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Someone Put The Last of Us In Resident Evil 4
The Last of Us is a moody and atmospheric game that tries to cultivate a serious tone. Resident Evil 4? Not so much. But when you combine the two, it creates something very special. The mod above was created earlier this sumer by LegalSoul, a member of theResident Evil 4 Modding Board. It replaces Leon…
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A Tiny Hamster Eats Tiny Hot Dogs In A Tiny Eating Competition
A Tiny Hamster. Takeru Kobayashi. Two competitive eaters enter, but only one can be the champion. Let the cuteness commence. Thrill as two champions see who can adorably shovel more hot dogs into their mouths (adjusted for size, of course). Will it be the Guinness Record holder or the diminuative rodent? You’ll have to see…
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A 30 Second, 16-Player Version of Chess You Can Play For Free
Bennett Foddy’s Speed Chess is not actually chess. It looks like chess and the pieces make chess moves, but it is the exact opposite of chess. And now you can play it, totally for free with up to 15 other people! Bennett Foddy (creator of QWOP and Super Pole Riders) originally made this game for…
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A VR Game About Grabbing Anime Breasts
Virtual reality is an exciting technology that is now finally coming into its own. There are limitless possibilities, (like understanding the prose of James Joyce). But to heck with that — people are just gonna use it to perv out. The video above from NicoNico Douga user Ryuto, is a tech demo for an arduino-controlled…
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Star Wars is Anticlimactic Without Music
Few scenes in film are as triumphant as the end scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The pageantry! The celebration! The swelling John Williams soundtrack! Well, maybe it isn’t so impressive when you take away that last bit. Auralnauts reimagined what the end of Star Wars sounded like without all that pesky…
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Real-Life Sonic The Hedgehog Outruns Tram
Sonic the Hedgehog is driven to one thing in life — to go fast. But can the power of Sonic make a normal man run faster than light rail? Filmmaker Emlyn Lewis pitted one Sonic cosplayer against the Dublin public transit system for 2 kilometers. While it’s not like he was going up against a…
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How To Be A Ghostbuster Without CGI
You kids today with your fancy computer graphics. Back in the old days, folks had to do everything with mirrors and trickery. That’s what Shanks VX did! In the video above, Shanks FX uses complicated light painting (long exposure photography) to recreate the iconic proton stream from Ghostbusters without CGI. Granted, it’s not exactly how…
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Zerg Impersonator Is Disgusting (But Also Accurate)
The Zerg from Starcraft don’t make noises I would call pleasant, and trying to imitate them with a normal human larynx is no easy task. Lucky (?) for us, one fan has our back. UPDATE: Looks like he removed the video. Ah well. In the video above, Starcraft fan Alex Paler tries to imitate various…
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What I Learned Trying To Bang Pigeons
For a game that is about dating birds, Hatoful Boyfriend is surprisingly normal. And that is its greatest strength. The Japanese dating sim, originally released for PC in 2011 and now remastered in HD, puts you in the role of a lone human student at the all-bird high school of St. PigeoNation’s Institute, where you…
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Here’s a New Take On Snake For You To Try
If you ever owned an old black and white Nokia phone, you probably sunk tons of hours into the game Snake. I did, which is why this hexagonal reimagining of the game by programmer Alex J Mundiñano is so engaging. You can play Hex Snake here. Once you get some momentum going, it’s hard to…
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Team Fortress Sniper Shoots Another Sniper With A Third, Tiny Sniper
It’s not enough to simply snipe another sniper in Team Fortress 2 In order to truly get weird, you have to snipe a sniper with a tiny sniper that shoots even smaller snipers. Norwican pulled that off using Source Filmmaker in the video above. To be honest, I think there’s only one correct reaction to…
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Arcades In Movies Were Glorious
Ah yes…the old arcades of the 80s and 90s. You may not remember them, but they were wondrous things to behold. And they were even more glorious in the movies! The folks at the Huffington Post have created a supercut of the arcades and video games of yesteryear in old movies. It really does make…
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If Christopher Nolan Directed Pixar’s The Incredibles
The Incredibles is already a dark movie at points — It deals with ideas of individuality and conformity, even if it is in a wacky cartoon shell. I’m just glad The Dark Knight director Chris Nolan didn’t get his hands on it. In the video above, Youtuber Bobby Burns uses the deranged rantings of villain…
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The Five Best Game Songs Most People Haven’t Heard
I love obscure video game music (hell, I used to run a segment here devoted just to that) but I’ll be damned if I’m not surprised at the esoteric stuff that’s out there. In the video above, Shane Luis of Rerez has a great breakdown of five of his favorite esoteric video game tunes, and…
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I’m Sorry, Hello Kitty Is Not A Cat
Today, our own Brian Ashcraft posted this very excellent, complicated rebuttal to the reports that Hello Kitty is not a cat . In it he cites numerous examples, gives complicated, detailed analysis of the language involved and even calls Sanrio to get the lowdown. He is also still wrong. Let’s look at the facts. Cats…
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How To Get The Sharpest Images Possible Out Of Your Old Consoles
If you’ve tried playing a retro console on a modern HDTV, you may not have liked what you saw — smeary, stretched images that are a far cry from the sharp chunky blocks of yesteryear. Luckily, there’s a better way for purists to get a crystal clear image that doesn’t involve buying an old CRT…
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Disabled Gamer Talks About How Twitch Saved His Life
Ken Worrall plays Diablo, World of Warcraft and Starcraft on Twitch under the name NoHandsKen. It means a whole lot to him, because as a result of an accident 20 years ago, Ken has Tetraplegia. Ken’s is a very inspirational story, and one that reminds us that at its best, gaming can give people a…
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A Heartfelt Ode To Studio Ghibli
There’s been a lot of talk in recent weeks about the fate of anime production house Studio Ghibli (which, as far as we know, is not dead yet). While its future has yet to be decided, all the fuss has given everyone a great opportunity to reflect on all the movies they made and why…
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Realistic Virtual Baby Is The Stuff Of Nightmares
BabyX is not a real baby. It is a simulation of a baby — one that learns, reads facial expressions and gets bored. It is also frightening to behold. In the video above, BabyX’s shows off its ever-growing vocabulary. She was created by the folks at the Laboratory for Animate Technologies at the University of…
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