Sony's upcoming massively multiplayer first person shooter Planetside 2 doesn't launch until November 20. But the custom New Conglomerate-themed PC that MNPtech built for SOE creative designer Matt Higby is ready right on time.

The case on its own is pretty spectacular, but the galleries showing how much work it…

Here's something Link never found inside a treasure chest: a microATX motherboard.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the science-fiction prophets of the age got the future of computers half-right. Our digital contraptions do get ever more powerful, and the world is now, in many ways, entirely run by a powerful, invisible network.

This PC case mod is a few years old, but that doesn't make it any less gorgeous. It's been easy for me to miss, because I speak approximately ten total words of German, and two of them are extraordinarily impolite.

I've never wondered what a computer would look like after the Incredible Hulk had smashed it. If I'd ever thought about it, I would probably have imagined a sad little pancake of sparking, flattened circuitry and aluminum.

Yes, nitpickers, I know: the Normandy was never red and black. That's strictly for Shepard's default N7 armor. Possibly the case should have been Alliance blue, or Cerberus yellow and black. But I think this is gorgeous just the way it is. Because this might have to be what I do to my next PC.

I mean, I won't…

Custom PC builder Derek Smith had a friend that needed a PC, but couldn't afford to purchase a brand-new system, so Smith told this friend he'd put something together. That something turned out to be a Cooler Master "Cosmos S" case transformed into the sort of PC James Bond would roll down an embankment in.

I am looking forward to seeing The Dark Knight Rises this weekend, because I like Batman. He's rich and spoiled and self-pitying, sure, but he actively went out and chose to take on the whole caped crusading business, and has to keep coming up with clever new tools to make it work. There's no biology, with Batman; no…

You know who's cool? Tony Stark is cool. He's so cool he doesn't have to give a damn about things like "civility" or "gravity" or "playing nicely with the big green monster scientist."

PC designer Jeffrey Stephenson, whose work we have featured before, is back with his latest creation. There are case mods, and then there are ultra-mod case mods. This mod, is, well, mod.

It's not often that I wonder if a PC might arise and, say, try to kill me. This one, though... this one makes that particular concern come to mind.

Sadly, this TARDIS has to obey the laws of physics as we humans know them. It only travels one direction in time: forward, at a rate of one day per day. Its volume on the inside is exactly as indicated by its dimensions on the outside. And there's no Time Lord pouncing about all of creation inside of it.

Some people merge the organic and electronic by working with wood. Mike Schropp of Total Geekdom has created an entirely new way to mix plant and machine with a custom PC case that grows grass. I think he should call it the grow box. Catchy, huh?

On second thought, shooting a harpoon at this PC casing would probably definitely absolutely tear through the plastic it's made out of. But that doesn't take away from just how incredible it looks sitting atop computer tables.



The Imperial AT-AT is built to help fight your gaming battles. Take a look through the…

This gorgeous monstrosity was once an Antec Lanboy Air, which is lovely but hardly capable of surviving a nuclear holocaust. Mod Brothers Podcast host Kyle Van Der Mewre and Mnpctech's Bill Owen saw fit to fix that, and fix it they did.

You could practically make a flipbook out of the zillions of pictures (I counted) that track the building process of this adorable case built by a Russian modder.

If you haven't watched Wall-E yet you need to immediately rectify this. If you have, please proceed on to one of the cutest case mods I've ever seen. And…

One case modder out there in the world has finally found a use, a true purpose, for the featureless square "houses" and "castles" young me inevitably built (and tore down) from my LEGO collection.

I know, I know; a home theater PC barely counts as a gaming PC, but in the case of HardOCP forum member Achron's sexy metal creation I'm willing to make an exception. Warning: machining porn inside.

Dan McGrath's stunning Thermaltake Level 10 GT mod might be called the AzTtec, but the inspiration is all Mayan.

Jeffrey Stephenson specializes in making sleek, minimalist, art-deco and mid-century inspired PCs. His website features a solid decade's worth of custom wooden mods, spanning the range from full-fledged furniture to cigar box. The Aerodyne is his most recent project, completed this January.