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Giant LEGO Ball Machine is an Exercise in Eyeball Intimidation
Japanese LEGO builder Akiyuki makes complex machines out of plastic bricks and pieces. Which kind of doesn’t prepare you for what you’re about to see. He’s combined all sorts of arms, swingy-things and other devices into this enormous Great Ball Contraption, a sort of Rube Goldberg machine for robots. And balls. There are 17 individual…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2012 -
Battlefield 3’s Best Map is Now Also Minecraft’s
Perhaps wary of our weariness with “stuff built out of Minecraft blocks”, reader MOZONE sent this video in almost apologetically. Which, it turns out, was an entirely unwarranted emotion. Because MOZONE, this is amazing He’s gone and rebuilt Battlefield 3’s famous Caspain Border map, brick for brick, then gone and made a sexy trailer for…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2012 -
The Greatest Calculus Test of All Time
So Sahara gets her calculus test, opens it up and finds…oh, well, look at that. Pokémon. Right there, officially, as part of the test. If you’re going to try and make calculus more fun, that’s a pretty good way to get started. Best. Quiz. Ever. [My Asian Genes Are Recessive]
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2012 -
Maybe Nintendo Needs a New Mascot
Mario may be identifiable as the sun to the wider population, but there’s a generation of gamers coming of age who grew up playing more Pokémon than Paper Mario. To better appeal to their sensibilities, then, perhaps Nintendo could take a look at its choice of mascot. I’m not saying get rid of Mario. Maybe…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2012 -
Jet Set Radio’s a Little Slower in Real Life, But Just as Colourful
It’s not as fast as the game, and not quite as Japanese, but for a bunch of Westerners playing dress-ups with some movie-making software this Jet Set Radio tribute is pretty good. Real Life Jet Set Radio [YouTube]
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2012 -
League of Legends Cosplay That’s so Good it Doesn’t Look Human
Britthebadger is one of the best cosplayers going around. But even by her lofty standards, this League of Legends Orianna costume is a special piece of work. The amount of detailing and engineering required to build something this at all, let alone get it in a state where you can wear it (while still looking…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2012 -
Let’s Talk About The Video Games We Played, Loved And Hated Last Week
A busy seven days chasing around after my kid then jetting off to Sydney meant I didn’t get to play as many games as usual. Still, I got to play some, and turns out this week was a case of quality over quantity. BLACK MESA – It’s almost everything I wanted it to be. And,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2012 -
These Brave Men And Women Are Making a TON of Adventure Time Games
There’s an official Adventure Time game coming, yeah, but series creator Pendleton Ward really loves video games. And video games really love Adventure Time. So just one game isn’t anywhere near enough. Which is why Ward was one of the hosts this weekend of the Adventure Time Game Jam, an indie get-together where teams were…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2012 -
How Two Guys Built a Mod That Lets 1800 People Kill Each Other On The Same Map
The Just Cause 2 multiplayer project is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my 28 years playing video games. Here is a massive sandbox game that shipped without multiplayer of any kind, and which now has some that is redefining the very term “massively multiplayer” with up to 1800 people…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2012 -
Black Ops II Has a Zombies Campaign?
Call of Duty’s zombie game modes have always been a multiplayer-only kind of deal, entirely divorced from the game’s singleplayer campaigns. A product listing on Amazon, however, suggests that might be about to change. As you can see above, the game’s description includes the line “The inclusion of a Zombies in gameplay, both in as…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2012 -
Here’s What’s Inside Each Wii U Console Box
Once you open up a Wii U box, you’ll find a bunch of stuff inside. Namely, all of this, as Nintendo seeks to crush the practice of unboxing by doing it for us, months before the product is even released. What I love about these images is the small print down the bottom. As though…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012 -
The Wii U Will Be Out In Europe (and Australia) Before Japan
The Wii U is being released on November 18 in the US, and on December 8 in Japan. PAL fans, though, can expect to get their hands on the console right in between those two dates. November 30 is when the Wii U will hit shelves across Britain, continental Europe and Australia. Prices will of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012 -
WW2 Game Rejected Because It Had Japanese Flags In It
Naval combat strategy and simulation game Pacific Strike was supposed to be out on iPad already. It’s not, though, because Apple has two problems with it. Problem #1 is that there’s a bug. OK. Understandable. But problem #2? The game had Japanese flags in it According to Apple’s App Store guidelines, this is bad because:…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012 -
Unbelievable Mass Effect Cosplay Ditches Humans For Alien Dress-ups
When the cosplay team at Propped Up Creations do Mass Effect, they do not screw around. Rather than take the easy route and dress up as humans, in this gallery you’ll see a Turian (Garrus), a Krogan (Wrex) and a very Joan Collins-esque Salarian (Mordin). And no, they’re not walking into a bar. Dragoncon 2012:…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012 -
Culture
You’re Never Too Old For Giant Mechanical Death Machines
Galan Pang works as an artist at CCP’s Shanghai studio, where he’s done some amazing stuff for upcoming shooter Dust 514. The gallery below contains images both from that game and his personal works, in which killer giant mechs feature prominently You can see more of Galan’s work at his personal site and his CGHub…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012 -
CultureTotal Recall
Getting to the Bottom of the Akira Game That Might Not Have Sucked
For such a beloved manga and animated film, poor Akira hasn’t had the best of luck when it comes to video games. Amidst the wreckage of the awful NES and Amiga adaptations of the movie, though, there always lingered the promise that a cancelled Akira project – one destined for the SNES, Genesis and Mega…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThe History of Video Games Gets, Uh, Weirdly Sexual Towards The End
This bizarre little piece of animation was originally intended to serve as the intro to a German documentary about video games. The idea was to take existing characters from the history of games and “reinterpret” them, to match the series’ brief to present the everyday lives of MMO addicts. I can kind of see that,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012 -
Valve Has a Sweet New Portal Turret That Actually (Sort of) Works
Valve artist Realm Lovejoy tweeted this video earlier in the week, saying “Look at what I helped unbox today at work”. Which is a lot calmer than how I would’ve said it. “Oh my GOD look at this just LOOK AT THIS” is all I’d be able to manage, before ducking behind a couch for…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012 -
Metal Gear’s Insane Plot, as Told by Someone Who Hasn’t Played the Games
The wonderful Zac Gorman gets more detailed about the plot for the Metal Gear games than I could ever manage. He’s pretty much spot-on, right? The plot to the Metal Gear Solid series as described by someone who has never played it [Magical Game Time]
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012 -
The First Proper Trailer For The Next Game From The Resistance Guys
Well. Was this song worth the hold-up for Fuse’s debut trailer? Either way, here’s the debut trailer for Fuse, from Insomniac, a game about futuristic soldiers with guns viewed from the third-person and which uses cover as a basic mechanic. You can learn more about the game from Evan’s big preview published earlier today
By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012
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