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Every Amazing Glass Shattering Physics Demo Is Now A Video Game

Every time game technology makers talk material physics, they pull out the old “shattering glass” demo. Now there’s finally a game about it. Update 3/7/14: Readers wanted to be reminded when Smash Hit came out, and this is how I remind you. The game is now available for free in iTunes and Google Play, and…

Da Vinci’s iconic The Last Supper, turned into a Team Fortress 2 parody, with—who else—Gabe Newell sitting in the center. If the creator, Nefnoj, used the golden ratio to define the proportions, it is indeed an authentic replica of the original. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,…

This would make a great poster for Soma.

“It does feel like a double standard, a little bit. We weren’t willing to change the content… as long as we could make a joke out of the fact that they made us cut this, that was fine.” South Park co-creator Matt Stone, in an interview with The Guardian, on the censoring of South Park:…

Assasins Creed FIVE: Great LOL Sounds Like an Amazing Game

“Connor goes to revolutionary France, but doesn’t take part in the revolution, just wanders the countryside + eats cheese and wine.” Not much needs to be said here. This is a parody of leaks, Assassin’s Creed, and, well, the game industry as a whole. A redditor named koobaxion came up with it, and it’s brilliant.…

Maintain Your Own Consoles (And PC) Like A Boss

iFixit, the website that loves to take things apart, has come up with their own electronics refurbishment kit. And I really want one, even though I’d have no idea what the hell I’d be doing. Priced at $120, it includes pretty much everything you’d need to not just perform some basic repairs on something, but…

No New Wing Commander Games? Let’s Remake The Music Instead.

Here’s a Kickstarter that’s speaking directly to both my 14 and 33 year-old self: composer George Oldziey is looking for the money to go back and re-record a bunch of Wing Commander music, and this time do it right Oldziey composed the score to games like Wing Commander III & IV, with III’s theme particularly…

Forget Barbie, Here’s A Doll Based On Real Humans

Criticisms of Barbie’s unnatural proportions and (usually) vapid lifestyle are nothing new; believe it or not, it’s been twenty years since Lisa Lionheart took on Malibu Stacey on The Simpsons. But there’s never been a rival doll that’s looked quite like this before. There’s currently a crowdfunding campaign going on to raise funds for “Lammily”,…

Humans Are The Worst, So We’re Sending Them To Die In Space

The UnEarth Initiative is an indie management/strategy game that puts you in command of a small group of humans trying to survive on an alien planet. What’s interesting about it is that the humans suck. The game’s got a humorous slant, so instead of giving you an experienced platoon of veteran space marines and engineers,…

Why Watch Dogs Was Delayed (According To The Guys Who Made It)

Watch Dogs was supposed to be out last November! Now, it won’t be out until May. Allow Ubisoft to explain, at least in Ubisoft’s public words, why that is. Senior Producer Dominic Guay sat down with the company’s official blog and gave his version of events. Those looking for catastrophic tales of mmismanagement or technical…

Naughty Dog Denies Uncharted Writer “Forced Out” By Last Of Us Makers

It was a bit of a shock earlier this week when we heard that Amy Hennig – creative director and writer on the Uncharted series – had left developers Naughty Dog. It was also a shock to read an initial report from IGN that claimed she had been “forced out by The Last of Us’…

Guys, What If We Made Jurassic Park… With Cats

Jurassic Park is a classic film, but guess what makes it better? Why cats, of course. The people at We Are Camera took the classic scene from Jurassic Park and composited some cats into it. The result is equal parts adorable and frightening. Between this, the Jeff Goldblum laugh remix and the Dennis Nedry operating…

What Red’s Mom Must’ve Felt During ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon‘

To random bystanders, the protagonist of ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon‘ must have seemed strange—having thousands of people control the movement of a single character makes Red seem erratic. Now imagine what it must’ve felt like to be the mother of a kid that acts that way. Normally, stuff about Red’s movement goes for laughs, but this…

A Collection of Painful-Looking Parkour Fails

Usually, when we show you parkour, it’s footage of successful, awe-inspiring runs. The point is to highlight finesse in movement. But actually getting to that skill level takes a lot of practice—and failed runs. And boy, do those failed runs look painful judging from this compilation video by Uniformedia. I couldn’t help but cringe at…

Gun Smuggler Uses Xbox 360s To Hide Illegal Weapons

Joseph Bunger, 34, faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to smuggling firearms internationally, with the parts hidden inside Xbox 360 consoles. He was arrested last year after Australian customs authorities opened one of the consoles he’d shipped from the US to find “a 9mm pistol, gun parts and two empty magazines.”…

So That Titanfall Xbox One WAS Real. Sort Of.

Back in January, there were rumours that Microsoft would be releasing a special Titanfall-branded Xbox One console. That machine never actually appeared. At least, it never did for consumers. At least one of the consoles was made though, as it was presented to Respawn today by Microsoft. You can see in the image above that…

The villainous Darkseid joins the roster of Injustice: Gods Among Us mobile. While console and PC players will have to make due with the characters they’ve already got, the free-to-play mobile game gets a brand new bad guy to fight as/against, with a gold card up for grabs in a special timed event running March…

One Man’s Quest To Rebuild Manhattan Entirely In Minecraft

The mere thought of 1:1 replicas of anything big in Minecraft always sounds crazy, but recreating Manhattan? NYU’s PhD candidate, Christopher Mitchell is just about to do that. He’s using a combination of data from Google Earth, Here.com, and even Microsoft’s Bing. If you zoom in, you can see right now it looks more like…

Nevermind, the horror game that gets tougher as you get scared, still has a few hours left to get funded. We played a demo of it recently and should have impressions up for you soon (heart monitor experience and all). For now, let’s just say it’s like if Telltale made a creepier, slightly more puzzle-oriented…

You’ll Probably Suck At Oculus Rift Games

Virtual reality is…different. It takes some getting used to. When I first tried the Oculus Rift last year, I found that even the most basic actions in games I tried—looking around, movement—were way harder than I was expecting them to be. Thing is, I’d built a certain muscle memory with buttons that prevented me from…