Steve Marinconz

Remember That Spelunky World Record? It Just Got Topped.

Spelunky players just refuse to give up. It makes sense, considering the game they’ve chosen to spend so much time playing. The world record for highest possible score has been beaten, with an amazing run by YamaYamaDingDong. I asked YamaYamaDingDong what his next attempt is going to be, and he says he’ll be trying to…

Finding Battlefield 4‘s Latest Secret Took A Lot Of Work

The latest Battlefield 4 DLC, Naval Strike, has another secret assignment called “Phantom Trainee”. Finding out how to unlock it involved a fake player, morse code, the viking alphabet, and a bunch of other crazy secrets. YouTuber JackFrags walks us through the process of how the secrets were unlocked in he video above. You have…

People Sure Do Hate When You Narrate Their Life

I suppose the guys at Mega64 couldn’t get enough of The Stanley Parable, because they decided to go out and narrate a bunch of people’s lives to their faces. The results weren’t too friendly. Mega64[YouTube]

“Tinder For Babies” And Other Stupid Ideas Nobody Needs

Hackathons are all the rage these days, but they can be kind of stupid. So some NYU students put together one of their own. Metro New York brings us some of the best ideas from the Stupid Shit No One Needs And Terrible Ideas Hackathon. The interview on Metro New York is great, and gives…

Kinect Can Make An Avatar From Your Face. Or A Mask.

OutsideXbox wasn’t content to just make avatars from their normal faces, so they rounded up a bunch of fake noses, wigs, and masks to put the Kinect’s facial recognition to the test. Masks vs Kinect [OutsideXbox]

I Wish All Dota 2 Fan Films Looked This Good

Valve’s Source Filmmaker is an amazing tool, and this fan film is a great example. It shows poor Tidehunter trying to land a hit on Kunkka and failing. And failing. And failing. I hope Valve hires this guy to do the clips for their future Dota 2 videos. via palingenesie

Check Out An Hour Of Dark Souls 2 On PC

The guys at Giant Bomb play enough Dark Souls already, so of course they’re right on top of the PC version. If you’re wondering about any of the differences between the console and PC version, they go through all the details as they play.

New Hotline Miami 2 Trailer: Dial Tone

Can’t wait for this sequel!

This Portable N64 Is A Work Of Art, And There Are More Coming

We’ve seen portable retro consoles before, but this N64 mod is beautiful. Not only that, but it looks like there will be more of them on the way, so you just might be able to get one. The portable console uses a 3.5″ screen, internal memory and Rumble Pak, an Expansion Pak, a GameCube analog…

Here’s How To Play Tetris And Asteroids On Lab Equipment

Reddit user IAmAHiggsBoson stumbled onto a little easter egg on his oscilloscope: apparently if you press the right series of buttons, you can play Tetris instead of measuring voltages, or doing some other kind of boring “actual work”. So if you find yourself bored at work, you can follow the instructions in the imgur album…

There’s A New Google Glass, So Let’s Shoot It With A Machine gun

The new version of Google Glass looks pretty stylish. It also holds up well when dropped on grass, concrete, and in water. Not so well when shot with a 1200 round per minute Vector submachine gun. Google Glass 2.0 vs Vector Submachine Gun [RatedRR]

30 Minutes Of Being Trapped In A Nightmare

What happens when your crazy backwards music game is a commercial failure? For Matt Gilgenbach, the answer was depression and nightmares. So like any good game developer, he made it into a game, which put us in a series of situations inspired by his nightmares. Neverending Nightmares is an adventure game with no HUD, no…

Are you in New York? Do you like Civilization V, and art? Stop by the Whitney museum to see Me Playing Civilization, a performance art piece that consists of… a guy playing Civilization V, seven hours a day, five days a week, until May 25th. For more about Me Playing Civilization, check out the interview…

Watch A Robot Destroying Threes, Live

Matthew Wegner is working on a cool-looking game, but in his free time, he built an actual physical robot that plays Threes, the puzzle game that we’re obsessed with. You can watch it playing live on Twitch right here. According to the text on the stream, he just created the robot, and it seems the…

Finally, A Video Game That Lets You Worship Gabe Newell

The wonderful folks at Giant Bomb got their hands on a copy of Crawl, which lets you explore a dungeon where your friends are the monsters. It looks like the game’s sense of humor is already living up to its excellent trailer. You can check out the gameplay in the video below. It’s an early…

Battlefield 4 Players Have Finally Found The Megalodon

Not only has the Megalodon that everyone was searching for finally been found, but it isn’t disappointing in the least. Note how it gracefully explodes when it hits the water. It’s become apparent that the most interesting part of Battlefield 4 are the many easter eggs. They started with the Megalodon rumors, which nobody was…

A Reminder That Not Everyone Reads Before Commenting

On April Fool’s day, NPR had an extremely simple joke that turned out to be an incredibly effective demonstration of how many commenters on Facebook actually read the articles they comment on. The post was simple: Except if you actually clicked through you got this: Congratulations, genuine readers, and happy April Fools’ Day! We sometimes…

Enjoy This Relaxing Video Of A Guy Killing People With A Ladle

The Handmaid’s Ladle is the weakest weapon in Dark Souls 2. So like any good Dark Souls player, Radar303 dressed up like a chef and started killing people with it to the soundtrack from Ratatouille If you aren’t familiar with Dark Souls, there are two things common to both Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2:…

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Help The Creator Of Spaceteam Make More Free Games, Please

Spaceteam is a really fun game that was successful partially because it was free. So Captain Spaceteam is trying to fund more free games with the “Spaceteam Admiral’s Club” Henry Smith didn’t get rich by creating Spaceteam, and isn’t looking to get rich with his next two games, Blabyrinth and Shipshape. He wants to keep…