Gaming

scribblenauts

A game is coming your way this fall that apparently includes every character with super powers in the DC Comics universe. Not just the current characters either; everyone in the company’s publishing history. I know – it doesn’t sound real. Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure isn’t made up though. Kotaku was present at a press event about the game this week and stated they heard the following:

“We have the DC Comics characters… all of them,” Caleb Arseneaux, producer at the game studio 5TH Cell said while introducing the game to the press this week in Los Angeles.

Yes, there’s the standard Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Superman. There are also minor characters and multiple iterations of characters like Batman. And they’re all in extra cute form.

The game will play like others in the Scribblenauts series. You give the game a noun, and it shows up in the game. You enter the objects to solve puzzles and in this version, you can enter the name of objects or DC Characters. It looks like a lot of fun.

Keep an eye out for the series coming to PC, 3DS, and Wii U.

Check out more images and a video preview after the break.

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atari

Really, this is dangerous because I just spent twenty minutes playing Atari Breakout instead of writing the post you’re reading right now. I blame Google, who has put this little Easter Egg in its Google Image Search to celebrate the 37th anniversary of the game. All you have to do is search “atari breakout” and your screen transforms automatically, killing any chance of a productive day. It’s as addictive as you’d expect so consider yourself warned.

(Google via Gizmodo)

kong1

Here’s a tip. If you’re dealing with some kind of vintage thing and it has a signature, make sure it’s not the signature of someone important before you go and clean it away. This lesson was learned the hard way by Johnnyboy who wrote up a tutorial on how to take apart and clean a vintage handheld Donkey Kong game. This included getting rid of the “funny looking signature” that just happened to be that of Shigeru Miyamoto. He’d be the legendary Nintendo game designer. Oops.

Of course, he could have just been trolling the internet and this whole thing is just a joke. However, he did respond in the tutorial comments that it couldn’t be Miyamoto’s actual signature because he bought it for only $20 on eBay. Either way, check out the results after the break.

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mario1

Yeah, so here’s some hipster versions of the Mario characters. They’re pretty cool. Artist Sam Milham made them, but whatever. I don’t really care because caring is so last year.

See more after the break…

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idiot

It pains me to write this post because this guy is local to me and the state of New Hampshire is pretty much doing one giant facepalm over his story.

Henry Gribbohm went to a carnival and played a ball toss game hoping to win an Xbox Kinect. He hadn’t won it after $300 so he went home only to return with his life savings of $2300 which he promptly lost without winning the big prize. All he got was a giant, stuffed, Rasta banana for his trouble.

Gribbohm claims he was cheated and that the game was rigged. Of course, the carnival denies their games are rigged but now the police are involved and Gribbohm is considering a lawsuit. That Rasta banana may turn out to be made of money, just like the banana stand.

(CBS Boston via BuzzFeed)

ballpoint pen game

Doodling with a ballpoint pen fills up the minutes and hours of many bored students and employees. With time and dedication, those doodles can become more – like a whole video game! Ballpoint Universe by Desura is a side-scrolling shooter game about a doodle named Doodle. The entire game was drawn in ballpoint pen, and it looks beautiful!

See the trailer after the break.

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If you think you have gaming skills, let this video of a champion Starcraft II player in action disabuse you of that notion. It captures Korean pro gamer StarTale_Sound at the WCS Challenger League Qualifiers and it is incredible. The clicking of keys never stops and if you can take your eyes off of his hands and look at the screen, it’s a blur of activity that is impossible to follow.

See the video after the break…

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It took four months for Josh Collin to build this incredible recreation of Jurassic Park one brick at a time. He’s got all the buildings and yes, there are dinosaurs. Watch out for Velociraptors. Those guys are sneaky devils.

See the video after the break…

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bio3

He’s already created a great Dr Seuss/Skyrim mash-up, and now DrFaustusAU has turned his sights on some new games. This time it’s BioShock as Under the Sea with Mister B and Silent Hill with Some Time to Kill in Silent Hill. He’s also written a verse to go with each story.

Silent Hill
What is this place?
I cannot tell.

Is it just fog,
or is it hell?

BioShock
She is just a small girl,
but has no fear of capture.

She has a Big Daddy
down with her in Rapture.

Wouldn’t these make lovely bedtime stories?

See the second book cover after the break…

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lucas

In a move that doesn’t come as a huge surprise, Disney has shuttered LucasArts and cancelled any upcoming games. This includes the highly anticipated Star Wars 1313. The news came this morning and means that about 150 people are out of a job. The reason for the closure was cited as a change in focus from in-house game production to licensing which is a much less risky endeavor. There’s still a possibility that another developer could pick up Star Wars 1313, but at this point, both the game and LucasArts are goners.

(via Mashable)

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