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Buffy The Vampire Slayer, They Live, and other science fiction Nintendo games that never existed

There were plenty of old school video games based on science fiction movies, but plenty of them were absolutely godawful. We’re looking at you, Total Recall for Nintendo and E.T. for Atari. Less than content with reality, the blog VG Junk has turned to its own imagination to create screenshots from licensed video games that…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Picture of the Day, May 23, 2012

TIGER | This detail of a giclée print called “Tiger” by illustrator Alice Duke is the perfect embodiment of the William Blake poem that begins with the line, “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright. / In the forests of the night.” You can buy a gorgeous poster of this print, and check out more of Duke’s sumptuous…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Godzilla + Voltron – Cats = The Official Synopsis of Pacific Rim

The first official synopsis for Guillermo del Toro’s monsters versus robots movie Pacific Rim is out. Boiled down, the whole thing is about giant robots piloted by different teams of humans struggling to fight strange monsters funneling out of the sea. This movie is going to be massive: When legions of monstrous creatures, known as…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Oxford University is going Yeti-hunting

Genetic analyses have come a long way since researchers last took a serious look at remains claimed to belong to cryptids like yeti and bigfoot. Now, Oxford University researcher Bryan Sykes thinks it’s time to revisit the issue using some of the most advanced analytical techniques available. Sykes will team up with Michel Artori, director…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Gorgeous Matte Paintings that Made Lord of the Rings and Fifth Element Feel Real

You’ve seen the work of matte painter Wayne Haag in Lord of the Rings, Farscape and The Fifth Element, among many other works. His matte paintings have given a sense of depth and reality to the fantastical worlds in your favorite movies and television shows — and here, he gives us an inside look at…

Movies Wayne Haag

This Russian city uses old Soviet tanks as playgrounds

In the environs of the southwestern Siberian city of Omsk, you can find decommissioned Soviet tanks welded shut and dotting children’s playgrounds. Behold the most hardcore playground accoutrements this side of splinter-covered monkey bars. Omsk has a history of being a center of military production, which explains why these ASU-85s and Т-62s are painted happily…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

G.I. Joe: Retaliation pushed back to March 2013 for 3D conversion! Cripes!

G.I. Joe: Retaliation was supposed to be released next month. Instead the studio has decided to push it back to next year for 3D conversion. This is a film the studio has already spent gobs marketing it — they even bought a Super Bowl spot. This baffling decision is not only shocking, it’s depressing. We…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watch this guy become the first person in history to safely land a skydive sans chute

WHERE WE’RE GOING, WE DON’T NEED PARACHUTES! Oh — but we will need cardboard boxes to break the fall. Lots and lots of cardboard boxes. Eighteen thousand, six hundred boxes. To be exact. [skyNEWS]

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This article about chickens is one of the most interesting things you’ll read this week

That’s right. I said it. Chickens. I know, I was skeptical at first, too; but earlier this morning, I sat down to glance at this longread by Smithsonian Magazine’s Jerry Adler and Andrew Lawler and I’ll be damned if I didn’t read it straight through. The piece — entitled “How the Chicken Conquered the World”…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Who is this mysterious new Dark Knight Rises character?

A new crop of freshly released Dark Knight Rises toys from the Quick Tek line has potentially revealed the a brand new Batman character. Thanks to an io9 reader, we now have a close look at a brand new face, well a toy face. Who could this gentleman on the right be? We have three…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Your first look at katana-wielding Michonne from The Walking Dead

We saw her briefly in the second season finale — now here’s our first clear shot of actress Danai Gurira as katana-swinging wasteland warrior Michonne from The Walking Dead’s third season (via Entertainment Weekly). As Walking Dead head honcho Robert Kirkman explains: https://gizmodo.com/on-the-season-finale-of-the-walking-dead-the-honeymoon-5894370 The essence of the character – her personality, her motives, everything that…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

The Wrong Way to Plan for the Future

We all know that thinking ahead is the only way to succeed in life. But a ton of new research shows that the more you think about future goals and events, the more mistakes you’re likely to make. So how can you make forward-looking plans in a way that maximizes your chances of winning out?…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Confirmed: Geeks are the Best People to Watch Movies With

Want to enjoy a pure movie-going experience? You’re going to have to stay up late. A new article claims midnight movie screenings are the only ones where you’re not likely to be disturbed by rude maniacs. The reason why midnight movies are so great? Because the audiences are fans. Top image: Midnight Screening of Harry…

Movies Michael Ann Dobbs

The 10 Most Asinine 1990s Comic Book Characters Who Never Caught On

The 1990s were a frenzied time for comic books. Sure, everybody was buying stacks of comics with hologram covers and quoting Wolverine non-ironically, but so, so many godawful new characters debuted during those years. For every Deadpool or Harley Quinn who captured fans’ hearts, there were a dozen gaudily dressed nutjobs with katanas growing out…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Creepiest Haunted House in Silicon Valley

In the middle of sprawling Silicon Valley hub San Jose, surrounded by startups and tech campuses, there’s a monstrous anachronism of red-tiled roofs and Victorian curlicues. It’s the 1880s mega-mansion known today as the Winchester Mystery House. Built by heiress Sarah Winchester over a period of almost forty years, the place is an enormous, 6-acre…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The three main problems with sexual reproduction, as explained by science

Over at PLoS Biology, biologist Denis Roze has a fascinating article introducing a question that may at first seem obvious, but is in fact one of the enduring mysteries of biology: Why bother to have sex? People interested in evolutionary biology may already be familiar with the reasons why sexual intercourse is an improbable evolutionary…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Experience eight years of breathtaking Saturnian exploration in five minutes

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting around Saturn and its various moons since 2004. In that time, it’s collected thousands upon thousands of awe-inspiring images of the ringed planet and its satellites. From time to time, someone with the requisite patience, dedication and passion pores over this extensive collection of interplanetary photographs and uses them…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Best and Worst Movie Threequels of All Time

When it comes to movie series, the third time is definitely not the charm. Some of the best movies ever made are the second films in a franchise — but it’s a rare third film that achieves true greatness. This Friday sees the release of Men in Black III, and everybody’s wondering if it can…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Concept art from Syfy’s Space Western Defiance shows off future St. Louis

Take a good long look at Syfy’s massive multiplayer online game/television series Defiance. It’s been called a space western, an immigrant drama, and a dystopian drama, but one thing is for certain — this is a sizable undertaking by Syfy. The channel hopes to simultaneously blend together an online roleplaying game with the show’s weekly…

Television Meredith Woerner

Seriously cute dresses inspired by costumes from The Avengers

Superhero fan Robinade has wowed Tumblr with her amazing dress designs in the past, and now she’s got a new collection to celebrate the recent Avengers flick. You can see the backs of these dresses, and more designs on Robinade’s Tumblr. I can’t decide whether I’d rather have the Hulk’s dress or Cap’s. Maybe Fury’s?…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, They Live, and other science fiction Nintendo games that never existed

Picture of the Day, May 23, 2012

Godzilla + Voltron – Cats = The Official Synopsis of Pacific Rim

Oxford University is going Yeti-hunting

The Gorgeous Matte Paintings that Made Lord of the Rings and Fifth Element Feel Real

This Russian city uses old Soviet tanks as playgrounds

G.I. Joe: Retaliation pushed back to March 2013 for 3D conversion! Cripes!

Watch this guy become the first person in history to safely land a skydive sans chute

This article about chickens is one of the most interesting things you’ll read this week

Who is this mysterious new Dark Knight Rises character?

Your first look at katana-wielding Michonne from The Walking Dead

The Wrong Way to Plan for the Future

Confirmed: Geeks are the Best People to Watch Movies With

The 10 Most Asinine 1990s Comic Book Characters Who Never Caught On

The Creepiest Haunted House in Silicon Valley

The three main problems with sexual reproduction, as explained by science

Experience eight years of breathtaking Saturnian exploration in five minutes

Best and Worst Movie Threequels of All Time

Concept art from Syfy’s Space Western Defiance shows off future St. Louis

Seriously cute dresses inspired by costumes from The Avengers

KitchenAid 4.5-Quart Stand Mixer Is Back at Its Lowest Price, a Last-Minute Spring Sale Deal Outside Amazon Prime Day

‘Pizza Movie’ Has a Hilariously Grisly New Way to Say ‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’ (Exclusive)

Amazon Makes a Last Push for Govee LED Strip Light at a Black Friday Low as the Spring Sale Winds Down, Works with Alexa and Google Assistant

Forget Shokz, Anker Pushes Soundcore AeroClip Open-Ear Earbuds to an All-Time Low in the Final Hours of Amazon’s Spring Sale

Google Pixel 10 Pro Gets Cleared Out at a Record Low, Now Even Cheaper Than AirPods Pro With Trade-In

Meta’s Two New Smart Glasses Are Slimmer and More Like Regular Glasses

JBL Boombox 3 Speaker at 40% Off Is Now Even Cheaper Than Renewed Units on Amazon

Elizabeth Olsen Promises She Knows Nothing About Her Marvel Future

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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