The year was 1991. I was ten years old and in the fifth grade at Hickory Elementary School in the small (back then), picturesque town of Bel Air, Maryland, where I still live today. It was our last week of school, which as any kid in the American public school system knows, is usually filled with […]
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I’m disappointed in you, Internet. There’s dubstep remixes for practically every song in existence except, evidently, the Fraggle Rock Theme , for which my Google search turned up zero results. The Wub Machine to the rescue: The Wub Machine is a free app that lets you easily create dubstep (or Electro House or Drum & […]
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Things are not going well for the pre-processing purveyors of Twinkies and Wonder Bread. Hostess Brands is hemorrhaging money , or as MassLive reports: Hostess Brands Inc. has warned states nationwide that it may close its operations and lay off all employees this summer. In Connecticut, the company has notified the state that it may lay off all 187 […]
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Quantum Conundrum , the upcoming first-person action/puzzle game from Airtight Games (and designed by Kim Swift, one of the lead designers who gave the world the amazingness that is Portal ) has a new trailer out today that will give you a very sciencey lesson about time and physics. It’s SCIENCE! There’s a Dimension for That… […]
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It was just a matter of time before the Game of Thrones theme got the singing floppy disk drive treatment, which is a YouTube trend where groups of these otherwise disposable old computer parts are painstakingly calibrated to perform familiar pieces of music, like ” Imperial March (of the Floppies) “ and ” Phantom of the […]
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You might not know John Alvin by name, but if you’re a fan of movies like E.T , The Goonies , The Princess Bride , and The Lost Boys , you’re already familiar with him. He’s the artist behind many of the most iconic movie posters of the past 40 years, with a career that spans […]
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There’s been a lot of Bohemian Rhapsody mashups on YouTube, but at least He-Man has the correct hair for it. This clip really needs no other introduction.
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Topping my list of most anticipated console games this year is The Last of Us , Naughty Dog’s upcoming highly-anticipated post-apocalyptic thriller for PS3 (exclusive). Every screenshot and teaser we’ve gotten for this game keeps out-doing itself in terms of visuals, which are among the most gorgeous for any game I’ve ever seen, even surpassing […]
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Music is one of the most memorable things about Jane Jensen’s dark and mysterious adventure games, especially the music in Gray Matter and Gabriel Knight . Both games’ musical scores were composed by the extraordinarily talented Robert Holmes, who also happens to be Jane’s husband. Currently the pair are wrapping up the final three days […]
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Hey, remember Kingdom of Loathing –the simplistic but fun (and funny as hell) free online RPG-that-makes-fun-of-other-RPGs drawn with stick figures? Well it’s creators have started up a new project on KickStarter called Word Realms , a massively multiplayer online RPG that’s also a word game. Sounds crazy, right? You’ll do battle by making words out […]
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I was just saying yesterday how I’ve (mostly) been trying to ignore the dubstep ear rape more commonly known as Skrillex and the people who crank that shit up to 11. But that was before I discovered the sickness that is Bangarang which I’ve been listening to on repeat the past few days and no doubt […]
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If ParaNorman , the upcoming stop-motion animated zombie film from the same production company that did Coraline , didn’t already seem like something you want to watch immediately, the creators have given us some new bits of cool to chew on: In a recent press interview , writer/director Chris Butler and co-director Sam Fell said the […]
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So apparently there’s a crowdfunded card game on KickStarter called Tentacle Bento , which recently surpassed and more than doubled its $13,000 fundraising goal and still has 24 days left in the campaign. Why is it so popular? Well for one thing, it’s got plenty of super cute anime girls for you to ogle, and […]
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I’ll admit it: sometimes I sit around and dream up fantasy TV show concepts. When you consume as much television as I do, it takes a lot for a show to really grab you. ‘Course, it doesn’t help that I grow more cynical and jaded with each passing year, but I digress. Now, I’m not […]
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(By the way, are white girls allowed to say “dope”?) Rap’s love affair with video games is nothing new . Rappers have been dropping video game references since back in the day, which for me began in the late ‘80s and lasted through 1999, the year I graduated high school. During that time I was raised […]
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This video of Tyrion Lannister slapping the shit out of Prince Joffrey is pretty much the greatest Game of Thrones video on YouTube. It comes courtesy of Westeros Tales , who you should thank for really capturing the spirit of the moment and allowing all of us to vicariously live out our Joffrey-slapping fantasies. On a related […]
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The upcoming Gone Home is an awfully adventure-ish looking game by the newly launched Fullbright Company , which was started by three ex-Bioshock developers. Gone Home has been in development for several months and will be the company’s first game. I say “adventureish” because the game is described as “a mysterious exploration game set in a […]
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In her latest video update for KickStarter, adventure game designer Jane Jensen dropped a huge bombshell on her fans: Her new community-supported game studio, Pinkerton Road (which recently achieved a $300K fundraising goal on KickStarter to produce its first game Moebius ) will be producing a second game this year, code-named “Mystery Game X.” Rumors are […]
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via Scoop.it — ShezCrafti It’s a sad day for Beastie Boys fans. Rolling Stone reports: Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 48, Rolling Stone has learned. Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in […]
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The original 21 Jump Street was one of those ‘80s shows that seemed really cool at the time but looking back on it nowadays you’re embarrassed you ever liked it. It’s worth watching for the glimpse at Johnny Depp’s early, pre-superstardom career and perhaps as a fun stroll down Regrettable ‘80s Fashion Lane, but not much else. So […]
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