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Conan O’Brien Slaughtered With A Fake Samurai Sword
Even though it’s completely fake, this still looks painful and dangerous. Martial artist Steven Ho uses a blood tube and a retractable sword to show how those fancy sword fight scenes are made. Here’s the full clip with Conan and the crew having fun. He looks scared! Conan Takes A Samurai Sword To The Gut…
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Mortal Kombat Fatalities, Re-Imagined With Pokémon
Pikachu would teach Raiden a lesson or two on how to use lightning properly in Mortal Kombat. And you probably wouldn’t have to worry about Snorlax or Bulbasaur. In this stellar animation, Adrian Jensen shows us what Pokémon would do if they were playable characters in Mortal Kombat Reminds me of Primal Rage: Pokemon Mortal…
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Snake has a lot of abilities we haven’t seen yet. He is a designated driver after all. The main story in Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes might be short, but as you can see there’s fun to do Gif via r/analogygifs by reddidd Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…
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Watch Dogs Isn’t Out Yet, But Its Commodore 64 Mockup Is
While we still a few days away from the release of Watch Dogs, animator Balázs Kalocsai did an excellent 80s style, Commodore 64 reinterpretation of the game. ‘Everything is connected’ has an other meaning in this one: it’s hoping that your joystiq and datasette is plugged in properly. Watch Dogs (Commodore 64, 1989) [Youtube] Thanks,…
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Conan O’Brien Has An Idea How To Catch Up On Game of Thrones
Watching plot-heavy shows can be hard with someone who missed one or two episodes, so Conan‘s here to help, with a rather interesting idea. And since the clip is about Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin makes a guest appearance to promote the premium version of this silly service. Sign me up please! “I…
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Posters Remind Us Of A More Peaceful Era In Gaming
Before the Oculus Rift and the Kinect, there was a time when the 3-button wheel mouse and NES Zappers ruled the earth. It was a much simpler time. These paintings by artist Heather Martinez are just perfect to take us back a few decades. These are all part of POPzilla‘s video game art show. Prints…
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Hey, look! A superb, modern-day Minecraft city that totally looks like one of the older Sim City games. I just love all the unique buildings in Theamazingquinn‘s map, and it makes me want to reinstall Sim City 2000 again. Minecraft city by Theamazingquinn [imgur, via r/minecraft] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning,…
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EsportsEvery Type Of MOBA Player
From the live-streamer to the douchebag, the world of multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games is full of archetypes. Here’s YouTuber shocknickfilms with a funny take on the personalities you might find in games like Dota 2 and League of Legends Every Type of LoL Player 2 [YouTube] To contact the author of this post,…
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Artist Gives The Cartoons We Grew Up With A Makeover
Jeffrey Cruz is an Australian artist who crafts unique makeovers of classic cartoons. His remakes mostly feature older Cartoon Network shows such as The Powerpuff Girls or Johnny Bravo or other 90s cartoons like Dragon Ball Z Here are some his highlights below. Check out his DeviantART page for more and for details on how…
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Bioshock Doesn’t Need To Be An FPS
Isometric RPGs will have an exciting year ahead. Just think about Pillars of Eternity or Torment: Tides of Numenera. Maybe this inspired Chris Bischoff—who’s also about to create his own isometric game—to do a mockup of the underwater world of the first Bioshock and his project, Stasis. I’d probably play an RPG like this with…
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A Much Better Version Of Diablo III‘s Intro
Diablo III turned two yesterday, and in honor of this moment, the always superb folks at Carbot Animations remade the game’s original intro. Deckard Cain survives the meteor blast in this one too, but he’s just as hopeless. And he still can’t stop dropping his satchels… You can compare it to the original one: Diablol…
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What Pokémon In a Darker Future Would Look Like
Pokémon would look a lot darker in an alternate future, where not just Pokémon evolved but also bio- and nanotechnology. DeviantART artist Abel Vera imagined Mewtwo and Blastoise in a universe like that. Here’s a Mega Mewtwo X, a Mega Mewtwo Y, an armored, cyborg Mewtwo and a realistic Mega Blastoise: Dayshot is an image-based…
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EsportsWhat Losing In StarCraft Really Feels Like
It’s always a sad thing in StarCraft II when our perfect build and strategy is blown into pieces in seconds by the other player. Here’s channelman with a really funny clip showing the differences how these moments look in reality and how they look and feel for the players on the losing side. Obviously, the…
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A Forrest Gump Video Game Would Be A Weird Mixture of Genres
I really love how the talented folks at CineFix imagined how a old school video game version of the 1994 comedy Forrest Gump would have looked like. It’d have been a bit of everything: side-scrolling action, table tennis and even monster hunting. Check out their two minute animation below: Forrest Gump – 8 Bit Cinema…
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Childhood Characters, As Complete Crazies
When not busy with concept art Dan Luvisi likes to turn cute, childhood heroes into mutated, crazy-looking lunatics in his ‘Popped Culture’ series. ‘Tigger’ from Winnie the Pooh even got a really funny backstory So here’s Mickey Mouse, as the prince of darkness, Tigger, who is now in prison, and a truly monstrous Goofy: DanLuvisiArt…
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George R. R. Martin Talks About Killing Game of Thrones Characters
Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin was the guest of Conan O’Brien last night, and among other things they’ve talked about was the one thing the show is most famous for: characters unexpectedly dying off. Well, according to him the HBO showrunners are the bloodthirsty ones when it comes to killing a main…
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What It Looks Like To Put Your Entire Body In Virtual Reality
Set up three Kinect cameras in an equilateral triangle, use an Oculus Rift as a head-mounted display, merge all that with a virtual office environment and you got yourself your own 3D conference room… with some glitches. But glitches could make any boring presentation or conference a lot funnier. The creators tell us on their…
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Using the depth of field settings correctly makes this Minecraft village and its surroundings by MinecraftPhotography such great scenery. It rather looks like a LEGO diorama than an actual shot from the game. Minecraft — Plains Village (UHD Wallpaper)[MinecraftPhotography, DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest…
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League of Legends, As a 2D Fighting Game
One thing would be definitely cool in a League of Legends fighting game: There are so many champions in the game that playing them all would take a lot of time. Brazilian artist Iury Padilha transformed a few of these champions and the battlegrounds into a Guilty Gear-like 2D fighter. Here’s an other one from…
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