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Would You Like The Stench Of Fry Grease With Your VR?
Nightmare children of the future, courtesy of McDonald’s Happy Goggles, a Happy Meal box that transforms into a cardboard VR headset for your phone. Currently being tested in Sweden, where everything folds into something else.
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UncategorizedA Pro Fighter’s Best Friend Is The Guy Who Stops The Bleeding
The cutman is indispensable to combat sports. A good one adds a veneer of civility to a brutal affair by reducing swells and stopping blood. He can extend a fight for an extra round or more, armed with nothing but vaseline, a cold piece of metal called an enswell, and a chemically soaked Q-Tip. But…
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UncategorizedThe Mechanics Behind Satisfying 2D Jumping
The simple act of jumping can make or break a 2D platformer. In the first episode of Mechanically Speaking, Game Array explores how developers balance responsiveness and fairness to the player to make these movements magical. It’s much more than simply having the on screen character go up and come down. That worked for the…
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UncategorizedOscars 2016 Best Picture Nominees In LEGO
Leo and the CGI bear are having a rematch, this time, in a LEGO environment. Toscano Bricks remade scenes from this year’s Best Picture nominees (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, The Martian, Brooklyn, Spotlight, Bridge of Spies, The Big Short, Room) and compiled them into a pretty well-made brickfilm montage. To contact the author…
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CultureMeet The Latest Big-Headed Pokémon Figure And His Powerful Friend
Back in December 2014 I took a look at the first melding of two of my favorite toy properties, Pokemon and Good Smile Company’s big-headed Nendoroid line. Today we get to play with the latest addition to the line, the N Nendoroid, which is not easy to say at all. The misguided but well-meaning leader…
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EsportsStarCraft II Pro Defends Perfectly Against Surprise Zerg All-In
Defending against a surprise Zerg rush usually ends with a GG. Defending against a surprise Zerg rush that’s already in our base, has to end with GG. But not for EJK, who managed to came back from a quite impossible situation. As EJK spots the Nydus worm (the nasty Zerg transport strain everyone hates) in…
By Gergo Vas - Uncategorized
Minecraft’s Combat Update Changes the Game in a Big Way
Minecraft’s 1.9 patch—known as the Combat Update—has been in development at Mojang for well over year, and it’s arriving on PC today. So what exactly does it bring to the table? Let’s take a look. Once you start playing, the first new thing you’ll notice will likely be the off-hand slot. This is a new…
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EsportsAmerica Narrowly Avoids Humiliation At Home Counter-Strike Tournament Qualifier
What started out as an underwhelming tournament for North American Counter-Strike ended on a more hopeful note as Team Liquid, Counter Logic Gaming, and Cloud9 eked out victories on Sunday to qualify for the MLG Columbus Counter-Strike tournament next month, where they will compete for a $500,000 grand prize. North American Counter-Strike is regarded as…
By Rob Zacny - Uncategorized
The Original Starter Pokémon, Re-Imagined
“What would the first Pokémon generation look like if they were introduced today?” To answer that question, Pokéfans infinipede and ShedSimas embarked on a project to redesign the original 151 Pokémon, with their first targets being, of course, the original starters. As the introductory post on the New 151 Tumblr blog states, the pair of…
By András Neltz
