The team at Gaijin Entertainment has released, for today only, a pair of alarmingly entertaining tanks. One has legs, and the other is made of rubber, and both are playable in-game today only. The Soviet ST-1 is "the first and the only model of a walking tank" says the elaborate back story for the vehicle posted to War Thunder's devblog.…
Category Archives Culture
The Humble Bundle strikes back with the Humble Image Comics Bundle 2, a deal that's going on for the next 12 hours or so. If you've ever wanted to try a bunch of comics, or simply pick up a few new books, this 143-issue bundle offers kind of an insane amount of value. If you pay at least $18 you'll…
Toward the end of last year Netflix lost the rights to stream the original G.I. Joe cartoons from the 1980s. I hadn't even been aware they were on the service, but I was determined to reacquaint myself with the series before it was pulled down. One lunch break. That's all it took before I was on eBay pricing out a…
In an effort to promote both the 30th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros. series and this week's release of Super Mario Maker for the Wii U, Nintendo UK posted a Shigeru Miyamoto-starring, myth-busting new video to its official Twitter page. There are so many myths about Mario… Mr Miyamoto reveals the truth. #SuperMario30 http://t.co/OsjfUzSW6D — Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) September 10,…
Last night was pretty silly with pop culture events. Warning: The post contains spoilers for Mad Men, Walking Dead, and Game of Thrones There was the big debut of Taylor Swift's cameo-heavy video, there was the Mad Men series finale, and of course a new episode of Game of Thrones. Social media was going to be hopping no matter what…
This is Old Russia as imagined by Lego builder and Destiny player Hunter Erickson. Erickson writes on the Flickr stream for his creation that the Lego tableau isn't meant to be a perfect recreation of Old Russia, but rather a visual summary of everything that makes up the map. That means skeletons, derelict cars, decimated buildings and a destroyed highway bridge.…
First, Robert Downey Jr. continues to be one of the coolest people in the world. Honored to present a bionic #IronMan arm to Alex through @MSOneNote’s #CollectiveProject. Check the bowtie. #dapper https://t.co/lhLG5g1RP8 — Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) March 12, 2015 Secondly, this video is the work of The Collective Project, and while the addition of Hollywood talent in the arm's…
Let's be straight up: The only way Rachel Sims can drive this car is because she's in the United Kingdom, where police and emergency vehicles look a lot different. Her Americanized cop car, which was used to promote a Need for Speed game on PlayStation 3, still turns a lot of heads, reports the BBC. "One man fell over a bin," (that's…
I asked the world to make art with EA's new Madden GIF generator. The world did not disappoint. Here is my contribution, followed by the best GIFs I received on Twitter. The header image comes to us courtesy @devinconnors. If you want to create your own, go to this page. To grab the GIF file, drag your creation to the URL bar in…
Board game maker Cryptozoic Entertainment is ready to serve all your supernatural elimination needs, at least in the realm of tabletop gaming, with Ghostbusters: The Board Game. The game-maker's latest, the first Ghostbusters board game in some 30 years and officially licensed by Sony, is currently on Kickstarter seeking funding. Ghostbusters: The Board Game is described by Cryptozoic as an episodic…