He’s lent his talents to some of the most popular animation work of the last 60 years, ranging from Sleeping Beauty, Superfriends, The Smurfs, The Jungle Book, Mulan, Toy Story 2 to Robot Chicken and Jonny Quest. He helped make the iconic opening animation from Soul Train. Yet, Floyd Norman: An Animated Life shows…
In anime Durarara!!, bodyguard Shizuo Heiwajima is known for his amazing strength. His outfit, a bartender outfit and sunglasses, is easy to pull off. The improvised weapons he wields, however, are not.
“Fuck Konami” is an old saying on the internet, but usually, it’s commenters who are lashing out against the publisher. Today, even a Hollywood director is cursing out Konami—and with good reason, too.
Famed animator Hideaki Anno is one of the founders of Gainax, the studio behind the iconic Neon Genesis Evangelion. His latest studio, Khara, filed suit for over 100 million yen ($877,636) it claims Gainax owes.
Tonight in Los Angeles is the annual Geoff Keighley Extravaganza, a lavish celebration of all things Video Game that should have plenty of announcements and new gameplay footage. Also, there might be awards.
Don’t worry. There’s still time to see it, but not much. Because on March 5, 2017, the giant Gundam statue in Tokyo’s Odaiba will be no more.
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2016 has been a hellscape. Everywhere. Even for those managing online video game marketplaces.
DsiderREKT
Overwatch got an update yesterday. The biggest addition was a new control map on the test server where you can play in traffic. However, a major wave of bans came alongside the update as well, with some players complaining that it seems to have caught previously undetectable cheat programs.
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For the past 11 years, an eternity in internet time, Reddit has touted itself—repeatedly, and loudly—as the place to have “authentic conversations” online. For a variety of reasons, that sentiment has always rang hollow. Now, Reddit, in its goal to be a laissez-faire haven of (relatively) free expression, has been…
DsiderI really enjoy it when they do these articles
Overwatch is a cavalcade of character design. It’s almost — dare I say it — fashionable. But what do I know? I’m a 35 year-old games journalist. I own roughly 25 white t-shirts. Five don’t have stains. Yet. My solution: create a panel and ask the experts.
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Netflix is now allowing users to download select movies and TV shows for offline playback, the company announced Wednesday.
DsiderOnly linking because I still laugh at this band name. I still have no idea what their music sounds like though, and will continue to not know, because this video contains content from... Columbia?
DsiderGOD FINE I'll go to Orlando for a few days.
Announced last year for Universal Studios Japan, Nintendo-themed areas are also in the works for Universal Studios Orlando and Hollywood as well, promising massive areas filled with things to do, eat and buy. Miyamoto seems overjoyed.
DsiderI uh... I kinda want to try this?
This should come as no surprise. You should expect this. Because Taco Bell did put Cheetos in a burrito.
Ron Glass, known for playing Shepherd Book on the acclaimed Joss Whedon show Firefly and its follow-up film Serenity, has passed away at the age of 71. No other details have been released at this time.
Japan doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. Christmas stuff starts going up as soon as Halloween finishes, which, I guess, also happens in the U.S. While Japan isn’t the only country to recently latch on the American sales bonanza Black Friday, the day has increasingly become more noticeable.
Ever wonder if your dog recalls those times you were were a really shitty owner? The latest science shows they most certainly do.
Something that really surprised me about Pokémon Sun and Moon were the random spurts of bleakness. The latest generation of Pokémon games aren’t afraid to go there, even if it leaves the player uncomfortable about the implications.
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The 3D models for Pokémon Sun and Moon have been co-opted to make dance videos, and it’s amazing.
Silent, deadly, and destructive, creepers are probably the most dreaded mob in Minecraft. Fittingly, the creeper has a twisted and horrifying past that ranges all the way back to one of the first editions of Minecraft.
DsiderIt's tough to get good dialogue for these kind of things, but that regardless... holy shit.
Majora’s Mask: Terrible Fate is a fan-made animated short that serves as an origin story for Skull Kid. If Nintendo ever get serious about making Zelda cartoons again, they could do a lot worse than this kind of art style.
Most of the games I feature here on Fine Art tend to be big, beautiful, AAA extravaganzas. Today, though, will be a reminder that no matter how simple or retro a game’s visuals may be, someone still had to go and design all of its stages and characters.
Dsider*gasp* The game might actually work as intended now?
Having begun testing in August, Pokémon Go’s new nearby system—which actually works—is finally rolling out to select users around the world.
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For the first time in my Lego minifigure-collecting life, I might have to buy a whole box. Lego has revealed the 20-character The Lego Batman Movie blind bag minifigure set, featuring Fairy Batman, Lobster-Lovin’ Batman and so much more.
Dsidergod I love glitches
Pokémon Sun and Moon hasn’t been out that long. Bugs and glitches pop up in previous Pokémon games, so they’re bound to be in Sun and Moon. These could be the first ones folks are finding.
At an auction in Beverly Hills, a Pokémon Illustrator card fetched an eye-watering $54,970, setting a new record for Pokémon card prices.
