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September 22, 2012

Heard@ Tokyo Game Show 2012: Harada and Ono can never work together due to ‘animal turds’

The friendly rivalry between Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada and former Street Fighter mastermind Yoshinori Ono is a long and storied one,…

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Photo tour of Austin’s Fantastic Arcade

Fantastic Arcade continues to be one of the coolest, most satisfying gaming events of the year. No other convention that I can…

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GameStop creates Wii U wait list, we refresh our inboxes

With both the Basic and Deluxe Wii U systems selling out rather quickly this week, GameStop recently instituted a wait list for…

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PSN Community Spotlight – Love For My Son and Cars

It’s almost like this ‘Saturday’ thing happens every week. That means it’s time for the PSN Community Spotlight. For the unfamiliar, this…

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Talking Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z with Keiji Inafune and Yosuke Hayashi

Walking around the Tokyo Game Show floor, we just happened to run into Keiji Inafune, famed (and infamous) Japanese developer and creator…

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Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi on appealing to everyone with Dead or Alive 5

We caught up with Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi during the Tokyo Game Show for a quick chat about Dead or Alive…

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Face-Off: Borderlands 2

The first Borderlands surprised many with its successful marriage of cartoon-style visuals and loot-driven first-person shooter gameplay, all tied in a brilliantly…

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Minecraft’s latest snapshot has a witchy woman

Minecraft is getting a Halloween-related update in October, and among a slew of other changes (including updated sounds) a new creature is…

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WRUP: Tokyo a go-go

This week’s Tokyo Game Show brought us the latest PlayStation 3 console revision, along with a whole lot of coverage of the…

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What makes a classic RPG? Everything!

This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on “Western” role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their…

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Yakuza 5’s five cities and five stories in two trailers

New trailers for Yakuza 5 introduce all the protagonists, the new locations (based on real Japanese cities), and the storyline. Oh, and…

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Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time hits PS3, PS Vita and PSN on Feb. 5

Nothing is quite as adept at stealing your precious free time like video games. Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is making a…

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America Through a Japanese Lens

The many ways which games abroad portray our nation….

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Daily Wrap-Up: 9.21.2012

Here’s what’s happened today in the world of video games, technology and popular culture! Check out our hands-on preview of Halo 4….

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Saints Row: The Third free to play, on sale this weekend on Steam

Despite its crass and often offensive tone, Saints Row: The Third was quite well done, and turned the well-traveled sandbox urban action…

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PSA: Fire Pro-Wresting resurfaces, now available on XBLM

After being announced at the 2010 Tokyo Game Show and scheduled for a 2011 release it never made, Fire Pro-Wrestling resurfaces and…

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Your game industry in your words, week of September 21

Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures from the past week, including Media Molecule’s David Smith, Valve’s Robin Walker, Keiji Inafune,…

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The TouchArcade Show – 70 – Rewind!

This week on The TouchArcade Show, we press “rewind” in a huge way in anticipation of a flood of new enthusiasts courtesy…

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