-par ports, it’s nice to see Square Enix going the extra mile with the upcoming Sleeping Dogs. On day one, it’ll have a high-resolution texture pack available for download, a busier game world than the console versions and DirectX11 support. It’ll even play nice with…

Everything You Wanted (or Needed) to Know About Halo 4’s Guns

The history. The purpose. The sound effects. The enormous write-up over on Halo Waypoint (linked below) has everything a series fan – or firearm fetishist – could ever want with regards to humanity’s weapons of choice. And if you don’t feel like reading? Here’s every UNSC gun in the game, shooting things in the face.…

It’s Call me Maybe, Made Entirely With Lines From Star Trek

It’s been done with Star Wars so, as is required by the laws of fandom, it must be done with Star Trek as well. This is, yet again, a remix of Call me Maybe, with short snippets of on-screen dialogue (from Next Generation only, mind you!) standing in for Carly Rae Jepsen’s vocals. I don’t…

Ouya’s Ridiculously Successful Kickstarter Ends With Millions in the Bank

The Ouya console, an ambitious attempt to turn what’s essentially an Android tablet into a tiny home console, has just seen is Kickstarter campaign draw to a close. The final tally? Oh, just a meagre $8,583,769. That’s from 63,303 backers, with by far the most popular funding option (with over 46,000 taking up the offer)…