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The Most Memorable Presidential Cameos In Video Games
U.S. presidents—fictional or not—have had a major impact on video games. When a game has something to do with the United States, there’s a good chance the Commander-in-Chief is gonna show up. We gathered a few remarkable U.S. president cameos below. Most of them are goofy, but there are a few serious appearances, too. [An…
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CultureTen Isometric Action RPGs Worth Trying
They’ve been called many things over the years. Isometric RPGs, hack’n’slash RPGs, ARPGs, Diablo clones. But one thing is certain: They wouldn’t exist if Diablo didn’t come out in 1996. Diablo and its sequels spawned a whole catalog of isometric action RPGs. This piece originally appeared 3/30/16. It’s a catalog of sometimes pretty similar games,…
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6,000-Piece LEGO Replica Of Halo 5‘s Rocket Launcher
That’s the SPNKr, Halo 5’s iconic double barrelled rocket launcher in all its glory, remade with LEGO bricks by Nick Brick (via Brothers Brick). Looks amazing! It’s double barrelled, and you can remove the launch tubes and reload the weapon just like in the game. Even if it only shoots imaginary rockets, made with After…
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Fan Spent Two Years Animating His Journey Through Dark Souls II
Just in time for Dark Souls 3, Jameserton, a really dedicated fan, finished his animation about his painful journey through Dark Souls 2 and all its locations and bosses. It took him nearly two years, but that’s no surprise. All the jokes are on point and the voice acting’s very well done. Pretty funny couple…
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DOOM Has A Cool Terminator 2 Easter Egg
Minor spoilers ahead! DOOM is full of great Easter eggs and references but this is a special one. In order to trigger it, you have to die. You have to die in a morbid way, by jumping into the lava, to be exact. And this can only mean one thing: a scene from Terminator 2!…
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Becoming A Mimic In Dark Souls III Is A Good Way To Confuse Invaders
Mimics are just the worst in Dark Souls III. So, role-playing as one during invasions is a fantastic way to have some fun and troll invaders. The rules are simple: After dressing up as a Mimic (more or less), wait patiently guarding loot. If the invader approaches and takes the item or attacks, you have…
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Fallout 4 Robots Are Way More Intimidating With a Thomas Head
One tiny change in Fallout 4‘s Automatron DLC and its robot building process can make a lot of difference. Japanese modder Higeyosi played with fire when he added a smiling Thomas head, complete with the appropriate sounds effects, to the list of robot parts. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
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Battlefield 1‘s Trailer, Remade In GTA V
GTA V might not have World War I era weapons and vehicles, but it has blimps and biplanes. So it isn’t impossible to remake early 20th century scenes from Battlefield 1‘s debut trailer in modern day Los Santos. It will just look a little bit different. J57F did an excellent job with his remake. Bonus…
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Mod Turns Doom Into An Ancient Alien World
A group of Doom enthusiasts created a super impressive megawad, a pack of 32 maps, called Ancient Aliens, where players have to discover the truth about the origins of human civilization. And indeed, if you check the screenshots, the colorful areas filled with crystals and huge monoliths look like landscapes from The Dig, and not…
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Here’s a World of Warcraft Horde wedding ceremony, in the heart of the enemy faction’s capital city, in Stormwind Cathedral. That’s how you defeat an entire server of Alliance players. Must have been a tough battle to capture the entire place! And it’s good to see some World of Warcraft servers, such as the RP/PVP…
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Hunter’s Dream From Bloodborne, Remade In Unreal Engine
Childhood classics aren’t the only games with fan-made re-imaginations in Unreal Engine 4. Newer ones can get one too every now and then. And Bloodborne is a fantastic-looking game that deserves an homage like this. Artist Simon Barle recreated Hunter’s Dream, the central hub of the game. While Bloodborne’s graphics were excellent, the dark, dreadful…
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Fan Restores World of Warcraft‘s Oldest Zones
Quel’Thalas was added in 2007, but never got the facelift that other, older zones received in 2010. And while there are no plans to revamp anything in these parts of Azeroth, YouTuber Hayven played with the idea for the duration of a short clip. Hayven restored the Blood Elf starting zones Eversong Woods and Ghostlands,…
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Custom Dark Souls 3 PS4 Was Crafted Using Wood and Metal
A Dark Souls 3-themed Playstation 4 can’t just be a generic plastic box. it has to be faithful to the game, either made of wood or metal. Or both. Belgian console wizard Vadu Amka used polished rosewood and brushed aluminium to give this lucky PS4 a dark, medieval Dark Souls look with coppery reflections. Looks…
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Hearthstone Animation About Silly Game Mechanics Is Spot On
A Hearthstone match between Rexxar and Thrall would be a bit more intense on an open field with living, breathing creatures. Also the game mechanics would ruin everything. The clip was made by Wronchi, who is a well-known animator in the Dota community, but his rapid-fire jokes work with Hearthstone as well. It’s the small…
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Pokémon Battles Are Pretty Messed Up In Halo 5
The creative stuff people come up with in Halo 5‘s Forge almost reach Garry’s Mod levels of silliness. Here’s, for example, a very well designed map for Pokémon battles. It’s a rock-paper-scissors type map with Blastoise, Venosaur and Charizard, where the winner can eliminate the other player with a powerful weapon. It’s made by CaptainDireWolf,…
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Google’s Self-Driving Car Goes Wild In GTA V
An autonomous, self-driving car in Los Santos? What could go wrong? YouTuber pizzaforbreakfast made a clip imagining how this new technology would work in the precisely designed environment of GTA AI drivers. It’d be a disaster. Although, on second thought, it’s not much different from GTA Online To contact the author of this post, write…
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No One’s Missing From This Fan-Made LEGO Mos Eisley Spaceport
A wretched hive of scum and villainy. LEGO and Star Wars enthusiast I Scream Clone and his friends built a quite busy and enormous blocky version of Mos Eisley, including pretty much everything that can show up in a desolate place like this. The cantina with the main characters is in the center of the…
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