And on the 11th day, the lord of ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon‘ was brought back to life. After collecting six badges, after countless fan art tributes, after accidentally releasing over 12 Pokémon in a single day, after getting through any trees and ledges that stood in the way, and after successfully navigating the treacherous Safari Zone,…
Do Pokémon really evolve? How do we know that? Do we have actual science to prove that Pokémon evolve? Or do new Pokémon just appear in a flash of light sometimes? (I’m joking, people. Joking.) It’s kind of hilarious to think the Pokémon universe might have debates like the one in this video by The…
Framed For Murder: 7Framed, a game where you play as a normal everyday person who is suddenly framed for murder by a mysterious enemy, looks interesting (the fancy motion capturing probably helps). The developers are trying to raise $300,000 on Kickstarter—check it out here.
Maybe changing the perspective on the original Legend of Zelda is a little weird—everything looks so different here—but that’s exactly what makes this Oculus Rift version of the game interesting. Its almost like you’re playing (or in this case, watching) an entirely new game. Right now, this version of Zelda is in beta according to…
Time To Despair: you should read this excellent Gamasutra interview with a couple of producers on Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. In it, they talk about Japanese culture, the idea behind some of the characters and themes in the game, and more.
When thousands of people try to control a single character at once, like in the ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ stream, things can look a little…erratic.No matter what he tries to do or where he tries to go, the main character, Red, practically looks drunk. Obviously, Twitch players should never have control of a real person. Or…
Now here’s a clever (but complicated) way to get your kid excited to finish their homework: build them a mission control center under their desk. At least, that’s what this man—who is clearly gunning for some sort of father of the year award—did. And if you’re keen on doing something like this, good news: the…
Everybody Games: GaymerX, a con that celebrates diversity and inclusivity, launched a Kickstarter for its upcoming conference in July. The con will host a wedding for a Portal proposal we featured last year, along with a variety of panels and speakers/guest appearances from folks like Bioware’s David Gaider and WWE star Darren Young. Full disclosure:…
Twitch Plays Pokémon,’ the stream where thousands of players try to control a single trainer in Pokemon Red, is pretty popular—so popular, in fact, that whenever we posted about it, we’d get a number of reports from unhappy streamers who claimed the chat function in other completely unrelated streams were being affected by Twitch Plays…
The original Flappy Bird may be gone, but it continues to live on in all sorts of tributes—and not all of these tributes are digital. Take this awesome cardboard box contraption, for example—it’s a machine that lets you play Flappy Bird ‘in real life.’ It’s also just as tough as the original Flappy Bird. Excellent!…
Patrick as the Comedian? Spongebob as Rorschach? Gary as Dr. Manhattan? Um. What in the world? And yet! This weird mash-up by El Cid works weirdly well thanks to all the silly Spongebob gags. Man, that show was really great, no? Now I really wanna re-watch Spongebob. It’s been forever. SpongeMen SquareWatch [El Cid]
Right now, more than 100,000 people are trying their best to control a single trainer over at ‘Twitch Plays Pokemon.’ They know that if they send in a command via the ‘Twitch Plays Pokemon’ chat, it’ll make the character in the streamed version Pokemon Red do something. What many of them don’t know is that,…
South Park: Stick of Truth doesn’t come out until next month—why not take a moment to learn some trivia about the show in the meantime? Alltime10s compiled a list of neat facts about the show, including where Kenny comes from and even that the church of Scientology tried to uncover dirty details about Matt Stone…
When more than 80,000 people band together to try to control a single Pokémon trainer via Twitch chat—and then manage to actually make progress—the question that immediately comes to mind is: just how in the world are they accomplishing it? If you tune in to ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon‘ briefly—and let’s be real, since the stream…
While the creatures in Pokémon aren’t real, that doesn’t mean they’re not based on real things or scientific concepts. Heck, there are even scientific concepts named after things in Pokémon, amusingly enough. DYKGaming walks us through a bunch of fascinating facts about Pokémon and science in this video and if nothing else, it’s harder not…
Maybe you know that you have an “other” inbox in your Facebook messages tab. But did you know that you can make your own avatar into an emoji in Facebook chat? The folks over at BuzzFeed have compiled a few cool facts about Facebook which is worth a watch—maybe you’ll learn something new. Now excuse…
We all hear about how we should update our privacy settings on Facebook all the time, but for some people, it takes a prank like this one—where a guy comes up to random folks and tells them real details about their life—for it to really hit home. It’s easy for a lot of the stuff…
For a superhero, having a sidekick isn’t so unusual—it’s practically a cliche. But in real life? The practice might be considered a little creepy. That’s just one funny example of many highlighted by Buzzfeed here—makes you wonder, are the eccentricities worth tolerating if it means you have a hero that will save you when you…
It has been nearly five days since Twitch Plays Pokemon, a stream that lets users collectively control a Pokémon game via chat commands, started broadcasting to the world. Since then, the stream has had over sixty thousand people watching and playing at once—as you might expect, it’s been a chaotic, awe-inspiring ride so far. And…
Being a Pokémon master takes time and patience—beating a game in the franchise usually takes at least a couple dozen of hours. Now imagine trying to beat a Pokémon game while thousands of other people also control your avatar. Now imagine that these thousands of people will do whatever they want to your avatar, as…
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