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World of Tanks Wishes Happy 2014 With A Lovely YouTube Mini-Game
Turn on the notifications on the video (for once), choose a tank, and march through the various World of Tanks YouTube videos to reach Wargaming.net’s shiny Christmas Tree and their presents. It’s not that easy to get there on the first try. The snowy forest is full of enemy tanks, obstacles, and there’s also a…
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If Attack on Titan Were A Present-Day Anime
Attack on Titan, one of the best and most hyped anime of 2013 is… well, let’s just say it has a classic fantasy setting where most of the characters wear the same brownish, boring military outfit. So digital artist Siya Ho has redrawn everyone—even characters without a name—in his fan art series on Pixiv representing…
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Stereo Pixel-Art GIFs Sure Look Like Classic Adventure Games
Remember Dark Seed, Harvester, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and all those other horror point-and-click adventure games from the 90s? These giffy photos, taken and edited by photographer David Alexander Slaager, have absolutely the same atmosphere. These could be great backgrounds for a horror adventure game, or serve as homage to a…
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2013 is slowly coming to an end, which means video game characters can finally enjoy their holiday feast, thanks to creator AnimatorAR’s vision of it… even if it’s tiny and made of plastic. Bonus points for finding the Portal Turret in the photo. Oh and why isn’t poor Luigi sitting on a throne? It was…
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The Best Gaming GIFs Of 2013
What did we get from this year of next-gen press conferences, console launches, Nintendo Directs, and huge open-world games? Some good times. And some amazing animated GIFs. Enjoy our selection of this 2013’s best gaming GIFs, and giffy posts. Don’t forget to toss up your picks too in the comments below, to turn the whole…
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Esports
Former World Chess Champion Gives His Take On eSports In 15 Tweets
Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is in Seoul to participate in a local sports fair. And since South Korea is the capital of eSports, it was inevitable for him to weigh in on League of Legends and StarCraft, which are essentially the number one rivals of chess. Here are his…
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Love is in the ai—… water. It’s in the water. Let that Christmas Spirit stay a while longer, even if it needs a little help from War Thunder. And don’t forget to pull this, or similar stunts in any game in February. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the…
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Culture
Disney Characters Without Their Beards Are Frightening
People sure do like to mess around with Disney characters. We’ve seen the princesses as Final Fantasy characters but, even after that, seeing all the old, bearded characters from classic Disney movies without their essential hair just confuses me. This funny redesign, made by Annie Erskine, would probably have ruined the childhood of a lot…
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Pokémon, Looking All Evil
You can lose yourself easily in Pixiv artist 猫鴉‘s gallery, where every single Pokémon got touched by evil, and became really unique and serious. Truly impressive stuff. Reminds me of cool concept art of visually stunning Japanese video games. Here’s some of the best of his work, but you can find more at his Pixiv…
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High Fives In DayZ? Not Even Once.
These 40 seconds represent the very essence of the open world survival horror game DayZ. DayZ is a tough game, and YouTuber 1TimeGames was lucky enough not to get shot. But this is just hilarious. One big disappointing high-five. DayZ – Tried to high-five a guy coming out of Grishino [YouTube] To contact the author…
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EsportsThe Year In StarCraft II
Esports and StarCraft II in particular had a pretty cool and eventful year. Here’s a clip, edited by YouTuber Soohyung Kim, with all the memorable matches and moments from this year’s streams from MLG, the World Championship Series and other tournaments. It’s nice to see that a lot of the great, veteran personalities like MC…
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How Street Fighter‘s Ryu Changed Over The Years
26 years of Street Fighter means a lot of change in graphics and art direction, and what a better way to show this than a huge gallery of the series’ main character, Ryu. Here’s EventHubs‘ visual trip from a simplier 1987 to a detailed present day: The Visual History of Ryu in Street Fighter, Vs.…
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A StarCraft II mod, based on the popular Carbot Animation series? Yes please. That’s something many of us would put on their Christmas wishlist. And I’m pretty sure no one could resist picking Zerg and massing those cute zerglings in the pic above. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…
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That’s Not How You Sail A Boat
Hey, a sailing boat is not a balance beam! You shouldn’t do crazy tricks on it like that! Apparently Sail Simulator 5 let’s you do it if you are lucky enough, and if you’re hitting the high seas with 20 miles per hour. No doubt it’s a logical way to make virtual sailing exciting. Just…
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L.A. Noire Cosplay, Done Right
Why the hell is Cole Phelps, L.A. Noire‘s detective protagonist, lying frozen on these stairs? Well, cosplayer Lady of Rohan took the familiar glitchy GIF to the next level, mimicking it perfectly. Here’s the GIF: And here’s another shot of detective Phelps, on his way to solve the next crime: Today I Cosplayed Cole Phelps…
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Forest Pokémon Are The Best Type of Pokémon
Better avoid fire with these awesome Pokémon, made by Instagrammer Jakecarter14, using materials found in nature. The Pikachu above is already super-cute, but here’s some more (sadly, a rocky Geodude is missing): Natural Pokemon [jakecarter14, imgur via dorkly] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…
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Iron Man Returns In An Intense Animated Short
That is some impressive fan-made Iron Man animation, amazingly enough made by just one man, Anthony McGrath, who works as an animator at Sony’s Evolution Studio. CG Tony Stark comes under attack from the Ten Rings and deploys his new Mark Z armor. IRON MAN Mk Z HD [Anthony Mcgrath, YouTube] To contact the author…
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EsportsSports Experts on HBO Laugh at eSports
Some people just can’t accept that a competitive video game and its world championship finals can fill up a huge sports arena. In a recent episode of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, where the show’s panelists discussed the events of this year, League of Legends got it in the neck. Is it a sport?…
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Meet Deadman, The Most Useless Superhero of All
No, it’s not the ghostly character from the DC Universe. This Deadman is from the Garry’s Mod universe. It took modder Rush_Freak and friends more than 500 hours to create him (and the video). The end result is a superhero who is more heroic than most living superheroes. Below is the full clip. Why is…
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To celebrate The Elder Scrolls Anthology collection, digital artist Hieronymus7z filled his piece—besides the obvious Beatles reference—with heroes, locations and little details from all five Elder Scrolls games. You can see the Imperial City, the Adamantine Tower, the Red Mountain, silt striders and a lot more. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning,…
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