The New Apple TV Is The Beginning Of A Nifty Little Game Machine

The fourth generation Apple TV went on sale Friday morning, finally giving Apple’s set-top box the ability to play video games. It’s no gaming revolution, but it’s off to a pretty good start. I’ve been an Apple TV owner for a couple years now, but when I say owner I mean it in the strictest…

Pokkén Tournament Evolves Mewtwo Into A Darker, More Powerful Form

Well, power is relative when it can be beaten by Gengar, but the new boss patched into arcade versions of the Pokémon fighting game is definitely a darker version of Mewtwo. (Update: the official name is Shadow Mewtwo.) Appearing in video footage onJapan’s NicoNico service (via NeoGAF), the boss fans have dubbed Dark Mewtwo looks…

LEGO Diorama Is The Perfect Homage To Crash Bandicoot

We won’t see a new Crash Bandicoot from Naughty Dog anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the series is losing its popularity. LEGO builder Martin Stipkovic paid tribute with this set featuring multiple levels of Crash Bandicoot 2 The color palette is a perfect match: And what’s inside the black box? Crash Team Racing! To…

Oh Hey, It’s A Laser Cutter… Using A Wiimote

The Wiimote’s fantastic design makes it useful for a lot of weird projects, like this one by Martin Raynsford. He’s using the Wiimote’s built-in infrared camera to control the laser in a laser cutter. It’s a funny little hack (via Hackaday), proving that a fishing rod isn’t the weirdest thing that could have a Wiimote…

Mario Takes Over a Sonic Game

The game is Sonic Generations. Or rather, Super Mario Generations, thanks to modder group Daku & Squiz. The mod (via DSOGaming), which has been in the works for a couple years now, basically lets you play through Sonic Generations as Mario, with the supporting characters also getting turned into various Mario ones like Peach, Donkey…

Chris Brown’s ‘Zero’ Artwork Sure Looks Familiar

Especially if you’re familiar with the manga City Hunter. Compare for yourself! Twitter user Gregoire Hellot pointed out that “Zero” single’s cover looks like it could be a City Hunter knock-off, adding that on the upside, this was proof of how international the manga has become. Heh. City Hunter ran from 1985-1991 and followed the…

One-Punch Man Shows Why Manga Will Always Matter 

There’s a One-Punch Man anime, so why even read the manga, right? Right? Um, no. Just no. Anime has a slew of strong points! It brings editing, voice acting, and moving pictures to manga adaptations. Anime is good. We like it. One-Punch Man started out as a webcomic and then was adapted into a brilliantly…

Inside Out heads outside. Disgust is Ladylili, Anger is Djaden Fury, Sadness is Pandora Clemy and Joy is Clef

Some Pretty Gross Witcher 3 Cosplay

That’s a compliment, mind you, since the Lady of the Woods is intentionally a super gross character. Cosplay by Elena Nerium Oleander, photos by Fillakteria

The Art Of Building Menus, Icons & Maps

User Interface stuff fascinates me, because it has to dance such a fine line between looking pretty and being useful. Fall too far on either side and you’re in danger of ruining a game; get it just right and, like Deus Ex and Mass Effect, you can become as memorable as any piece of character…

Giant Street Fighter Graffiti Covers Tokyo Building

Graffiti artist CASE (from German crew Maclaim) is famous for covering buildings in enormous, life-like images. This E. Honda he did last week in Japan is no exception. Done near the Tennōzu Isle Station in Shinagawa, Tokyo it’s around twelve stories high, and because of its size/prominence there’s a ton of cool progress shots of…

Oh, It’s N64 Games, Running On A Watch

Is this practical? No. But screw practical. Like we saw with Half-Life, trying to play a video game on a watch is futile. The touchscreen controls used by the emulator are just too damn small. But it’s the drive that we appreciate. If an “old” LG G Watch can run N64 games, then who knows,…

The Batmobile Is Just Wrecking Los Santos

brb, re-installing Grand Theft Auto V We’ve seen Batmobile impersonations in GTA V on the PC before, but this mod is the real deal. Recreating the “tank” design from Arkham City, taltigolt’s clip is the combination of three mods: esrohraw’s Tumbler, LUISDACOS’ texturesand xmod’s nitro boost Nice to see at least one Batmobile working properly…

Killer Joker Cosplay, Courtesy Of A Hollywood Legend

When Hollywood effects master Rick Baker wants to help make his family some Halloween costumes, everybody comes out having a better day. Baker—famous for his work on Thriller, An American Werewolf in London and Men in Black—and his family decided to go with a Joker theme this year, the exception being his wife Silvia, who…

The Week In Games: Something Something Call Of Duty

Is it Call of Duty week already? Man, I could really use a sandwich. If it weren’t readily evident from the release of the game’s official live-action trailer (starring the Human Torch until that memory gets scrubbed from my brain), Black Ops III comes out this week. Friday, for some godawful reason that I am…