In this new episode of “Epic NPC Man,” the folks from Viva La Dirt League take a look at the strange logic behind fire in certain video games. How could a house start burning after being hit a few times with a sword, and then magically fix itself with just two or three strokes of […]
Watch as Canadian musician Steve-san Onotera (Also known as “The Samurai Guitarist” on Youtube) performs an amazing cover of the Super Mario World soundtrack, complete with live sound effects created by his guitar. There are plenty of Super mario covers online, but it’s not every day that we hear one that is that good, so […]
Oh man, very few moral quandaries are quite as daunting in the geek movement than the moment when two Pokemon games drop at the same time (like Silver and Gold, Nickel and Aluminum editions and so on) and it is up to you as the geek to CHOOSE only one. BUT WHICH ONE? No matter […]
Since the day River Horse announced that they would be releasing a Labyrinth board game based on Jim Henson’s movie of the same name, you guys have shown more than passing interest about it, and now that the game is finally out, I figured you might all appreciate to see what the game actually looks […]
It’s the Clue game transported to the world of Star Wars. In this game, it’s a period of civil war, and players have managed to sneak onto the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the Death Star! Be the first player to find out which planet Darth Vader plans to destroy next, which room the Death Star plans […]
For those who are wondering, yes, these are all real games: –Woodcutter Simulator –Street Cleaning Simulator –Crane Simulator –Forklift Truck Simulator –Flughafen-Feuerwehr-Simulator –Farming Simulator –Construction Simulator I also have two German friends, and they’re both obsessed with train simulators. Can anyone among you enlight us on why people from Germany like simulators so much?
Dungeons & Dragons, which was originally designed by Gary Gygax (1938-2008) and Dave Arneson and first published in 1974, has finally earned its place in the National Toy Hall of Fame. It beat out a diverse set of nominees including Care Bears and bubble wrap. The Hall is housed at the Strong museum in Rochester, […]
From Banjo Guy Ollie: Monkey Island, like Dune is a game I first discovered and played on my old #Amiga and eventually replayed on my dad’s PC… and on my own again with the HD remake. BUT, man, has this theme been stuck in my head for months (years!) now. I’ve been meaning to cover […]
So if you have seen the most recent season of Black Mirror on Netflix than you know, it is some other level stuff. Though this (formerly British and now Netflix produced) show has always been well ahead of the curve on the way it views technology and how much this tech is separating us from […]
From Infineon Technologies: Infineon chips helped breaking the current Rubik’s Cube machine world record of 0.89 seconds – the new world record set by our Sub1 high performance robot counts 0.637 seconds. As the process went on very fast and was thus hard to catch by the human eye, here is a slow motion video […]