You’ve probably heard the term “procedurally-generated” thrown around gaming in the last few years. It’s fancy tech, which at its most basic level means something that’s built randomly each time you ask it to be built, but it’s certainly more complicated than that, as content still needs to follow certain rules. The best way to…
It’s been inching its way through the rest of the internet all week long, so it was only a matter of time before “goats screaming like humans” made its way into video games. You can see the original clip (itself based on an old Usher joke vid) here—1:23 might be the funniest thing I’ve ever…
American artist Jason Felix has been working in the video game business for over 13 years now, and has had his artwork contribute to the development of series like Dead Space, Prince of Persia and even the ill-fated StarCraft Ghost He’s also done some movie work, most recently with Blur Studios on Girl With The…
Hide the Fart is a simple Korean browser game that’s all about, well, hiding your farts. You play as a guy at a bus stop, where he’s stood right next to another guy. Decorum forbids just farting, so you need to time your releases to coincide with passing traffic. The real challenge comes from the…
This isn’t the first attempt we’ve seen to convince LEGO to make a Legend of Zelda set, but it’s easily the most fully-realised, because the builder has gone to the trouble of actually building a prototype unit out of real bricks. That builder also happens to be the same man who drew this incredible LEGO…
Proving that there’s still life—and imagination—left in good old-fashioned print advertising, HBO took out a two-page ad in the New York Times and used it to fly a dragon right across the middle to promote the return of Games of Thrones to the TV. If you’re about to say something snide about editorial surrendering to…
A group of stunt performers has made a video that will instantly have anyone who’s ever played a Star Wars video game clutching at their hearts and whimpering “pleeeease” through clenched teeth. It’s a first-person lightsaber duel, shown from both the perspective of Darth Vader and a Jedi. We’ve had games try and do this…
Bob sleepwalks. It’s a hazard, both in the real world and his dreamworld, so it’s lucky he has his subconscious—Subob—there to help. And you to control Subob. That’s the basic premise of Back to Bed, a game made by a bunch of Danish indies who, having knocked out a rough version of the game in…
When I played the game last year, what hit me almost instantly about The Banner Saga was the fact that, aside from being a smart turn-based strategy game, it was also one of the most beautiful video games I’d ever seen. So it’s a real treat, in the same week the game’s multiplayer component became…
It’s one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen in this job, especially when you consider so many gamers spend so much of their time loathing the companies they represent. But when it comes to the actual men and women running giant video game publishers, there’s a lot of love in the house. We saw…
These guys have plans to make custom pinball machines featuring the work of top artists. Please help
Let’s be kind and say The WarZ had a rough launch. A very rough launch. And that’s being very kind Things got so bad for the zombie survival game that it had to be removed from Steam, essentially because the game that was being promised was not the game people were actually paying for Well,…
That escalated quickly. When Skullgirls developers Lab Zero Games asked for $150,000 to create a single new character for the game, they were initially met with some scoffs. Scoffs that mean absolutely nothing now, because the game’s fans, knowing how much work actually goes into creating a fighting game character, have responded with open hearts…
A poster that’s turned up online today, seemingly showing the title and main character of the next Assassin’s Creed game, appears to have two sides. You’ve seen the front, of course, but here’s what a tipster says is the back. As you could probably guess from the piratical theme, the image would suggest the game…
Last year, Alice Finch won “best in show” at BrickCon for her enormous recreation of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. As she should have. Because it might be the most impressive LEGO construction ever made by a single person. The exterior shot you see above is good enough, but it’s when you open it up and see…
After the big auction for its top-shelf intellectual property and game studios last month, the bones of former publishing giant THQ have announced that the company’s remaining franchises are now to be sold as part of a “court-approved sales process.” The series up for grabs include Darksiders, Homeworld, Red Faction and Destroy All Humans! Final…
You control a man in very fetching leotards. You’ve got to make him backflip. And that’s it! Sound easy? Hahahah. Hahah. Hah. No. No, it is not easy. Requiring a similar level of timing and “rhythm” to something like, say, QWOP, the whole trick to the game is that you control each aspect of the…
I don’t own an iPhone anymore. I suddenly wish I did. This case costs $40, but the joke makes it almost totally worth it. iPhone Stats (Skyrim) by SkinnyJoe [Red Bubble] Skyrim [All The World’s A Stage, via Gamefreaks]
“I’M OPTIMUS PRIME AND I SHOT YOU IN THE FACE”, “WELL I’M A NINJA TURTLE AND I BLOCKED IT THEN KICKED HIII-YAH”, “WELL I USED MY FORCEFIELD TO STOP IT THEN TURNED INTO A TRUCK AND VVRROOMMM DROVE OVER YOUR LEGS”. That’s how I remember most playground lunchbreaks beginning, and ending, when I was a…
Inspired by the work of famous 18th-century automata builders Pierre Jacquet-Droz and Henri Maillardet, Italian engineer Daniele Benedettelli built this LEGO robot called LEGONARDO. He is programmed to draw. And he will not stop until you are dead (or stop giving him drawings to draw). It is as impressive as it is unnerving. LEGONARDO [Site,…
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