Two guys named Tom who were trying row a boat called the PS Vita across the Atlantic Ocean as part of a month-long race were rescued today after their boat sank eight days into their journey. Tom Sauer and Tom Fancett blogged today—yes, they blogged today—that they floated in a lifeboat for 10 hours overnight…
In Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood sits Alamo, a giant cube sculpture by Tony Rosenthal which dates back to 1967. The artwork, a.ka. the Cube, lives not far from New York University, The New School, and few other landmarks. It’s been in music videos by Cypress Hill and other groups and has been the subject of…
I would actually pay for this chicken to be a DLC mount in Red Dead Redemption. In fact I think we should all petition Rockstar right now, to make this happen. Any takers…? …Guess not, oh well, maybe it can be a secret boss in the new Metal Gear game or something. While I go…
Angry Birds has its own board game, plushies, cookbook and even a knock-off attraction in a Chinese theme park, but now the massively popular mobile game is getting an official line of playground equipment and parks. Two Finnish towns, Rovaniemi and Espoo, will be getting the world’s first official Angry Birds playgrounds next year, according…
WildChords, a new guitar training app from Ovelin, is truly a remarkable little thing. It presents a charming, well-put-together guitar trainer that is both simpler and more effective at teaching the guitar than pricy music games like the not-so-fun Rocksmith and the fun-but-complicated Rock Band 3 This is a music game with a story—the basic…
You’ve heard of flops, a.k.a floating point operations per second, before in video game circles. Who can forget the riveting moment in former Sony exec Ken Kutaragi’s 2005 E3 PS3 presentation when he talked about how many gigaflops the system’s processors would be capable of? Boring tech presentations aside, flops are great indicators of computing…
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D producer Don Carmody told website ShockTillYouDrop that the flick will be out either next spring or next fall. [ShockTillYouDrop]
Bita | TOKYO, JAPAN: Akina and comedian Kendo Kobayashi promote the PS Vita. (Photo: 4Gamer) This Wii Remote Exploded. Why? A family from Belleville, Michigan came home the other night to find their living room full of smoke. The culprit? One of their Wii Remotes had quite literally exploded It’s lucky nobody had been home…
The Red Ring of Death claimed many original Xbox 360s. Some of them were fixed. Some of them were recycled. And this one ended up a saltwater aquarium with live corals, fish, crabs, snails, and shrimp. Spencer of Blue World Aquariums purchased and gutted a broken Xbox 360 for the purpose of turning it into…
Sony recently released a handful of jaw-dropping commercials that looked straight out of sci-fi. In the commercials, Sony created a real holodeck—like out of Star Trek. Today, Sony revealed how it did this. As previously posted, there was no post-production work done on the footage. All the effects were done in the room, using 3D…
As revealed over the weekend, Konami roped in Bayonetta developers Platinum Games to make Metal Gear Rising, because it couldn’t. Originally, Kojima considered bringing in a Western developer after first planning on cancelling the game in late 2010. But, since this is a ninja game, he ultimately decided a Japanese developer would be the best…
Mika is studying English, and in her pursuit of the English language, she’s been appearing in videos, explaining movies. Here, she explains The Empire Strikes Back. And she does a wonderful job. Previously, Mika explained Star Wars. Also, delightful. Mika-san Explains The Empire Strikes Back [Kirai]
Futurama meets classic RPG Chrono Trigger in this great piece by artist Tom Preston. Chrono-rama [DeviantArt, via GameOvr]
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the feature film version of action game Just Cause, Just Cause: Scorpin Rising is being re-written by scribe Bryan Edward Hill. [Latino Review]
In 2006, what were you doing? I was working at Kotaku. Derek was thinking about how he could get the greatest Link statue to ever grace this spinning blue ball we call Earth. If you ask me, he did just that. Derek commissioned artisan Emily Fiegenschuh to sculpt Link, a process that took from 2006…
The best thing about the first two Tony Hawk games, better than the games themselves, were their soundtracks. They were amazing. If you were hoping some of those standout tracks would be in the upcoming HD re-release, though, don’t get your hopes up. Activision community man Dan Amrich has posted a lengthy primer on the…
Aaron Richmond, part of the team at Cinco Design in Portland, doesn’t create concept art. He’s not a 3D modeller, and doesn’t come up with environments either. No, his work is more popular than that. He’s a marketing man. Richmond’s art appears on the promotional material for games. Mostly that means compositing other artist’s work—so…
Back in March, PR firm TrashTalkFCM thought it’d be a good idea to promote upcoming shooter Homefront by releasing a ton of balloons. It wasn’t. Not only did the game stink, but when most of the balloons ended up in San Francisco Bay, it attracted the attention of Bay Area water control officials, who have…
Comic writer and artist Ed Piskor doesn’t just nail the Nintendo Entertainment System, he nails the entire 1980s in this comic for Boing-Boing Brain Rot: Nostalgic Memories of the NES [Boing Boing]
Welcome to Soundtrack, where we take a break from news and not-news to relax with some tunes and…you know what, fuck it. We’re not relaxing tonight. Not one bit We’re gonna listen to some High on Fire instead. I am not a religious man. Were I a religious man, though, I would worship the Dark…
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