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It Didn’t Take Long To Have Bioshock Infinite‘s Columbia Recreated In Minecraft
Bioshock Infinite’s floating city is a stunning setting, carefully crafted to capture the imagination, so it was only a matter of time before an enterprising Minecraft artist built Columbia in cubes. Craftsman Ilikecutepeople does an amazing job here, capturing the essence of the city right down to the distinctive color palette. The video was assembled…
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The Most Awesome Japanese Video Games Where You Can Ride A Horse
One would think, that horseback riding as a feature in video games would appear most of the time in wild west-themed titles, with lots of riding and gunning. But browsing through Japanese games, it quickly becomes clear that it’s not the case. A wide variety of genres have horse companions. Most of the time they…
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The Essence Of Hotline Miami, Summed Up In The Latest Mega64 Video
In case you forgot, the Mega 64 crew returned with a new video to remind you that Hotline Miami is not just fun, but bloody violent. And we can safely say that it is for everyone’s good that they stuck to the baseball bat and did not involve outsiders this time in their little gag.…
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Sad You Weren’t At GDC? Me Too. Let’s Take A Virtual Tour Of All The Cool Stuff Instead.
This year’s Game Developers Conference is about to end today, leaving behind great panel discussions and announcements, and also a lot of other cool stuff that was not shown on any stream. The GDC staff already uploaded almost 1,000 photos to their official Flickr page, and we’ve selected a few exciting ones to show more…
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The Most Hysterical Video Games Set In A Prehistoric World
There’s not a single video game with a prehistoric setting that takes itself seriously. All these games – mostly platformers – look cartoonish, have ridiculously wacky yet lovable main characters and never really cared about the few million years that separated dinosaurs and mankind. Ugh! In this ’92 game we have to pick up passangers…
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Crazy Guy Builds Awesome Instrument To Rethink Super Mario
Meet Chris Novello, alias Paper Kettle, who shows in the video above how he can manipulate Super Mario on the NES with his glitch instruments. The smaller one is a USB device with arcade buttons called Illucia made by the man himself, and the other, multitouch thingy is a Soundplane The technical details on the…
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Video Games That Make You Feel Like Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones is not the only one solving annoying ancient puzzles in haunted caves, armed with a whip and dynamites, far from civilization. A setting like this is perfect for video games, so it is no surprise that many were influenced by the character, and the similarities in some cases are amazing. Well, obviously, all…
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Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Edited Into A Feature-Length Flick Is Really Enjoyable To Watch
Andy Gilleand likes to edit games that have massive stories into full-length movies, and after doing it with the Uncharted series and Assassin’s Creed I & II, he picked Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood as his next victim. Gilleand created the movie by removing the in-game HUD and mixing gameplay footage with cutscenes. And, it seems, he…
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Japanese Video Games Where You Can Play As A Badass American
The influence of American action movies in Japan has been huge. Shortly after the success of all the 1980s Hollywood action flicks with dudes like Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Chuck Norris, Japanese gaming created an entire library of different action titles with one common feature: Kill everything on the screen. Oh, and blow up everything, too.…
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Super Metroid Screenshot, Remastered Into HD In Photoshop Looks Stunning
DeviantArt user Elemental79 did a crazy job converting a screenshot from the classic SNES game Super Metroid into HD using only Photoshop. He recorded the whole procedure in this speed up video to show us how much work something like this needs. He already did the same treatment with Doom, with similar, awesome results and…
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This Impressive Custom-Built Arcade Machine Was Specially Designed For Pokémon Pinball
It took three weeks of hard work to finish this custom pinball machine, which simulates Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire Pinball and the classic Pokémon Pinball, originally released on Game Boy Color. Its surface looks really smooth and clean, and the functioning tilt buttons, plus the classic Pokémon music make it all totally super effective. You can take…
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The Most Beautiful Cartoon-Style Adventure Games
After LucasArts’ brilliant 1993 game Day of the Tentacle, cartoon-style point-and-click adventure games slowly became their own sub-genre. Although the genre has had its ups and downs, these games are still around: Think Gemini Rue or the new Broken Sword Here’s our collection of the most beautiful cartoon-style adventure games. Broken Sword II: The Smoking…
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This Real-Life World of Warcraft Quest Changed Two People’s Lives Forever
World of Warcraft player Alex found a really creative way to present an engagement ring to his girlfriend Clara, who also plays the game: A quest chain, which includes some romantic real-life activities. All he needed was a papercraft template for a chest, a site where he could make custom WoW tooltips, and of course…
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Heart Of The Swarm Is Full Of Easter Eggs And Video Game References
Like all Blizzard games, the recently-released StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is swarming with easter aggs and pop culture references. Here are some of the best ones we’ve found so far. While doing the first misson on planet Kaldir (Harvest of Screams), you can see the Lich King’s armor frozen on the side of…
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Washington DC’s Metro Line Makes A Perfect Super Mario World Map
Designer Dave Delisle did a really great job recreating the Washington DC Metro Line as a Super Mario Bros 3 world map. With its 86 stations as separate levels, Washington’s Metro would be an extremely long Mario game (and a damn good one, with names like The Pentagon). This is not Delisle’s first such work.…
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The Evolution Of Crazy Japanese Professional Wrestling Video Games
Wrestling video games are quite varied. It’s not just about annual licensed stuff! And, you can always count on the Japanese developers to come up with the craziest ones. So we have selected a few Japanese titles—some of which only came out in Japan—to see how far wrestling games (and muscles) evolved in the past…
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The Most Comfortable Inns, Bars And Taverns In Video Games
Earlier this month we visited taverns and bars that are noisy and dangerous Now it is time to look for their exact opposite: The coziest, most calm, most peaceful places to hang out. Places that focus more on the relaxed atmosphere, the music, and advancing the game’s story, rather than getting our characters in trouble.…
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Doom Integrated Into Garry’s Mod Takes The Game To Another Level
Elements of the source port of Doom integrated into the latest Garry’s Mod look really great. Shooting down (or running over) endless masses of imps and cacodemons is always fun, and doing it in a City 17-esque dystopian open environment is just makes it more special. The mod’s author claims once it is ready and…
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The Best-Looking Isometric Games
Games with isometric graphics—a slightly rotated view with a top-down perspective—were a big deal several years ago. Static, isometric maps, mostly used in strategy and role-playing games, allowed the developers to create spectacular, detailed visuals, and most of them have aged really well. With Kickstarter-funded games like Shadowrun Returns or Project Eternity using the same…
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EsportsKorean Pro Gamer Flash Has Some Deep Rituals When It Comes To StarCraft II
Among other Korean pros, legendary Brood War player Flash—already switched over to and having great success in StarCraft II—attended MLG Winter last weekend. He is usually considered to be playing the game on a wholly different level—and this video, showing him measuring the placement of the keyboard in his booth, with a ruler no less,…
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