Artist and toy customiser Donald “KodyKoala” Kennedy, whose work we’ve featured a few times here before, returns with a Sonic the Hedgehog piece that sheds new light on the term “Metal Sonic”. What’s cool is that not only is the pilot a regular Sonic figure, but the big mech itself is also a figure, being…
Man, there’s been a lot of Call of Duty news tonight. Perhaps, if you don’t like the series, too much. If that’s you, here’s a palette cleanser, in the form of a PSN game that’s about swans, and paint, and pretty music. The Unfinished Swan is based off an old tech demo that’s been around…
As much as this sounds like a Red Dead Redemption marketing stunt, it’s a real thing. Police in Texas are on the lookout for a man believed to be on a GameStop-robbing spree, hitting as many as five stores in the state. Having robbed a store in Haltom City at gunpoint, they believe he’s also…
The Halo 4 live action web series announced earlier this week is already filming, on the campus of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Reader xxxblank just so happens to attend Simon Fraser University, and says the film crew has been transforming various parts of the grounds into something a little more futuristic. The university’s…
In case you haven’t seen it already, Oliver North is now selling video games. And fear. It’s a step down from illegally selling weapons, true, but it’s still raising eyebrows. Go on, take a look at these clips. They’re part of a “documentary” released by publishers Activision to coincide with the reveal of the latest…
We’ve looked at Sega’s pioneering role in the world of 3D gaming before here on Total Recall, but only briefly stopped on Time Traveler, one of the company’s two and only attempts at holographic, 3D arcade gaming. This antique video, from Time Traveler’s 1991 debut, gives only a few hints as to how unsuccessful these…
Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Activision and Treyarch will spend the next six months telling you this game is a sequel, but the fact the game’s name starts with “Call of Duty” reminds us we’re way past the point of using the number “II” when it comes to these shooters. Unless it’s XII. Or,…
Gearbox, the guys making Aliens Colonial Marines, have been working on the game since, oh, before you were born. In that time, they’ve racked up a ton of reference material from James Cameron’s sci-fi classic, none as badass as this replica pulse rifle from the 1986 movie. This isn’t some toy, some commercial thing made…
Press play on this video. For around 40 seconds you may think it’s actually the debut trailer for upcoming blockbuster Black Ops II. Then you get to 41 seconds and, sadly, you realise that as wonderful as this is, it is not the debut trailer for Black Ops II For reference, the actual trailer goes…
Last June, the brother-in-law of reader Taylor was tragically killed in action while serving in Afghanistan. He had been due in September to return home and join Taylor in getting tattoos. While he never made it back, Taylor decided to go ahead and get a tattoo done anyway, only now it would be done as…
Danish company Monstrum may sound terrifying, but they do amazing work, building children’s playgrounds across Europe that look more like fantasy arenas than the dirty old contraptions most of us grew up with. Founded in 2003, Monstrum takes playground design very seriously, building with things like Siberian larch, Robinia wood and birch plywood, which the…
It’s a question proper athletes face all the time. What do you do when you hang up the cleats/boots? Well, if you’re Griffin “Flush_Entity” Benger, former pro Counter-Strike player, you make the move from video games to online poker. Which sounds a little random, seeing as one involves furious mousework and fast reflexes while the…
It’s, um, not quite as slick as the official HBO version. It’s definitely not as well lit. But the combination of craftsmanship and charm still makes this worth a watch. Just remember, dudes building LEGO with a stop-motion camera are a little slower than fancy computer graphics. I love the soundtrack. It’s like Game of…
A few years ago, in 2006, Erin Catto created some code called Box 2D. It was a simple, free physics system the “math-obsessed PhD gamer” came up with in his spare time and gave away for free. A year later, the iPhone was released. And suddenly his convenient, effective little code for implementing realistic physics…
Ioan Dumitrescu is a Romanian concept artist who does mostly freelance work in the video game industry. While you’ve likely never played some of the games he’s worked on, like World of Mercenaries, that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying some of his amazing artwork. You can see more of Ioan’s art at his CGHub site…
There just aren’t enough Jesse Ventura action figures in the world. And while the very top of my wishlist would have to be a piece based on Running Man’s Captain Freedom, seeing this Predator figure is almost as good. Built by toy creator Count Chocula, he’s a combination of custom sculpted parts and cannibalised pieces…
When the whole Kickstarter thing blew up earlier this year, there was always a very quiet suspicion. That amidst all the nostalgia and indie enthusiasm, someone would use the service to try and rip people off. Well, looks like we’ve got our first scammers. A Kickstarter fund for a game called Mythic: The Story of…
A 37 year-old man from Roseville, CA by the name of Obiwan Kenobi has been arrested and charged over a four car pile-up on a motorway last week. Seems Kenobi, while driving, came across some cars backed up on the road. While trying to change lanes, he hit two of them then sped off, which…
I mean, there’s some in there, sure. But it could always do with more. What there’s plenty of, though, is Catwoman.
In 1976, a short film called C’était un Rendez-vous was released in France. It ran for ten minutes. And if you’ve ever played a driving game you’ll probably want to watch it. There’s no real plot or anything to it, at least not until the end. It’s just a guy driving a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9…
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