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It’s Still Great Fun To Watch Game Characters Just Stand Around

This is pretty much the only time snarks could be considered adorable They are usually vicious (adorably vicious). Master0fHyrule returns with even more video game characters amusing themselves in various ways while we’re away. This time, he’s got 75 idle animations from 50 different games, obscure to classic, old to recent. It’s quite the selection,…

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Store Your Treasures in Real-Life World of Warcraft Chests

As long as your treasures aren’t too big, of course. These aren’t full scale replicas. But they’re awesome nonetheless. The designer is one Heather Marie, a Pennsylvania-based craftsman, who sells the chests through her Etsy shop at $80 a piece. They are hand-made using quarter-inch pine plywood, with engraved decorative designs on the exterior and…

Of Course, Bear Simulator Will Have Lost References

Following a successful (triple-times-funded-successful) Kickstarter campaign in Spring, Bear Simulator is on its way towards release. It’s looking great so far. According to the latest Kickstarter update, which arrived after several progress updates on the developer’s blog, the game is 60-70% done. There’s no exact date yet, but it’s aiming for a pre-holidays release, with…

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The Original 151 Pokémon, Recreated in Minecraft

Minecraft, being a block-based builder, has always been a favorite outlet of pixel artists everywhere. Like this enterprising player, who set out to painstakingly build replicas of the 151 original Pokémon in-game. Each Pokémon took redditor QueenMercury thirty minutes to three hours to build. This isn’t the first time somebody’s recreated the original 151 in…

Here’s a Smash Bros. Fan Game That Lets You Play As Ridley

Much like Super Smash Flash 2, this one’s for the PC. It’s called Super Smash Bros. Crusade, and its massive roster of playable fighters include familiar faces like Mario, Bowser, and Kirby, and a ton of newcomers, like Ridley, Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, Klonoa, Krystal from Star Fox, and even Phoenix Wright. Smash Bros. Crusade has…

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Dark Souls II DLC delayed: Crown of the Ivory King, part three of the Lost Crowns DLC trilogy for DSII, has been delayed by a week. Originally slated for September 24, the content pack is now set to arrive on September 30 for PC and Xbox 360, and on October 1 for PS3. Image via…

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The New Borderlands Trailer Is Insane (and Informative)

Sir Hammerlock and Mr. Torgue narrate a nearly ten-minute video about the new stuff coming to the Borderlands series with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Oh boy. It’s a lot to take in. There’s of course the four new characters, Athena, Wilhelm, Nisha and Claptrap, along with their new action skills, which we get to see in…

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You can now play with the skill trees of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: perfect if you’d like to plan out in advance what you’ll do on your first playthrough. Wilhelm’s drones look like a combination of Axton’s turret and Gaige’s Deathtrap, both of which I loved in BL2, so I’ll probably go with him. What about…

Here’s the story trailer for Yakuza 0 Like the era the game’s based in, it’s extravagant and loud. The prequel will be out in Japan next year, on PS3 and PS4.

A Toy Story-Like Survival Game Where You’re a Keychain Ninja

According to the devs, it’s Resident Evil meets Prince of Persia, starring a keychain ninja plushie. Sounds nice! Looks nice, too. The people behind Nin are a new three-people studio called Vagabond Games, and this PC survival-adventure is their first title. Nin has been in development for three years, and it shows: the environments are…

Guy Builds an Actual Working Flight Computer for Kerbal Space Program

Kerbal Space Program has a whole lot of numbers and variables behind it that influence how your spaceships work and where they go. Well, what better way to keep track of them than with this NASA-inspired flight computer? Built by redditor KK4TEE, this little box is basically a computer that can interpret data supplied by…

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Hey, check out the new TGS trailer for Shinji Mikami’s upcoming horror game, The Evil Within. It’s pretty well done. The game itself will be out October 14 for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC.

Game of Thrones’ Castle Black and the Wall Look Awesome in Minecraft

And this time it’s not even a WesterosCraft build. This is from a Chinese group called Cthuwork. It’s pretty great. According to the project description, it took the ~20-member team a total of 15 hours to finish the project, which seems quick for something so detailed and good-looking. You can take a look at the…

Someone’s Trying to Put DayZ in Doom

His reason? “I had had it with Zombies walking through walls and figured that Doom is a far more suitable engine to use.” Ouch. Still, this guy’s made an admirable amount of progress, for a one-man project. According to him, so far, DoomZ already has the following features: day and night weighted spawn points animals…