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What Obi-Wan’s Ghost Should Have Done
Instead of giving Luke life lessons about The Force, some haunting would have gotten the job done a lot faster. Dorkly’s Star Wars short has the most annoying Obi-Wan ghost who also likes to remind Darth Vader about his Hayden Christensen phase. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
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Video Games As Vintage Sci-Fi Books
Artist Joshua Ketchen has designed a series called Arcade Adventures, imagining video games as covers of vintage sci-fi books with in a retro-futuristic style. Here’s Resident Evil, Bioshock, Portal, Mega Man, Star Fox, Metroid, Earthbound and Pikmin, from an era where conquering space and alien planets meant the future. Pretty sure that Pikmin one at…
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World of Warcraft Player Reaches Level 100 Without Choosing A Faction
Neutral Agent and his fresh level 100 neutral Pandaren is the only max level character in the world right now who’s not part of the Alliance or the Horde. He did the same in Mists of Pandaria, when the level cap was 90, by rolling a neutral Pandaren and instead of leaving their low-level starting…
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If Wes Anderson Directed X-Men
Vintage books, charming miniature models, funny effects and unique color palettes: all the signature traits and techniques of the director of “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” implemented in an X-Men movie. Patrick Willems and his friends imagined this weird scenario in their awesome short. Wolverine would be an art teacher, Magneto or the Sentinels would look…
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The Silliest Summary of Final Fantasy VII
I almost forgot about those pesky little frogs in Final Fantasy VII that transform party members into frogs, thanks videogamedunkey for the reminder. Even without the frogs, dunkey’s new clip must be the silliest take on the game and its story. It’s Final Fantasy VII so watch out for all the spoilers. Even a crazy…
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TIE Interceptor Drone Lights Up The Night Sky
In a town far far away, the number of UFO sightings probably went up when drone enthusiast Oliver C unchained his RC quadrocopter, dressed up as a TIE Interceptor from Star Wars Here’s a clip showing it in action. Looks pretty neat and stable: And here’s how it looks (via RCGForums) when it’s not in…
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How To Get World of Warcraft‘s New Super-Rare Mount
The “Voidtalon of the Dark Star” is a new mount added to WoW with patch 6.1, but the patch notes don’t mention anything about how to obtain it. A few days have passed since the update and people are finally figuring out the process. It’s not that easy. The official survival guide only says that…
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League of Legends‘ Fighter Champion Garen in a Nutshell
Here’s a spot on clip made by RHrealism, starring Garen from League of Legends with a couple of other champions and cute minions. The animations mimicking Garen’s personality and abilities are awesome, but the voice acting is what makes this a really funny one: He is… a simple guy. To contact the author of this…
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Fan-Built TARDIS Makes The Doctor Who LEGO Set Complete
Although LEGO has an official Doctor Who set in the works with the TARDIS and minifigs, it won’t include the huge interior of the otherwise tiny telephone box time machine. So Thorsten “Xenomurphy” Bonsch built one to make the set complete. It is the 11th Doctor’s (Matt Smith, who was the Doctor from early 2010…
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How To Get All The World of Warcraft Garrison Jukebox Music Rolls
With patch 6.1 World of Warcraft got a Jukebox that plays custom music while we’re hanging out in our Garrison. The gadget itself is easy to assemble, but finding all the tunes for it will take some time. Bellular has a nice video showing all the locations for all 40 tracks for both factions. Some…
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Batman’s 7-Step Guide To Being A Great Detective
The Batman way of handling things might be extreme, but it works. So we have no objections to beating up super villains outside of the law. Especially not when there’s a step-by-step guide out there. Here are all the steps below, presented by Andy Kluthe and Andrew Bridgeman at Dorkly: Batman’s always so lucky with…
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Fan Turns Half-Life 2‘s Headcrab Into A Gun-Wielding Criminal
Here’s a short but intense Half-Life 2 fan-clip by animator Nathan Hibberd. His version of the game’s annoying little enemy steals airboats, uses machine guns and acts like a crazy cartoon character. It even scares itself when suddenly realises that it doesn’t know how to drive. To contact the author of this post, write to:…
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Magician Does All His Tricks Using An iPad
Simon Pierro, a German magician, was on The Ellen Show last night. He’s famous for doing all his magic tricks on an iPad using certain apps and merging reality with virtual reality. He’s a tech wizard! If you watch the top gif a few times you might recognize how he does that particular trick. Same…
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Motorized LEGO Tank Cries For A Diorama Built Around It
Here’s a really smart LEGO build. A tiny fully motorized remote-controlled accurate version of a WWII tank by a Polish enthusiast Sariel It even has a motorized barrel and a rotatable turret. The whole build is really tiny and compact. It’s only 4 inches wide and 8 inches long, yet it’s full of LEGO’s Power…
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Scarface As An NES Shooter
The 1983 movie Scarface with Al Pacino’s Tony Montana and his M-16a1 machine gun would have made a really great side-scrolling shooter. And it’d need to have the craziest final level if it followed the movie’s story properly. CineFix imagines in their latest clip how it’d look like a game from the 80s. It’s something…
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Ten Interface Improvements Blizzard Should Add To World of Warcraft
Warlords of Draenor‘s upcoming patch will have more interface improvements than usual. Just to name a few: A tab for account-bound “Heirloom” items, a selfie camera toy and Twitter integration. But there are still so many cool ideas and add-ons out there that are not yet part of the game. Bellular collected 10 of them.…
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How Items In Pokémon Would Actually Work
The fine folks at Dorkly imagined how Pokémon items—that usually are just a few pixels with a short description—would actually look like. Here’s the “Ring Target” (moves that would otherwise have no effect would land on the Pokémon that holds it) above, and a few more below. To see all of them head over to…
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Diablo III Player Reaches Level 1,000 Without Dying
Gaining 1,000 Paragon levels in Diablo III is no small feat and it’s only accomplished by a very few amount of players. But doing it on Hardcore difficulty, where your character’s death is permanent, that’s some next level insanity. Ukranian player Nokieka is the first in the world to do it. According to Battle.net and…
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Realistic Minecraft Neighborhood Looks Straight out of SimCity
Playing with the camera angles and the shaders to make this Minecraft town look like something from a city-building game was the easy part. Designing and building all the unique houses must have been a lot harder. But the Esterlon Community was able to build a really cozy realistic neighborhood, with malls, a main street…
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Mario Physics Can Tell Us Which Planet Is Super Mario World
By analyzing Mario’s jumping skills and measuring gravity in Super Mario World, PBS Space Time tried to find a matching planet with the same conditions in the universe where the game could take place. As you can see in the video, translating the physics of the classic SNES game is not as easy as it…
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