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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…
By Gergo Vas Published February 8, 2016 -
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.
By Gergo Vas Published February 8, 2016 -
If you’ve pre-ordered the upcoming Hitman game, you’ll be able to play the beta soon. The beta lets players go through the game’s opening sequence, which you can play over and over. On PS4, the beta will be live from February 12 to 15 and on PC, it’ll be open on February 19, ending on…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 8, 2016 -
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…
By András Neltz Published February 8, 2016 -
Stop Virtual Reality You Don’t Fit There
His hands are like “what the fuck is this shit.” These illustrations are from the manual for HTC and Valve’s latest Vive dev kit. They’re sincere instructions, detailing the amount of space required to use the Vive’s fancy spatial awareness mode (using receivers to allow you to walk around the room). Don’t sweat it, owners/renters…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2016 -
How 1UP Reviewed Video Games Back In 2008
Withthe site now little more than fond memories and a dead front page, former Senior Editor Frank Cifaldi has dug up and shared an old copy of 1UP’s “Review Crew Handbook”. While armchair commenters on forums and twitter love to guess about the motives or workings of a video games website behind the scenes, the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2016 -
One Of The World’s Biggest PC Piracy Groups Is Quitting The Game
The last time we heard from Chinese cracking forum 3DM—responsible for illegal cracks of pirated video games—they were being frustrated by Just Cause 3’s “Denovo” copy protection. Now they’re walking away from the game entirely. As Torrentfreak report, last week 3DM’s leader Bird Sister posted on her personal blog “We just had an internal meeting.…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2016 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2016 -
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,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2016 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2016 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2016 -
Unsung Story is never gonna happen, huh? After an endless string of broken promises involving the game they Kickstarted for over $660,000, the developers at Playdek said in an update today that they need to focus on other projects “for the financial strength of the company” and that they hope to get back to development…
By Jason Schreier Published February 6, 2016 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published February 6, 2016 -
Smash Two Portals Together, Enter A Glitch Netherworld
It’s the kind of thing you wonder after having too many donuts and margaritas: what would happen if you were stuck inside the two portals that a Portal gun shoots out? The answer: shit gets weird, man. YouTuber CrowbCat decided to take the whole “I’m doing science” thing to a whole ‘nother level by smushing…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 5, 2016 -
Ice Cold, Sonic The Hedgehog
Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Goddamn
By Jason Schreier Published February 5, 2016 -
No, Honey, It’s Not a Good Time
The Vision is trying to be human. He has an android wife and two kids. Sometimes, just like regular folks, he’s going to get phone calls while he’s at work. Rather than write something that tries to explain why The Vision is maybe the best comic Marvel is putting out right now, I’m going to…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 5, 2016 -
Totally 100% Reasonable Mashup Combines Frozen Songs With Amnesia: The Dark Descent
What makes this even better is that the video series started in 2014 and only wrapped up today It’s Friday, which means news can be a little slow. While poking around Twitter for story ideas, I came across this stray tweet from Amnesia: The Dark Descent designer Thomas Grip. (You might know him more recently…
By Patrick Klepek Published February 5, 2016
