Mario Baddies Redone

Mike Puncekar has created these creepy & very evil versions of the classic baddies from the Mario-World/Land franchise...

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Project Mimicry

Project Mimicry is a game/project in which a real-life sandbox is monitored for depth information, and the resulting virtual landscape is able to be played on, raced in, and explored in a separate game environment. Too cool!

Check out the video to see it in action, and then imagine the possibilities...

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Final Fantasy Stop Motion

Watch the amazing stop-motion of Final Fantasy's Cloud fighting the evil that is Sephiroth! This mammoth project took Counter656 two months to complete and consists of about 10,000 frames!



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LA Noire Game Review

 Team Bondi and Rockstar Games team up to bring gamers an epic experience that truly goes where no game has gone before.

 Set in Los Angeles 1947, the player takes control of war veteran-turned-cop Cole Phelps as he works his way up from on-the-beat street cop to Detective. The game takes an artistic focus on 1940/50s film ‘noire’ styles with characters, plots and environments drawing largely upon themes such as sex, drugs, glamour, fame, crime, gangsters and more.

The ESPV lowdown: with much anticipation we rushed out to play this game and even now, three weeks later we’re playing it as slow as possible so we don’t finish it too soon! Unless you’re strictly a fan of fast paced online multiplayer FPS games, LA Noire will almost certainly intrigue you and keep you wanting more. 

It’s fun to finally play a game as a cop. Not just any cop either, but one living in the 40s in LA with plenty of dark and dirty cases to solve. Whilst this game’s storyline is epically long and there’s plenty to keep you entertained throughout - it’s the style in which you go about solving cases that is truly impressive, definitely nothing I had experienced before. 

 Each crime scene (some of them very bloody) has clues scattered about that you must search for and document. Then when interrogating a suspect you must decide on which question to ask, whether they are telling the truth, and which clue is evidence you can use against them.

 Using Lightsprint’s RT Global Illumination Technology and MotionScan’s Depth Analysis, Bondi used real actors and 32 different cameras to capture real facial expressions of characters. This comes into play mostly when the player interrogates or interviews suspects of crimes… it’s up to you to watch the suspect’s face closely and determine if they are nervous, angry, upset, truthful, lying, or hiding something. This is what makes the game interesting. If you ask them a question and they seem like they are hiding something you can push them further or get shirty with them - but the results you get are not always the same.

 From petty cop to Vice Squad Detective there are a wide range of cases to solve including: fraud, theft, murder, serial killings, rape, drug trafficking, racketeering, arson and more.

 Overall the gameplay style is similar to a mix between GTA free roaming environments and a third person exploration game, like Tomb Raider or Assassin’s Creed.

With only minimal glitches we found little to be disappointed with. Getting around in the open free roam environment with your old school cars was fun at first but got a little boring towards the end as there is not much on street level to keep you amused such as in games like GTA4. Whilst some cases felt repetitive, overall I was always tested on every case and left wanting more.. in a good way.

Gameplay 9/10
Graphics 10/10
Storyline 9/10
Characters 10/10
Game life 8/10
Overall 10/10

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Zelda 25th Anniversary Fan Art

This week marks the 25th anniversary for the Zelda franchise and Japanese artist, Ag+ smashes all other fan art that has come out...

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PSP2 Codename NGP News

The much anticipated PSP2 has been previewed in Japan this past week. Dubbed, NGP (Next Generation portable), Sony claims its graphics will rival the PlayStation 3.The NGP contains a touch screen on top and a touch pad on the bottom. This will allow players to interact with games through "touch, grab, trace, push and pull" moves of the fingers. Specs in brief: 4-core ARM A9 CPU, 4-core GPU, 5″ OLED touchscreen, rear multi-touchpad, dual cameras, dual analog sticks, 3G, Wi-FI, Bluetooth, no UMD drive....looks incredible!!

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Epic Mickey Game Preview

Has anyone played this yet? Looks good! According to HERE:

"The character Yen Sid (originally from the Fantasia movie) created a world where all the original and now forgotten characters of Disney’s incredible animated history can reside.

Mickey Mouse, seeing all this through his mirror, decides one day to visit the model/world that Yen Sid created to see what it is truly like. In the process of Mickey’s exploration and Yen Sid’s sudden awakening out of bed;

Mickey accidentally spills thinner on the model, damaging the world and in effect creating “Wasteland” as well as the ink blot that becomes the game’s antagonist. He spends some time trying to quickly repair the damage he has made and then rushes back through the mirror and forgets all about the model.

That is until one day when the ink blot seemingly pulls him back through the mirror to face what he has done. You spend a lot of the game furtively trying to clean up the mess Mickey has made.

To accomplish this you must of course defeat enemies along the way. But you have two options; take the easy route and use the thinner which will essentially destroy your enemies or you can choose the more difficult path and repaint them."

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Kinect 3D Sex Games

This isn't hardly surprising news, but it is my duty to report on tech revelations, but I'm sure you saw this one coming years ago...

Austrian company, ThriXXX is pushing the way forward in utilising the X-Box's Kinect motion tech hardware. It may look primitive now, but give it a few more years lads!


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Pixel Butcher By Jude Buffum

In preparation for the Pixel Pushers show organised by Giant Robot, Jude Buffum created these butcher charts of some our favourite videogame characters...

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops

Out today.
Can. Not. Wait. To. Play!!!!!!

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Evil Sonic

Wow, Ive never seen Sonic The Hedgehog like this before......poor Tails

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SnakeBomb Website

Really feeling SnakeBomb's blog at the moment...Old 80's Videogame, Comic & Silly images that have been put together in a very strange style...it's been keeping me amused for a month or so now.

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2 Amazing GIFs

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Space Invader Sofa

Product designer, Igor Chak has re-created the classic Space Invader symbol as a simple, iconic and elegant sofa...





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Shaun White Transformation Skate Video

An amazing mix of CG & skate tricks to create a city that literally 'Transforms' into the perfect rideable environment....Has to be seen to be understood. Shaun White's new video game will try and find its place between Skate3 & Tony Hawk's Ride...

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