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Watch Star Trek — Infinite Space’s badass Intrepid-class starship take down a squadron of ships!

It’s a tough galaxy out there, so you need a ship that can dish out some pain when needed. That’s why Gameforge’s free-to-play browser game Star Trek — Infinite Space is preparing to roll out the mighty Intrepid-class starship. We’ve got an exclusive first look at some game screens for the Intrepid, which show the…

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Wanna Learn How to Defuse Real Bombs? Play Video Games

Or at least the modded version of the Army’s greatest recruitment game, America’s Army. Military software engineers have managed to recreate real-life bomb threats in the game, and, with an actual robot controller, soldiers can operate a virtual robot to realistically defuse it. The Army has been working on this project since 2003, and it…

Tech News Kwame Opam

First Details on Guillermo Del Toro’s Giant Monster Movie and the Live-Action Mass Effect Film!

Quite possibly the most exciting movie panel at Comic-Con yesterday didn’t involve Spider-Man or Tintin. Legendary Pictures gave a select few fans a sneak peek of four long-awaited film projects, and we were there. Guillermo Del Toro talked about his kaiju movie Pacific Rim. Jeff Bridges talked about his supernatural film Seventh Son. Alex Proyas…

Movies Keith Veronese

Faith No More singer Mike Patton dishes on The Darkness 2 (and his adventure in a haunted hotel)

You may know musical bon vivant Mike Patton from such acts as Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, and Peeping Tom, but the singer also does quite the share of voice acting. For example, Patton has lent his formidable growl to the zombies in Left 4 Dead and the infected in I Am Legend. At…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Hold Me Closer, Tiny Space Invaders Arcade Cabinet

There’s something so refreshing about when great minds focus on small objects, isn’t there? And however much blasting alien hordes with these tiny buttons would hurt my delicate digits, I can still admire the ingenuity. If you recall, it’s not entirely difficult to make a mini arcade yourself, and this 7-inch, 8-bit wünderkind comes with…

Tech News Brian Barrett

If Pac-Man was a terrifying real world car chase, it would look like this

Not Working Films has re-envisioned the arcade classic Pac-Man as a ride down a bleak stretch of highway. It’s like if Namco directed Vanishing Point — the only Pac-aphernalia more surreal than this is the 1982 Pac-Man Christmas Album. Hat tip to Precious Roy!

Tech News Cyriaque Lamar

Lessons from Tekken: If a post-apocalyptic cage fighter catches you staring at her, pretend to be a foot fetishist

That’s just one of the useful life lessons you’ll learn from our exclusive clip from Tekken, the video game adaptation coming to DVD on July 19. You’ll also learn the importance of having a Signature. And wearing eyeliner while training. So yeah, if a deadly cage fighter ever catches you staring at her, just say…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Modern Day Receipt Racer Borrows From Obsolete Printers Long Gone

Designers Joshua Noble, Martin Fuchs and Philip Whitfield breathed new, modern-day life into this archaic receipt printer by combing it with a PlayStation controller, light sensors and some Spy Hunter-esque gameplay mechanics. The receipt Racer was created for the “Let’s feed the future workshop,” which took place during the OFFF Festival in Barcelona on June…

Tech News Jack Loftus

If Game of Thrones was a Super Nintendo game, it would sound like this

Digitapp’s chiptune treatment of the Game of Thrones theme makes you wish George R.R. Martin’s fantasy series was adapted for an old-school RPG. Imagine all the XP you could accrue at the “Dothraki wedding” stage or the “Winterfell whorehouse” level. [Via Buzzfeed]

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Goth Alice will make you tear up your skin in this live action Alice: Return To Madness trailer

If you’re a fan of a creepy goth Alice in Wonderland who rams dirty syringes into her arms, then you’re already celebrating this week’s release of the video game Alice: Madness Returns. Now check out an uber-demented live-action fan trailer. The trailer was created by Gray G. Haddock and Zane Rutledge, who also created the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Virtual Boy Arcade Cabinet that Never Existed

The Nintendo Virtual Boy was over before it ever really got a chance to show what it couldn’t do. But that doesn’t mean that someone, somewhere isn’t building an arcade cabinet temple for the aborted console. https://gizmodo.com/nintendos-virtual-boy-gets-torn-apart-5629799 Creator Tighe Lory took his inspiration from the Atari Battlezone cabinet, opting for two joysticks instead of D-pads,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

What if Doctor Who was a 16-bit video game?

It probably look a little bit like the Super Nintendo-inspired video game by Doctor Octoroc, the mastermind behind the (sadly not real) Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along RPG. A Who game would make those über-futuristic Mode 7 graphics work overtime. https://gizmodo.com/what-if-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog-were-a-nintendo-g-5510774 Hat tip to Sam!

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Disney Tactile Device Lets Games and Movies Literally Send Chills Down Your Spine

Disney researchers apparently don’t feel that your video games are realistic enough. Engineers at the company’s Pittsburgh research facility have devised something they call “Tactile Brush” that creates the sensory illusion of objects moving against a person’s skin, mimicking everything from crawling insects to the forces exerted by a car taking a hard corner. And…

Tech News Clay Dillow - PopSci

Your New Gaming Fascination: Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars

This is one of the most ludicrous game parodies we’ve seen lately. You play the Spider-Queen of Mars, racing around classic arcade-style levels and trying to recapture your escaped Martian slaves. It’s all part of Adult Swim’s new viral marketing. Here’s the description: Your Martian fortress is under attack! When Queen Tarantula starts an uprising…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Robot coaches might be better motivators than human ones

Being human can get in the way of getting in shape: we chow on bad food, we sit on the couch when we’d be better off going for a walk, and we pay for gym memberships but don’t go. Now scientists at Michigan State University have discovered that with a robot as a taskmaster, humans…

io9 Kristen Philipkoski

3D model of the Klingon K’t’inga-class warship will get you pumped up for Sto’Vo’Kor.

This glorious 3D rendering of the Klingon K’t’inga-class warship will be this week’s “starship of the week” over at the site for the upcoming free-to-play browser game Star Trek: Infinite Space, and we’ve got the exclusive first glimpse. Check out a couple of sweet images of the ship, plus an animated gif showing it from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Tomb Raider movie gets Iron Man writers… but who will play Lara Croft?

Iron Man screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby have been hired to write a Lara Croft origin story. So who will Hollywood get to fill in Angelina Jolie’s old thigh-holsters? The trades are reporting that the writers are gunning for an “Origin story for Lara Croft that solidifies her place alongside Ellen Ripley and Sarah…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Interactive Portal Turret plushie will steal your heart

Who needs a companion cube, when you can cuddle up to this turret plushie, that will exclaim “there you are” with each nuzzle? Watch this amazing creation interact with its owners! It’s not a lie! This amazing creation comes from Jonathan M. Guberman and Leigh Nunan. As explained on Guberman’s website Up, Not North: When…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Listen to Portal 2’s new ending song right now

Can Portal 2’s ending credits song, “Want You Gone,” live up to the amazing original Portal closing ditty “Still Alive?” The tune has already been posted online. So go ahead, spoil yourself, listen, and compare. Personally we think “Want You Gone,” which was also written by “Still Alive’s” Jonathan Coulton, is nice — but it’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch the secret J.J. Abrams video hidden inside Portal 2

We’ve seen J.J. Abrams’ mysterious midnight monster train explode from multiple angles. But what about from inside the train? Hidden in Portal 2’s video game extras is some CG footage from inside the monster’s train ride. Watch it now. Clever move Paramount hiding Super 8 material in the hotly anticipated Portal 2 game. But what…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch Star Trek — Infinite Space’s badass Intrepid-class starship take down a squadron of ships!

Wanna Learn How to Defuse Real Bombs? Play Video Games

First Details on Guillermo Del Toro’s Giant Monster Movie and the Live-Action Mass Effect Film!

Faith No More singer Mike Patton dishes on The Darkness 2 (and his adventure in a haunted hotel)

Hold Me Closer, Tiny Space Invaders Arcade Cabinet

If Pac-Man was a terrifying real world car chase, it would look like this

Lessons from Tekken: If a post-apocalyptic cage fighter catches you staring at her, pretend to be a foot fetishist

Modern Day Receipt Racer Borrows From Obsolete Printers Long Gone

If Game of Thrones was a Super Nintendo game, it would sound like this

Goth Alice will make you tear up your skin in this live action Alice: Return To Madness trailer

The Virtual Boy Arcade Cabinet that Never Existed

What if Doctor Who was a 16-bit video game?

Disney Tactile Device Lets Games and Movies Literally Send Chills Down Your Spine

Your New Gaming Fascination: Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars

Robot coaches might be better motivators than human ones

3D model of the Klingon K’t’inga-class warship will get you pumped up for Sto’Vo’Kor.

Tomb Raider movie gets Iron Man writers… but who will play Lara Croft?

Interactive Portal Turret plushie will steal your heart

Listen to Portal 2’s new ending song right now

Watch the secret J.J. Abrams video hidden inside Portal 2

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