Hey New Yorkers, still reeling after LeBron's decision to play in Miami? Nothing helps ease the pain like a good video game, and luckily, Dragon Quest IX is coming to the US this weekend. To help celebrate the occasion, appearing at the Nintendo World Store in NYC on Saturday will be none other than the creator of Dragon Quest himself: Yuji Horii. Hopefully he doesn't leave us for South Beach...
Did you think that the swarms of boob-based ads for games like Evony were a plight on only English-language websites? Of course not! Sexual advertising is common in many countries across the globe, including China...
What are you doing on August 20th? How about August 21st? It better not be showering, leaving your house, or anything else as callously wasteful, because GamesRadar's 24 hour marathon is back! We're closing out the long days of summer with a non-stop goof-about that begins at 5 p.m. PST on Friday, August 20th and doesn't stop until 5 p.m. the next day...
This week we've seen three new Pokemon revealed, one officially and two others via separate leaks. Details on new Pokemon, including two more hazy images plus one new gameplay video inside!
Do review scores matter? Does all the 1-through-10 fuss mean anything when the games hit retail? Absolutely, says an EEDAR/SMU study which concludes "a strong causal link between professional critic reviews and their ability to affect consumers’ actions and perceptions."
For some reason, adding a little butthole asterisk makes adorable animal mascots like a million times cuter. Why? Maybe it makes them more relatable and real, a reminder that just like us, they must poop. For a perfect example, see Sanrio's Pom Pom Muffin (he's Pom Pom Purin's hamster friend).
With or without asterisk though, this Chibiterasu plushie posted on Capcom Unity looks enviably huggable... more adorable pics inside!
Seth Green, professional nerd-writer-actor, appears in a new ad for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of Starry Skies, enticing 16 to 30-year-old males who enjoy things like Batman, Star Wars, and farts.