It seems that the government of Japan is not happy with the US government’s habit of using images from Japanese videogames in its political rhetoric, which has included racist, war-mongering social media posts. A Mainichi Shimbun report (Google translated, via IGN) says Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has “repeatedly expressed concerns” about the use of…
Nintendo of America has helped US health workers and patients by donating 9,500 highly requested N95 Particulate Respirator face masks. The company said that they had them for emergency preparedness planning but conceded that they were best used to help the health workers with the dreadful coronavirus pandemic in America and the rest of the…
Please, please, please do not use ‘123456’ as any kind of password. I know that may seem obvious, but apparently it bears repeating if a recent hack of Denmark’s Central Register of Persons (CPR) is anything to go by. To recap, the CPR administration said earlier this month that it had become aware of a…
The 29th annual DICE Awards, honoring game makers “whose work pushed the boundaries of interactive storytelling, technical innovation,” went down last night, and you’ll never guess who took home the big prize for game of the year. I’ll give you a hint: They’re French. No, not Ubisoft, I mean Sandfall Interactive, the team behind Clair…
The lull before a new expansion hits World of Warcraft has been dragged out for months in the past, but this time Blizzard isn’t going to hold back the new stuff for very long. A patch is coming on December 2 that will act as a prologue to the Midnight expansion, and it’ll mark the…
Well, what can I say? Rebellion may have been formed in 1992, but this will easily go down as one of the most exciting weeks in our history. After all it’s not every day that you have your new (and top secret) project debut at E3, let alone seeing it running on something as exciting…
Insomniac Games has let slip a new trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 where they detail new gameplay changes show off a greatly expanded map for the sequel. The new map is significantly larger, presumably to accommodate all the new powers and to make room for two Spider-heroes swinging about at once. “We’re nearly doubling the…