Who would have thought that a Breaking Bad clip-show would fit so well with Weird Al’s “Albuquerque?” Not me! But there you go. YouTuber ibrews has uploaded this mashup, proving that you never can tell which two things might go well together. The video is, as a friend observed when I showed it to her,…
I always did think Ken was the coolest. Sure, Ryu is the iconic Street Fighter character. But Ken wore RED, man. This new video from Smooth McGroove is just as smooth, groovy, beardy and cat-adjacent as his past stuff. I could listen to this dude sing all day.
If you caught last night’s record-breakingly massive EVE Online space battle but weren’t quite sure what was really going on, check out this fascinating recap written by a player who was there. (Via PAR)
I’ve played Mario on BART, but I’ve never played Mario on BART, you know? This map by reddit user Joshing_uno imagines the Bay Area as a Mario world-map, complete with docks, SF City hall, and the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. I can practically hear the overworld music… (Source: Reddit via The Bold Italic, thanks…
We’ve all played “Telephone,” the game of humorous miscommunication. But how would a video version work? Composer Dan Deacon and director Ben O’Brien decided to find out, setting up a Telephone-like set of rules to help make a video for Deacon’s tune “True Thrush” Here’s how it worked: For the video, Dan and Ben filmed…
Here’s an in-depth look at the stealthier side of Splinter Cell: Blacklist‘s much ballyhooed “Spies vs. Mercs” multiplayer.
I enjoyed Lore‘s rundown of Metal Gear Solid 4 Lore in a Minute. So I also enjoyed this breakdown of the origin of the man behind the games, Metal Gear maestro Hideo Kojima. I’ve heard this story before, but it’s always nice to see it broken down so succinctly, and accompanied by such pretty illustrations.
Here’s composer/songwriter Laura Shigihara with a lovely a cappella version of “Lament of the Highbourne” from World of Warcraft
Earlier this week when I posted this video from CinemaSins nitpicking the first X-Men movie, a bunch of you made the observation: “Why on earth nitpick this movie and not X-Men: The Last Stand? That one’s way worse!” Ask and ye shall receive. To be honest, I’d forgotten a lot of this film, and reliving…
Here’s more of Platinum’s Wii U superhero game The Wonderful 101 in action. I don’t know what the hell is going on half the time, but I do know that I’d very much like to play this game.
The latest playthrough demonstration of Total War: Rome II takes a wide view, dipping into the diplomacy and campaign overview bits of the upcoming strategy game.
I bet at least 2 of those hours are Let’s Play videos. Also happening every sixty seconds on the internet: 11,000 LinkedIn searches, 278,000 tweets, and $83,000 in sales at Amazon. That’s according to this infographic from Qmee, with design by and mycleveragency. I do wish they’d included Steam in this, but I guess you…
These “Lore in a Minute” videos are always fun, but lately they’ve been mostly for games that don’t have all that much lore to begin with. So it’s nice to see them take on a monster like Metal Gear Solid 4 and manage to succinctly capture the entire narrative setup in so little time. I…
Meet RHex. He’s super cute, and he’s also pretty good at parkour! At least, for a tiny, adorable robot. Rhex is a project by Aaron Johnson and Daniel Koditschek, the former a grad student and the latter a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. RHex is a robot designed…
Into Cube World? Then check out this cool article at Kill Screen about voxel technology and voxel pioneer Ken Silverman.
Guacamelee! already has its share of great video-game references and in-jokes. But this one, from the game’s new Diablo’s Domain DLC, takes the cake. Looks familiar, no? Also: “Devil’s Advocates?” So, where’s Keanu? Well played, Drinkbox. We’ll have more on the DLC, which Chris reports is “hard as hell,” in the near future.
If you’ve been enjoying our (read: my) recent trip down memory lane with the excellent No One Lives Forever spy games, be sure to check out this cool article at The Jace Hall Showabout how the game almost didn’t get made, complete with a new Q&A with creative director Craig Hubbard.
I still remember booting up Chaos Rings back when it first came out. This ass-kicker from composer Noriyasu Agematsu came on, and I thought, “Okay, I’m going to play the heck out of this game.” That bass! Those crazy climbing piano chords! That F-horn rip! So much good stuff. The game was pretty cool, too,…
Sure, we all think it’d be great to have super-strength. But what if it was actually the worst? That’s the premise behind “Superhero Depression,” a fun short film from Andrew McMurry, who also made real-life video game shorts like Metal Slug and Mario, among others. I detect more than a little bit of The Incredibles…
Microsoft will allow indie developers to self-publish on the Xbox One, according to a new report at Game Informer Update: Microsoft has sent along the following statement, largely confirming the information in the Game Informer report: Our vision is that every person can be a creator. That every Xbox One can be used for development.…
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