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Diablo III Player Reaches Level 70 In One Minute
Here’s an insanely skilled Diablo III player Dat Modz proving that it’s possible to get to max level in no time. Sixty-five seconds to be exact. That’s bloody impressive. And how is this possible? Dat Modz is on the game’s very rare (not THAT rare since patch 2.2, but still rare) Cow Level, and its…
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Pixel artist Junkboy reimagined John Carpenter’s classic movie They Live as a cool beat ‘em up game from the early 90s. It’s got all the characteristics of side-scrolling arcade games, complete with breakable windows and smashable cars. And here’s another cool tribute from the same artist: Planet of the Apes as a DOS point-and-click adventure…
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Modded Typewriter Prints Selfies As ASCII Art
That’s how you use a typewriter in 2015. This prototype, built by Russian artist group ::vtol ::, takes your picture and turns them into selfies with alphanumeric characters. You can check out their video and how this thing makes instant ASCII art, which, just like typewriters, have sadly become a thing of the past. To contact…
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Dota Renders Sure Are Detailed
Valve artist Max Aristov shared renders of a couple of Dota character models with a very high polygon count. And even without textures, they look like real-life sculptures or minifigs from a board game, not something from a MOBA. Maybe one day technology and PCs will catch up, and instead of the current low-poly models,…
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Mechanical LEGO Display Is Another Level Of Awesomeness
You don’t often see clever builds like this Technic Dot Matrix Display by AncientJames from New Zealand. As the reel starts rolling, the patterns on the cards inside correspond with the patterns on the display and can show anything that fits into a 5×5 square. The creator’s video is titled, “Everything is awesome”. Well, this…
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World of Warcraft‘s Toughest Boss, Killed In Under 3 Minutes
With better gear, people will do more and more crazy things in Warlords of Draenor’s current raid. This insanely fast and impressive kill of Blackrock Foundry badass end-boss on Heroic difficulty is a good example. What takes endless tries and around eight minutes of concentration for regular guilds took only 2 minutes and 58 secs…
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Nice animated Ninja Turtles redesigns! Artist Alex Redfish geared them up and gave all four of them a pretty badass look. Raph with a cigar, Donatello with a tablet and goggles. It’s the exact opposite of the ones in the classic cartoons. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
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Now That’s A Large USB Drive
Large in physical size, not in storage capacity. Computer enthusiast Christopher Parish modified a vintage “DEC RL02” drive—as big as a decent PC case—from the 70s so it can connect to modern PCs via USB. Technically this might be the largest and the heaviest USB storage device in the world. That removable platter in the…
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You Can Explore The Original WipEout‘s Tracks In Your Browser
Dominic Szablewski ported all the maps from the classic 1995 racing game WipEout into a browser-compatible format. So finally, it’s now possible to flowthrough them in a browser without making any mistakes. All the maps are there, and you can switch between them and the camera angles at the top menu. The creator also made…
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Custom LEGO Star Wars Sandcrawler Gets The Size Right
If the official 3,296-piece version of the Jawa’s desert vehicle wasn’t big enough, here’s a colossal one built by Peter Brookdale As you can see in the video shared by The Brick Show, it’s not just a big chunk of brown bricks. but a rather detailed version with working tracks and a ramp. To contact…
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How Tanaan Jungle, World of Warcraft‘s New Outdoor Zone, Looks
Tanaan Jungle, the closed max level zone of Draenor, opens up in patch 6.2. While it’s far from being completed, YouTuber Khamúl made an awesome clip showing how it currently looks. Even though it’s a relatively early version, you can already see it’ll be savage, something like a mixture of Un’Goro Crater and Shadowmoon Valley…
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Titanic As A SNES RPG
The largest ship of the early 20th century would also be one of the smallest JRPG settings, as seen in this video by CineFix. The clip is based on the 1997 movie with visuals similar to that era and man that’s one of the funniest usage of Final Fantasy VI tilesets I’ve seen. To contact…
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Old Dungeons Are Back In World of Warcraft‘s “Timewalking” Mode
Lower level dungeons in World of Warcraft are always fun to solo at level 100, but with a new feature called “Timewalking”, players will be able to run these again with their gear and levels scaled down accordingly. The concept of this feature is actually not new. It was hinted several times in the past…
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You Can Build Ships In World of Warcraft‘s Next Patch
In Warlords of Draenor’s first content patch, we only got a few Garrison tweaks and a selfie camera. But the second one is going to be huge: There’s a new raid, a new outdoor zone, dungeons are getting a harder difficulty setting, and there’s a new Garrison feature—the Shipyard! Tanaan Jungle, the currently unfinished level…
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Three Basic Rules of World of Warcraft Battlegrounds
The goals in Arathi Basin, one of World of Warcraft’s oldest PvP battleground, seem easy: capture strategic resource points with your team and hang on to them until you reach the required amount. That being said, these battles are just chaotic, without any sign of player cooperation. So Carbot made a short animation to help…
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Tinder In The 80s Would Have Sucked
A whole bunch of vintage technology shows up in SuperMonkey’s video to make the 80s version of the popular dating app work on a home computer. It’d probably be shipped on a bajillion floppy disks and setting it up would have been harder than Star Wars: Rebel Assault on an old IBM XT-286. To contact…
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Everyday life in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt looks so cool. The game just got a new gameplay trailer, full of combat, but the best-looking parts are the ones with the NPCs doing their medieval daily routine. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…
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Ten Great World of Warcraft Inns
With people leveling their characters super fast nowdays, the inns of World of Warcraft no longer function as hubs where you can heal after doing a bunch of quests. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have awesome features. And they’re not abandoned at all. Here’s Crendor, trying to find the 10 best inns in Azeroth,…
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The Gates of Lonely Mountain Made From 55,000 LEGO Pieces
LEGO builder Michał Kaźmierczak found the best place for gray LEGO pieces. He built a huge version of the dwarven fortress Erebor from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series. The project consumed 55,000 bricks, and it took 7 months to complete it. But as you can see the 5-foot-tall result is truly…
By Gergo Vas