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Fallout, The…Music Video
A few years back, production team Light Forge Studios worked with the band A Crowd of Small Adventures on this Fallout music video. The Light Forge guys are Fallout fans. The band’s lead singer is such a fan that this song is actually inspired by the game Fallout. So yes, it’s all very Fallout. Except…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2013 -
It’s Not A Video Game Bar. It’s A Video Game Restaurant.
The idea of video game-themed bars is nothing new, but there’s something about the idea of this video game-themed restaurant that I can get behind. EXP Restaurant + Bar is in Vancouver, Canada, and while it might be going a little overboard with the whole VIDEO GAMES THEME – giant screens showing gameplay is a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2013 -
The Ballad Of Modern Video Games
Kyle McInnes made this clip for the upcoming Ottawa Games Conference. There’s a pretty good rap in there about the state of modern gaming! But let’s be honest, I just like seeing them smash SimCity to little pieces with a baseball bat. So cathartic. Make Better Games. Ottawa Game Conference – May 29 – 31st.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2013 -
It’s Like Left 4 Dead, Only In…The Ukraine
Literally years in the making, Dniepr is a custom campaign for Left 4 Dead that yanks the game out of its American setting and drops it right in the middle of the Ukraine. Including Pripyat, which as STALKER players will know, is the place a certain nuclear reactor blew sky high a few decades back.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2013 -
Google Glass Would Be Better If It Could Kill Video Game Health Bars
As we’ve shown you, Google Glass has the potential to turn your life into a video game. This clip, a conceptual piece by design firm Playground Inc., explores how in a few years this could actually happen. Taking the device’s core functionality, they’ve imagined what apps for Google Glass could actually do in the real…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2013 -
The Best Game Of Thrones Game Is Becoming The Ultimate GoT Game
The official Game of Thrones video games were largely terrible. Lucky for us, then, that the Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II is better than any official game could ever have been. Even luckier for us, that mod is about to get a whole lot better. The development team’s April Fool’s joke was…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2013 -
DayZ Developers Went To The Real Chernarus, Took Pictures
As we’ve shown you before, the towns and farms in the DayZ world of Chernarus aren’t exactly fiction. Much of the map, from the street layout down to individual building design, is lifted from real locations in the Czech Republic. To show this off, some of the development team behind DayZ’s upcoming standalone mode have…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2013 -
All The Things Jurassic Park Got Wrong
Guess what? Jurassic Park got some stuff wrong. No, not just the pseudoscience InGen used to resurrect dinosaurs. More fundamental stuff, like how to spell “Stegosaurus.” Leave it to the folks at CinemaSins to document all 36 mistakes they spotted. And in less than 3 minutes! Not bad. Side note: Jeff Goldblum’s hair was fairly…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2013 -
These Video Game Fans Are Gorgeous
No, not as in enthusiasts. Not even mechanical fans, either. We’re talking about video game themed hand fans by deviantART user SarurunKamui—like the Okami one above. Pretty fantastic, right? SarunrunKamui has a bevy of them on deviantART which you should check out, but here are some highlights. Arcanine, from Pokemon Espeon and Umbreon from Pokemon…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 14, 2013 -
The Storied Italian Composition Buried Within Metro: Last Light
The surface of the Earth may be a blasted wasteland, its music shops and symphony halls reduced to smoldering ruins. But as long as humans survive, so too will music. It’s in that spirit that I enjoy the music of Metro 2033 and its equally post-apocalyptic sequel, Metro: Last Light. The games have a distinct…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2013 -
The Sexiest, If Not Silliest, Skyrim Beard Porn
Step one: get a pin-up mod, and the True Vision ENB’s filmic preset for Skyrim. Step two: have a beard (here are some good beard mods). Step three: take a picture. Reddit now has a “Skyrim Beard Porn” subreddit, and despite being somewhat new, people are showing off some ridiculous beard action. Not all of…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 14, 2013 -
Check Out The First Trailer For Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D. TV Show
Agent Coulson’s putting a crack team together to “protect the the ordinary from the extraordinary.” And what do you know, they’re making a TV show about it! Give the first trailer for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. a watch up top. Avengers-director/nerd-hero Joss Whedon is attached as executive producer, with many of his usual cohort working…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2013 -
A Speed-Drawing Of Batman Showing Superman Who’s Boss
Every time I think I’d like to learn how to draw, I see an artist like 8bit Ego‘s Masood Tahir draw something and I think, “WOW, are you serious, this guy draws faster than I can think!!” Wait, what’s that you say? The video’s sped up? Oh, that explains a lot. This is nifty. While…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2013 -
The Largest, Most Awesome Video Game Castles
Inspired mostly by Medieval architecture and the Middle Ages, fortified stone castles in video games are always among the most exciting locations. These bastions are the keepers of many secrets, hidden cellars and lost knowledge all awaiting the player to find them. We collected some of the most amazing video game castles, opting for those…
By Gergo Vas Published May 14, 2013 -
This cool interactive journal for Remember Me pulls you through the life of the guy who invented the game’s memory digitization technology. It reminds me a bit of the Daft Punk cover story on Pitchfork that everyone’s been talking about today. Turns out the game’s fiction all started on Facebook. Sort of.
By Evan Narcisse Published May 14, 2013 -
How A Poster Of A Sexy Dude Helped One Game Developer Make A Point
An employee at Hawken developer Meteor Entertainment had only one real gripe about her job: Their office featured a poster of a scantily-clad lady mechanic, and it bugged her to death. She says her boss, Meteor CEO Mark Long, loved the poster. She did not. So what did she do? As she describes in a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2013 -
Six Critics Are Pleasantly Spooked By Metro: Last Light
Metro: Last Light is a survivor. Not only did it suffer multiple delays, but it also managed to get through its publisher’s unfortunate closure unscathed. The result is an excellent, albeit slightly troubled, first-person horror shooter. While some reviews note a few performance- and technical polish-related shortcomings, they agree that Last Light’s universe, story and…
By András Neltz Published May 14, 2013 -
Now We Can All Be Kitty Girls And Boys In The Old Republic
In case you just hopped on the MMO bandwagon with the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, it’s not a massively multiplayer party until the anthropomorphic animals arrive. The original EverQuest had the Vah Shir, World of Warcraft has Worgen and now Pandas, and The Old Republic has the Cathar, a race of intergalactic…
By Mike Fahey Published May 14, 2013