Double Fine’s adventure game Kickstarter was one of 2012’s great success stories, bringing in over $3 million in community funding. A year later, though, it turns out that wasn’t enough money to get the game finished. In a lengthy and honest message to backers sent earlier today, Double Fine boss Tim Schafer explains that, basically,…
Somebody in Christina Stephens’ research lab joked that she – an amputee – should build a fake leg out of LEGO. Challenge. Accepted. This awesome video shows Christina rummaging around like a kid for the right pieces, before taking the legfor a test drive AmputeeOT: My Legoleg [YouTube, via ALBOTAS]
It’s a good question! I mean, Darwinism holds that species evolve over time. Yet some creatures – sharks, crocodiles, cockroaches – have gone unchanged for millions of years. There must be an explanation for this. And whaddya know, here it is. MiniMation No.1 – “Hold B Button” [YouTube]
Patricia had this image tucked away inside a story from earlier today, but I thought it was too magnificent not to showcase on the front page. It’s by artist Ivan Bakula. It is my new desktop wallpaper.
Google has released a report on how gamers use YouTube, and it’s pretty interesting! Looking at the viewing statistics behind every single video game-related clip on the service, they’ve found that, well, pretty much all of you use it. All the time. For all kinds of stuff. Here are the important bits from the study:…
In the wake of Saints Row IV’s “ban” in Australia, a “Low Violence Version” of the game has appeared on Steam. Available for Australian customers, there’s no explanation as to what this version actually changes, leading to the suspicion it’s simply being offered in expectation that publishers Deep Silver will resubmit a modified copy of…
I can’t think of anyone else who would consider owning one of these ostentatious fingerprint magnets. Announced earlier today, its full product name is the “Xbox 360 Special Edition Chrome Series Gold Wireless Controller”. It’s out next month and will retail for $55 “at GameStop and Microsoft Store locations in addition to select regions worldwide”.
The story of Francis Tsai is an inspirational one. An accomplished games, comic and film artist, a few years ago he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, a condition which has gradually robbed him of his ability to draw with his hands. Yet through sheer perseverance, and some help from his friends, Tsai has been…
In the Total War community, Darthmod occupies a place behind only developers Creative Assembly themselves. For years, his comprehensive (and easy to use) mod packs have transformed the flagship strategy series from “great games with whiffy AI” to “amazing games oh God where is my life going”. Last year, though, he all but walked away…
Just one of 27 examples where bootleg subtitles, mostly from anime, go horribly, horribly wrong. More at Buzzfeed
This is CATDAMMIT! It’s about a cat, described by the devs as “a milkoholic hobo”. His milk was spilled, so now he has a chainsaw, and he is destroying everything It’s being developed by Polish studio Fir & Flams, and will be out soon on PC/Mac. For free. Not free-to-play. Proper free. Can’t argue with…
Anthony Daniels, the voice (and body!) of C-3PO, is a talented guy. He does the C-3PO “bumbling aristocrat” thing very, very well. What he does not do well is rhyme over beats. This long-lost commercial is from 1986, and is from a TV special recorded to promote the then-new Star Tours ride at Disneyland. It…just…It’s…
Gotta be the latter. If Nintendo had managed to make piranha plants look like this in the 80s, a lot of people’s childhoods would have been substantially more traumatic. Artist Karen “Dogzilla Lives” Main is to thank for this, but a warning: if this grosses you out, her other works won’t be any easier on…
It takes a lot to get me excited about an iterative sports game, but this year’s Pro Evo looks to be anything but. Dat new engine
Mass Effect’s Mako gets a bad rap from many folks, but really, its heart was in the right place. That, and the fact it looked badass, means it still has its fans today, enough to go to the trouble of making a cool little remote-controlled version. The RC Mako team have built this little vehicle…
This kind of business, at least for its older games, isn’t really Nintendo’s style. The New Super Mario Bros. series is close enough, thanks. But let’s imagine that, one day, the company goes crazy/pulls a Capcom, and decides to remaster the original Super Mario Bros. in “HD”. It could look like NSMB, yeah, but it…
If your $50 copy of SimCity is lying unused, would a $9 piece of DLC adding a few balloons get you playing again? Of course not, but that’s the plan at EA regardless, the new “Airships” set adding two new types of hot air balloon park and an airship mass transit option. That’s it. For…
Maybe it’s because we’re approaching some of the biggest conventions of the year, maybe it’s just a lucky week, but there has been some incredible cosplay on show over the past seven days. The highlights for me are probably the League of Legends and Odin Sphere (yes!) outfits, but really, everything below is from the…
As a Nintendo game, it’s no surprise that Animal Crossing: New Leaf contains some form of control over what you can name your characters. What is surprising, though, is how extensive the list of blocked words is. The obvious culprits are, well, obvious, from curse words to copyrighted terms, but when alientonx tried to get…
As expected after the tease earlier this year, Satellite Reign is the name of a game that really just wants to be a new Syndicate. A proper Syndicate, not a shooter bearing the franchise’s name. It’s being developed by 5 Lives Studios, based in Brisbane, Australia, and really just sounds like the kind of Syndicate…
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