News Tagged: Weird

Friday 12th June, 2009 - 13:48 BST

News: Doki Majo Plus Set To Interfere With Little Girls

Doki Majo Plus Set To Interfere With Little Girls

Avert your eyes - SNK Playmore's worrying sequel gets the trailer treatment.

Doki Doki Majo Shinpan is a DS title produced by SNK Playmore that revolves around touching little girls in order to see if they're witches. Unsurprisingly, it failed to get a western release.However, the Japanese absolutely lapped it up and a sequel is now inbound. Entitled Doki Majo Plus, the goal remains very much the..

38 comments | In DS, Trailers, NSFW, Weird, Japan, Imports.

Thursday 11th June, 2009 - 09:10 BST

News: Street Fighter II's Bonus Stage: Live Action Spectacular

Street Fighter II's Bonus Stage: Live Action Spectacular

How to destroy a car in just over a minute

Remember the bonus stage in Capcom's Street Fighter II where you had to rip a car to bits within a set time limit using nothing but your fists and feet (and a few fireballs if you were Ryu and Ken, of course)?As far as vehicular violence was concerned it was pretty sweet, but we also thought it was a bit unrealistic. Surely no one could actually do..

25 comments | In Retro, Videos, Weird, Awesome, Youtube.

Friday 15th May, 2009 - 10:59 BST

News: NSFW: Zelda, Peach and Samus Shed Clothing In The Name Of Art

NSFW: Zelda, Peach and Samus Shed Clothing In The Name Of Art

Every Nintendo fan's dream, or nightmare?

Sex is used to sell an awful lot of things these days, and video games are no exception. However, LA burlesque club Bordello's recent night of video game-themed stripping strikes us as a little bad taste. And we have low standards to begin with!Lucky punters were given the chance to see such highly respected icons as Chun Li (Street Fighter), Princess Peach..

56 comments | In Weird, NSFW, Cosplay.

Tuesday 5th May, 2009 - 14:12 BST

News: New Copy Of Earthbound Sells For Over $1000 On eBay

New Copy Of Earthbound Sells For Over $1000 On eBay

Don't you wish you'd have kept your copy sealed now?

A new and factory sealed copy of the cult SNES RPG Earthbound has sold for over $1000 on auction site eBay, proving once and for all that video game collectors aren't scared of the credit crunch.Seller dave2236 bagged a whopping $1,025.01 for the minty-fresh copy of the game. To give you some indication of the utter madness of this situation,..

33 comments | In Retro, Weird, SNES.

Monday 4th May, 2009 - 23:00 BST

News: "Wii Smile" Not Smiling Much Anymore

"Wii Smile" Not Smiling Much Anymore

Swedish Dentist is forced to change name by Nintendo's crack team of lawyers

It's a classic "David vs. Goliath" battle. A small dental surgery in Malmö, Sweden up against a multi-million dollar video game giant.Sadly, in this case, Goliath won.Nintendo has taken legal action to force the surgery in question to change its name - which was previously "Wii Smile". Before you..

17 comments | In Drama, Law, Wii, Weird.

Wednesday 11th March, 2009 - 00:50 GMT

News: Atari 2600 Version of LIT?

Atari 2600 Version of LIT?

For those of you out there who are old enough to be familiar with the beloved Atari 2600 console, here's an interesting little article for you.

It seems that one of the developers from Wayforward believes that any game design worth its weight in gold should be able to be executed on the old Atari 2600 game console. He even goes so far as to work up some screenshots of what the game might look like..

46 comments | In WiiWare, Wayforward Technologies, Weird.