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EsportsValve’s Dota 2 Tournament Stage Looks Pretty Cool
This must be one of the coolest eSports arenas we’ve seen so far. Valve’s annual Dota 2 tournament The International kicked off yesterday and they’ve built a stage that fits the $18 million total prize money. It’s not just the Dota map projected onto the stage, but whenever someone uses Ultimates or even basic spells,…
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Gamecube Controller Responds To Smash Bros. Moves With Shiny Colors
Garrett Greenwood built something that would have been every Smash Bros. fan’s dream during the Gamecube era: A controller that reacts to button presses with various flashy animations. So for example when you press Down and B at the same time, the character will blink blue as well as the controller. Likewise when you press…
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Vegeta and Goku’s First Fight From Dragon Ball Z Remade With… Sheep
YouTuber Hoolopee remade the first battle between Vegeta and Son Goku from Dragon Ball Z’s Saiyan Saga using only common sheep and his superior editing skills. Unlike the 2009 movie Dragonball Evolution, something like this as a feature-length Dragon Ball film would work immediately. Here’s the scene in its pure epicness, without any sheep: Vegeta…
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Ten World of Warcraft Expansion Ideas
Less than a week before the upcoming announcement of World of Warcraft’s sixth expansion, everyone’s trying to figure out what its theme will be. Something related to the movie? Pirates and naval battle? The Burning Legion’s invasion of Azeroth? More orcs? Whatever it is, there’s still plenty of untapped potential in WoW’s lore and despite…
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Ice-T Redubs Care Bears, The Smurfs and Dora the Explorer
Ice-T was Jimmy Fallon’s guest last night on The Tonight Show and he lent his voice for a few classic cartoons. Not cartoons you’d expect to have Ice-T in them, but completely different ones: Care Bears, The Smurfs and Dora the Explorer. Ice-T as Papa Smurf? I’d totally watch that! To contact the author of…
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Dragon Ball Fan-Movie’s Real Hero Isn’t Goku
To celebrate the North American release of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F, Sydney-based Deerstalker Pictures made a short Dragon Ball Z movie. Goku is fighting Frieza near the Kame House and although Krillin’s trying to help him, it’s not him or Goku who’s putting an end to the battle. The Kame House’s resident, Master Roshi…
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Seven Times Game Creators Cameoed As Themselves
Whether it’s a classic adventure game, or a shooter that came out a few months, ago it doesn’t matter. Some developers and publishers just can’t resist putting themselves in their games, usually as a hidden easter egg, but sometimes they’re just right in front of us. YouTubers at OutsideXbox collected seven of these cameos. All…
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Smash Bros. In First Person Would Look Weird
YouTubers SoKrispyMedia show us why Smash Bros. with a VR headset in first person view would be problematic and hard to play. We don’t have to worry about Nintendo making a game like this in the near future, but that doesn’t make this real-life VR concept less funny. It’s an awesomely edited video with Link,…
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Watch Top Guilds Kill Warlords of Draenor‘s Final Boss
Even though the hardest difficulty for Warlords of Draenor’s current top raid, Hellfire Citadel, has been available for a month now, only four guilds could kill all 13 bosses inside. It’s an extremely hard fight, but things might speed up as the two top guilds, Method and Paragon, have released their kill videos. As you…
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StarCraft Mod Inspired By Rocket League
Using themes from WoW, but made with the StarCraft II editor by Bounty, Aqua League looks like fast-paced soccer game with a few funny elements added. It’s something similar to Rocket League but instead of bumper cars it has Nagas and Elementals and it’s for the StarCraft II Arcade. Looks fun, and it’s always great…
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Fully Motorized LEGO Tank Has A Cool Mine Flail
This is one compact custom tank built by Tommy Styrvoky, full of motorized goodies inside with a working mini mine-clearing flail outside. It’s a 1/18th replica of the M4 Sherman, a tank used in World War II, fitted with a special flail that helped passing through mine fields safely. The flail’s not just the only…
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Portable PC Inspired By Shadowrun‘s Cyberdecks
This custom PC is too small to be a desktop, but too big for a laptop. It’s a unique portable build, something out of an 80s cyberpunk world. And that’s what actually inspired its builder Chimerus: portable cyberdecks from Shadowrun Looks like a busted replica at first, but even though the build is based on…
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A Handy Way To Gear Up Quickly In World of Warcraft
Gearing up got way easier after Warlords of Draenor’s 6.2 patch added Apexis Crystals: If you collect enough crystals you can gear up your character without any effort in pretty strong item level 695 gear. But there’s a relatively easy way to push things to item level 700. Bellular Gaming’s beautifully edited short clip shows…
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World of Warcraft Hyperlapse Shows How Big Azeroth Really Is
With flying and a number of portals added to the game, the days of traveling 20-30 minutes just to finish a quest, and exploring Azeroth on foot or on a ground mount might be over—but BigCliffy’s cool hyperlapse video will bring some of those memories back. Even though the video only features Kalimdor, the Eastern…
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People Are Already Making Overwatch Fan-Movies
Blizzard’s upcoming multiplayer shooter Overwatch is not even in beta yet, but some fans are already done with their first live-action video, with some of the characters fighting around the Overwatch HQ. RP WhaBam’s clip—called Overwatch Legacy—has Tracer and Reaper from the game’s roster, and man these are some really well made costumes. To contact…
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Dedicated Diablo III Player Reaches Level 2,000
Some enthusiasts are still on Diablo III and they’re not just messing around casually, but achieving crazy things—for example Vajet, who has already reached a combined level of Paragon Level 2000. Vajet is currently Paragon Level 1789 in Season 3 and his non-seasonal characters are at Paragon Level 1339. The experience he gained during Season…
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Guy Crashes Drone On Neighbor’s Roof, Rescues It With Another Drone
Knocking on the door to get access to the roof? Getting a ladder? That is for the weak. Harrisen Howes found a more complicated but entertaining way to rescue his small drone, which his friend accidentally crash-landed on his neighbor’s roof, by using a larger drone and coat hangers. And luckily he documented (and added…
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3D-Printed Destiny Gun That Actually Works
We’ve seen a lot of Destiny weapon replicas over the past few months, created by various methods, but the Thorn hand cannon Kirby Downey made has a small twist: There’s an airsoft gun hidden inside. Might be against the rules of an airsoft field to run around with a replica like this, but it certainly…
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What’s Really Happening On Pluto
This tiny spot on Pluto in one of NASA’s latest photos looks suspicious. Let’s take a closer look! I knew it! That’s not ice, but sand, and Pluto is actually Dune 2’s Arrakis, where House Atreides and House Harkonnen are fighting for the control of the spice melange. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…
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World of Warcraft‘s Westfall Recreated In Unreal Engine 4
Westfall, the abandoned agricultural center and low level zone of the Alliance, now has a version made with Unreal Engine 4, thanks to the superb work of Daniel L Here’s a short video demonstration, showing Westfall as we enter from Elwynn Forest. I wonder if we’ll see this zone in the upcoming movie. Based on…
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