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UncategorizedYouTube’s 10 Most Popular Games Of All Time
According to the people at YouTube, they are: Minecraft Grand Theft Auto (series) League of Legends Call of Duty (series) FIFA (series) Garry’s Mod The Sims (series) Five Nights at Freddy’s (series) Puzzles & Dragons Dota 2 A press release hyping YouTube’s 10 anniversary says that list is based on “watchtime.” Not many surprises here,…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedHow To Quickly Clear The Jungle In League Of Legends
Jungling is one of the trickiest things to do in League of Legends. Thankfully, there are tons of experienced players out there who are willing and able to lend a helping hand. YouTube channel foxdropLoL—a great resource for beginners or really anyone trying to hone their skills in League of Legends—recently put out a short…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 13, 2015 - Culture
Hot Pockets Ad Better At Gaming Than Hot Pockets
Last night, the legendary purveyors of bread-and-cheese injection systems at Hot Pocketstweeted a photo of a bro playing a Nintendo 64 while another bro helped him eat a Hot Pocket. The tweet has since been removed from Hot Pockets’ timeline. Were they embarrassed about using a dated cultural reference like an N64? I can’t say…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s E3 Plans Include A World Championship Comeback
Nintendo has announced its E3 plans: the Nintendo World Championships are coming back after 25 years. What?! The championships are on June 14. The company will also have a “Nintendo digital event” on June 16 at 9 a.m. PDT, and their Treehouse group will return with another set of all-day livestreams. Yes, Nintendo’s event is…
By Patrick Klepek Published May 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Fabulous First Five Minutes Of Final Fantasy X-2
The Final Fantasy X-2 Remaster with Bonus Final Fantasy X hit the States this week, once again raising the all-important question, “How can you hate a game that opens with a dance number?” First off, sorry about the “singing”. I couldn’t help myself. Secondly, I completely understand why so many Final Fantasy fans hate this…
By Mike Fahey Published May 13, 2015 - Uncategorized
Everything is Weird and Awesome in the Newly Remixed Marvel Universe
A bizarre patchwork planet. A police corps made up of hundreds of Thors. A major supervillain finally getting his lifelong wish. Yep, Secret Wars is ramping up in the best way. The goings-on in the new issue of Marvel’s big crossover comics event—crafted again by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic—pick up after the abrupt, “guess…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 13, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Ratchet & Clank movie finally has a cast, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In addition to the core cast from the games, IRL celebrities Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, Bella Thorne, Sylvester Stallone and Rosario Dawson will star in the film. Please, please let this game-to-movie adaption be good.
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedEight Months Later, Destiny Players Are Still Hunting For Secrets
Last Tuesday, a Reddit user named DemonCipher13 wrote a passionate call for help on a subreddit dedicated to Destiny, a video game about the mysteries of space. “The time has come,” DemonCipher13 wrote, directly addressing David “DeeJ” Dague, a community manager at Bungie, the studio that develops and maintains Destiny. “Help us. Is there anything…
By Jason Schreier Published May 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedWarCraft‘s Iconic Villain Kael’thas Joins Heroes of the Storm
Slipping in before Heroes of the Storm’s official release Blizzard added another fan favorite to the game’s ever-growing roster: The wretched mage Kael’thas Sunstrider from The Burning Crusade and WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne Using his also iconic “fel-green” Verdant Spheres and various fire attacks, he’s completely true to the crazy villain we faced maybe…
By Gergo Vas Published May 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedMusic Video Turns The NES Into A Deadly Weapon
It’s mostly ‘80s nostalgia in the video for The Fjords’ “All In”—until the kid pulls out his NES Zapper and starts blowing people away. The first sign that something’s not right in the video comes as the young boy lays out an arsenal of fake Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges. The Massacre? Fireball? Rocket? I’ve not…
By Mike Fahey Published May 13, 2015 - Kotaku East
Why the Triforce Is On The Grave of the Game Boy’s Creator
The Triforce. It’s an iconic symbol in gaming. And as Kotaku previously pointed out, the original design is part of Japanese culture. It’s also on the grave of a legendary Nintendo designer. Here’s why. Few of us will impact the world like Nintendo’s Gunpei Yokoi did during his life. Whether that was creating the Game…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedCaptain America As An NES Game
The power of the NES might have been too much for a game like this, but CineFix’s fake Captain America: The Winter Soldiergame just looks great as a late NES, early SNES game, something from the early 90s. The clip is following the events of the second movie, ending with the messy battle on top…
By Gergo Vas Published May 13, 2015 -
Kotaku EastFew Artists Can Draw Engines Freehand Like This
Then, there’s the fact that the illustration was done completely from memory. Last year, our colleagues at Sploid showed how Korean artist Kim Jung Gi could create impressive illustrations without prior sketching. While serving in his country’s armed services, Kim was able to work with a wide variety of machines. His art shows a deep…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 13, 2015 - Kotaku East
Iron Man Plus Panda Is Iron Panda
Nearly twenty-feet high, this marvelous sculpture recently went on display in Shenyang, China. [Photo: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images] Robert Downey Jr. might be cool and all, sure, but he’s not panda cute. Nor is he, as far as I know, twenty feet tall. [Photo: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images] Beijing artist Bi Sheng created the work,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 13, 2015 - Culture
Please, Make A Cartoon About This Football Team
Soon Sang Hong is an artist who has worked for companies like Eyedentity, the Korean studio behind games such as, um, Dragon Nest I’m a fan of everything that gets posted here on Fine Art—it wouldn’t be posted otherwise—but Good Lord, this is something else. There’s so much character, and style, and colour going on…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2015 -
CultureDying Light Goes To Outer Space. Thanks, Mods
This isn’t the Dying Light you played when the zombie parkour mash-up first came out. This isn’t that game at all. OK, it is that game a little bit, if only in the sense that there is jumping. Thanks to Steam user Pawciak, though, the rest is nearly unrecognizable. Dying Light, as you likely know,…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 12, 2015