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Real Creepy Mario Now Talking Real Creepy

Thought it couldn't get creepier than the real life Mario? Oh man, yes it can, yes it can. The freakazoid now moves and, worse yet, talks. The animation was created by Deviant artist Portrix by using "Crazy Talk 5 Pro" to honor the originally, nightmare-inducing Mario. Link below is scary.
Animated Scary mario [Boundless Thanks, Z!]

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Still Life With Project Origin Abomination

The abomination from Monolith's upcoming Project Origin doesn't look half as terrifying standing in freeze-frame as it does in motion, but it's still a pretty damn scary looking creation. Still not sure if I could handle playing the game without peeing myself in fright, but the folks from the Project Origin Community site may have come up with a solution.

Mike Fahey of Kotaku explains that "for some reason the little bastard (Abomination) scares the living piss out of me." We will be sending Mike some adult diapers so he can have a urine free couch and play the game too.
I was hoping for a semi-attractive nurse with a catheter, but I suppose we take what we can wee in.

Kotaku thinks Project Origin is Scary [Project Origin Community]


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Scary Fetish Birdo Makes Me Cry

Wow. You know, living in San Francisco for eleven years and attending numerous Gay Pride celebrations and the Folsom Street Fair, I thought I had seen everything. But after seeing this photo which was fished from the muck of 4chan by the lovely tentacled beasts at Ectoplasmosis, I realize I was wrong. Poor Birdo, it's not enough that he/she is sexually confused and had to go through a very public sex change, but now she has been rubber fetishised. For once I am left completely and utterly without words to describe my feelings. Twenty bucks says that's no lady which in this case would be oddly appropriate.

Make the jump to experience the horror at full size.

[4chan - via Ectoplasmosis - via GayGamer]


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Dead Space Looks Deadly, Spacey

I have high hopes for EA's Dead Space, because space-based horror films rock. I don't know what happened to Luke as a child that he didn't like Event Horizon, but it was an excellent example of how outer space and horror can be brilliantly mixed. Look at the Alien series. Look at...um. Hellraiser: Bloodline? Jason X? Leprechaun IV - Leprechaun In Space? There was this really great episode of Doctor Who from the first season of the new series where the Doctor faces Satan in outer space. That was pretty good. *drums fingers on the table, thinking* Okay, so making good space horror is hard, but EA seems to be off to a good start. As long as they can keep the music in check and highlight the silence and isolated feeling of being stranded in space, they could very well pull an Event Horizon out of their airlock. If not, then "As Shakespeare said, shit happens. "


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Dead Space Trailer

Move over Alien, there's a new scary... alien in space. GameTrailers managed to nab a world exclusive trailer for EA's upcoming space horror game, Dead Space. I'm a big fan of the survival horror genre but usually my tastes tend towards the Silent Hill, Resident Evil end of things. I have yet, to my memory (which is admittedly poor) played a horror game in outer space much less zero gravity, so I'll be anxious to check this out when it hits next year. Definitely one for lights out... More »

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Boll Movie Being Made Into Videogame

It really was only a matter of time. Beloved *chokes* video game filmmaker Uwe Boll finished filming his Vietnam war movie 'Tunnel Rats' earlier this year, and now he is financing a game based off of the film. Developed by German developer Replay Studios, Tunnel Rats will be a dark and gritty take on the war FPS, sharing the film's focus on the overall senselessness and madness of war rather than the heroism and bravery most games in the genre tend to highlight. The film's stars Michael "Eddie and the Cruisers" Pare, Nate Parker, Brandon Fobbs and Erik Eidem have all signed on to provide their likenesses for the game, which would be amazingly exciting if I knew who any of them were other than Eddie there. More »

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Survival Horror Works On DS

For some reason, the DS has been pigeonholed as "bad for horror games." That's a bit short-sighted! Developer Renegade Kid's upcoming Dementium: The Ward is a straight up scare title in which players wonder around a creepy hospital. Says Renegade Kid's Jools Watsham:

Does the fact that the majority of DS games are geared towards a young audience alienate potential owners who are looking for mature content? The Nintendo DS is not just a kids' console.

Yeah, Japanese housewives play it, too! More »

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Chinese Gov't Cracks Down On Game Peripheral Seller

"I'm staying in Beijing , if I'm also staying in our Shenzhen office , I should also had been abducted, and then all of us should had been KILLED quietly then they can take all our fortune away freely without anyone else dare to SUE them!" More »

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Ashcraft At Monster Hunter Rally

Some holiday. It's late Thursday morning, between 10am and noon, I forget. With the country shut done for the Golden Week holidays, families board trains, load up cars and head to the seashore, the mountains or the Monster Hunter Festa. Trying to find the damn thing, walking through an underground shopping area out by Osaka Castle. I pass more and more people with PSPs, so I know: I'm close. More »

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Fallout 3 Forums Are Live, Insane

Bethesda threw wide the doors of the Fallout 3 forums last night, and already they are filling up with the usual elements that make forums great. It's like a giant drain was opened, sending the fans that have been hovering above the site in wait spiraling down into the dark underbelly that is community commentary. More »

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Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Kickman

Midway's Kickman is an odd one in the video game world as it was one of the first arcade games to feature Pac-man as a guest star outside of an actual Pac Man related game. More »

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Horror Games for Halloween

This October, I hope I will spend the vast majority of my days sitting in a rapidly expanding pool of hysterically evacuated urine. And I need your help to do it. More »

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Forgive Us, For We Have Sinned

Destructoid's readers (and contributors) are a tawdry, villainous bunch. As are scoundrels over at The Age blogs, where Destructoid got the idea for compiling a list of gaming sins in the first place. More »

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KUDOS: the Poor, Desperate Man's Sims 2


We got a tip from some joker calling himself Skylab about this here indie game, KUDOS, which touts itself as a "turn-based life simulator".

Gaming is all about simulating life, really. But it's all about simulating a life you want to lead, if only for the short time that you're in the game. When I'm headshotting filthy Russian mobsters as Gabe Logan, international man of mystery, that's a life I can get into! Complicated algorithms about when I need to feed the cat, or what TV channel I should be watching, or how that date went with the whitecollar guy who lives in the next suburb... these things are infuriating. More »

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Pokemon Touring the Nation

Pokemon is touring the nation, color me scared. I'm not sure where all they will be going, but I know that on May 5 the furry little rodents will be landing in Denver. More »