Sweet flaming Pokémons! A cappella master Smooth McGroove‘s latest musical masterpiece is an absolutely burning cover of the Mt. Pyre Peak musicfrom Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
If you were watching Twitter this past weekend, you might have seen comedian Patton Oswalt saying some surprising things. Offensive things. Hateful, even. The things he was saying came as even more of a surprise given his typically left-of-center political views. For example: Then, if you’re anything like me, you would have gone to his…
Sir, You Can Now Play This Cool Game: The alpha of the procedurally generated robot-avoidance sim Sir, You Are Being Hunted is now available via Steam Early Access. That means if you pre-order, you can play an early version right now. I’ve been playing the alpha for the last couple of weeks and having a…
“I never pay more than $500 for one item.” Check out this fascinating new interview with video game memorabilia all-star Brett Martin over at Gameological.
Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones. Maybe you’ve got Plants vs. Zombies 2 working perfectly across multiple iOS devices. Maybe you’re able to play it on the go on iPhone and at home on iPad with your progress carrying between the two without a second thought. Or maybe not. As an avid Weeds vs.…
Are you ready to see something incredible? I’m not sure you’re ready. Get ready. Are you ready now? Okay. Check this business out. There’s playing Tetris, and then there’s PLAYING TETRIS. This video, of a Tetris “sprinter” who goes by Keroco, falls into the latter category. Mental Floss has a more in-depth breakdown of what’s…
Mmmm…. video game hardware. It’s so sexy. It’s black and plastic, and smells like… plastic. It’s the sexiest. Touching video game hardware is literally as pleasurable as touching a human person. They should’ve called the Xbox One the Sexbox One. Or the Xxxboxxx One. Or just called it “Sex.” This humorous (and kinda shockingly racy!)…
The Nirvana of Video Games? Video games need a grunge movement, or at least that’s what Kotaku contributor and 90s aficionado Leigh Alexander argues in this excellent piece over at Gamasutra. It’s a version of a talk she recently gave at a UK games convention, and it involves Paula Abdul.
The Heisenberg Conspiracy: Wired‘s posted a whole bunch of theories about how to read Breaking Bad and predict what’ll happen at the end of the series. Some are way too out-there, but a couple are sharply observed and even a little bit mind-blowing.
GTA Online sounds pretty freakin’ great, right? There’s so much stuff to do, and a lot of it is nonviolent…OR IS IT? That’s the question asked today by Dorkly. Their answer stands in stark contrast to Chris’ more utopian take.
The Legend Of Cortana: She’s been damsel and savior, commander and follower, and she was a part of the Halo series before the first game even began. Check out this great (spoiler-filled) feature over at Edge Online about the humanity—and inhumanity—of Cortana.
I’ve always been pretty good at Magic Eye posters. I even had one in my room as a kid. It was of dinosaurs, I believe, and I got very good at crossing my eyes just so and making the Tyrannosaurs and the Archaeopteryx come to life. True to its 90s setting, there are a couple…
Here’s a 12 minute gameplay demo of Dying Light, Techland’s free-running zombie survival game. It looks impressive, every bit the Mirror’s Edge-meets-Dead Island thing that Stephen talked when he first saw the game earlier this year It’s nice to finally see the game in action. Dying Light will be released next year across both current-gen…
“I am the vindow viper. I’ve come to vipe your vindows.” There aren’t that many everyday jobs that give me an adrenaline shot just thinking about them, but the idea of being a professional New York City window-washer does just that. I really liked this short video from the New York Timeslooking at the day-to-day…
Dear lord, the things people make on the internet. The folks at Polycount (last seen here with their lively Team Fortress 2 art-redesign competition) have been hosting a contest called “VG Remix,” in which contestants use Sketchfab to make 3D video-game dioramas. The results are nothing less than astonishing. The examples below are picked from…
It’s not like Saints Row IV has any shortage of non-hidden weapons. But this new video from GameFront shows how to find a super-special one, along with a pretty great easter egg. The game’s not out for another few days, but it took me long enough to afford a proper in-game rocket launcher that I…
I went on the always-delightful Idle Thumbs Podcast yesterday, where we talked about Splinter Cell, Dishonored, stealth games, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, Spelunky, and more. We also discussed a hypothetical children’s book called “Find Fisher!” and all-star listener Sleepyhead went ahead and made this amazing book cover.
Really? Thor? Here now for a moment of brightness in a day filled with grim news and controversey: This video from Leigh Lahav and Tom Trager that reimagines Thor: The Dark World as an episode of Arrested Development. Mileage can vary on this kind of thing, but they’ve got the beats and rhythms of an…
Games come, and games go. After a time, we lose interest. I’ve recently been reading up on the latest updates coming to SimCity—for example, in this video, Maxis’ Guillaume Pierre demonstrates the new raise/lower roads feature coming in the latest pending game update, Update 7. Where are you all at with this game? I thought…
Maybe it’s just the soft spot I’ll always have for Westwood’s underrated Blade Runner adventure game, but I immediately loved this new video from the 8-bit cinema purveyors at CineFix
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