I don’t know what possessed someone to redesign the cast of BioShock Infinite as cats, but I’m sure as hell glad they did. I love the internet, I really do.

That’s really all there is to say on this matter. Check out Booker Cat and Elizabeth Cat below. Sorry no Songbird. A giant metal cat ate it.

Have you seriously not played this game yet? Shame on you. Continue Reading »

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Fun fact: Today is the one year anniversary of Diablo 3. Though really, it should probably be known as the time when the game finally got out of beta. Through an enormous series of patches, the game is actually about 100% more fun than it was at release.

Anyway, love it or hate it, you can’t deny that the Witch Doctor is a badass class for an ARPG, and this is a badass picture of said Witch Doctor and his friend, Tiny the Gargantuan. The artist is Staples, and you should check out more of his work here.

And yeah, I still have to check out Path of Exile, I know. Torchlight 2 was just okay. Not being able to respec killed it for me.

I love puns, I love Pokemon, so here we are. From Mark Delabeast comes a short series of book covers infused with a bit of a Pokemon.

The Great Ghastly was my favorite, particularly with the recent release of the film, but “Mein Kabutops” and “The Rapidash of Courage” are pretty good as well.

Check out the other five covers below: Continue Reading »

Everything is cool with a little more cell-shading, and that’s certainly the case for this Borderlands-themed PC mod designed and built by CrazyLefty.

It’s part Claptrap, part ammo box, and likely does not have any legendary weapons inside if you crack it open, but who knows? The same guy also built a Dahl-themed dumpster carrying case for his keyboard which is almost as cool. Check that out below.

Side not question: Has anyone played through all the Borderlands 3 DLC yet? Which, if any, are worth picking up and deleting stuff on my Xbox hard drive to install? Continue Reading »

Cosplay doesn’t always need to be cute kids or sexy girls. There’s plenty of room for badass dudes as well, as evidenced by Rick Boer here who decided to make his own take on Solid Snake from Snake Eater.

If there’s a way this could be better, I just can’t see it, and this is probably the best MGS-related cosplay I’ve ever seen. There are a few more pictures below to prove that just in case you’re not sure.

Needs more cardboard boxes and exclamation points, but in terms of a costume and model, it’s just perfect. Continue Reading »

By now you should have read Remy’s take on the Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon DLC from last week, and by all accounts it’s one of the better game add-ons you can buy for any title. Some might even say it’s more memorable than the actual game. It started as an April Fool’s Joke, but turned into “not really, we’re actually doing this.”

Well someone has taken it upon themselves to turn the ridiculous game into a ridiculous movie, or at least the trailer for one. With how insane Hollywood is these days, I wouldn’t say making a feature film out of a piece of DLC is the most unlikely idea I’ve ever heard, so perhaps it may happen someday. I’m fine with that, so long as it does actually star Michael Biehn.

Alright so not every brilliant janitor is going to be solving complex math equations at MIT, but there are custodians with other secret skills they can demonstrate on chalkboards.

Above we have one such individual who apparently has a lot of talent and free time on the job. He’s done a few rather fantastic whiteboard marker pieces spanning Zelda and Star Wars, much to the enjoyment of his classes the next day. If I was a teacher, I would probably leave all these up forever and just write in the corner of the board all year long.

Check out the others below. Continue Reading »

One summer, my friends and I got two of those vinyl DDR pads and DDR Max2 for Playstation 2. Spent three months busting our asses to clear every single song, and I swear to god we all lost thirty pounds in the process. Never have a played a game that required more physical exertion, before or since, and almost none that were that fun. “Dance Central” might feature more actual dance moves, but it’s nowhere near as enjoyable.

But even with our skills acing Captain Jack’s song selections, we had nothing on this guy. I’ve seen cross platform doubles DDR before, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a human being’s feet move quite like this. It’s almost inhuman, and I feel like if this guy ran the 100M dash he’d set a new world record. I get that’s not how muscles work, but still, it’s like the Flash is dancing up in here.

Some time ago, I finally upgraded my ancient flip phone to a big-boy smartphone.  It was a whole new world.  And by “whole new world” I mean when my wife calls me, The Who’s “My Wife” now announces her. That’s life poetry, people. I also now potentially had something better to do than play a one minute previews of Tetris or Pac-Man on my phone while waiting in public for whatever reason. A whole world of addictively simplistic free touch-screen games was spread out before me. Poultry that has a beef with pork, undead-repelling vegetation, and other pastimes of filthy casuals were now mine to play wherever I wanted. But I quickly tired of them.  There must be more… something for me.

Here’s a little Verboon fact for you all: if there is a shark in it, I will watch it/play it/read it, no questions asked.  Why?  Because sharks. They’re awesome, right? So scrolling through the free games list, I came across the title “Hungry Shark” by Future Games of London and all relevant information was in the title; there is a shark, it is hungry, and presumably it will get the opportunity get to satiate that hunger, possibly by consuming living creatures. I almost broke my touchscreen mashing “download and install”.

Playable sharks in videogames are a spectacularly underutilized concept. I remember playing “Jaws” for the NES, back in the day.  A terrible game by most standards, but I played it for days and days in spite of the fact that you didn’t even play as the shark.  Really, who makes a Jaws game and forces the player to play as the humans? Continue Reading »

 Don’t Open (or install this free app or you will feel) Dead Inside

Because who wants to pay for games on their cell phone?  Maybe just me, but I’d rather save my pennies for other things.  Here’s two zombie-based games that are worlds apart – lets just say one was deleted less than 24-hours after download, while the other I’m still playing.

Zombie Invasion: T-virus (Amphibius)

It’s always amusing when a foreign developer markets their game to a largely American audience.  Developer Amphibius brings us Zombie Invasion: T-Virus, the latest Walking Dead rip-off and an astoundingly disappointing game.   I was stifling a laugh before I even started, thanks to the following intro:

“In a house, located in Atlanta, was underground laboratory, where various experimentations were conducted.” 

Great.  Now I’m reading this in Nicolai Jakov’s voice and anticipating the arrival of an undead cyborg in a red track suit. Continue Reading »

Now that it’s finally spring around here, I’m supposed to be crawling out of my cave and doing things like going outside and letting sunlight hit my skin. But after a winter hibernating in my computer chair, it’s kind of a hard sell.

This guy has the right idea, and though I don’t own the extension cords to do this, it would be rather fantastic if I could drag my desktop rig outside and be writing this post right now in the sunlight with a beer. But no cigarette. Ew.

Unfortunately with my luck I’d get everything set up and have it start pouring a few minutes later.

[Dorkly via reddit]