#spoilers
I've been playing, and enjoying, Killzone 3's multiplayer beta for a few weeks now. But singleplayer? Hadn't seen so much. Until this video showed up! More »
#legal
StarCraft isn't a game in South Korea, it's a national pastime. When gamers aren't playing it, they can watch tournaments on TV. But its creator, Blizzard Entertainment, is unhappy. And it has every right to be. More »
#iphone
In his spare time over the course of a year, Matt Rix bought two laptops, paid Apple a little cash and made a video game called Trainyard. That's all it took to develop one of the year's biggest video games. More »
#crime
After this fourteen-year-old boy's cell phone gaming site membership was canceled, he decided to get even: by threatening to murder people. More »
#ps3
There's a delightful little saying we have here in Australia, which goes a little something like (NSFW) "glass the c#@t". It's not pretty, but there you have it. Anyway, it features in this new trailer for Yakuza 4. More »
#japan
Under current Japanese, it is illegal to upload or sell pirated games and movies. It is legal to copy for one's own personal use. Better get all your personal copying done pronto, because that's going to get harder. More »
#art
Last year, for a class assignment, artist Rustam Hasanov decided to draw up some concept pieces for a dream project of his: a modern-day remake of classic 16-bit title Zombies Ate My Neighbours. If only it wasn't a dream. More »
#clips
You're in the company rec room, why not play the Nintendo Wii? You just had a nabe party, you up for some Wii? Hey, it's your day off, how about playing...the Nintendo Wii? More »
- select special moves by tapping the bottom screen
- use fighting game-style command based inputs
- use bottom screen for increasing or decreasing your “ki” leve
- your ki gauge will be depleted in different quantities when you do special attacks
- character will auto block weak attacks and energy beam attack
- when moving forward, you’ll auto block [...]
As you can see, there is a mystery at the Square-Enix booth. No word on what that title could be, but now the Jump Festa just got a lot more interesting!
#culturesmash
Convenience stores are just that, convenient. Whether it's buying used video games or pre-ordering big titles, today's corner stores offer more than slushies and candy bars. One Japanese chain is considering one deader better. More »
- Azel and Sonia are from the same world
- they were childhood friends
- both were sucked into a mysterious light and end up on Finis Island
- this is a place where people, spirits and monsters live together
- Azel regains consciousness beneath a great tree
- this is where he meets Odette, a girl from a nearby [...]
We're in the final month of 2010, but the world of PC gaming's managed to save one of its biggest releases for last: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (which our sister site WoW Insider knows way, way more about). Let's see how the other late-2010 PC games fared over the past week.
Why, you may ask, have we been traveling door-to-door to the homes of our gaming-obsessed acquaintances, and hugging them deep and long, like two friends bidding a fond farewell on the last day of summer camp? Because soon, so very soon, we will lose those friends to the inescapable maw of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Sure, they've promised that they won't let it happen again -- not like last time, when they disappeared for six entire months, missing birthdays, weddings, funerals and Bar Mizvahs as they tirelessly continued their pursuit of one Mr. Lich King -- but we're not buying it.
Japanese gamers are likely in the same boat, but for different reasons -- Gran Turismo 5, Super Robot Wars L and the Final Fantasy-infused Mario Sports Mix all arrived in the territory during the same week, bolstering sales for their respective pieces of hardware. You know what they didn't bolster, though? Friendships.
