The internet-famous Nintendo 64 kid is about as perfect a summary of Christmas morning excitement you can get. For a more contemporary take, though, here’s AJ opening his Wii U yesterday morning. What he lacks in blood-curdling terror he makes up for with heart-warming affection. Seriously, that’s maybe the longest hug I’ve ever seen. Wii…
Gerry Anderson, the creator of Thunderbirds and Space: 1999, has passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 83.
Well, it’s been a fun year everyone. Have a safe and Merry Christmas, and I’ll see you later in the week when I get over my hangovers. And also how awesome this holiday gif by Vic Nguyen is. Santa [Capy Games]
Murraythis breaks out the Source Filmmaker to bring the internet a very Team Fortress Christmas. Such great animation, and the Scout was the perfect choice to play the Christmas Eve sneak. He’s such a dick Night Before Christmas… [YouTube]
Next year, Pop Culture Shock will be releasing this Mortal Kombat statue based on Kitana. Priced at $355, and due in Q2, it’s an enormous 20″ tall. There’s also a limited edition version available for an extra $10, but seeing her face… it’s weird. Nothankyou. Kitana [Sideshow]
Etsy seller SarabiRose makes hats for cats. Adorable, hilarious hats. So if you ever wanted to name your new kittens Mario and Luigi—or if for some reason you’d already gone ahead and done that—your cat cosplay needs are almost officially taken care of. Just get some cat overalls and you’re set Sarabirose [Etsy, via Incredible…
One of the best things about getting new hardware for Christmas is the rush of unboxing it. Soaking up the smells, opening up the bags, being the first to put fingerprints on the thing. It really makes you feel like you’re about to use something new It’s a pity, then, that Nintendo is having to…
Sure, Bungie’s next big game after Halo might have had its coming out party spoiled just a little, but the fact remains this game has yet to be officially announced, and despite a good start, we know very little about it. That hasn’t stopped Ilya Boykov from putting together this beautiful trailer using leaked concept…
OK, so maybe it’ll be too late for Christmas once you actually get your hands on these, but hey, you could always save them for next holiday season. The four cards, made by the talented Game & Graphics (I’ve actually got G&G shirt), don’t just look neat on their own, they also combine to form…
Pictured above, two action figures. One, a custom piece based on Figma’s Samus (it’s got stuff like a new head), the other, a way more custom piece showing a Chozo. Both were done by Jin Saotome, a master toysmith we’ve featured here many times before. What’s cool about the Chozo is not just how he…
Let’s say you’re a Valve super-fan. I know I’m reaching somebody out there with that label. And you want to buy yourself something nice. Something Valve-related that nobody else has. Forget lithographs or coffee mugs. You need to get this. It’s a replica Portal Gun signed by the development team. All proceeds go to charity…
This isn’t an official project. Let’s get that out of the way first. That’s still cooking. This is, believe it or not, a trailer for a fan-made short film, put together by a (relatively) small crew and making the most of some very talented actors, effects people and martial artists/stunt performers. This trailer, and the…
When Brian “Joram” Little was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, his friends—a group formed having played classic Bungie games Myth and Myth II—decided to get together and get him a present. He’d said, maybe as a joke, that “I will NEVER use a walker, but I will accept a lacquered black stick topped with a silver,…
Jean-Baptiste Monge is an accomplished fantasy illustrator, whose sketchbook style makes his drawings look as much like field journal entries as works of art. Monge was one of the artists who worked on Blizzard’s Diablo III: Book of Cain, an art book and guide for the action RPG released late last year In the gallery…
There’s a Minecraft Christmas song. It’s by Area 11, a band from England. As of two days ago, it was apparently just outside the top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, given a massive boost by the popular Minecraft community program Yogscast. Those fearing that video game communities can somehow and suddenly sabotage the record…
You asked for it, quite literally, and now you’re getting it: a small, but charming set of Back to the Future LEGO. Picked as part of the company’s Cusoo initiative, which rewards popular fan-made sets with the chance of becoming real products, next year we’ll be getting… something. The original plan from creator Masashi Togami…
Nothing shows Nintendo hates you more than the fact only one of the three games in the Mother series has ever been officially released in North America (while poor PAL territories haven’t seen any of them.). So tread very carefully around this talk from series creator Shigesato Itoi, who has taken to Twitter to say…
I’ve sometimes wondered, at least on the shorter ones, whether Assassin’s Creed’s “leaps of faith” were actually doable. Like, from a few stories up, some hay might actually break my fall, you know? Glad to see I’m not alone. A Leap of Faith [andrewmfilms]
Team Fortress 2’s Mecha Update, and new online store, are now live
In fact, it’s usually one of two days. The first being in January 1999, when this issue of German mag Video Games hit news stands, and the second being… today. Video Games [VGJunk]
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