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The World’s Biggest RC Helicopter Could Carry A Kid. Or Cat.
This is the second model of a giant remote-controlled Cobra attack helicopter, built by enthusiast Josef Schmirl. The previous one was 11.5 feet long, and weighed 52 pounds. This one is bigger The animatronic pilots are the best. Worlds largest RC Heli – New!!! Version RED BULL Cobra [YouTube, via Laughing Squid]
By Luke Plunkett Published December 31, 2013 -
Who Do I Have To Kill For This Famicom Nintendo 3DS?
I have a weakness for the Famicom colour scheme. That bold crimson, the slightly tacky gold, it’s an 80s Chinese restaurant, bad hotel lobby and classic Nintendo console, all rolled into two tones. And that’s just seeing the shades on the internet! Put them on a 3DS – like James Montagna has done here –…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 31, 2013 -
Culture
Happy New Year…For The Emperor!
Adrian Smith is a veteran artist who’s had the privelege to work not just for Games Workshop – on stuff like Warhammer 40K – but in video games as well, for companies like THQ, EA, Ubisoft and Blizzard. If you like fantasy or sci-fi art, where there are dudes killing other dudes – and I’m…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 31, 2013 -
Kinect Can Turn You Into A Tiny Action Figure
A company called Shapify is, through the magic of Kinect and 3D printing, allowing Microsoft’s peripheral to serve as your gateway to tiny narcissistic action figures. You’ll need a Kinect, a PC and Shapify’s software. With all that, the camera can take a complete 3D image of you – in a pose, if necessary –…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2013 -
You Can Buy Lemonparty For $450,000
If you’ve got a spare $450,000 lying around, and a penchant for ancient internet jokes, you could be the proud owner of Lemonparty’s still active, still-NSFW domain. The site’s owner is a Mr. Eric Johnson, who The Daily Dot perfectly describeas “a purposefully vague twenty-something freelance Web marketer who started buying strange URLs after he…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2013 -
Hackers Claim Takedown Of Battle.net, League Of Legends, EA [UPDATE]
A group of hackers going by the name DERP has launched DDoSattacks on a number of big games and websites today, bringing a number of them down, including the homepage of Electronic Arts. The attacks have been focused on a single gamer – Phantoml0rd– and have been systematically trying to crash all of the games…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2013 -
Movies & TV Get More Viral With Upworthy Headlines
We’ve seen what happens when video games get Upworthy-style headlines. What happens when sci-fi and fantasy movies get them will amaze you. SFFWorthyslaps the low-hanging fruit by giving your favourite movies and TV shows headlines in the style of the infamous viral site. This joke will get old very quickly. So let’s enjoy it while…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2013 -
Culture
Wreck-It-Ralph Looks A Lot Meaner In This Early Art
Disney’s video game movie Wreck-it-Ralph was, at even its darkest and most violent points, a pretty bubbly and colourful movie. Which you probably couldn’t tell if you only looked at this concept art for the “Hero’s Duty” sections, which is a lot closer to the grim tone of the film’s Aliens/Gears of War/Halo inspiration than…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2013 -
Kid Stays Up Late Gaming, Saves Family From Burning House
If you’re still young enough to have someone telling you when to go to bed, remember this story the next time your mother tries to tell you enough’s enough for one day. 12-year-old Jaxxyn Wood, from Kentucky, was up at 3:30am playing video games when he “smelled something really bad, like Legos on fire”. What…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2013 -
Batman Figures Look Like Real, Tiny Batman Actors
Just when you thought Hot Toys couldn’t make a better Batman action figure, along comes a better Batman action figure. Sorry, figures I don’t know what to get more excited about with this new “Dark Knight Armory” piece by the Hong Kong-based toysmiths. Maybe it’s the fact it comes with Bruce Wayne, who is looking…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2013 -
Call of Duty, BioShock Infinite More Enjoyable As Text Adventures
As they did lastyear, the team at PC Gamer are ringing in the new year by celebrating the biggest games of the old year. And by celebrating, I mean re-doing them as text adventures. There are two of them so far, both of them shooters, one which was fairly terrible, the other which, well, let’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2013 -
NSA Accused Of Hijacking Laptop Shipments, Spying On Undersea Cables
In case you weren’t scared enough of the reach of the US National Security Agency, reports coming out of Germany are accusing the intelligence agency of literally seizing shipments of computers, installing malware and sometimes even hardware bugs on them. The allegations have been published by German news site Der Spiegel, and are reportedly based…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2013 -
Attack On Titan Figure Costs $1200, Still Sells Out
Would you pay $1200 for an action figure? Probably not, but enough people felt that was a sound investment to cause this Attack on Titan figure to sell out. This Levi figure is a special Attack on Titan x IOS x DOLK collaboration. As you’ll see below, it’s not just highly posable, but incredibly detailed…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 27, 2013 -
Majora’s Mask Looks Better When It’s Broken
Majora’s Mask is an acquired taste. One I’ve never fully acquired, sadly (the time limit is TOO STRESSFUL), but I’d be keener on the game if it was this broken in its natural state. Vinesauce showed us what a busted copy of Ocarina of Time looked like earlier in the year; as you’d expect, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 27, 2013 -
For Christmas, Grand Theft Auto V Was Covered In Snow
Grand Theft Auto Online ran some Christmas DLC on December 25. You could get custom clothes and gear, but by far the biggest impact – and most impressive – was the way the normally-sunny Los Santos was buried in snow Shame this was for one day only! It’d be great if you could toggle this…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 27, 2013 -
Nintendo’s Online Services Still Broken, Pokémon Apps Delayed
Following Japan’s lead, Nintendo of America has postponedthe launch of the Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter “due to a large volume of traffic to the Nintendo Network service”. Here’s the full statement from Nintendo: Nintendo and The Pokémon Company International have postponed the launch of Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter – two software applications that…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 26, 2013 -
Culture
What The New Lara Croft Could Have Looked Like
Brenoch Adams worked for years as a senior artist on Eidos’ Tomb Raider reboot. While you’ll see pieces from all over his portfolio in this showcase, what’ll probably be of most interest are the pieces from early in Tomb Raider’s development, showing what the new/old Lara Croft could have looked like. The middle image is…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 26, 2013 -
Turn Your Human Face Into A Video Game Character
FaceRig is a piece of software that will use your webcam to track your face (and facial movements) then transform it into something a little (or a lot) less human. Its makers say it’ll work across popular platforms like Skype and Twitch, while you’ll also be able to use the program to make animated clips.…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 26, 2013 -
Hey, It’s A Good Tomb Raider Movie!
This fan film stars Lara Croft, but there’s as much John McClane on show here as there is British archaeologist. It’s not often I’ll say this about a fan project, but this is pretty damn good. Sure, there are limitations – even the leap above has its cuts and edits – but these guys give…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 26, 2013 -
Video Games Charity Raises Over $10 Million
That’s not a typo. That’s ten million dollars Gaming for Good, a charity established and fronted by celebrity gamerBachir Boumaaza, aka Athene, has this week passed the significant milestone. At time of writing the group’s tally stands at $10,035,284. If you’ve never come across Gaming For Good before, it works like this: developers and publishers…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 26, 2013
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