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Mario, Board Games, Beer…Deep Space Looks Like Fun
Devon Fay is an environment artist who has worked at Blizzard, Neversoft and Infinity Ward. His Call of Duty space stuff is fantastic, but it’s the homages to Alien/2001 (like the pic above) that I just love. From the carpet to the board games, it really nails that Ron Cobb feel. You can see more…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedRevel In The Horrors Of A Subway System
Because I am the kind of person who looks at actual subway posters as though they were works of art, last week I picked up a game called Mini Metro, which is basically a puzzle/sim game where you build your own subway system. There’s no brown dirt of grimy tracks, though. The whole thing is…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
id Software Lives Dangerously, Decides To Change Classic Quake
Quake Live is a free-to-play variant of Quake III Arena, a legendary arena shooter released more than a decade ago. Fans, then, were furious when they found out major gameplay changes would be coming in a new update. They demanded answers. Now id has given them. The biggest changes—made as part of a newly released…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedYou Too Can Be A Young, Crappy Luke Skywalker
Sure, he killed a buncha bad guys later, but Luke Skywalker wasn’t always a badass Jedi. He spends much of the first film wandering around like a useless dork, which is exactly the kind of Luke Sywalker this new VR demo will have you simulate. Using an Oculus Rift and a couple of motion controllers,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
Who The Hell Is Watching Porn On a 3DS?
PornHub released a bunch of graphs yesterday breaking down what platforms people are viewing their service on. Among other curiosities (there are humans in 2014 watching porn on Windows NT and Blackberry phones), the company showed what gaming systems are most commonly, um, used. The leading two stats seem weird. I’m going to assume they…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedInternet Prank Goes Too Far, Sends Schools Into Lockdown
“Swatting” is a “prank” that involves calling the police on Twitch streamers for bogus crimes. They get arrested mid-stream, one (anonymous) person in the whole damn world has a good laugh, and nobody else wins. This time it got way out of hand. Jordan “Kootra” Mathewson, founder of popular streaming collective The Creatures, was streaming…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
Most Pics In IKEA Catalogues Aren’t Photos, They’re 3D Renders
Swedish furniture behemoth IKEA has very nice, very large catalogues that I had thought contained hundreds of very staged, very nice photos. Turns out that assumption was only half right. Over the past few years, IKEA has been replacing photos – which can be expensive and laborious to set up – with stunningly lifelike computer…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
“Social Justice Warrior” T-Shirt Design By Olly Moss
Olly Moss designed a Social Justice Warrior tee and posted the high-res file so you can print your own. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published August 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
“Superstition, myth, and religion offer rationales that fill in the empty spaces between performance and results.” That’s Ian Bogost being his transcendent self in an excellent essay on the Flappy Bird sequelSwing Copters for The Atlantic. Much like his earlier piece on Flappy Bird, this comes highly recommended. Also: have you been playing Swing Copters?…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedFully Functional Lego Band Plays Depeche Mode
Sorry, music industry. We’re replacing you with a bunch of small plastic robots with cups for hands. Yep, those lego people are playing actual music—all on their own. Or, well, with the help of sophisticated machinery and the tiniest bit of magic, but you know what I mean. The song in question is “Everything Counts,”…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
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By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedHere’s What’s ‘Exclusive’ In Destiny On PlayStation
Gamers have known that some stuff in Destiny would be exclusive to the PS3 and PS4 for a while now. But as it so often is, “exclusive” has been a vague term here. A new video Sony released today gives a clearer picture of everything that PlayStation owners will get their hands on before anyone…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedHow To Walk Around Walls Using The Fourth Dimension
The above video will not help you in real, three-dimensional life. But it should help you understand how you’d be able to move if you could sidestep your way into a fourth spatial dimension—sort of like what might happen if a character in a 2D cartoon leapt into our 3D world. This fourth-dimension stuff will…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 27, 2014 -
CultureHighlight Reel: Y’all Ready For A Knife Fight?
We’ve rounded up some of the best highlights from the past few days in the gaming world and put them all in one place for you. Today, a competitive Counter-Strike match turns into a knife fight, and more! Link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and…
By Steve Marinconz Published August 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
GTA Creators: Lindsay Lohan Is Suing Us ‘For Publicity Purposes’
In July, Lindsay Lohan filed suit against Rockstar Games for a Grand Theft Auto V character that she says is based on her. Now the makers of Red Dead Redemption say that the movie star is only suing them to garner buzz. An Associated Press article on the suit quotes court documents that have been…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
Let’s Rank The Mario Kart Games, Worst To Best
Happy birthday, Mario Kart! It’s been 22 years since the first Mario Kart released on the SNES in Japan in 1992. How time flies, huh? In celebration of the vey first Super Mario Kart, let’s sit in judgment of it and its siblings and vote for the very worst and very best in Nintendo-style racing.…
By Tina Amini Published August 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedNow that’s a Yoshi of a different color! As part of its big Mario Kart 8 updateannouncement yesterday, Nintendo revealed that two of the game’s most popular characters—Shy Guy and Yoshi—are now available in eight different shades. They all look pretty great: The good news is that this means Mario Kart 8 players will be…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 27, 2014
