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Diablo III Open Beta Weekend

Blizzard Entertainment:

We’re pleased to announce the Diablo III open beta weekend, which offers open access to all players with a valid Battle.net account! Beginning this Friday everyone is invited to log in and help us put the game and servers through their paces in this three day stress test as we march toward the game’s release on May 15. You can begin downloading the Diablo III client right now!

From Friday, April 20 at 12:01 p.m. PDT (noon), until Monday, April 23 at 10:00 a.m. PDT you’ll be able to log in, team up with friends, and play each of the five heroic classes to level 13 as you fight to save the world from the impending demonic invasion.

(via Rock, Paper, Shotgun)

21 April 2012 • diablo iii games open beta fantasy

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Cinematic debut trailer for Dishonored.

(via PC Gamer)

18 April 2012 • dishonored games game trailers

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Left 4 Dead - Impulse 76 fan film by Adrian Picardi

11 April 2012 • left 4 dead short films fan film games fun mashups wtf zombies horror adrian picardi

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Game of Thrones Excel!!!!! by Roberto Flores

(via gamefreaksnz)

11 April 2012 • reblog: tazar • game of thrones fan art drawings digital art games roberto flores

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Cinematic trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines.

21 March 2012 • aliens: colonial marines trailers games sci-fi cgi animtion

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prostheticknowledge:

Trigger Rally

3D browser-based racing game - not the most sophisticated racer but it works really well as proof-of-concept WebGL experience. Arrow keys to move left / right, accelerate …

Play it here

21 February 2012 • reblog: prostheticknowledge • trigger rally WebGL games fun

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collegehumor:

Breaking Bad RPG 

The only game that’s also a controlled substance.

31 January 2012 • reblog: collegehumor • breaking bad spoofs fun games animation pixel art

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youngmegadethite:

WES ANDERSON TRAILER AD-FREE

(Source: anothersliceofcheesecake, via vicemag)

14 January 2012 • reblog: anothersliceofcheesecake • wtf games fun roller coaster

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prostheticknowledge:

Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment

From the maker of The Artist Is Present - Marina Abramovic - The Game, Pippen Barr continues to merge retro gaming with culture with the latest offering about Ancient Greek figures who were punished for their deeds:

You can do it Sisyphus! Be the boulder! Keep on rollin’! Don’t stop! Never give up! No retreat! No surrender! No end in sight! Just delicious Greek torment as far as the eye can see and as fast as the fingers can type!

Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment was written in ActionScript 3 using Adobe’s FlashBuilder 4.5 and the excellent Flixel library. It uses sound effects made in bfxr. The font in Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment is Commodore 64 Pixilized by Devin Cook 

Prepare for button-bashing … you can play the game here

6 January 2012 • reblog: prostheticknowledge • wtf fun games mythology pippen barr

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Kern Type, the kerning game

The goal of this game is to adjust the spacing between letters to achieve a visually pleasing result. Your score depends on how close your solution is to a typographer’s solution. For comparison’s sake I got a final score of 86%.

(via Boing Boing)

15 October 2011 • kern type games typography kerning design

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Street Fighter Converse chucks by Maya Plisetskaya

5 October 2011 • artisan crafts shoes geeky games street fighter fan art maya plisetskaya

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Hoshi Saga Ringo Hime

Seventh entry in Yoshio Ishii’s “find the star” puzzle series.

(via indiegames)

24 September 2011 • hoshi saga games puzzles yoshio ishii

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themainloop:

Emmanual Malin

Vessels - The Path

22 September 2011 • reblog: themainloop • concept art paintings games emmanual malin

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xombiedirge:

Sub Zero Vs. Scorpion by Xander13 / Website / Blog / Flickr / Store

22 September 2011 • reblog: xombiedirge • cute mortal kombat fan art paintings digital art games

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prostheticknowledge:

Warco: an FPS where you hold a camera instead of a gun via Ars Technica

Warco is a first-person game where players shoot footage instead of a gun. A work in progress at Brisbane-based studio Defiant Development, the game is a collaboration of sorts; Defiant is working with both a journalist and a filmmaker to create a game that puts you in the role of a journalist embedded in a warzone. Ars spoke with Defiant’s Morgan Jaffit to learn more about this political game disguised as an FPS.

The game was actually the brainchild of someone outside of the studio. Tony Maniaty, an Australian journalist who has reported from regions like East Timor and post-Soviet Eastern Europe, envisioned the game as a sort of training simulator. He then began working on the project with filmmaker Robert Connolly, who directed the film Balibo, a political thriller about the deaths of Australian journalists during the conflict in East Timor in 1975. Eventually Jaffit and Defiant were brought into the project.

More Here

21 September 2011 • reblog: prostheticknowledge • games war journalism warco

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