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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…

Streets Of Rage 4 Developers Have Ideas For A Mark Of The Wolves Sequel

Earlier today, Streets of Rage 4 developer Lizardcube shared a gorgeous mock-up for its concept of a Garou: Mark of the Wolves sequel. I want it to be real so bad. Garou: Mark of the Wolves was first released to arcades in 1999 as the final game in SNK’s Fatal Fury franchise before King of…

Someone Turned A Terraria Map Into An Evangelion Holding A Warship

Terraria doesn’t get the same level of fanfare as Minecraft, but its two dimensional crafting is nevertheless responsible from some truly impressive player-made creations of its own. Behold the latest: an Evangelion lifting a warship over its head. The above screenshot, which has been blowing up on the Steam community pages and was first spotted…

Man Folds One Piece Of Paper For 50 Hours, Makes Samurai

Finnish artist Juho Könkkölä took a single sheet of 68cm x 68cm wafer-thin Wenzhou paper and folded it for fifty hours. The result? A samurai papercraft that is around 20cm tall. While some adhesive appears to be used in the process, according to Könkkölä, no ripping or cutting was used. This is all folding. Via…

Anamanaguchi’s Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack Is Still Pop-Rock Pixel Perfection

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, after years of being stranded on old consoles, was finally re-released last week. I’m eager to hop back in, but more than just playing through it one more time, I’ve been digging re-listening to the game’s perfect pop-rock soundtrack. The tunes for Scott Pilgrim were made by pop-rock…

Website Lets You Make GLaDOS Say Whatever You Want

Do you like GLaDOS, the homicidal, yet charming AI overlord of the Portal games? Do you also wish you could hear her sing the opening line from My Chemical Romance’s “Black Parade?” Guess what? I got a website for you and your oddly specific dream. 15.aiis a site that lets you type in any text…

Pirated Copies Of Take On Helicopters Make Your In-Game Pilot Drunk

For a very long time, people have been making games. And a moment after people started selling these things, other people began stealing them. So developers have continued to include features that trip up pirates. For example, getting drunk in a game about flying helicopters. This is seen in a new video from The Easter…

Community’s Paintball Episodes Have Been Turned Into A Free Online Game

I liked the first two seasons of Community. Then I liked the third season a bit less and then I just stopped watching. But those first seasons were good and I loved those paintball episodes a lot. And what do you know, some folks who are clearly streets ahead, created and released a free online…