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Magnificent Failure Of A Convention Now Has Its Own Simulator
If you are like me, you may not have been able to attend the spectacular failure that was Dashcon. Lucky for us, some brave soul has stepped in to create a near-perfect simulation. If you aren’t caught up on the Tumblr fan-convention that descended into legendary chaos over the weekend, I urge you to read…
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Luigi Death Stare Cosplay Terrorizes Convention
Luigi isn’t just a jerk in Mario Kart 8, he’s also started drive-by shelling cosplayers. How cruel! D Piddy of dancing Deadpool fame took to Anime Expo 2014 and shelled the hell out of half of your favorite animated characters. Sure, the meme is played — but good cosplay is good cosplay, and I won’t…
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If Someone Made An Art Film About The Flash
The life of a superhero is often an anxiety-riddled mess — so it’s only appropriate that a classic DC hero gets a pretentious, art house adaptation. Filmmaker Patrick Willems has graced us with a peek into a world where Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (the man behind the brooding classics Persona and The Seventh Seal) was…
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The World of Watch Dogs is More Plausible Than You’d Think
Watch Dogs! It’s a virtual version of an automated American city where everything is hackable. Total fantasy, right? Well… The always-fantastic Jake over at Vsauce3 has an breakdown of how the connected technology we are becoming dependent on is gradually making us weak and exploitable. The world imagined in Watch Dogs is getting more and…
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Why Your Brain Kept Telling You to Blow into NES Catridges
We all know that blowing into an NES cartridge is a useless and potentially harmful activity. But why did we still do it, even though it never actually worked? Science has the answer. The folks at It’s Okay To Be Smart have a pretty comprehensive breakdown about the psychology behind everyone’s favorite NES habit. One…
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Surely The Most Awkward Way To Play Tetris
Do you love the game Tetris but wish it was on your torso for friends and total strangers to see? Well one lucky tinkerer has a solution for you! Tinkerer Mark Keger has outfitted his shirt with an Arduino Uno and 128 LEDs to create a very public and somewhat awkward wearable game of Tetris.…
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Itching for a New Dungeon Crawler? Try This One
Indie developers are always on the lookout for people to give them feedback, so it’s not uncommon for them to release a public alpha. All the better for you! In the video above, I play the alpha for a dungeon crawler called Vagante by Nuke Nine games. It’s still being worked on, but even in…
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Watch Us Play Shovel Knight
Shovel Knight is out today! And if you saw Jason’s excellent review of it, you’ll know it’s definitely worth your time. But how does it play? What does it look like? Watch as I try to shovel, bounce and jump my way through Yacht Club Games’ NES inspired masterpiece. Thrill as I go from checkpoint…
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What The UFC Video Game Gets Wrong About Choking People
When you see a good fight in motion — real or simulated — there’s a grace to it. It’s like watching a dance where you see the will and wit of two people intertwined. At its best, it is a like watching abstract art. EA Sports UFC is not that. EA Sports UFC is a…
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The Game of Thrones Cast, Now In Pug Form
Game of Thrones is a wonderful, heartbreaking piece of television. But you know what would make it better? You guessed it — tiny, costumed, inbred dogs! Behold as some of your favorite Game of Thrones characters are transformed into tiny pugs. Do you think they ever hang out withBane Cat or that Dog in Batman…
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Destiny’s Robots Have Some Moves
Fact: The Exos of Destiny know how to groove better than any sentient creature in the galaxy, and they’ll cut a rug against anyone who says otherwise. Watch as the bots of Destiny jack their funk matrix into the groovisphere and deliver 20 ccs of syncopated moon wizard magic. Aw yeahhhh. It’s enough to make…
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CultureWhy Phantom Dust’s Xbox Comeback Matters
Most folks never got a chance to play Phantom Dust the first time around when it came out for the original Xbox in 2005. So, when Microsoft announced it was getting a remake at E3, a lot of people were confused. “What is Phantom Dust?,” I heard a lot of people say. Well, wonder no…
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A Game For People That Love To Spam Twitch
People love watching livestreams of people duking it out. People also love spamming the living heck out of Twitch chatrooms with inane comments. Seems like a great idea to combine the two! At E3 this year, we interviewed Frank Cifaldi from Other Ocean about their game #IDARB. You may remember it as one of the…
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Watch A Bunch Of Cats Ruin Board Games
Oh, sure. You think it’s cute to break out a few board games with a cat around but don’t — it’s a bad idea. Cats are awful losers. They’re jerks. You ever try having a cat banker at Monopoly? They throw the money around like it’s going out of style. They’ll knock over your game…
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There Was No Metroid At E3 This Year, But This Is Close
When I saw Axiom Verge on the show floor of E3, I thought to myself “Man, that sure does look a lot like Metroid.” It was only when I got my hands on it and talked to the guy behind it that I realized that it was a whole lot more. In the video above,…
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A Charming Platformer About Coffins And Chariots
The passing of a loved one can always be tough, but just be thankful you don’t have to do physics puzzles to get them to their final resting place. In the video above, shot at E3 last week, the folks from Frima Studio walk us through their game Chariot. It’s a physics based co-op game…
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Hear Optimus Prime Tell Us About Our Next Space Telescope
Some days, it feels like it can be difficult to get people excited about space exploration. It’s space! It’s the universe! Get excited already! Which is why NASA, being the lovable nerds that they are, have decided to use Peter Cullen, AKA the voice of Optimus Prime, to get you pumped about the Hubble’s successor.…
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A Virtual Reality Fan That Really Blows
Kickstarter is an absurd place where dreams often become reality — dreams like USB-controlled fans that you control with your face. Above is the Kickstarter video for the Petal: a usb-controlled fan made to integrate with the Oculus Rift. It is both the most Oculus and Kickstarter-ey thing I have seen in a long time,…
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EA Wants You To Know That FIFA Has SO MANY Feelings
At today’s press conference, EA wanted to make one thing abundantly clear. FIFA 15 isn’t just a game about soccer — FIFA has feelings. Above is a video of all the feel-good moments from EA’s presentation on FIFA 15. Love it. Live it. Feel it. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected]…
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Never Give Your Toddler A Portal Gun
Children! Aperture Science Handheld Portal Devices! Put them together and they’re cute as heck, right? Not so fast. Daniel Hashimoto (the dad behind Action Movie Kid) is at it again, this time using his After Effects skills to give his 3 year old a fully functioning Portal gun. You can see the results above. Let’s…
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