Category Archives: random awesomeness

Oppa Gangnam Style

You might not have heard of Korean pop artist, Psy, but his video on Youtube has gone mega-viral with over 40+ million views in the past month and a half alone prompting quite a few people to sit up and … Continue reading

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Fan remake of Star Wars is made of fun

What did technologist, Casey Pugh, get when he asked fans to recreate fifteen second slices of Star Wars and then stitched them all together into a director’s cut? You get Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut, two hours worth of awesome, … Continue reading

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Watch This Old Zelda Commercial and Come to Terms With the Passage of Time

As you may now, this year is the Legend of Zelda franchise’s 25th anniversary. I first became aware of something called Zelda when I saw this commercial and wondered if whatever the Legend of Zelda was came with instructions so … Continue reading

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The Dream Machine

From Sweden comes this charming, Flash-based adventure game that you can play in your browser. It’s unique in that instead of using flashy graphics or fancy 3D to wow players, the creators instead used cardboard sets and claymation characters to … Continue reading

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Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth

No, that’s not the new name of Indy’s next film or some kind of bizarre crossover with the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film, but it is the name of a project that is already ten years in the making … Continue reading

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Try out some Silk

“Silk” comes courtesy of programmer, Yuri Vishnevsky, as an experiment in “generative art” according to the site. All that you do is draw a line, change the breeze, and let the web do all of the work. It’s like fingerpainting, … Continue reading

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Capcom wants you to make a mecha for Mega Man

Or rather, a Bonne Mecha! The Bonnes are a family in the Mega Man Legend RPG series who specialize in building special robots that perform a variety of different tasks. This time, Capcom’s devs are reaching out again to their … Continue reading

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Ni no Kuni – an RPG so potentially awesome it comes with its own spellbook

This is a game that I’ve been watching for awhile now ever since I heard about it about two years ago. Level 5 (Rogue Galaxy, Dragon Quest VIII) and famed animation house, Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa of … Continue reading

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Bill Murray is decked out…

…in his Ghostbusters gear at the Spike Scream Awards. According to the Ghostbusters III Blog, a site set up by fans tracking everything that they can find out on the new movie purportedly still in the works, Bill Murray showed … Continue reading

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A Wild Snookie Appears!

Caught this on Bitmob today, courtesy of CollegeHumor, and it fulfills a deep seated need to know just what the Jersey Shore would be like with hit points and turn-based combat. Turns out, a lot more interesting. Check it out, … Continue reading

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