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Nice animated Ninja Turtles redesigns! Artist Alex Redfish geared them up and gave all four of them a pretty badass look. Raph with a cigar, Donatello with a tablet and goggles. It’s the exact opposite of the ones in the classic cartoons. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Bulgarian Music Video Is Weird Star Wars

The latest video from Bulgarian group Deep Zone Project features some familiar co-stars. Not sure if they’re official ones, though. Yeah… I’ve got a very bad feeling about this. Plus, Star Wars: Kinect flashbacks. The video, which was spotted by Europ Popped, doesn’t even look remotely official. The tune is called “May the Force Be…

Objectivity

For the past few weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about “objectivity,” mostly thanks to a contextless tweet that has been circulating among the GamerGate crowd for quite some time now. I know what you’re thinking: “GamerGate? Taking things out of context? NO.” But here we are. Take a look at the…

Grand Theft Auto V PC Mod Gives You Super Powers

Look, sometimes you just gotta kick the shit out of a car. And the people behind it. And the better part of a city block. (First, a brief warning: tread lightly with GTA V PC mods. Word is that you can get banned for using them online. Single player should be OK, but you never…

You Can’t Play Heists In GTA Online With Randoms

I mean, technically, you can. They’ll invite you, you can accept their invites, and you may then begin a long and difficult sequence of missions with a team of random internet weirdos. You just shouldn’t. I should know, I’ve been trying. Having started a new character on the PC version, and with most of my…

Minecraft’s Rocks Don’t Burn, And Other Geological Lies

Are there kids out there who think the real world actually works like Minecraft? Geoscience Australia, a department of the federal government, seems to think so. So they’ve released a chart that compares the minerals found under the ground in Minecraft to their actual, IRL properties. If you’re old enough to be reading this website,…

The Worst Kind Of League Of Legends Teammate

“Is this guy gonna rage at me the whole game?” the unfortunate soul asks. Yes. Yes he is. League of Legends player and YouTuber Taha Iftikhar uploaded a short clip from one of his recent games that shot to the top of the hugely popular game’s influential subreddit, likely due to the nerve it struck…

Here Is A Thing That Happens In Mortal Kombat X

For a game full of brutalities and gruesome deaths, Mortal Kombat X still managed to surprise me last weekend with one specific scene. You wanna see it, right? (Spoilers for an early chapter of Mortal Kombat X follows!) Those of you playing Mortal Kombat X know that there’s a civil war going on in the…

Watch A Super Mario Bros. Aquarium Get Built From Scratch

If I ever decide to buy fish, I’ll have to consider this incredible aquarium by Kelsey Kronmiller. “I started in about a year ago, after my good friend showed me a similar tank and challenged me to make one….so I did,” said Kronmiller to me over email. “I originally wanted to go with the underwater…

Force Awakens Actor Roamed Star Wars Con Disguised As Clone Trooper

Cosplay can be pretty useful, especially if you use it as misdirection. And that’s exactly what John Boyega, star of the upcoming Star Wars movie, did at a convention recently. As The Daily Dot writes, Boyega was at the Star Wars Celebration last weekend…as a Clone Trooper. Nobody noticed! That was the point, of course.…

The First Sci-Fi MMO Just Got Its Biggest Update In Years

A new starting area, tweaked visuals, sweeping profession balance changes—today the fourteen-year-old Anarchy Online received the biggest update its seen in ages, as well as the first $15 from me since I stopped playing in 2005. I didn’t just play Funcom’s Anarchy Online, I was in love with it. While its rocky 2001 launch turned…

Nintendo, And Other Banned Words You Can’t Use In Grand Theft Auto

Oh god. I had the most embarrassing thing happen last night during a game of GTA. Let me explain. Right now there’s a list floating around of banned words in GTA V—that is, words that Rockstar does not allow you to use for one reason or another. Here is the list in its entirety, courtesy…

Heroes Of The Storm Team Facepalms In Unison  

Sometimes you feel like you’re so friggin’ close to securing a kill in a game like Heroes of the Storm that you start to act a little…reckless. Other times, you’re not actually that close to the kill at all; you just think you are. These are also known as the most embarrassing MOBA moments imaginable.…

The Brilliant Star Wars Galaxies Idea That Didn’t Happen

In 2003, way before anyone could even imagine a Star Wars-Disney union, thousands of eager padawans signed up for an online game called Star Wars Galaxies. Today, Galaxies is no more, rendered obsolete by a glut of other massively multiplayer RPGs including BioWare’s recent Star Wars: The Old Republic. But back then the SOE-developed game…

The Meanest Blue Shell Trick In Mario Kart

It took me a minute to realize what the Twitch streamer and frighteningly good Mario Kart 8 player xLunairex was doing with his banana peel. But once I did, I was very impressed. See for yourself: via Reddit You might have to watch it more than once if you’ve let your Mario Kart 8 skills…

We’re Getting A 3D Adventure Time Game

We’re getting another Adventure Time game, coming to basically every platform imaginable in the fall. It’s set in a three-dimensional Land of Ooo—including Candy and Fire Kingdoms, Wizard City, and Castle Lemongrab—where Finn and Jake embark on an investigation initiated by their parents. It’s an adventure game, so it’ll mostly include a lot of wandering…

The Lies Adults Used To Tell Me About Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat was the reason I’d beg my parents to drop me off at the arcade, and for good reason: my local hangouts were granted access to early versions of the bloody fighting game. What I remember most from that era was knowing I’d get to play the newest version of Mortal Kombat before anyone…

A Look At What Alan Wake 2 Could’ve Been

Fans of the original Alan Wake have long wondered why their hunger for creeptacular suspense-filled third-person action game goodness hasn’t been fed with a sequel. This week, they got more of a proper answer. And a new hope. Polygon published a meaty article yesterday about the undoing and potential redoing of Alan Wake 2, as…

Check Out This Treasure Trove Of Japanese Game Interviews

Shmuplations might sound like a website designed solely for hardcore shoot ‘em up fans, but it’s actually an incredible repository of old, translated interviews with Japanese game designers. The publication has been raising money on Patreon for a little while now, and we’re finally seeing it pay off with a series of insightful and candid…

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