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more about #spaceinvaders Invisible-Echidna: Optimus developed an eating disorder. :( Hollywood strikes again.. more » Enigmas: Totoro is my new desktop picture at work. So great! Though I really wish it would snow here now so I could build a snow-Tardis. more » Jeriba: Even though I would never have figured it out without the title, "Temple of Doom" is absolute genius. more » Ruthless, If you let me: Batman in number 5 looks like he is wearing Vader's suit; or Vader is wearing Batman's cowl. more » ripfire: "You're going to shoot through your own bunker?! That's just crazy!" more » Jack_Burton: This reminds me of The Objective - which has a great premise, but suffers a bit in it's execution. more » twophrasebark: It's really hard to shoot two-dimensional enemies. more » Dash_Stryker: Is it appropriate to trivialize a post on an internet blog, that young people leave comments on to either mock or praise trivial pop culture schlock? ... more » Rumtum: It is approprite to trivialize a situation where young Americans are killing younger Afghanistanis in their quest to ... WTFKs? Somebody needs to grow... more » Bootknife-Jackson: HA! brilliant, AND opens the flood gates for the 187 billion dollar Michael Bay blockbuster adaptaion. come on now, we all need it.... #spaceinvaders more » Purple Dave: Drop down, increase speed, and change direction! #spaceinvaders more » Ddoom: Since when do the space invaders move forwards? They actually move to the left and right, and only forward a little bit when they cant move left or r... more » AshThePirate: Why do all the cool things pop up when I have no money? #spaceinvaders more » aubreyf: I have to say it bums me out a little to see these ads (this and the one for that book) on this site. Though I thought in the past I'd seen them labe... more » Spider Sister: The one on the left isn't facing the direction it would in the game and it wouldn't be able to cast that shadow with it being rounded the way it is. T... more » chakrabs: I'm surprised no one ever tried making a space invaders movie. #spaceinvaders more » The_Sporean_Bob: AWESOME! I'm afraid I didn't pick up on the shadows being the aliens when I first browsed through and saw that shirt. I feel kind of dumb. #spaceinv... more » ShadowStaarr: Doesn't explain the weird wiggle thing they do with the bottom pixels. Still...want this shirt. #spaceinvaders more » worldgreatestgirl: This would be a great opening for the Andy Griffith show. Yep, Andy showing Opie to shoot his first space invader and Aunt Bee cooking it for dinner. ... more » OthelloThriller: Hey, cool, I'm on io9. Spelled my name wrong though, it's Snieder, not Sneider. more » -
#scifisnowmen
Fun and Fantastical Snowmen to Make Your Winter Bright
If you live in one of the snowy parts of the world, you could make a boring snowman out of three round balls. Or, you could take your cue from these folks and make snowy robots, aliens, superheroes, and monsters. More » -
#conceptart
The Secret War Against Afghanistan's Space Invaders
Adam Richardson has added pixelated alien invaders to actual war photos from Iraq and Afghanistan. And when the Space Invaders descend on a war zone, they find that they have more to contend with more than laser cannons. More » -
#spaceinvaders
Meet The New HD Space Invaders
Wondering what Space Invaders would look like in the real world? This Threadless t-shirt by Jean Salamin reveals all. We're surprised that they're spaceships and not just weirdly shaped aliens, but we kind of like it. They're Real [Threadless] More » -
#spaceinvaders
Life Magazine Remembers the Space Invaders
Ryan Snieder blends a classic photo spread with a classic video game to commemorate those more innocent days when young men would grab their dog and their shotgun and bring home a Space Invader for supper. [Behance Network via GeekTyrant] More » -
#musicvideo
Royksopp Video Chronicles Doomed Girl/Robot Romance
Fresh on the heels of their carnivalesque Space Invaders video, Norwegian electronica duo Röyksopp have created an epic romantic saga for our time in "The Girl and the Robot," their new single featuring Swedish diva Robyn. More » -
#scifiart
You Are Being Watched By Alien Phalanx Monsters
A video-game creature in London warns us that spy cameras are everywhere in public spaces. It's almost as if the proliferation of CCTV cameras were the real "Space Invaders," intruding into our lives whenever we go outside and subjecting us to intense scrutiny that might as well be a rain of laser blasts. The Space Invaders graffiti, using tiles to simulate 8-bit video game pixels, has been a constant in London since 1999, but it seems to have started featuring the CCTV warning only recently. Click through for a couple more images. More »
