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Someone Made Sheet Music For Jeff Goldblum’s Jurassic Park Laugh

If that ridiculous song of Jeff Goldblum’s unique laugh from earlier this year wasn’t enough, now it’s time to train our voice or take out those ukuleles, because someone made the ridiculous laugh’s sheet music transcription. Piece of cake! Take note of the “con brio” direction right at the start. It means you to perform…

Snake, what are you doing? Even if your name is Snake, you don’t have to transform into one! That’s not how you sneak up on enemy guards. Where is your cardboard box? via Sexyserperior [Tumblr] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that…

Pictures Of The World’s Biggest Ship Being Built

This is one of Maersk’s Triple-E cargo ships. When it’s done, it will be the single largest ship on the planet. So yeah, seeing it under construction is pretty cool. From Homeworld’s shipyards to Star Wars to, well, the real world, there’s something awe-inspiring about seeing giant vessels under construction. it gives you a real…

Dark Magic Brings Video Game Weapons Into The Real World

Because video game items are made using 3D models, turns out it’s not that hard to rip them out of a game and get them working with a 3D printer. And from there, bring something that previously only existed on the screen into the real world. Angus from Maker’s Muse has made this video showing…

The New Pokémon Remake Demo, In 30 Minutes

For most of us, the Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire demos don’t drop until October 21st—and even then, it’ll only be available to folks who are a part of the Pokémon Trainer’s Club. But you don’t have to wait to see what the demo holds, if you don’t want to. Here is GameXplain playing through…

Hot Toys T-800: The Kotaku Review

Having done Terminator 2 a while back, Hot Toys have turned their exposed, blood-covered robot eyes towards James Cameron’s original sci-fi classic. What they’ve come up with will not stop until your wallet is dead. WHAT YOU GET IN THE BOX The figure, an extra head, some hands, a pair of sunglasses, a base and…

Sonic The Hedgehog, Is That You? You’re Looking… Different

Something’s off. Maybe it’s the hulking mountain range of muscles rippling across your entire body. Or maybe it’s the fact that you won’t stop screaming all the time. Also I didn’t know you were a League of Legends character. Oh, you’re not Sonic at all. That explains it. YouTube user Dippen made a Sonic The…

Dude Opens Magic Card Deck, Finds $30,000 Card [UPDATE]

This video, made by a Magic: The Gathering fansite, was meant to show you some of the cards available in an old 1993 starter pack for the game. It was not meant to show you what happens when a grown man finds a Magic card inside it worth up to $30,000 As is explained at…

In The Future, Paid Promotions Are Scary

The recent Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor promotional scandal got me thinking: What would the future of YouTube be if this was allowed to continue? What’s the line between promotion and critique? It’s not fair to push YouTubers—or anyone, really—into advertising a game under the guise of a critical review. You can see more about why…

I Bet Kanye West Uses Yoshi In Smash Bros., And Other Guesses

Whenever I talk to a Smash Bros. player, the first question that inevitably comes up is “who do you main?” The characters you pick and play the most, after all, reflect you and your playstyle. More than that, mains say something about your personality. People who play Captain Falcon, for example, are sort of doofy…

Samsung Tests New 5G Network That Delivers

If you’ve got a smartphone, chances are good that you’ve also got access to one of the many 4G networks. At the best of times, these networks can hit speeds of 10-20 megabit per second. But Samsung’s got a new experimental networkthat can push 1.2 gigabits per second at highway speeds That second part is…

Play This: A Horror Game About That Uncle Who Works For Nintendo

Remember when your best friend told you he or she had an uncle who worked for Nintendo, and that’s why he/she knew all about how Mario would be in the new Zelda game? Well, someone’s made a game about him. “The uncle who works for Nintendo,” a text-based horror game by programmer Michael Lutz and…

People Already Figured Out How To Use Borderlands‘ ‘Unusable’ Gun

Remember that Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel gun nobody could figure out how to use? Yeah, well somebody figured out how to use it. That didn’t take long. Possible spoilers and all that. Admittedly the person in the above video, KnowledgeFX, went into the game file and tampered with their stats so they could yank Excalibastard from…

Artificial Iron Man Hand Makes Kids Feel Like Tony Stark

It’s easy enough to feel alienated as a child without also needing a prosthesis — kids can be less than kind. Which is why I love what this inventor is trying to do to make an empowering superhero prostheses come to life. Pat Starce has three goals in mind for his child-sized Iron Man Prosthetic…

You’ve Got To Really Love The Evil Within To Spend $300 On This Guy

I can understand a Skyrim statue, and those Doom plushies were about the cutest thing ever, but the latest fruit of Bethesda’s partnership with collectible maker Gaming Heads is a $300 statue of a man with a barbwire-wrapped safe spouting tentacles for a head. That’s not okay. Now I have not played The Evil Within…

Almost A Year Later, Pokémon X & Y’s Ghost Girl Is Still A Mystery

Pokémon X & Y are rather happy-go-lucky games—that is, with the exception of a mysterious ghost girl that managed to freak players out last November. You’d think that by now, almost a year after her discovery, we’d know what her deal is…but no. She’s still somewhat of an enigma. Some background, in case you’re not…

It Takes Almost An Hour To Fly Over 10,000 Holes in Desert Golfing

It was bound to happen eventually. Someone mapped out Desert Golfing, removing all the holes and stitching it into one long video. They did 10,000 holes, which is more than I needed to know existed. Warning, spoilers for Desert Golfing in the video! Patrick Winchell, an iOS game developer, wrote some custom code to find…

Oh My Gosh, Nintendo Gave Link A Motorcycle

If Zelda making its first appearance in Mario Kart wasn’t exciting enough, Nintendo sweetened the deal today. When Link (if that is his real name) arrives in Mario Kart 8 next month, the company said he’ll be bringing a new kart-friendly version of his trusty steed with him. Nintendo (sort of) revealed the Zelda-themed ride…

It might not be an FPS, but 343 Industries just announced it’s got something Halo-related in the works. IGN reports the studio is planning to release a new twin-stick shooter called Halo: Spartan Strike in December. It’s a follow up to last year’s Spartan Assault, and is only confirmed for Steam and Windows platforms. via…

This Stop-Motion Construx Short Is So Good

Lego has survived many battles in the great toy wars over the years, which probably helps explain why The Lego Movie finally came into existence earlier this year. If nothing else, this glorious short film by Adam Brown reminds us there are other types of plastic building toys out there with their own stories to…