Video games

Jon Snow is in a world of danger, in the first Silent Hill: Revelation footage!

It’s been half a dozen years since the first Silent Hill movie — and now it’s coming back for this Halloween, with the Fog and the creepy nurses and everything. We saw two fantastically creepy, scary clips in Hall H. And we learned a few things to excite us about Silent Hill: Revelation 3-D: It’s…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 14

We’ve seen 10 minutes of Wreck-It Ralph, the “Roger Rabbit for Video Gamers”

Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph features a villain from an 8-bit video game, trying to escape from his old rut and maybe become a hero — so we’ve been thinking of it as a sort of Toy Story for video games. But at Thursday’s Hall H panel, the panelists, including director Rich Moore, made the case that…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 14

Game of Thrones season 2 retold as a vintage video game

What if you could play the second season of Game of Thrones through a role playing game? It would be bloody and brilliant. Watch and behold the glory that is a 1990s Game of Thrones RPG — a sequel to last year’s fantastic computer game version of season one. But be warned there are serious…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 3

10 Fun Ways to Euthanize Yourself

Suppose you’ve been given a few weeks to live, but you’ve decided you don’t want to spend your last days in a hospital bed. What if you decide, “Today is a good day to die,” in a suitably stentorian Klingon voice? And you want a method of self-annihilation that’s both interesting and nearly pain-free? Don’t…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 2

Crowdfund a Calvin & Hobbes documentary, choosable path gamebooks, and more

Nostalgia is on the menu for this week’s crowdfunding projects, with a documentary about the influence of Calvin & Hobbes, and not one but two reading games inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure books. There’s also a video game packed with retro scifi pulp and a psychedelic daredevil comic. Dear Mr. Watterson – A…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Jul 1

This 838-pound diving suit is the world’s greatest BioShock cosplay

Even if you possess only a passing familiarity with the acclaimed alternate history video game BioShock, chances are you recognize the “Bouncer” variety of the Big Daddies, or cybernetic organisms that live in portholed armor. But did you know that a real-life diving suit from 1882 was an aesthetic antecedent to the Big Daddies? Check…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 27

Decade-long apocalyptic game of Civilization II inspires some very cool fan fiction

Redditor Lycerius has been playing the same saved game of Civilization II for ten years, resulting in an awesomely dystopic swampy nuclear-irradiated wasteland in which war has raged relentlessly for a staggering 1,700 years. And now, inspired by this bizarre simulated world, a number of other Redditors have taken it upon themselves to write their…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 19

These Portal LEGO sets were too nifty for reality

LEGO’s CUUSOO program allows builders to submit blueprints for just about any plastic brick recreation under the sun. Although most of these designs never get the green light, there are still plenty of fantastic models consigned to the two-dimensional realm, such as these smashing Portal sets. These models come to us from Team Jigsaw, who…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 19

If Portal guns were readily available in real life, you’d use them to prank your friends

At least that’s the conceit of Jason Craft’s Portal: Terminal Velocity, a nifty short film about a group of pals who make each other’s lives miserable with their new toy. The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device really should come with a warning informing the consumer that it possesses the power to destroy all of your…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 12

What if Inception and 300 were built entirely out of LEGO bricks?

For a class project for Staffordshire University’s Visual Effects and Concept Design degree program, students assembled a series of animated shorts that reimagined Hollywood blockbusters as LEGO worlds (à la the LEGO Star Wars series). These projects were assembled over a period of 12 weeks, and each represents approximately 1,000 hours of work. Behold the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 11

How to work for Mass Effect: fix Martin Sheen’s computer

While answering questions at the junket for The Amazing Spider-Man, Martin Sheen was questioned about his role as The Illusive Man in the video game series Mass Effect. His response was both adorable and hilarious. You just came off of finishing your run with the Mass Effect series and then straight into The Amazing Spider-Man……

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 9

You Can Use an Xbox 360 Controller with a PS3 or a PS3 Controller with an Xbox 360 Now

The PS3 controller is a starved, emaciated excuse of a video game controller. It’s terribly skinny with no curves and feels like you’re holding the result of a skinny TV remote’s incestual relationship. The Xbox 360 controller? Now there’s something worth holding. And with this Cronus adapter you can use the Xbox controller with your…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 7

Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph: If Tron and Toy Story Had an Adorable Baby

Remember those 8-bit arcade games you loved so much as a kid? Disney’s got a movie coming out this November called Wreck-It Ralph that imagines what the characters are getting into when you’re not feeding these machines quarters. Today it released the first trailer. And it’s a blast. It centers on Ralph (voiced by John…

Movies Leslie Horn Jun 6

Watch the first trailer for Disney’s video game movie, Wreck-It Ralph

Behold a BAD ANON meeting, a support group for the villains of the video game world in Wreck-It Ralph. Also in the meeting are Bowser, Zangief from Street Fighter, and Clyde, the ghost from Pac-Man. In the flick, Ralph — a reformed video game baddie — looks for redemption inside other video games. This means…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Jun 6

Nintendo’s Wii U Will Have Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and YouTube

Nintendo just announced at E3 that the Wii U would have Hulu Plus, Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube as content partners. It has a long way to go to catch up to the Xbox 360 as a content hub, but that’s a pretty nice start. [Kotaku]

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 5

First look at Wreck-It Ralph shows a homeless Q*bert begging for Pac-Man cherries

We’re still not 100% sure what to think about Disney’s latest “journey inside a video game” movie Wreck-It Ralph. But at least now there’s some more info — USA Today has a lengthy interview with the movies lead John C. Reilly (Wreck-It Ralph) who explains what is going on in this strange video game world…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 5

How to Play Video Games While Also Playing with Your Girlfriend

The modern day, video game playing couple is a beautiful thing. “Baby, let’s cuddle” “No, I want to play Diablo” “Okay, I have an idea. I’ll straddle you while we both play Diablo” “OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST COMPROMISE IN THE WORLD.” That’s how Reddit user MountCleverest summed it up, him and his…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 1

A Video Game Designed to Help Doctors to Recognize Drug Abuse

At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the doctors are training themselves with technology to better recognize the signs of addiction. A video game has been designed based on the research of Dr. Michael M. Fleming of Northwestern University Feingberg School of Medicine that utilizes the same technology used by to train FBI agents in interrogation tactics: a…

Tech News Molly Oswaks May 26

Aperture Science gas mask turns your face into a Portal gun

In case you’ve ever wanted to transform your mug into an Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device, crafter Two Horns United has built one that fits right on your chin. I imagine it’s incredibly useful if you’re the kind of clumsy individual who frequently finds yourself plummeting off cliffs face-first. Wear it to the Portal…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 24

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 May 23

Jon Snow is in a world of danger, in the first Silent Hill: Revelation footage!

We’ve seen 10 minutes of Wreck-It Ralph, the “Roger Rabbit for Video Gamers”

Game of Thrones season 2 retold as a vintage video game

10 Fun Ways to Euthanize Yourself

Crowdfund a Calvin & Hobbes documentary, choosable path gamebooks, and more

This 838-pound diving suit is the world’s greatest BioShock cosplay

Decade-long apocalyptic game of Civilization II inspires some very cool fan fiction

These Portal LEGO sets were too nifty for reality

If Portal guns were readily available in real life, you’d use them to prank your friends

What if Inception and 300 were built entirely out of LEGO bricks?

How to work for Mass Effect: fix Martin Sheen’s computer

You Can Use an Xbox 360 Controller with a PS3 or a PS3 Controller with an Xbox 360 Now

Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph: If Tron and Toy Story Had an Adorable Baby

Watch the first trailer for Disney’s video game movie, Wreck-It Ralph

Nintendo’s Wii U Will Have Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and YouTube

First look at Wreck-It Ralph shows a homeless Q*bert begging for Pac-Man cherries

How to Play Video Games While Also Playing with Your Girlfriend

A Video Game Designed to Help Doctors to Recognize Drug Abuse

Aperture Science gas mask turns your face into a Portal gun

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

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