How The Names of Some Video Games Came To Be
A few weeks back our man Paul wrote an article about how Unreality got its name and it reminded me that the stories behind popular names of brands or products can tend to be pretty…
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Dead Island Keeps Pulling on Those Heartstrings
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQukttsY0JI Dead Island achieved something rather spectacular last year. It created one of the most powerful trailers ever seen across not only video games, but movies and television as well. it’s told-backwards story of a…
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Geek Wisdom of the Week: “The cake is a lie!”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pig3PbHyJY By: Victor “Fiefo!” de la Cruz The most memorable quotes of wisdom can come from unexpected sources. In order for it to be memorable, the quote has to resonate with people, even if they…
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Banky’s Got Nothing on Sonic the Hedgehog Graffiti
(click to enlarge) Who needs clever social statements from the likes of Banksy when you can have a wall that’s one giant scene from Sonic the Hedgehog. Well, Sonic and Tails, but who’s counting. I’m…
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What the Hell Did They Do to Devil May Cry?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOL9swnkJ3M As much as I generally can’t stand Hollywood reboots, I at least understand them. Sometimes a company loses the rights to a property, the central actor or director doesn’t want to return to a…
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Unreality’s Borderlands 2 Co-op Friendship List of Magic
A few of you had the idea the other day that you posted in my first Borderlands 2 journal. It seems any of us don’t have friends who are also playing the game much or…
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Why Unreality Doesn’t Cover Music: My Top 10 Most Played Songs in iTunes
People often ask me why Unreality doesn’t write about music in addition to movies, TV and video games. Surely it’s the next logical category, right? I’m not sure I see it that way, while music…
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Unreal Game Review: Black Mesa
I really wasn’t planning on reviewing Black Mesa in any capacity this week as it’s not really a game in the traditional sense. But after sitting down to play it this weekend and going through…
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Portal 2 Gets Animated
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFJ5s1bb7UQ Here’s a cool little project from a young Portal fan named Chelsea. She’s taken it upon herself to animate one of the opening scenes of Portal 2, and in the process personifying both Wheatley…