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Bernie’s Soul Still Berns In Soulcalibur VI Mod

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) turned heads at the inauguration of United States President Joe Biden. Unfortunately, it wasn’t because he rushed in like Stone Cold Steve Austin to steal the presidency with a folding chair, but simply for sitting quietly in a cozy outfit and practicing social distancing. The moment took over the internet for a…

Rare Magic The Gathering Card Goes For Over $500,000

This week, an ultra-rare Magic The Gathering Alpha Black Lotus card with a signature by artist Christopher Rush sold for $511,100.00. Online auction seller PWCC called the gem mint card, graded at perfect PSA 10, “the single finest” Alpha Black Lotus it had ever brokered for sale. “The fragile black periphery is free of common…

The 1950 Radio Series Dimension X Has The Science Fiction You’ve Been Looking For

Nine years before Rod Serling brought America The Twilight Zone, NBC had a science fiction anthology series that offered very similar dark tales of potential dystopia and future-set malarkey. It was called Dimension X, featuring stories by some of the most famous sci-fi writers of the 20th century, and the reason you’ve likely never heard…

Japanese-Inspired Nintendo Switch Is A Work Of Art

When Canadian artist Carmina Castillo isn’t making cool stuff like this, she’s turning a Nintendo Switch into something so exquisite I would never play it, but simply put it on a shelf and look at it for the rest of my days. It’s made by applying some wood-style Joy-Con covers and a piece of very fancy…

Final Fantasy XV’s Photo Mode Captures Everything I Can’t

I’m going through Final Fantasy XV before it leaves Xbox Game Pass this Friday. It’s a game about having adventures with your best friends all while on a road-trip to, inevitably, save the world. Playing FF15, in addition to servicing my goal of finally completing beloved games I’ve left half-done, has become therapeutic. The game…

Here’s A Long Sega Saturn

Take a look at this Sega Saturn. It’s very long. Apparently, this Sega Saturn Address Checker was a development unit that made sure games weren’t violating Sega’s guidelines on memory usage. Anupgraded model had a row of several dozen LEDs mounted on its surface to indicate potential problems. Other than that, the Address Checker functioned…

Hitman 3 Is The Latest Game To Acknowledge Covid-19

Agent 47 isn’t the deadliest force of nature in Hitman 3. Covid-19 is. Yes, IO Interactive’s murdery sandbox is the latest video game to acknowledge the pandemic that has infected nearly 100 million people, killed more than 2 million, and upended life as we know it. In the game’s first level, the Dubai-set “On Top…

Capcom Is Still Hiding Ethan’s Face In Resident Evil Village

While Ethan Winters may be the new face of the Resident Evil series, we still haven’t seen his actual face. And it doesn’t look like that’s going to change when Resident Evil Village launches on May 7. 2017’s Resident Evil 7 Biohazard marked a dramatic change for Capcom’s long-running survival horror franchise. Rather than controlling…

I Hate This

VFX artist Hoolopee, who previously created wonderful demake videos for Halo Infinite and Death Stranding, today unleashed on the world this horrific 3D animation of Morshu from Philips CD-i abomination Link: The Faces of Evil It’s a scary good recreation of this, in case you were wondering: I don’t think anything else needs to be…

Modder Forms Amazing Custom PC Out Of ’80s Voltron Toy Castle

When ‘80s kid Robdp82 found a relatively rare 1984 Voltron “Castle of Lions” playset in his mother’s attic, he did what any nostalgia-loving computer builder would do—he transformed it into a lovely Voltron-themed custom PC, complete with five color-coded lion SSDs. Instead of cashing out on eBay, where the 1984 Castle of Lions playset can…

I Figured Out How Tall The Sexy Resident Evil Lady Is Because Of Course I Did

Oh, Tall Lady, how do I love thee, let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth, breadth, and height so much so that I took great pains to actually calculate your height. First, I downloaded Resident Evil Village’s Maiden demo on PS5. Even in my brightly lit living room, in the middle…

Pixel Artist Imagines Modern Pokémon With Game Boy Graphics

Illustrator and pixel artist Pat Ackerman has spent the last year reimagining the entire Pokédex of Pokémon Sword and Shield as old-school sprites. Starting back when the eighth-generation starters were revealed, Ackerman slowly but surely pixelized every pocket monster found in the series’ most recent games. And as of this week, he has an incredibly…

Modded Sonic Games Are Zoomed Out To The Heavens

Modified versions of Sonic 1 & 2—ripped from their mobile ports, decompiled, then played on a PC—can do some neat stuff, like let you play with the camera zoomed out so far you can see the whole damn level. As Ars Technica reports, these mods allows you to scale the game’s resolution, including pulling everything…

Now A Blastoise Pokémon Card Has Sold For $360,000

Are you OK out there, Pokémon fans? First we had Charizard cards selling for $350,000. Then sealed boxes of first edition cards for over $400,000. Now someone is out here paying that kinda money for a Blastoise. Last week a Blastoise Commissioned Presentation Galaxy Star Hologram card, graded to CGC 8.5 (which isn’t mint, but…

Funko Screwed Up Its Assassin’s Creed Pop, Twice

Today, Funko announced two figures of Eivor, the main character from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Except, both figures are male, which isn’t even canon. While it is true you can pick either male or female Eivors in Vallhalla and are free to switch between them whenever you want, Ubisoft does have a canon option. Female Eivor…

You Can Buy A 912lb Box Of PlayStation Consoles

What an age we live in. PlayStation consoles, by the pound. From time to time—thanks, Goodwill Goblin!—Goodwill will clear out excess stock online in bulk, and here are two very big examples of that. First, a “GAYLORD OF VARIOUS PLAYSTATION CONSOLES” (as a non-American, I had to google that one, it means a very big,…

Bernie Memes Are Here For All Your Curmudgeonly Needs

Today at noon Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, but online it was another super-old white guy who stole the show thanks to a photograph by Brendan Smialowski showing Bernie Sanders sitting in a chair emanating such levels of sass and “I don’t have time for…

It’s me staring into a giant toilet waiting for the second chapter of Deltarune to release. It’s been just over two years since the first one came out, but the Undertale creator Toby Fox says “development is going well!” on the follow-up.

Pikachu Makes Everything Better, Even Casio Watches

Casio’s line of Baby-G watches are great. Know how to make the timepieces even better? Add Pikachu, that’s how. The iconic Pocket Monster is once again joining forces with Casio for the Baby-G Pokémon. (Back in 2019, Casio and Pikachu teamed up to mark 25 years of Baby-G.) The latest watch doesn’t just have Pikachu…