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Blade Runner Gives Up, Goes 100% Noir

Blade Runner’s already pretty damn noir, from the colour palette to the pacing. So a trailer pitching the movie as an actual 1940’s black and white drama just makes sense, ok? Creator Chet Desmond says that it’s not meant to be an actual re-imagining of the classic flick. “As many have pointed out, Blade Runner…

Already, An Awesome Titanfall Action Figure (From Japan!)

Respawn’s big Xbox One exclusive Titanfall is destined to have a line of official action figures. Those mechs, they’re great. Until they actually arrive, though, fans are making do with their own stuff, like this incredible custom piece from Japanese builder nammkkyys. Note that this isn’t a modification of some existing model kit. He built…

Soldier Awarded Medal Of Honor, And You Can Now See What He Did

Retired US Army Capt. William Swenson was awarded the Medal of Honor yesterday for his conduct during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2009. What makes Swenson’s actions even more remarkable than the fact he’s now only the sixth living recipient of the medal is the way cameras captured part of the action that earned him…

Hey Miley Cyrus, Lay Off The Damn Sandwiches

Sometimes, a video comes along that’s just…perfect. Heavy Cyrus Wrecking Ball – SFM [HazzaHardie] … … … … OK, now’s the gif

Computer Becomes Cockroach Mass Grave + Nightmare Fuel

Apologies if you were about to eat. Or open a computer. Or touch a computer. Or go to sleep. Ever Reddit user mistermustard posted these shots yesterday, saying “I don’t think I’m going to fix computers anymore”. Fair enough, man. Fair enough. I don’t think I’m going to fix computers anymore. [Reddit]

Giovanni, The Team Rocket Boss, Is Pokémon’s Best Villian

I’ll be honest: even though I’ve played through most of the Pokémon games, I don’t really remember most of the villains I’ve faced over the years…with one exception, Giovanni. TheJWittz here dives into the Team Rocket boss and shows us exactly why he’s so memorable—aside from giving us one of the best twists in all…

They Look Like Toy Cars, But They’re The “Future Of Consumer Robotics”

This looks like something you’d find in the Hot Wheels aisle at Walmart, but it’s much more than that. It’s a character from Anki Drive, an iOS-powered tech toy coming to Apple Stores and Apple.com on October 23. Its creators call it “the future of consumer electronics.” If anyone would recognize the future of consumer…

Commercials Are Better With Video Game Music

Last night I spent about four hours watching the Food Network, because once you start watching an episode of Chopped it’s impossible to not watch three more. This is not unusual. What is unusual is this commercial for Edible Arrangements, which stuck out when I saw it on Food Network last night for reasons unrelated…

Glare Is A Peaceful Mission To Clean Up An Alien Planet

There’s something to be said for games that just feel right. Glare isn’t terribly challenging, but something about running around a beautiful alien world cleaning up purple smoke monsters feels right. Take a look at the gameplay up top. Glareis $15 on Mac, Linux and Personal Computers.

Everything Wrong With A Ten-Minute Movie Inside Grand Theft Auto V

Now playing in Los Santos theaters, The Loneliest Robot in Great Britain is a thrilling (and somewhat NSFW) animated tale of sex, machines and murder. Though the film is only ten minutes long, Cinema Sins manages to spend two explaining everything it got wrong. Spoilers follow! As if it weren’t cool enough that Grand Theft…

A Fascinating Look At The World’s Best Super Smash Bros. Players

You’ve gotta watch this Super Smash Bros. Melee documentary that follows some of the top players in the scene—it’s quite good. Accessible, too: you don’t need to be a fox-only no-items final destination type player to enjoy it; they break the game down wonderfully. And as always, I continue to be amazed at how Smash…

Watch and remember how cool Superman used to be. Yes, yes, we know: Superman seems like he’s always been corny, to some folks anyway. And, if you’re reading the current iteration of the character in DC Comics, Kal-El definitely feels like he’s had better days. But this Zach Snyder-directed video done for the character’s 75…

BioShock Infinite‘s DLC Will Feature One Fan’s Home-Brewed Vigor

About a month after BioShock Infinite released, graphic designer Joe Trinder invented a an advertising poster for a vigor that harkened back to one of the plasmids from the original BioShock. That poster and its plasmid will be featured in the “Burial at Sea” extension due to release later this year. “Old Man Winter” was…

Comic-Book Writer Gives Amazing Heartfelt Reply to Suicidal Fan

Matt Fraction is one of the most respected writers working in mainstream comics today. He’s written great runs on Iron Man, Thor and, yeah, The Defenders. But, as good as The Five Nightmares arc in Iron Man is or, say, his Casanova stuff is, Fraction’s lifetime-best writing is a poignant response to a question from…

Twenty Years Later, EA Admits Shaq Fu was an Abomination

ESPN’s E:60 newsmagazine ran an evergreen feature last night on the history of sports video games and, while largely a collection of celebrities’ memories, it did feature, at long last, a mea culpa of sorts for Shaq Fu, widely regarded as one of the worst video games of all time. The guy at 0:40 of…

Is PS4 Launch Game DriveClub Delayed To 2014? [UPDATE: Yes.]

Has one of the PlayStation 4’s big launch exclusives has been pushed back to next year? Rumors are swirling that DriveClub has been delayed to 2014, but Sony won’t comment on the matter. UPDATE (10/18): Sony has confirmed the delay A website called The Same Coin sparked the rumor earlier today, claiming they’d heard from…

The Bow and Arrow, Not The Gun, Was This Era’s Best Video-Game Weapon

These days, guns and action games go together like spoons and Nutella. And yet when it comes right down to it, there is a video game weapon that outclasses the gun in most every respect: The bow and arrow. I don’t think I’d go so far as to argue that the last generation of gaming…

Tour The Too-Cute-To-Blow-Up Tiny Death Star

NimbleBit, Disney and LucasArts are about to unleash the ultimate weapon on our unsuspecting planet — Tiny Tower, only set on Star Wars‘ Death Star. Disguising myself as an Australian, I infiltrated the adorable Imperial base, hoping to save my people from destruction. Is there no hope left? If you managed to shake off the…

Modern-Day Superhero Comics Done Up as Your Favorite Retro Games

As tired as 8-bit homages can feel sometimes, it’s great when really clever nods to old-school video games make you chuckle. Take these recent covers from various Valiant Entertainment comic books. They’re great. Let’s give Valiant some props. Not only have they done this sort of thing before, they also release an actual retro-styled game…

The Best and Worst of the New Mega Evolutions In Pokémon X & Y

Mega Evolutions let Pokemon trainers take it to the next level…but not all Mega Evolutions are made equal. Some are better than others! Let’s discuss, shall we? Obviously, if you don’t want to be spoiled on what some of the new, unannounced Mega Evolutions are…you should probably stop reading now. Okay. Let’s dig in! Starting…