Former Capcom artist Kinu Nishimura is one of those people who, if I grabbed you and said WHO IS KINU NISHIMURA, you would scream and say I HAVE NO IDEA.

Then I'd show you some of her work, mostly from Capcom's legendary fighting game series, and you'd be all "Oohhhhh, it's her. Awesome!"

Nishimura began work at Capcom in 1991, and while she's not directly employed there any more, still does the odd piece for the publisher from time to time.

In the twenty years since her first gig on brawler King of Dragons, Nishimura has contributed either promotional art or character design work for classics like Street Fighter II, Rival Schools, Street Fighter III, Capcom vs. SNK, Darkstalkers, Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

Much of which you'll see in the gallery above!

To see the larger pics in all their glory (or so you can save them as wallpaper), right-click on the "expand" icon on the main image above and select "open in new tab".

Yesterday, Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe quietly released three new screenshots for the PS3's entry in the franchise. Here they are.

Twisted Metal is a PS3 exclusive, and will be out in February 2012.

Ten minutes isn't an eternity. But on YouTube, ten minutes is a fair bit of time. And, according to Japanese news source the Nikkei, that's how long you can shoot 3D on the 3DS.

Next month, the Nintendo 3DS is getting a big update. Later today, Nintendo will apparently be detailing said update. The Nikkei published a report that the update will bring 3D video filming functionality and the ability to upload clips to websites like YouTube.

Apparently, 3DS owners can shoot up to ten minutes of 3D footage. The update will be free and supposedly hit in late November.

任天堂、「３ＤＳ」テコ入れへ新サービス [Nikkei]

Inspired by last year's Fallout: New Vegas, Nanahra has made himself a replica New California Republic Ranger's outfit that, at a glance, looks as good as the real thing.

Not that the real thing's actually real. But if it was, it'd probably look like this. Only slightly more radioactive.

What's great about it is the level of detail on show; there's layers atop layers in the costume, while the helmet and gun look perfect.

Cosplay Outfits [Nanahra, via Bethesda]

In the West, Kazunari Ninomiya is best known for the Clint Eastwood film Letters from Iwo Jima. In Japan, he's better known as a member of the boy band Arashi.

Arashi continue to appear in Nintendo commercials, flogging the lastest games and hardware from the Kyoto-based company. This Super Mario 3D Land ad is no exception.

スーパーマリオ 3Dランド TVCM 二宮マリオ篇 [3DS] [YouTube]

Valve's Source Engine may be getting long in the tooth, but the fact it's constantly updated means it can still produce some surprisingly realistic results. Like this gallery, comparing images taken inside the game engine to photos taken in real life.

Reddit user NullPoint84 has assembled a gallery of pictures in which he's recreated scenes in old photographs using Garry's Mod, an editing suite/tool/game.

Sure, you won't be spending hours staring at the screen trying to work out which is which. We're not dealing with bleeding edge tech here. But they're still great to look at, if only for how the colours and lighting could be copied so closely.

I used Garry's Mod to re-create some old photos I took [Reddit]

Like elsewhere, the iPhone is hugely popular and hard to get in Japan. Earlier this week, actress Yumiko Shaku did a post in which talked about getting her first smartphone—the "new iPhone model".

Thing is, it wasn't the new iPhone. It wasn't even the old one. It was an iPod Touch.

Almost every Japanese celebrity has a blog. Actress Yumiko Shaku is no exception. On their blogs, Japanese celebrities post photos of themselves in fancy restaurants. Sometimes, they post photos of with their latest purchases. Know what went on sale recently? The iPhone 4S.

Lots of folks are not tech savvy. Even someone like Shaku, who has appeared in several video games, obviously doesn't have a handle on, say, the difference between an iPhone and an iPod Touch.

(Game Watch Impress)

Shaku, who started out as a bikini model, is now a major TV actress. She got some of her first big breaks in games. She voiced heroine Aya Brea in Parasite Eve II and then released a photobook called Parasite Eve II Real Aya Yumiko Shaku in 1999. The book featured Shaku cosplaying as Aya Brea.

Shaku went on to voice game characters like Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters In Space as well as Joanna Dark in the Japanese version of Perfect Dark Zero. All of this, including appearing at Xbox 360 launch events in Japan, might make for geek cred, but they don't make for tech cred.

In her original blog post, Shaku talked about how she had a regular clamshell for years, but finally decided to get a smartphone. So, she said she got the new iPhone and wrote some very brief impressions of the device.

As the Japanese internet was quick to point out, Shaku was not using an iPhone in her post, but an iPod Touch as evident by the shape and by "iPod" written where the cell phone carrier should be.

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The following day, she ran a correction on her blog, stating that, yes, she had mistaken an iPod Touch for the new iPhone. Online, Japanese netizens wondered exactly how one goes about mistaking a phone, something used to phone people, with an iPod Touch, something that you don't. Of course, one could use an iPod Touch to Skype, but Shaku did not mention Skype. She did mention how she liked the swiping motion.

"But, I downloaded apps, music, and email and did that finger swiping motion, too and used a TV phone," Shaku blogged. "It's problem of the nuance of what you call this instead of a smartphone." The lack of, you know, a phone plan should have been a dead giveaway.

On Japanese forums, commenters noted that obviously she's not tech savvy, but found her mistake and her correction to be adorable.

"This is on purpose," one commenter wrote, believing that her mistake was designed to make her appear tech illiterate and appeal to Japanese otaku. "Boy, this is cute," another noted, while yet another wrote, "Now, I'm a fan of her." And she seems to be a fan of her new iPhone iPod Touch.

Good thing she didn't confuse an iPad with an iPhone 4S. Boy, that would've been embarrassing.

Comics artist Alex Garner whipped this Portal 2 tribute up in his spare time. It feels strange calling it fan art. There should be a better name than that for pieces like this.

As the original image wasn't in wallpaper dimensions, and it's so damn pretty people are going to ask, I've taken the liberty of putting together a 1920x1080 version, which you can grab here.

Portal 2 [Alex Garner]

QTEs, or Quick Time Events, are a way for video games to let the player feel like they're interacting during a mostly cinematic sequence.

They're slightly controversial, because many argue they're barely "gaming" at all; you're just pressing some buttons while the real action takes place solely on the screen.

There's no controversy about this QTE, though, found at the end of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. It's just...awesome.

Best QTE Ever - Ace Combat: Assault Horizon [Giant Bomb]

That'll teach me to doubt!

It's been confirmed tonight that Ezio, star of the last three Assassin's Creed games, will be making a guest appearance in upcoming fighter Soulcalibur V.

As far as these wacky guest appearances go, he's...surprisingly tasteful. Appropriate, even, given the series' loose affiliation with world history and things with sharp edges.

You can check out his debut trailer above.