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So there I was, hanging out on the internet and minding my own business, when this music video dropped in my lap. It was created by a metal band called "Alternate Reality." It's for a song called "The King That Never Was" and it involves Arthurian legend, swordplay, and some serious costumery. More »
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Cave Story already has a pretty damn good soundtrack, but as with all things, it can be improved by being dipped in liquid fire and rendered into heavy metal. Thankfully there's Erik Peabody, who has released his new 7-track album "Made of Metal" upon the world. More »
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Brothers Ondrej and Marek Spanel—who spent their childhood in communist Czechoslovakia playing Atari games "bought on the black market"—are the surprising originators behind a military-training game employed by the governments of at least five major nations. Among the brothers' sources of inspiration: heavy metal music. More »
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Not since Electronic Arts' Crüe Ball hit the Genesis in 1992 have we been this excited to experience the unholy marriage of pinball and heavy metal. Thanks to thrash metal outfit Slayer's new iPhone game, heavy pinball is back! More »
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It figures that, when the Brütal Legend soundtrack was revealed, it would come out of a place like Denmark. They take their metal seriously, and EA Denmark has the list of more than 100 songs in the game. More »
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Not enough nubile warrior princesses/sexy robots in your video games? Since the answer to that is obviously "Yes," you're clearly excited about Titmouse Games new arrangement to create games based on Heavy Metal magazine fiction. More »
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NCsoft's doomed massively-multiplayer online science fiction game Tabula Rasa may only have weeks to live, but the developers are making those weeks count, with giant player-controlled mechs storming the title's final moments. More »
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Not to be outdone by the amazing cardboard Big Daddy costume, artist Rangsan Srisutarm has created this kick ass Big Daddy figure currently for sale on eBay. The listing proclaims it to be a one of a kind piece made entirely out of real engine parts and motorcycle parts. It's arc welded, polished with a wire brush and painted with a lacquer coating. This little Big Daddy stands nineteen inches tall and weighs a whopping thirty pounds. The cost stands now at a rather pricey $300 or you could "Buy it Now" for $400. That plus the (I'm sure) expensive cost for shipping puts it well out of my price range, but it sure is cool to look at. More »
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I love this little picture of Samus rocking out with her 8-bit guitar. What is she thrashing? Metroid tunes gone metal, naturally. More »
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Have a bitching band? Well, with the announced release of Guitar Hero II in November comes the announcement that Red Octane are resurrecting their " Be A Guitar Hero" contest. So if you want to have some of your baddest heavy metal riffs immortalized by millions of dorks jumping around in their underpants in their living room, swing by the official site and enter. More »
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Ha ha! Plucking his title like a tick from the retarded skull of the smelliest metal head doofus who ever lived, ex-Naughty-Dog Jason Rubin has announced on his — ha ha ha! — MySpace page that his next game will be called Iron and the Maiden. More »
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Sony hit me up with a list of some new movies hitting the Playstation Portable in UMD format this month. The Mask of Zorro, Hackers, Heavy Metal, Species and Terminator almost all sound like worthy additions. Both Bewitched and The Amityville Horror will be hitting DVD and UMD on the same day, which says something not sure what, but I m sure it says something. More »
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