“His beard alone required 2½ hours of careful yak-hair application.”

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson takes his job very seriously. As he should!

Here’s What World Of Warcraft’s New Tauren Will Look Like

Blizzard’s ongoing overhaul of World of Warcraft’s character models has wound its way towards the majestic bovine class known as the Tauren. This is a standard female model, shown in a post today on the studio’s Artcraft blog by senior art director Chris Robinson. On the left is what she once was. On the right,…

Timeless Life Advice, Brought To You By Mario Kart

Video games rot the brain? Pffft, hardly. I’d like to think some of my most valuable life lessons have come from games, lessons like “be cool to people” and “that jerk took the piece of loot I wanted, nevermind.” How about Mario Kart 8, though? What can we learn from that? Let’s find out with…

Hacking In 80s Movies Was Super Cheesy

Movies have never been that good at accurately representing interfacing with computers, especially in the early days. But it’s still a riot to watch what people thought it looked like. Founditemclothing put together a montage of some of the cheesiest hacking and computer moments in 1980s cinema. Of course, a bunch of them involve Matthew…

Our First Look At The Halo Live-Action Series

Microsoft just showed off this teaser for the Ridley Scott-produced Halo live-action series, which will start airing this November on Xbox platforms. There’s no word on whether Halo: Nightfall will be televised, too, but we did just learn that series protagonist Agent Locke will be a playable character in Halo 5: Guardians, which will be…

​James Joyce is Back, In VR Form

James Joyce’s Ulysses is a classic novel (I hear), but you know what could make it better (I assume)? Virtual reality (hopefully)! Look, I haven’t finished Ulysses. And that’s okay! Even nerds that celebrate Bloomsday can agree that it can be a daunting novel. Which is why Dublin filmmaker Eoghan Kidney is trying to make…

Thank God Cheat Codes Were Never This Complicated

Look, if you want the Boner Code to work in Monster Peninsula, you’re going to have to sweat. And bleed. Set in the pre-YouTube days of the SNES, this skit from the Above Average guys nails the pressure associated with hitting the right inputs in the right order at the right exact time. You didn’t…

The upcoming Sonic Boom games land on the 3DS and Wii U on November 11 and 18, respectively. The playable parts of Sega’s new-look re-imaginationof their super-fast mascot have different names: Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for the Nintendo home console and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal for the handheld.

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Deals: Playstation 1 Classic RPGs(!), Transformers Comics, Free Sims 2

Once in a while our Commerce Researcher Corey finds something unexpected in the morning deal hunt, and today it’s Playstation 1 RPGs. No, not PSN downloads, the actual discs, and sold by Amazon, not some third party, and only $10 each. So we’re guessing Amazon found a pallet in some warehouse… Playstation 1: Chrono Cross…

A New World Record For Beating Pokémon Red

Despite being criticized for being too easy, a typical play-through of any given Pokémon game might take around 8-25 hours. The world record for Pokémon Red as of July 2014, though? One hour and fifty minutes—and you can watch the incredible run here. This glitchless “any percentage” speedrun was performed byCharlie “Exarion” Armitz, and it’s…

Beautiful, bright areas? In an FPS? From the looks of the ‘playable concept art’ in this video, the fans helping Epic Games make the next Unreal Tournament will be contributing to what could possibly be a very well-lit and attractive shooter. [via Polygon]

Everything Wrong With The Original Turtles Movie In 12 Minutes

As the Michael Bay-produced TMNT reboot is on the horizon, Cinema Sins thought it’s time to wipe the dust off the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and collect everything that’s wrong with it in their latest video. The movie’s full of silly costumes and clichés, but honestly, there’s nothing wrong with this one. It…

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