A good chance for avid photographers Square Enix has announced it will be giving away a scholarship to one lucky photographer, as part of itsLife is Strange-inspired Everyday Heroes competition. This is totally separate from the identically namedanti-bullying hashtag driveit launched a couple weeks ago. The idea is simple: submit a photo showing “ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” and you’ll be in with a chance of winning a framed copy of your photo signed by the folks at developer Dontnod....

‘Oh man, there are a lot of flowers to pick up’ The Elder Scrolls Onlinelooks to be rewarding players who want to put effort into crafting. The keen eye ability will highlight scroungable resources so you don’t miss precious elements. Or flowers. You can even gain enough expertise in weapon types that people seek you out to craft custom gear that you’ve mastered. Certain item sets can only be crafted by certain crafters in special crafting areas....

A new game, or Goichi Suda, also known as “Suda51,” has been hard at work creatingTravis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, but as we know his studio Grasshopper Manufacture is frequently working on multiple projects at once. TO celebrate Grasshopper’s 20th anniversary Suda says he has something special planned — specifically, a “special announcement” to be held at MomoCon 2018 in Atlanta. He says on May 26 at 7:00PM ET he’ll be running a Grasshopper panel, and will announce something there....

We got got If you approached theHey Arnold!-head-shapedNintendo NX controller leakwith a pillar of salt, congratulations you correct, no-fun-having mother flubber. The “leak” was actually a fake drafted up for internet “lols” or what have you based on a too-straight mock up of Nintendo’s patent. Reddit’sIdriss2Devposted the above video. I suppose someone faked the“same tree” follow up “leak”based on the same design, too. Yesterday Nintendo refuted reports that the company planned toend Wii U production sometime in 2016....

Happy birthday 21 years ago today, the Nintendo 64 launched in Japan. It would take several more months to arrive in the US and nearly a year later for Europe. In its lifetime (which lasted until 2002 in Japan and 2003 in the west), it made a major impact on me, and a lot of my peer’s formative years. It’s currently the 14th best selling gaming system right in front of the Genesis, beating out the Xbox, GameCube, Wii U, Xbox One, Saturn, and Dreamcast....

Another anniversary celebration Nintendo and The Pokemon Company is continuing the festivities for the 20th anniversary of those crazy old Pocket Monsters, and the occasionthis weekis an iOS photo app. It’s called, quite simply, thePokémon Photo Booth, and it seems to be a perfect wellspring for those “dank memes” your uncle is always talking about. Yep, it’s literally a photo shoot where you can insert #branding terms and instantly share them to various social channels....

It’s also got a pretty sweet collector’s edition Earlier this year, NIS America announced that that it was going to be bringing the Aqua Style-developed roguelikeTouhou Genso Wandererto Western territories sometime in early 2017. Today we finally have a little more specificity as to when theTouhouroguelike will be ready to hit store shelves.Touhou Genso Wandererwill be released in North America on February 7 and Europe on February 10. Alongside the confirmation of a Western release date, NIS America also announced that physical PS4 copies ofTouhou Genso Wandererwill also come withTouhou Double Focus, which is a small 2D platformer that centres around the characters Aya and Momiji....

ThisNinja Gaidenad really makes me wish someone would make a ninja version ofMirror’s Edge. Have it set in the eight century and battle against other ninjas and samurais. Basically,TenchumeetsMirror’s Edge. Look at that developers, I just gave you a f*cking game concept for free.Jim lists the sexual sway of videogame characters, theOnechanbaramodels are pretty hot, newPokemonDLC is on the way, anIndiana Jonestrailer was finally released, and some other stuff happened over the weekend....

♫Those were the days♫ “Spent a whole day in NYC and not one StreetPass received 😭 (Nintendo Store included),” is such a simple Reddit title, but it speaks volumes.Spotted by Nintendo Life, thisReddit post from itsmefizzy [who also sports the image credit]says all it needs to say in one image and a quick title. Remember StreetPass? When you’d go to a convention, spend 30 minutes walking around, then unload all of your hits to clear out room for more?...

CUTE! Wonder Festival 2014 took place this past week and our sister site Tomopop has a ton of coverage up of all the coolest toys that were revealed. There’s always a bunch of gaming related figures,such as thisNendoroid Wind Waker Link. IT’S SO CUTE! We also got a preview of theKotobukiya Juri,Max Factory’s Cordeliafrom Fire Emblem Awakening was teased, and there wassomeGod Eater 2figureson display as well. Plenty to check out over onTomopop, including a look at the awesome looking Ryuko Matoi figure fromKill la Kill....

The videogame industry really is a strange one. Even though it gets bigger and bigger every year (even surpassing both the film and music industries), it sometimes feels like we’re talking about studio closings and lay-offs almost every day. Well, you can now add Warner Bros. Seattle studios to the increasing list of companies taking hits. Monolith Productions, Snowblind Studios, and Surreal Software are all facing an unknown amount of lay-offs after Warner Bros....

It’s May Day tomorrow, glory to the proletariat! And the middle class. And everyone else who has money to spend on mobile games. And for the legion of unemployed, some free games. This week features a strategy-heavy load of games ranging from Brazilian multitasking action to a genuine 4X space game. Sean Carey was helpful enough to try out two iPad games as well. And there are even a couple of noteworthy Android releases, who would’ve guessed?...

It’s so easy for me to forget how much I love the camp action of theDevil May Cryseries that once I remember, I get all excited and giggly.Devil May Cryis a very silly series, and the gameplay is top notch in both terms of simplicity and challenge. As if the demo and theUK 360 pricetagforDMC4wasn’t enough to ramp up my anticipation, this epic new trailer has sealed the deal.As well as showing off the rivalry between Dante and Nero, we get to see more shots of my videogame monocle-wearing counterpart, some crazy looking combat, and even crazier looking enemies....