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Marvel’s Latest Avengers Game Is Such A Shame
Marvel put together an awesome re-imagining of Avengers heroes and villains as college students. They recruited top notch voice talent like Alison Brie, Colton Haynes and John Cena. All that design work and talent for a glorified Simpson: Tapped Out clone. Look at this key art. I would watch that cartoon. I would read that…
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Someone Built A Playable Space Invaders Inside Dwarf Fortress
The classic ASCII-roguelike builder sim Dwarf Fortress is notorious for being unforgiving for even the smallest mistake. If you’re not familiar with the rules, it’s tough to build even simple things and not ruin everything at the same time. Still, someone managed to make a playable version of Space Invaders in it. Even the idea…
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XCOM 2 Dream Team Is Ready To Roll
XCOM 2 not only supports fan-made mods, but it’s also quite easy to modify soldiers to look like someone familiar. Here’s allmightyspaceduck’s dream team of a Doomguy-looking Master Chief, Gordon Freeman, Marcus Fenix and Duke without muscles. They should be quite powerful together, but hey, it’s XCOM, even they’re gonna miss all of their targets.
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Behold Undertale’s Beautiful, Fan-made Anime Ending
This brilliant summation of our journey through the Underground comes courtesy of an unlikely source: a tribute to a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure ending sequence. The ending in question: It is the second ending of Stardust Crusaders, which is the second season of the main JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime. The Undertale tribute copies the visual format…
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Super Mario Mech-er
Toy customizer Donald “kodykoala” Kennedy cut a giant Mario figure in half and used push pin ‘rivets’ to transform him into a massive metal monster. Mario’s sacrifice was not in vain. The folks at my local GameStop were trying to get rid of one of these massive plastic plumbers for a year. Every time I…
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The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth Rejected By Apple Due To Violence Against Children
Nicalis founder Tyrone Rodriguez has beentweeting teasing pics of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth running on iPad and iPhone over the past couple of weeks. Then last night he shared Apple’s rejection notice. “C’mon, wtf… Apple” read the text accompanying the image of the iTunes Connect message shared by Rodriguez (via Polygon). Apple’s message reads,…
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How To Get Red Dead Redemption Running On Your Xbox One [UPDATE: No Longer Working]
One of themost requested additions to the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility list, Red Dead Redemption is now available for download and play. Folks just need to own the game digitally and find someone already following the game. Update: Not working anymore. Xbox’s Major Nelson comments on Reddit. From a screenshot showing Rockstar’s Western available for…
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Tiny Hatsune Miku Robot Sings And Dances But Never Kills
To be honest that last bit is just a guess, but I’m 90 percent sure. Maybe 80 percent. Introduced this weekend at Japan’s bi-annual Wonder Festival toy show, this tiny robot version of virtual idol Hatsune Miku is a collaboration between Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid and iDoll, a company that’s known for its little dancing…
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The New Ghostbusters (And Kevin) Get The LEGO Treatment
Man, look at the hair on the official LEGO minifigures for the all-new, all-female Ghostbusters. Kevin, get out of the shot. Kevin? GET OUT OF THE SHOT, KEVIN. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones will hit the big screen in Paul Feig’s reboot of the classic comedy franchise on July 15. but…
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