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Artificial Iron Man Hand Makes Kids Feel Like Tony Stark
It’s easy enough to feel alienated as a child without also needing a prosthesis — kids can be less than kind. Which is why I love what this inventor is trying to do to make an empowering superhero prostheses come to life. Pat Starce has three goals in mind for his child-sized Iron Man Prosthetic…
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Bungie Left A Spooky Message In Destiny’s Loot Cave
The original loot cave in Destiny is dead, but its spirit lives on. In fact… it may be haunted. As part of the latest update in Destiny, Bungie has added a bunch of hidden remains to the Loot Cave in Skywatch. When you disturb them, the following takes place: “A million deaths are not enough…
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Guy Beats Mario 64, Zelda, And Goldeneye Simultaneously In 51 Minutes
Goldeneye 007, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 — all staples of the N64 that many of us have spent countless hours playing. Now let’s watch this dude blaze through all three at once like it ain’t no thing. Watch as Karl Jobst speedruns through 3 classic games, expertly using…
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Utopia, One Of The Best Shows On TV, Just Got Cancelled
If you’re American, and you’ve never heard of the British conspiracy drama Utopia, that’s OK. The show has been running for two seasons on Channel 4, and has yet to make it over to the states. Yesterday it was announced Utopia was not being renewedfor a third series and that is a travesty. I am…
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What All That Dragon Ball Z Screaming Looks Like In Real Life
I cannot imagine the sheer hours of screaming, grunting and shouting that have gone into dubbing Dragon Ball Z over the years. Luckily, I don’t have to imagine any more. See what it’s like to be a fly on the wall in a typical Dragon Ball Z recording session. The video above was produced by…
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If A Game Looks This Good In GIFs, It’s Doing Something Right
I am a man of simple tastes. I like games with fluid animation, and I like making animated GIFs. When I get to combine those two things, boy howdy am I a happy camper. That’s the trailer for Children of Morta, an indie dungeon-crawler from the folks at Dead Mage. Its sprites are reminiscent of…
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The World’s Fastest Shovel Knight Player (So Far)
Playing through Shovel Knight earlier this year made me feel like a badass. “I still have my old school Megaman 2 chops!” I thought to myself. But then I remembered that speedrunners exist, and now my paltry win in the game doesn’t feel nearly as cool. But that’s ok, because holy crap look at this…
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Someone Made A VR Game Out Of A Night At The Roxbury
Ah the Roxbury Guys sketch! It’s one of the most memorable sketches (and lesser movies) to come out of SNL in the mid-90s. Now you can experience it in stunning virtual reality! Live the syncopated motion of Chris Kattan’s neck with this free-to-play Oculus rhythm game. A Night at the Roculus simulates the head-bopping motion…
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Three-Year-Old Crushes Fools In Dark Souls II
Oh kids — one day they’re screaming at you, the next they’re demolishing invaders in PvP. How time flies! YouTuber ZOMBIEHEADZoCOM let his 3-year-old daughter try her hand at PvP in Dark Souls II. And while she didn’t pull off a parry or a backstab, she did vanquish two invaders and almost polished off a…
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Just Be Glad You Don’t Have Roommates (With Portal Guns)
If you’ve ever lived with one or more roommates, you know that things can get a bit messy and tense. Now just imagine the kind of jerk pranks would get pulled if you both had Portal guns. Oh sure, it’d be tons of fun at first — until you get cake thrown at your head…
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Adding DBZ Sound Effects to Glitchy Games Rules
Time to go into the time machine back to the distant past of 2012! Translation: here’s an old-ass YouTube clip that I still think is funny. Miau Coin took footage from a glitched-out, tilted cartridge of WCW/nWo Revenge for the N64 and added Dragonball Z music and fighting noises. It’s all too apropos. Enjoy it…
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Look at The Insane Moves You Can Pull Off In This Indie Shooter
Part of the reason I still hold a candle for the multiplayer shooters of the late 90s is their insane mobility. The characters in games like Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament, and Serious Sam all move like the Flash on the Moon. Reflex is hoping to capture a bit of that. Above is the “movement”…
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Shooters Are Better With Silly Sound Effects
Foley artists spend countless hours doing the thankless job of getting your game sounds — shotguns, plasma rifles and chainsaws — just right. It’s not an easy job. But those games are still fun if you replace all that hard work with dumb mouth noises. Youtube user MrElephante222 made the video above, replacing all the…
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Destiny is Cool, But You Know What’s Cooler? Jesus
You kids today, with your video games and your loot caves. Maybe it’s time we talk about your real Destiny Reddit user TLCplMax posted the image above with the caption “This was part of a church sermon slideshow.” Whether it’s a prank, a mistake or real doesn’t matter — it’s still funny to imagine a…
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An Hour-Long Retrospective of the Aliens vs. Predator Games
Despite what happened with Aliens: Colonial Marines, the original Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000 is a quintessential PC game, and one that deserves a fair shake. YouTuber and game critic Noah Caldwell-Gervaisput together this thorough, hour-long retrospective on some of the core Aliens Vs. Predator games, starting with Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000 and going…
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VR Painting Program Lets You Make Art In Three Dimensions
Virtual reality has so many applications beyond just games and boob grabbing simulators — you can also use it to make wonderful 3D art. Above is the trailer for Tiltbrush — a prototype VR painting simulator made by Skillman & Hackett. Not only does it let you paint virtually in 3D, it even lets you…
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Final Fantasy XV’s Road Trip, As Imagined By The Internet
The dudes of Final Fantasy XV have a sweet ride in the TGS trailer and they’re clearly gonna use it. And while the internet reacted to it, there’s always room for photoshops of them gawking at various things. Oh the places they will go! In this hashtag, Twitter has taken upon itself to ‘shop the…
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Hear Hatsune Miku Sing Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda
Oh no Miku, what have they done to you? As you might guess, the lyrics in the song above are NSFW. If there is a song that is popular, it’s inevitable that people will make virtual pop star Hatsune Miku sing it. Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda is no different. Matei Dobrescu made this cover of the…
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A Cooler Way To Use Your Phone To Play Video Games
Playing video games on your phone is all fine and good, but using your phone to control what happens on another screen? Now that’s really cool. Oh sure, the Wii U and various other devices have tried similar-ish things to the THAW interface, but its always nice to see somebody throw their hat in the…
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Retro Gaming Parkour On A Moving Train
We all wanna parkour like Super Mario or Ryu Hayabusa, but only a few people ever get to actually do it — like freerunner Jason Paul. The people at Red Bull made a giant retro gaming free running course and had Jason Paul run through the whole damn thing. The logistics of how they pulled…
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