One of the games that I am eagerly looking forward to is Square Enix’s Blood of Bahamut, a multiplayer action RPG. This RPG actually has its roots in the Final Fantasy series. FF gamers know of the powerful summoned creatures in the game, with Bahamut being one of the toughest. In this game we will also see Gilgamesh, Shive and Ifrit. I’m betting that all of the FF summons will be here too. To whet your appetite here’s a picture of Gilgamesh in all his awesome glory. Read more »
When I heard that Sony was going to remove PS2 backwards compatibility on future Playstation 3 units, I decided that I was going to track down a unit that still had the Emotion Engine installed on it. I still have some PS2 games that I want to play and I wanted the option to play it on the PS3. Even though software emulated backwards compatibility was also made available on PS3 units released a year ago, I felt that having the actual hardware on my PS3 was the way to go. Sony’s decision to remove this feature may have been borne out of the desire to save a few more Read more »
We’ve seen the origami desk lamp and Starcraft origami, now here’s something for your computer desktop. Here we have origami-styled logos for Firefox, Twitter, Apple, Digg, Basecamp, Flickr, GMail, IE (broken, love it), iTunes, Mint, RSS, Opera and Skype, designed by Paddy Donnelly. They can be downloaded in a variety of formats. Jump on to see them all: Read more »
Many anime are set in real places with scenes drawn straight from photographs of actual streets, giving a more realistic feel to the anime. This practice, however, seems to have put the prefecture of Saitama in the spotlight. Riding on the success of the anime series “Lucky Star”, Saitama has drawn many tourists wanting to see the town where the characters of Lucky Star reside. Of course, with the airing of Lucky Star long over, one would expect tourism in the area to fall back down, but the residents of Saitama have found a way to draw anime fans (and their wallets) back into the area. Read more »
Springfield Punx had a ‘Ghostbusters week’ last week. What is Sprinfield Punx? The idea of doing fan art parodying some of my favorite characters and stars in such a fun and simple style got me hooked immediately. Some of these guys and gals have appeared on the Simpsons and I could just work from that, but most I had to do from scratch. The results often are amazing and last week’s Ghostbusters week was very cool. Read more »
From this Friday, 3rd July until 1st September, one of Central London’s art galleries is being transformed into a massive Monster Hunter gaming venue. The Gathering Hall will be constructed at he former site of the prestigious Lazarides gallery in central London. There’ll be three floors dedicated to the PSP game which launched in Britain last week, with comfy seating, free soft drinks, graffiti art, and space for the hundreds of gamers expected to turn up over the next two months. Read more »
Following on from Martin Wilson’s 35mm sequential film art and the incredible Rubik’s Cube stop frame animation, here’s Louise Naunton Morgan’s amazingly painstaking work that makes my brain boggle. Read more »
Take a look at the amazing diagram below. It’s a 333-strong selection of the world’s top web sites portrayed on the Tokyo subway map layout. Apparently this is the fourth version of the map though I hadn’t seen it before – wish I had. Read more »
Probably this might be a cure for cancer. Or not. Who cares anyway? This news just is too awesome to not mention: …some on the council had lobbied for wording which would have required women to keep their nipples covered, but Forsberg explained that attempting to enforce such a rule would have been too complicated. “We don’t define what bathing suits men should wear so it doesn’t make much sense to do it for women. And besides, it’s not unusual for men to have large breasts that resemble women’s breasts,” he said. I think we men got away cheaply there, imagine they would have told us to wear a bra! Read more »
I came across this awesome (web only?) commercial for the Nissan Cube in Japan. It is amazing how this many manga principles have been used in a really short commercial. Read more »
