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Grand Theft Auto V‘s Michael Looks Hideous in San Andreas
Rockstar is making another pretty game, judging from the trio of character trailers released on Tuesday, and why is the internet here if not to destroy pretty things? Youtube user NDstudio69 shows us what Grand Theft Auto V’s “Michael” trailer would look like in 2004’s San Andreas. Let’s hope the other two trailers will get…
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Air Hockey With Minecraft Blockiness Is Pretty Chill
With a little bit of experimenting, someone just found out that if you stack minecarts in Minecraft, you can create an endlessly sliding object that never actually stops. Build an ice rink around it, invite some friends and you got yourself your own hockey game. Sethbling built a rink for two players, but this would…
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A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 00s
The first years of the new millennium brought us the seventh generation of video game consoles, and with that came a whole new family of attractive men and women. With new evolutions, this decade introduced the start of increasingly realistic-looking characters. In this decade, we finally started to see male protagonists who aren’t weird action-hero…
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EsportsI Think I’m In Love With This Dreamy StarCraft II Dating Sim
Someone just made a faux dating sim—in line with a game like Katawa Shoujo—using Korea’s top StarCraft II players. Thank god the StarCraft esports scene is full of great personalities and players, because a funny dating sim like this would actually work. The two guys featured here—SK_MC and Marinekingprime—have been competing since the launch of…
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A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 90s
By the end of the 90s, the 16-bit era ended and 3D took over. With the PlayStation and 3D graphics cards out there allowing for new possibilities, narrative and gameplay, the 90s produced some of the most attractive characters in video game history. Well-known mascots and protagonists made their transitions to 3D, other, yet to…
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The Oculus Rift Is Even More Amazing When You Can See Your Hands Move
Independent developer Kelly Weaver is just one of those guys who just can’t leave well enough alone. He’s combined the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset with Razer’s Hydra motion controllers to bring us one step closer to recreating The Lawnmower Man (the movie, not the book). Weaver’s robot alter-ego mimics the movement of his hands…
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A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 80s
Video games in the 80s only depicted a certain amount of pixels on the screen. Fortunately, that didn’t hold developers back from pushing the limits of the available hardware to play with our imagination by creating beautiful, handsome characters. This week—starting off with the 80s—we’re going to explore the hottest, most attractive video game characters…
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Amazing Physical Health Bar Mimics In-Game Changes Perfectly
YouTube user bfayer‘s wasn’t satisfied with watching his life slowly seep away on a computer monitor, so he built a lighted water tower that tracks the ebb and flow of his virtual vitals in real-time. It’s basically a glass tube of modded water, controlled by an Arduino Uno microcontroller board and an air pump that…
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The Visual Evolution Of Star Trek Video Games
A new Star Trek game hit the shelves this week, and only a few days remain until the premier of the 12th movie. As the tone of the movies and the series has changed a lot, we decided to take a look how the games evolved over more than 30 years. The variety in genre…
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There Are 31 Video Games in This Fantasy Arcade. Can You Name Them?
That is one crazy amusement hall up there, filled popular indie games reimagined as more traditional arcade fare and familiar characters. Can you find them all and show us using our shiny image annotation system? This amazing art isthe work of Asid Siddiky, who created it for Attract Mode‘s Comics Vs. Games 2 show at…
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The Latest Games Would Look Really Cool As Commodore 64 Titles
With all the top-notch game engines out there, and next-gen on the horizon, video games are impressive in both their technology and their art. But let’s play around with c64yourself to squeeze recently released games into an old timey skin anyway. The tool converts images (under 2MB) to 16 color, making the shot look like…
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Amazing Tech Demo Shows All Sides Of The CryEngine
CryEngine 3, Crytek’s top-tier game engine that made Crysis 3 look so pretty, can be handy modeling streets, disassembled cars and entire cityscapes. French company Enodo utilizes the game engine exactly like this, and it has massive video game potential. Have a look at the scenes with tilt-shift added at 1:11, I could go crazy…
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Kotaku EastAttack On Titan‘s Amazing Opening Gets Hilarious Edits
The anime adaptation of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin in Japanese) debuted early this April, and it has a powerful opening. Users of the Japanese website Nico Nico Douga jumped on it immediately and made crazy awesome remixes. Some of these mix the opening song (on top) with other anime intros or with other…
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Heads-Up Displays And User Interfaces In Anime Are Awesome
After premiering last year, Evangelion 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo, the third of four films in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, gets its Blu-ray release today in Japan. While that’s good news—over-the-top mecha action is always good news—it also makes a good opportunity to revisit some classics. Besides the mecha craziness, whether it’s 80s space…
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Mind-Blowingly Perfect Water Simulation Is Now A Reality
Simulating the physics of water has always been tricky, and game engines sometimes still have to use dodgy mechanics to make it feel real. But the above demonstration of this new fluid simulation technique proves that slowly but surely we’re getting there. PhysXInfo has the details on how it works: Position Based Fluids is a…
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The Most Atmospheric Steampunk Video Games
Steampunk games that feature steam-powered machines and settings in an alternate history of the Wild West or the industrialized British era of the 19th century are rare. Maybe even rarer than cyberpunk titles. Although some games have steampunk elements—just think about the retro-futuristic enemies of Torchlight or the atmosphere of Professor Layton—we focused on steampunk-specific…
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How Pokémon Eat Their Food
It didn’t take too long to have a Pokémon parody of the painful, yet hilarious video that showed adults mimicing animal food consumption habits. I’d rather call this version, made by DominicTV, how Pokémon destroy the dining table, starring Snorlax and Pidgey as the most effective ones and leaving poor Charizard behind. How Animals Eat…
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Real Life Photos Mixed With 16-Bit Video Games Are Amazing
The 16-bit era had unique visuals. Simple yet bright and colorful, we could always get lost in the tiny details. Taking parts of these memorable games and mixing them with a real life environment might sound odd, but if done right the results are beautiful. Two gents, deviantART user Victor Sauron and Glauber Tanaka, played…
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Winter is Coming Shortly in Game of Gnomes
You just can’t take gnomes seriously, even when they’re embroiled in a desperate struggle for control of Westeros. The smallest, most sophisticated race in World of Warcraft are the perfect raw material forWoW machinima, this time for a Game of Thrones parody from the fine folks at Slightly Impressive Seeing all the characters in gnomish…
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There’s Going To Be A Mario Kart Tournament…In Minecraft
The guys that make up YouTuber group WorldGoodSquad built a Mario Kart-style map in Minecraft, as you can see in the video above. They’re even planning a small tournament that could very well be a hilarious event, considering the ridiculous mods at work. The only thing missing now is an array of power-ups, just like…
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