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Our Favorite Games from December
December—a time for snow, Doctor Who Christmas specials, and slow game releases. But slow doesn’t mean we didn’t come across anything worth checking out. And so, below is what we played and liked in December. Amplitude Mike played the Kickstarted reboot of Harmonix’s rhythm game, and found more of the same stuff he fell in…
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Our Favorite Games from November
Game releases slow down as we near the end of the year—this is evident if you look at how short this list is compared to last month’s. Although that could also be attributed to the release of Fallout 4. In any case, there were still plenty of games we liked, such as… Call of Duty:…
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This must be an alternate Sonic whose MO is to make enemies keel over from his cuteness. He was doodled by kawacy, who otherwise specializes in anime-style art—his gallery is right here, if you want to check him out, and below’s a timelapse video depicting the painting process. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…
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Fallout Fan 3D Prints a Mini Nuke
Mini nukes sure look a lot more high-tech on the inside. Valcrow of the 3D printing blog Redicubricks dug the fact that Bethesda’s Fallout Anthology came with a mini nuke case, but they weren’t interested in playing the older games. So, of course, they did what any other sane person would and decided to print…
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The fourth episode of Dreamfall: Chapters, Red Thread Games’ sequel to the classic Longest Journey adventure game series, is out this week—on December 3, Thursday, to be exact. The trailer announcing the release date is above, and you can find our impressions of the first three episodes here, here and here.
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New in First 4 Figures’ world of pricy collectible toys is this Mega Man X Zero statue. At 17 inches high, it comes in the usual flavors of Standard (two weapons) and Exclusive (two weapons plus LEDs embedded in the base and Zero), priced at $260 and $300. The statue can be pre-ordered here and…
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Chrono Trigger’s Millenial Fair Looks Great in 3D
Chrono Trigger started out with a boy and a girl running into each other at a fair. Only, the fair I remember was way less 3D. This piece of 3D fanart, built in Unreal Engine 4 by 3D modeler Michael Barrington, is a handpainted recreation of the main and portal areas of the Guardia Millenial…
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The Latest XKCD is a Cool Little Exploration Game
The comic-slash-game, called Hoverboard, was created to celebrate the release of XKCD creator Randall Munroe’s latest book, Thing Explainer. It’s a lot deeper than it looks at first glance. On the surface, Hoverboard is a small platformer where you can race against the clock to collect a few coins as fast as you can. But…
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A Minecraft Spider Mech, Crawling Under the Night Sky
Very serene, up until the point when the spider mech starts shooting boxes of TNT at another mech. But that’s just what Minecraft mechs do. This spider-bot is the latest from Minecraft enthusiast Cubehamster (whose other, similarly awesome creations we have discussed here and here). Called the Stryder, the mech is fully controllable, and can…
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Up Close, 3D Minecraft Art Gets Pretty Freaky
The above gif progresses as follows: Minecraft 3D art as it’s meant to be viewed, as a 2D-ish render; Minecraft 3D art in-game; Minecraft 3D art in-game, but closer. It’s quite the transformation. The build, made by Tober888 of the MysticAbsents group, is a riff on Roy Lichtenstein’s famous Pop Art piece, the Drowning Girl.…
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The Teletubbies Opening, in GTA V
Trevor, Franklin, Lamarr and Michael are here, as the Teletubbies, ready to make your morning gloriously stupid. The remake (via VG247) was made by YouTuber Merfish, using a variety of GTA V mods to turn the game’s cast into a more violent version of the Teletubbies (and of course the sun, which looks significantly less…
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Sega is Making a New Valkyria Chronicles for PS4
Sega is working on bringing Valkyria Chronicles IV to the PS4—along with a remastered version of the first game in the series, Valkyria Chronicles The new Valkyria will be following the Japan-only Valkyria Chronicles III, which was released for the PSP in 2011. Announced in the currently unreleased, latest issue of Famitsu, it bears the…
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Explore Peach’s Castle in Minecraft
The castle hub from Mario 64 got a rather faithful recreation in the form of a Minecraft map. There are a couple neat touches to this build. For example, the paintings are all there in-game, regardless of the resource pack you use, because the builders—redditor SlipNSchlong and a “buddy”—imported them as maps (the in-game ones…
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Fallout’s Flaming Sword, Recreated in Real Life
Debuting in Fallout 3, the Shishkebab is, at its most basic level, a sword made of junk that’s on fire. In honor of the blade’s return in Fallout 4, a fan decided to make a real one. It went terrifyingly well. The owner of the (in this case, very appropriate) maniacal grin above is one…
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A Special PS Vita Covered in Metal Slime
Remember the Metal Slime-covered PS4 console that Sony released in Japan last December? This is pretty much the same thing, but it’s a Vita. Much like how the PS4 console launched with Dragon Quest Heroes, the Metal Slime Vita will be bundled with the Minecraft-ish Dragon Quest Builders. It comes with a pre-installed custom theme,…
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