Skyrim’s Theme, performed By… The Chocolate Rain Guy. What Year Is This Again?

When I rolled out of bed this morning, I never expected the world would decide to present 2009’s biggest internet sensation singing the theme song to 2011’s biggest video game in… 2013. A little late on both fronts, then, but it’s not without a certain charm. Or, it will be, once I manage to get…

RIP, The Man Who Made Yoda & Chewbacca

Legendary British special effects wizard Stuart Freeborn, who is responsible for some of science fiction’s most memorable on-screen characters, has passed away at the age of 98. Freeborn, who made the ape-men from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, will be remembered most for his contributions in the Star Wars franchise, where his puppet-building and make-up skills led…

Printer Is Coming With This Incredible Model Of Winterfell

This incredible, miniature rendition of Winterfell—as it’s seen in the opening credits to the Game of Thrones TV show—was done by Daniel Ammann. if you’ve got access to a 3D printer, or as I like to call them “boxes of dark sorcery”, he’s made the plans for the model publicly available, so you can print…

You Might Get a Surprisingly Classy Skyrim Series. If You Pay.

A group of very serious fans want to make a web series based on Skyrim. So far, so modern internet, but what’s setting the pitch for Skyrim: The Shadow Cult apart is the level of professionalism that’s going into the production. Instead of just tossing robes on a few friends and letting computer effects do…

Sometimes, Koreans Can Give Western Fantasy A Shot In The Arm

Maybe it’s because Western artists are dealing with a genre that’s so close to their own culture and history (or at least close to it), but there’s a reason the majority (though not all!) of fantasy art ends up looking the same. It tends to stick too close to the real deal. Unless it’s some…

Crytek, Long Ago, Were Working On Their Own Take On Deus Ex

Waaaay back in time, long before even the first Far Cry was released, Crytek were working on a game called Engalus. Envisaged as a first-person game with an emphasis on story and role-playing, it actually made a small public appearance in 2000 as a tech demo for Nvidia before disappearing from sight, never to be…

Website Finds Chink In Steam’s Security Armour

Ars Technica’s Kyle Orland recently found a security issue with Valve’s online marketplace, Steam. “Out of respect for the privacy of Steam’s more than 50 million users”, Ars didn’t immediately publish the article. Instead, they contacted Valve. Barely three hours after being notified, the exploit had been fixed. That’s fast. But what’s really interesting is…

Author Says Games Workshop Is Trying To Own The Term “Space Marine”

It’s about as ubiquitous a term in science fiction—and video games—as “starship”, “lightspeed” and “datapad”, but an author at the centre of a copyright struggle claims that Games Workshop, the company behind the Warhammer 40K franchise, is trying to take legal possession of the term “space marine”. Author MCA Hogarth, who wrote the book “Spots…

If You Expect The JJ Abrams Half-Life Movie To Actually Get Made, You’re Gonna Have A Bad Time

You may have gotten awfully excited today when you read that not only is JJ Abrams talking to Valve about making a game, he’s also talking about making a movie with the studio. That’s OK! Perfectly understandable. He’s a talented guy, and the prospect of seeing Gordon Freeman on the silver screen is enough to…

She Only Says Horse_ebooks Nonsense, But They Still Want To Get In Her Pants Anyway

Horse_ebooks, the automated spam Twitter account that promotes e-books by quoting random lines from them, is one of the most famous Twitter accounts out there. Much of the appeal is that despite being complete word salad, it manages to say absurd if not insightful things. But it’s not stuff that would get you a date……

Things. They Fit Into Other Things. Like Super Nintendos.

Probably the best thing on the internet today is the Tumblr “things fitting perfectly into things.” Which sums up the mission goal pretty neatly. Drinks fitting into other drinks, yoghurt fitting into sinkholes, God, the mind boggles the more you scroll down the page. The infinite happy coincidences we walk past every day without realising.…

Check out this hypnotic video tracking the circuitous journey of a single car in SimCity

This Fallout And Hotline Miami Mash Up Needs To Happen

Here’s a scene from Fallout: New Vegas re-done Hotline Miami style. I wonder how a game like this would work? How would VATS come into the picture, if at all? Well, as long as I get to kill Super Mutants I guess! Props to the artist, Reddit user Sliferjam Click the image up top for…

There’s Skylanders: Swap Force Gameplay Footage Here, and It’s Lovely

Activision doesn’t have to sell me on buying Skylanders toys at this point—I literally have a bucket full of them sitting not three feet from me as I type—but the games, entertaining as they are, could use a little work. The kind of work they’ve done with the new engine for Skylanders: Swap Force This…

Ever Wonder What Nintendo’s President Looks Like As A Walking Google Camera?

Wonder no more. Part of an Iwata Asks section over on Nintendo’s website, celebrating the launch of Google’s Wii Street U on the Wii U.

Seriously, Why Doesn’t Anyone In Fire Emblem: Awakening Have Feet?

“There’s an elephant in the room.” It’s a phrase people use when there’s some super-obvious thing that everyone’s consciously avoiding talking about, like, you’re at a party where the host just died of a heart attack and was carted off by the coroner, but you’re eating teeny-weenies and talking about the weather, and the elephant…

Meet the models behind all the big characters in Archer. Trust me, it’s hilarious.

The Biggest Challenge In This Game Is Preventing Your Character From Committing Suicide

Actual Sunlight is not a happy game. In fact, I’d caution folks sensitive about suicide and depression against playing it. It’ll trigger you, it’ll punch you in the gut. The game is an interactive story about a man called Evan Winters. He works at some corporation, doing who knows what, really—it’s one of those nebulous…

The Craziest Mad Scientists In Video Games

Mad scientists and evil masterminds are classic villain archetypes, and defeating them is always nerve-wracking. Instead of facing you, they’d rather hide in the shadows and rely on their minions. And when it does come to combat, they usually love to show off their deadliest creations. We gathered some well-known crazies; a mustache or a…

The guy who made that one nifty Jay Z + Chrono Trigger mash-up has made another one