Steve Marinconz

Astro Duel is out now! We took a look at it back in May, but now you can have your own 4-player iPad deathmatch, for $2.99 on the app store If you haven’t seen the original video, check it out below, or click the link above.

Highlight Reel: Dota 2‘s Biggest Winners

Today’s gaming highlights: The biggest prize in esports history, an amazing escape in Dota 2, and a very good reason to always watch your back in a warzone. Dota 2 The International, this year’s Dota 2 tournament, just finished today with the winning team getting over $5 million. You can check out the final moments…

Highlight Reel: Any Landing You Can Walk (Or Swim) Away From

Today’s gaming highlights: Casually landing a plane on a boat in a warzone, jumping over buildings like Superman, an incredible sniper shot, and more! War Thunder Reptile almost gets shot down, and has nowhere to go… until he spots a landing boat on its way to shore. Titanfall Thomas Hall is playing a round of…

Kirk’s TwitchBizkit Log

I wanted to do this, but luckily someone else did. [<a href=” ” target=”_blank”>View the story “Chronicles of TwitchBizkit” on Storify</a>]

Highlight Reel: Don’t Mess With Grunts

Today’s gaming highlights: The longest professional League of Legends game ever, some lucky knife throws, and a Counter-Strike terrorist who just can’t be bothered to watch the bomb. League of Legends This week, during the League Championship Series, Complexity faced off against Curse in what resulted in the longest match of professional League of Legends…

Portal 2 Looks Fun Even Without Portals

A few months ago, we took a look at Aperture Tag, a Portal 2 mod that replaces the portal gun with a gun that can shoot the blue and orange gels to craft the levels into a bouncy, speedy wonderland. It’s finally out and it’s looking even better than before. The mod adds a whole…

Highlight Reel: This Weekend’s Must-See Gaming Moments

Today’s gaming highlights: Some of the best moments from the biggest fighting game tournament of the year, plus incredible world records in both Spelunky and World of Warcraft! EVO 2014 In the Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 semifinals, Justin Wong almost got knocked out in a neck-and-neck match against FilipinoChamp, but he pulled off an…

Highlight Reel: The Most Stylish Way To Park A Boat

Today in gaming highlights: How to park a boat when you’re done with it, how to scare off a Hearthstone opponent in one turn, and a new world record speedrun! Watch Dogs John Barca shows off what to do with your boat if you don’t feel like walking all the way up the dock: Hearthstone…

Highlight Reel: The Safest Mario Kart Racer

Today in gaming highlights: We see how to safely navigate a Mario Kart 8 course. Very safely. Also, a Counter-Strike dance party! Mario Kart 8 Elusivebyte shows us how to handle a Mario Kart 8 course like a driving instructor. As he puts it: Always drive carefully. Don’t speed. Avoid obstacles on the road, especially…

Highlight Reel: July 2, 2014

Today’s gaming highlights: An 8-bit speedrun on a system from 1982, running under the world in Titanfall, and more! Speedruns IWillCureYouAll goes for a deep cut with this speedrun of Dizzy on the ZX Spectrum: The Fallout 3 speedrun we showed you two days ago has already been topped: GTA V Grog_Nozzle pulls off an…

Highlight Reel: June 30, 2014

Today’s gaming highlights: Speedruns, sneaky knives, and more! Speedruns BubblesDelFuego gets a new world record Fallout 3 run in 23:55 Andy shows off a Link To The Past glitch that doesn’t actually save any time, but looks cool: Battlefield 4 Xetanees and a friend spend over an hour doing something completely ridiculous: Farfletched gets the…

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Highlight Reel: June 27, 2014

Today’s gaming highlights: New world record speedruns, defusing bombs right under terrorist noses, and more! Speedruns BananasaurusRex gets a new world record in 1001 Spikes, coming in at 17:31.91 Yesterday we posted about this Super Mario Bros speedrun. It tops the old world record time by about a second with help from a Bullet Bill…

How George R.R. Martin Sees Game Of Thrones

If this is what it looks like inside George R.R. Martin’s head when he’s writing, no wonder he’s already written thousands of pages for this series. And of course, if you aren’t caught up on the series — Spoilers ahead This look into the writer’s brain brought to you by Mr.TVCow. Go visit him on…

About Damn Time Someone Made a Yoshi SNES

This glossy piece of retro tech was made by Zoki64 on request. Which means you might be able to commission your own… but it won’t be cheap. Zoki64 [DeviantArt]

The New Monty Python Game Is An Endless Silly Walker

Endless running is too fast. You need to slow down and appreciate life with a nice long silly walk. I’ll admit, this doesn’t look like the most incredible game, but there is the fact that all those noises in the game are apparently actually made by John Cleese himself. You can pick up the game…

Katmari Damacy + Mario = Katamario

Katamario by 8Bit-Artist via it8bit

Highlight Reel: June 25, 2014

Today’s gaming highlights: A Saving Private Ryan-style helicopter kill, a League of Legends pentakill, a tragic shot to the toe, and more! Battlefield 4 First up, TheMooclear was trying to take down a helicopter with his last stinger missile. When that didn’t work, he turned to his pistol: Next in “how to take down vehicles…

We Tried PlayStation Now–Here’s How It Went

Back in January, Sony announced Playstation Now, a system that lets you stream older Playstation games. It’s in beta now, so you can finally watch it in action. The overall Now experience was really smooth. You can skim through the library and get games up and running really quickly, and they work well once they’re…

How To Build A Life-Size Monster Hunter Dragon

Ever wonder how the giant displays at conventions like E3 get made? Well the folks at Tested took a step-by-step look at the making of a giant dragon for Capcom’s booth at this year’s E3. Frank Ippolito was in charge of building the Gore Magala from Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, and the result is pretty…