Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends: Dating-Simulation Game a Last Resort For Honeymoon Town and Its Lonely Guests. "Some devoted fans will go so far as to pay twice the rate—most hotels in Japan charge per guest not per room—to indulge the fantasy that they are not there alone. A night's stay, at most, can cost $500 though many rooms are cheaper. In Atami, the Love Plus+ fans—mostly men in their twenties and thirties—stand out. Unlike the deeply tanned beach crowd wearing very little, they are often pasty and overdressed for the heat in heavy jeans and button-down shirts."

Jean-Paul LeBreton, level designer for BioShock 2, has written an analysis of the original Doom.

Holy shit. They set up a secret BBS whose number you find by decoding a song played at the end of the game if you carry 26 radios found in the game to the end of each level. What?

This article is fairly long, but quite interesting.

\"A video in which a darling little boy gropes his bladder but finds himself powerless to tear himself away from a GBA display and go micturate.\"

Monkey Island on your Nintendo DS? Sam and Max? Fuck Yeah.

Super Mario as communist propaganda art.

This site has original sound tracks for a <strong>log</strong> of video games.

This post features: the mafia, ferraris, and fictional portable video game systems.

Video games you can play with your girlfriend (or boyfriend or wife or husband).

Check that trailer out. Video games are so amazing now.

I shouldn\'t have bought the Rub Rabbits. Tetris DS and Metroid Prime Hunters are both out this month.

The new <del>Mario</del> Princess Peach game for the Nintendo DS.

America is turning to shit in part because people seem to think making it a felony to sell violent video games to children is a worthwhile way for the government to spend its time.

The metal gear was in great.

Little kids review classic video games.

This game looks pretty slick. Video games are too much now.

A little bit of scandal over at the Nintendo WiFi site.

I saw a White Trash Charms store in Tokyo and had assumed it was a bad case of <a href=\"http://engrish.com/\">Engrish</a>.

This game looks slick; computer graphics are pretty incredible now.

The problem wasn\'t due to a hack, but some issue at Nintendo itself.

There are some interesting answers here.

Kotaku reviews the game <em>25 to Life</em>. (Was <em>SOCOM</em> the game where the scientists would kneel down with their hands behind their heads to give up, and then you\'d shoot them anyway?)

A video game parody of a Kinkos. I haven\'t had a chance to play it, but it\'s out for the Mac and PC.

The director of Audition has a some shorts out right now for free.

Holy Shit!

I\'m guessing this lady isn\'t that great a parent.

Electroplankton sounds really cool.

These 4 guys made 50 games during a semester of grad school.

If you have ever played an RPG you will love this.

That is so cheap.

They made several classic shareware games for the Mac.

On the last days of a massively-multiplayer online game.

Dead or Alive was the first fighting game to feature breast bouncing technology.

This is one of the strangest reviews of a game I have ever read.

Damn it, did I get the wrong system? Shima probably doesn\'t think so.

Four photographs of maps from video games (Ultima and Legend of Zelda 1,2, and 3) displayed on giant-ass LCD screens. Nice.

Miyamoto is the man behind Super Mario, the Legend of Zelda, and several other classic Nintendo games.

This looks way nicer than my Game Boy.

I want one.

Krishna just got a PSP. I want one so much.

Nintendo has some cool gadgets coming out in the next little while. The GameBoy Micro is tiny.