A Few Hours With Adrift, The Astronaut Survival Game Born From Trauma

“Everyone has done something and disappointed someone–or hurt someone–whether it’s a small thing or a big thing,” the game designer Adam Orth was telling me a couple of Fridays ago, after I played a few hours of his newest game. “And recovering from that, everyone has had that. It’s a universal truth. It’s a universal…

My PC Upgraded To Windows 10 Without Asking, Then Immediately Broke

I was on a much-needed staycation last week, a chance to recharge my batteries. What I didn’t anticipate was spending half a day trying to figure out how Windows 10 got installed on my PC and why it broke everything. I’ve been putzing around on Windows 7 for years now, dodging the Windows 8 bullet…

No One Can Handle Six Pies At Once, Even On Pi Day

It’s March 14, 2016, also known as Rounded Pi Day. Chances of me ever eating six pies for a Snacktaku video again are incredibly slim, so here’s a replay of last year’s Ultimate Pi Day celebration for your dining pleasure. Originally posted 3/14/15 It’s March 14, 2015, the last day the U.S. date will align…

The Best Final Fantasy Summoning Animations

Since Final Fantasy III fans of Square’s storied role-playing series have been calling forth primal forces to do their often devastating bidding. Some are more impressive than others. While I appreciate earlier entries in the series for granting fans the power to summon creatures from mythology and beyond to add some extra power to our…

Even Square Enix Has Given Up On Vita In The West

This morning, Square Enix announced some new information for the western release of I Am Setsuna, the gorgeous RPG they announced last year at E3. The good news: it’ll be out this summer. The bad news: no Vita. Setsuna, which came out last month for PS4 and Vita in Japan, is a Chrono Trigger-inspired role-playing…

Fallout 4‘s First DLC Is Full Of Giant Robot Battles

Fallout 4‘s first downloadable content pack, Automatron, is basically post-apocalyptic Battlebots. You’ll be able to build and customize your own robots and pit them against the less friendly machines built by the nasty Mechanist—who might sound familiar to anyone who’s done the Silver Shroud sidequest (or The Superhuman Gambit in Fallout 3). The DLC will…

Custom Batmobile Is A PC Case In Disguise

No free space for seats in this mini Batmobile. It’s a PC case and every inch is needed for the motherboard, CPU, memory and cooling. Thechoozen and his friends’ entry for a Batman v Superman casemod challenge on the MSI forums was a little bit more than just a Bat-signal carved into a PC case.…

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Super Metroid As a 90s Saturday Morning Cartoon

Super Metroid boss Phantoon steps into Ridley’s shoes by surprising Samus in artist Elianai dos Santos’ fan-art (via TheOmegaNerd). It’s a superb, colorful piece, in the silly style of 90s cartoons. Here’s the full pic with Ridley crawling in the background. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Not Even Unreal Engine 4 Can Tame The Fiery Depths of Death Mountain

Link first passed the Death Mountain Crater on his way to the Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time, but it was a lot more blocky and a lot less particle effect-y back then. The creator of this map is of course none other than CryZENx, whose shiny Unreal Engine 4 recreations have entertained us many…

Anime Tokyo Versus Real Tokyo

The Garden of Words is one of the most beautiful anime films in recent memory. Let’s see how it compares to Tokyo, the city where it takes place. The movie, which came out in 2013, is set during Japan’s rainy season, when everything is lush, green and wet. You might’ve seen some of these comparisons…

Japanese Textbook Doodles Are Terrific As Ever

Textbooks can be dull and dry. Know one way to spice them up? Goofy illustrations. Twitter user Chanta recently finished driver’s ed. and decided to fill the textbook will humorous scrawls. You might remember Chanta’s previous doodles, which spiced up English lesson books. As you can see here, part of the original photo or illustration…

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The Force Awakens’ Concept Art Had Some Cool Ideas

The website of Industrial Light & Magic, the design and effects team made famous by the original Star Wars, has shared a massive art dump from The Force Awakens, containing images from throughout the film’s development. Which is probably more exciting than the art itself! I mean yes, it’s nice seeing some near-final artwork here,…