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$5 Mario Game Sounds Worth The Investment
Sometimes, you need to spend millions of dollars on CG trailers, magazine advertisements and TV commercials to sell a game. And sometimes, you need to just tell a story straight from the heart. This craigslist ad for a used Game Boy copy of Super Mario Land sounds worth the $5 asking price just to share…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2014 -
CultureCosplayAttack On Titan Cosplay Terrorizes The Streets Of Tokyo
D Piddy, who you may know from his Deadpool videos, has left the Marvel universe behind here for something a little bigger In this clip, he dresses as Attack on Titan’s signature Colossal Titan and…dances around the streets of Tokyo. Where the people react about as you’d expect given a strange man in a skin-tight…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2014 -
Star Citizen Is Now Letting Spaceships Shoot At Other Spaceships
Having had little to do for months but walk around their hangars, backers of Star Citizen are finally getting their hands on some dogfighting with the rollout of the game’s Arena Commander simulation mode.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2014 -
Creepypasta Wiki Issues Statement Saying Slender Man Isn’t Real
The tragic events in Waukesha, in which two young girls are accused of stabbing a friend, have brought internet myth Slender Man into the mainstream spotlight. So much so that the Creepypasta wiki, unofficial home to stories involving the character (and others like him), has had to issue a statement confirming that he is not…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2014 -
One Of Gaming’s Greatest Questions Has Finally Been Answered
Some Twitter jokes are elaborately patient affairs. Others are a little more accidental. The account belongs to FIFA Youtuber Duaineml0, who I guess set up a Twitter account in 2009, forgot all about it then joined for real a year later with a new account that he actually uses. Only to later remember that he’d…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2014 -
EsportsBooth Falls On Pro Gamer’s Head, But He Still Wins
Pro StarCraft II player Koh “GuMiho” Byung Jae was playing in Korea the other day when he suffered a pretty drastic technical mishap: the booth he was sitting behind collapsed, hitting him in the head and sending his monitor flying into his face. It looks like it him him pretty hard, so his stunned look…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2014 -
CultureCosplayGodzilla Cosplay Crushes Cities With Its Brilliance
Sean Sumagaysay’s Godzilla outfit is one of the most technically impressive pieces of cosplay I’ve ever seen. Not only does he look like the giant monster, but thanks to the design of the suit he can move like it too. While images make him look like an expensive statue brought in to market the release…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2014 -
Culture
The Best Video Game Art Of 2014 Is A Treat For The Eyeballs
Every year, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) get together to select the very best in professional video game art. Here are their picks for 2014. They’ll form part of the Into The Pixel exhibition, which is held every year during E3. Just like it will this…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2014 -
A LEGO Batman Love Story
If you’ve got a spare seven minutes to end the day with, here’s a touching love story in which two people are brought together by something a little sweeter than a desire to avenge the murder of a young boy’s parents. The short is called Lichen and, DISCLAIMER, was actually made by a friend of…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2014 -
Culture
Blue Sky Revolver
Christian Bravery was one of the first artists we ever featured here on Fine Art. But hey, that was over two years ago, which in internet years is like forever So let’s see what he’s been up to since. You can see more of Christian’s work at his personal/studio site and his ArtStation page. To…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
Girls Claim Slender Man Is Real, Accused Of Stabbing Friend 19 Times
Two 12-year-old girls from Waukesha, Wisconsin are facing attempted murder charges following a brutal attack on one of their classmates. An attack they say was inspired by their devotion to internet horror myth Slender Man. The accused, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, are alleged to have invited a friend over for a sleepover, during which…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
The Human Body Has Trouble Gaming For 90+ Hours, It Seems
Neal “Koibu” Erickson once played video games for 90 hours straight. Since that obviously wasn’t enough, he recently tried to game for 120 hours straight Some would call this endurance, others would call it madness. Erickson calls it progress. “I feel like if I’m not doing things that are better, or more challenging, I’m not…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
Classic PC Game Gets First Upgrade In Two Years
PC roguelike…building sim…thingDwarf Fortress has been out since 2006. And it’s about to get its first update in over two years. That’s staying power. Not that people already playing it will be surprised. See, Dwarf Fortress is not your average game. The developers, Bay 12, don’t see it as something that’ll ever be “done”. It’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
The Wii U Just Got A Little Better
An update for the Wii U, bringing the system to v5.0.o, is rolling out right now. If you’re sick of waiting for the console’s menu to load every time you boot up the system, you’ll be happy with it. It finally implements a “quick launch” menu, which lets you jump straight back into the last…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
New Battlefield Game’s Footage Leaks. It Has POLICE BIKES.
YouTube user Freddy Dance has posted what he claims to be footage from a beta for the upcoming Battlefield: Hardline. You know. The Battlefield game with cops in it. This is the second clip to have leaked from the game, the first being an early trailer that was six months old. This is obviously much…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
Valve’s VR Headset Looks (And Sounds) Really Cool
Oculus isn’t the only virtual reality headset in town. Valve has been working on its own VR unit, and t’s come a long way since we first saw it back in 2012. Back then, it was as prototype as a prototype unit could get. Fast forward to 2014 and it’s looking a lot more polished.…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014