Video games

Check out the insides of a Portal gun

We’ve featured Miles Donovan’s science fiction schematics before, and now he’s mapped out the interior of an Aperture Science’s patented Handheld Portal Device. Donovan is selling prints of this blueprint over at Etsy. https://gizmodo.com/important-safety-instructions-for-ray-guns-teleporters-5761729

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Game-play trailer for Anno 2070 wants you to feel guilty for destroying the environment

In the world of 2070, you face a stark choice: pursue sustainable, environmentally friendly development, or be a total industrialiast asswipe who deserves to be shot. At least, that’s what we gleaned from Anno 2070’s sledgehammer-subtle new gameplay trailer. Basically, you face a choice between sustainability or “mass consumption,” with the latter leading to a…

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Jeff Goldblum as Dracula in a 1996 Goosebumps computer game is completely unnerving

In the 1996 children’s PC game Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland, Jeff Goldblum played an inappropriately sultry Lord of the Vampires. Watch as the one and only Brundlefly seduces the game’s pre-teen protagonist with a sensual dance. How did Goldblum get wrapped up in these shenanigans? In this making-of featurette, Steven Spielberg, a producer on the…

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Read Michael Avon Oeming’s Portal 2 comic online

After teaming up for a Left 4 Dead webcomic, Michael Avon Oeming of Powers fame has joined up again with gaming company Valve to create a webcomic for the upcoming teleportation gun (and snarky robot) title Portal 2. https://gizmodo.com/read-michael-avon-oemings-left-4-dead-comic-free-online-5641099 The first installment of Portal 2: Lab Rat is up on Think With Portals now, and…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

DARPA Video Game Lets You Teach Military Software How to Hunt Submarines

So the graphic realism isn’t quite Black Ops, but this military sim will actually influence real-world naval operations in the future. Fancy yourself a suave military gaming tactician? Is prestige level 24 starting to bore you on Black Ops? DARPA wants to put your strategic savviness to real military use by integrating its Anti-Submarine Warfare…

Tech News Clay Dillow - PopSci

First clip from the horrifying Mortal Kombat live action web series

Remember that Mortal Kombat short film that brought the hideous Reptile to life (via a disorder that caused him to grow scales and inside-out eyes)? That film spawn a nine-part webseries, starring Jeri Ryan. Watch the first clip now. We have to admit, we’re kind of looking forward to this ridiculously gruesome creation. And even…

Television Meredith Woerner

33 Pitstops Towards the Uncanny Valley

MaximumPC takes a close look at how virtual representations of ourselves—or more specifically, of the video game bad guy versions of ourselves—have evolved since the days of Wolfenstein 3D’s clunky Nazis. It’s part “walk down memory lane,” part “we did all that in 20 years?”, and entirely worth your time. [MaximumPC]

Tech News Brian Barrett

Do we need another Doom movie, even in 3D?

Remember Dwayne Johnson’s sad adaptation of the first-person shooter game Doom? Well Hollywood isn’t about to let that terrible franchise die out, like other 90s fads. In fact, Universal wants to reboot the Doom movie series — in 3D. What’s Playing is reporting that Universal is trying to push forward a $150 million 3D remake…

Movies Meredith Woerner

What If Lag Seeped Into Real Life?

Nothing makes a video game experience quite so annoying as latency. But what if that lag seeped into your everyday life? Well, this—a hilarious animated short from Guy Collins of “The Scrollwheel” fame. Honestly, this is how I feel pretty much every morning until my second (third?) cup of coffee. [Reddit via Geekosystem]

Tech News Brian Barrett

Check out the Normandy 3, in possible Mass Effect 3 concept art!

Mass Effect 3 doesn’t come out until the end of the year, but in the meantime you can feast your eyes on some absolutely amazing concept art by artist Robert Simmons, which appears to be official ME3 concept art. Check out a bizarre multi-eyed creature, an alien world, and an inside look at the Normandy…

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This Computer Teacher Made 17-Year Old Student Play “Strip Video Games” at His House

Larry David Twigg, a 53-year old computer teacher from Waterloo, Iowa, was recently arrested for having a 17-year old student of his play “strip video games,” take a “chocolate syrup shower,” and make a snow angel in his boxers. This is all terrible, obviously, and the Iowa Board of Education is currently considering terminating Twigg’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Halo Reach concept art lets you know “You’ve just been killed by a hunting trophy”

Bungie concept artist Isaac Hannaford keeps posting more amazing concept art for Halo: Reach and Halo 3 on his blog. The latest update: Some early Noble Team concepts. Including some pretty… unique customizations. Above is a detail from the Emile concept art, complete with painted-on skull. Writes Hannaford: Emile hates the Covenant with a passion.…

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“Geekpaper”

Love it. Clean, simple and perfect for the game room in my mythical mansion. Each set contains 65 reusable Asteroids decals (including the copyright). It’s a good thing they’re reusable too: at $45, being a geek interior decorator ain’t cheap. [Amazon via GeekAlerts]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Video game concept art is some of the greatest fantasy art today

We’re used to seeing video game concept art of spaceships and power armor that makes you want to drool — but lately some of the coolest fantasy art we’ve seen comes from video game concept art as well. Just check out these absolutely stunning new concept art images from Dark Souls, coming soon for Playstation…

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The Nintendo 3DS Has The Launch Line-Up Blues

On February 26, the Nintendo 3DS goes on sale in Japan. Folks want the hardware (bad), but do they want the games? The 3DS is a compelling piece of hardware. It has that what the French call I-don’t-know-what which will appeal to the masses. Players can see 3D with no glasses! Brilliant. And it has…

Tech News Brian Ashcraft

First screens from Game of Thrones PC game

Looks like there’s a dance with dragons happening in your town, in this awesome screen from the Game of Thrones: Genesis tie-in game. According to the early buzz, this will be a strategy-based game, in which the raw cunning of a Tyrion Lannister can outweigh the might of a dozen armies. Let’s hope the game…

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First Look at Felicia Day as an Elven Assassin in DragonAge Webseries

Felicia Day is rocking the elf ears, in this awesome exclusive image. Day just announced she’s starring in a new six-part webseries based on the Dragon Age video game series, coming out later this year. She’s playing Tallis, an elf assassin who’s hired by the Qunari to find a rogue mage who’s bent on causing…

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You Decide Which Video Games Are Displayed At The Smithsonian

Which video games deserve to be honored for their art? Heavy Rain or Final Fantasy? Grim Fandango or Fallout? In the Smithsonian’s upcoming “The Art of Video Games” exhibition, gamers decide which titles make the cut. “The Art of Video Games” is an ambitious exhibition launching at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Where’s our freaking BioShock movie? Director Gore Verbinski explains why it’s not happening

Don’t count on seeing a horrific Little Sister on the big screen any time soon. Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) was supposed to be directing the big-screen BioShock film, but he tells Coming Soon that it’s dead in the water. The big issue: the R-rating, coupled with a big budget: I couldn’t really get…

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Tentacle Bears Vs. Vikings? If only!

Does this concept art from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim actually show a Viking battling a bear with tentacles? (A beartopus?) A lot of sites are taking it that way. But as The Escapist points out, it’s probably actually a bear standing over the dead body of a woolly mammoth. Too bad — a tentacle bear…

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Check out the insides of a Portal gun

Game-play trailer for Anno 2070 wants you to feel guilty for destroying the environment

Jeff Goldblum as Dracula in a 1996 Goosebumps computer game is completely unnerving

Read Michael Avon Oeming’s Portal 2 comic online

DARPA Video Game Lets You Teach Military Software How to Hunt Submarines

First clip from the horrifying Mortal Kombat live action web series

33 Pitstops Towards the Uncanny Valley

Do we need another Doom movie, even in 3D?

What If Lag Seeped Into Real Life?

Check out the Normandy 3, in possible Mass Effect 3 concept art!

This Computer Teacher Made 17-Year Old Student Play “Strip Video Games” at His House

Halo Reach concept art lets you know “You’ve just been killed by a hunting trophy”

“Geekpaper”

Video game concept art is some of the greatest fantasy art today

The Nintendo 3DS Has The Launch Line-Up Blues

First screens from Game of Thrones PC game

First Look at Felicia Day as an Elven Assassin in DragonAge Webseries

You Decide Which Video Games Are Displayed At The Smithsonian

Where’s our freaking BioShock movie? Director Gore Verbinski explains why it’s not happening

Tentacle Bears Vs. Vikings? If only!

Startup Successfully Ignites World’s First Fusion Rocket

Shokz OpenDots One Earbuds Hit Their Lowest Price Yet Across All Color Options, Including the New Ones

INIU Portable Power Bank Is Small in Size and Smaller in Price for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (45W, 10,000mAh)

Humans Were Already Dog People 16,000 Years Ago, DNA Suggests

California Regulator Says Tesla’s ‘Robotaxis’ Are More Like a Limo in the Eyes of the Law

Dyson Airwrap Falls to an All-Time Low in Amazon’s Spring Sale, Lowering the Barrier for This Premium Multi-Styler

The ‘Tales from ’85’ Trailer Wants You Back in ‘Stranger Things’ Already

Forget Ray-Ban Meta, XREAL 1S AR/XR Virtual Screen Smart Glasses Drop to Record Low on Amazon

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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