Steve Marinconz

Hearthstone Cards Make Beautiful Music

YouTuber JimAndNathDoTheGames realized that mousing over a card in Hearthstone sounds similar to a hi hat, and from there, the next step was obvious. Build an arena deck and make a song from the sound effects. Apparently the deck they drafted did pretty well too, watch it in action: Raise Your Nature via /r/hearthstone

Think You Have What It Takes To Defuse A Bomb?

Pop quiz hot shot, you’re strapped into an Oculus Rift, staring at a bomb, and you don’t know how to defuse it. What do you do? What do you do? The answer of course, is get a your friends to help with a list of absurd instructions. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a game…

Everything Wrong With X-Men Origins: Wolverine In 14 Minutes

“We didn’t need an entire Origins movie to know that sensitive Logan is boring” The CinemaSins “Everything Wrong With” treatment can be applied to pretty much any movie, but it works better with some than others. Unfortunately, X-Men Origins: Wolverine has more than enough silly tropes to make it work. X-men Origins: Wolverine In 14…

In Superhot, Bullets Only Move When You Do

If you were going to change up the first person shooter formula, how would you do it? These Polish developers decided to throw in a dash of The Matrix and make it so that time only moves when you move your character. SUPERHOT was originally made as an experimental project during the 7DFPS game jam,…

Sherlock Is Less Impressive When You See His Mistakes

I love the BBC’s Sherlock, but so many of his deductions come down to guessing extraordinary causes for mundane events. I guess including those times wouldn’t make for such an impressive character. While we’re here, can we also talk about how many of Sherlock’s incredible solutions involved being able to see a single fiber of…

Remember When The Ninja Turtles Were On Oprah?

Do you not remember what 1990 was like? Well here’s everything about it in one video. Maybe the new version won’t be so bad after all. For some reason, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles decided to stop fighting crime and go on a musical tour, including this stop on Oprah. They apparently found out that…

The iMac Can’t Stop A WWII Anti-Tank Rifle

Everyone loves the go-to “let’s shoot electronics” .50 caliber rifle, the Barrett M82, but why not mix it up? That’s why RatedRR is using this WWII-era anti-tank rifle to destroy an old iMac. From the video: The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20mm anti-tank rifle used during the second world war. It had excellent accuracy,…

BioShock Infinite’s Health System Would Be Disgusting in Real Life

We all know how silly the video game trope of “restore health with food” is, but seeing someone try it in real life is even sillier. In Mega64’s latest video, they simulate Booker from Bioshock Infinite running around a public park searching for food to heal himself with after a fight. There are a lot…

A Horror Game You Have To Face As A Two-Year-Old

YouTuber Jackfrags usually posts videos about Battlefield 4, but he took a break from that to play through Among The Sleep, an upcoming horror game where you play a toddler looking for his mother. The game is coming to PC, Mac and Linux. If you’re curious what it’s like to be a toddler in a…

Space Travel Could Be Horrifying For Stupid Reasons

Johnny Express is a short animation about an intergalactic deliveryman who is pretty lazy and… not very careful where he puts things. The animation and character design is adorable, but it’s covering up some pretty terrible events. Poor little purple dudes 🙁 JohnnyExpress[Vimeo] via Reddit

Action Henk Remembers The Joy Of Hot Wheels

Henk is a Dutch male first name. Action Henk is a video game where you run an action figure named Henk through Hot Wheels-style tracks as fast as you can. Action Henk is basically a Trials-style game where you’re competing to put the fastest time on the leaderboards. There are no tricks to boost your…

I Didn’t Think This Nuclear Throne Challenge Was Possible

Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail accidentally inspired a Nuclear Throne challenge, to beat the current version of the game using only the pistol. 10 hours after it was officially proposed, Wizard_Amul did it. If you aren’t familiar with the game, it’s currently available in Early Access on Steam, for PC and Mac currently with, consoles coming later.…

I’m Going To Bake A Million Cookies In Baking Simulator 2014

Caution: Do not follow recipies from Baking Simulator 2014 in real life YouTuber It’s Cowfoot took a look at this silly Ludum Dare game by Sam Oates, which you can play for yourself here Watchlist is where we show off gameplay of new and upcoming games You’ll see some videos that aren’t on the front…

Nuclear Throne‘s New Levels Are Insane

Nuclear Throne has replaced Spelunky as my go-to “just one more try” game. I decided to check out some videos of what lies beyond the third world, and the answer is… SO MANY BULLETS. Vlambeer recently added a 7th world, the Palace, and it looks like instant death. I haven’t even gotten close to it,…

Kentucky Route Zero Act 3 is finally here! The long-awaited third installment to the mysterious supernatural adventure game just popped up on the game’s site. Go play it, or catch up on the previous acts if you haven’t already.

Gravity Changes When You Go Underground

Daniel Linssen took the theme of the latest Ludum Dare game jam — “Beneath the Surface” — quite literally. In this game, you hit a key to go through the walls and floor, where gravity reverses and launches you back out. The game is playable on the Ludum Dare site here, along with hundreds of…

Your Computer Probably Can’t Make Crysis 3 Look This Good

Sure, games are slowly moving toward 4k resolutions, but what if you skipped that and went straight to almost 8 times larger than highest resolutions consoles can run right now? The result is incredible. Redditor K-putt decided to push his PC to the limit and get these shots of Crysis 3 at up to 8k…

Don’t Burn Titanfall Cards In Real Life

You might be slightly less eager to burn these actual Titanfall burn cards knowing that you won’t magically get more after finishing a match. Redditor FPSAutopsy took on the job of making the magical cards that bestow bonuses on Titanfall pilots when burned into reality. No word on if they have the same effect when…

Street Fighter‘s Guile Wasn’t Really In The Military

Pete Holmes has pointed out several issues with the tactics other Street Fighter characters use, but there was no need to even go that far with one look at Guile’s military qualifications. One might wonder what war Guile could have fought in, and the answer is apparently “he didn’t.” I went to double check this…

The Best Way To Find Meth Labs: Arrest Everyone

YouTuber Things We Play takes a look at DEA simulator, where you look at a neighborhood and try to figure out which run-down house is hiding a methlab. It’s apparently not so easy. The game is another Ludum Dare entry by Siewart for the most recent competition. You can play it for yourself here, along…