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In case you've ever wanted to transform your mug into an Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device, crafter Two Horns United has built one that fits right on your chin. I imagine it's incredibly useful if you're the kind of clumsy individual who frequently finds yourself plummeting off cliffs face-first. Wear it to the Portal golf course for extra thematic resonance. More »
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There were plenty of old school video games based on science fiction movies, but plenty of them were absolutely godawful. We're looking at you, Total Recall for Nintendo and E.T. for Atari. More »
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Take a good long look at Syfy's massive multiplayer online game/television series Defiance. It's been called a space western, an immigrant drama, and a dystopian drama, but one thing is for certain — this is a sizable undertaking by Syfy. More »
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Check out Walking Dead for children! Many moons ago, Jason Chan crafted a beautiful piece of artwork, so great it even inspired an io9 writing prompt contest. More »
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After releasing OK Computer, an album about technological malaise at the close of the 20th century, Radiohead released the spartan and sterile Kid A, an LP even more devoted to alienation. More »
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Patrick Runte's photographs don't just imagine what old video games might look like in the real world — with blocky characters translated into three dimensions. They also imagine how those games might be played in our world — and they look like a good deal of fun. More »
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Microsoft Kinect has been used for some novel hacks, but this is straight out of Ghost In The Shell. Meet Vaudeville, a twelve-foot-tall, five-ton mecha that's manipulated using Kinect, or that XBox peripheral commonly known for its embarrassing dance party games. More »
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Back when Pokémon were just a seizure-inducing flicker in Nintendo's eye, there was "Dark Warrior epilepsy," a form of epilepsy that was only reported once in the history of medicine. Nonetheless, this malady is responsible for one of the strangest paragraphs ever to grace a medical journal. More »
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Is there anything in the universe more frightening than a Dalek who is obsessed with nonexistent pastries? Of course not. Behold the shiny metal veneer of your ultimate nightmare — click on the lower-right corner above for further tremble-worthy detail. More »
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To celebrate his ten-thousandth day on this planet, Tom Scott got together with some friends to create this marvelously fun 12-hole miniature golf course. Along with holes based on Minecraft, the Wii controller, and the British game show Crystal Maze, Scott's friend Tom Wyatt constructed a series of holes dedicated to the venerable mad science video game Portal. More »
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For parents who complain that their kids are playing too many video games, Caldwell Tanner's imaginary books offer the perfect solution, blending Mario with Dr. Seuss, Pokemon with Maurice Sendak, and warning of the perils of giving Link a cuckoo. More »
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For the temporally askew art show So You Created A Wormhole — which opens tonight at Los Angeles' iam8bit gallery — artist Jude Buffum dreamt up Jurassic President, an inspired fighting game that gives America's presidents access to time-travel technology and prehistoric beasts. Here's his synopsis of this deathmatch: More »
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Sadly, this Game of Thrones fighting game only exists as a single image by illustrator Roberto Flores, but take some solace that he's working on a Cersei versus Tyrion brawl. Hopefully the latter will flaunt his patented Joffrey Slap super combo. More »
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So you're convinced that the Mass Effect universe is a science fiction epic for the ages but you don't know if you have the time to explore it. All told you can expect to spend 100 hours or so playing through all three Mass Effect games. That's about the time commitment of watching every single episode of a show that's been on the air for seven seasons. Maybe you're looking to cut a few corners and skip a game or two. More »
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This morning we looked at the live-action Mega Man film — now the folks at Steelhouse Digital have made this jazzy short about the Polymorphic Autonomous Compound Manipulator, a super-secret government project. The filmmakers attempt to give the yellow crescent some more gravitas than that 1980s TV show, which makes it all the more clever. More »
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There have been plenty of live-action video game movies pumped out by Hollywood, with the aggressively bizarre Street Fighter and Super Mario Bros. adaptations being the house favorites here at io9. And one iconic gaming character to completely eschew the film treatment is Mega Man, that plucky blue cyborg who can fire saw blades, ninja stars, icicles, and whatnot out of his arm cannon. More »
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Over the past few years, retro video game enthusiast Doctor Octoroc has designed nifty 8-bit versions of such science fiction shows as Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, which he unveiled yesterday. To make matters even groovier, Octoroc has released MP3s of all his chiptune scifi soundtracks on his website. Here's a veritable jukebox of free bleep-bloop music. Just follow the below links to the corresponding zip files. More »
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In the spirit of their 16-bit remixes of Battlestar Galactica and Breaking Bad comes College Humor's low-tech remake of the Eleventh Doctor's adventures for the BBCSNES. Witness the Weeping Angels in thrilling real-time strategy! More »
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If this blue-skinned lady looks just a little too much like Mass Effect's badass justicar, that's because she's Rana McAnear, the actress who provided the model for Samara. And she's using her resemblance to the character to take the illusion of cosplay to another level. More »
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Check out the highly emotional, walker-free trailer for The Walking Dead video game. We don't know much about this world, but we certainly hope the characters don't decide to stay on Hershel Greene's farm the entire time. Brought to you by Telltale Games, this game still has no release date set. More »
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Ubiquitous in science fiction, rail guns are a hot area of military research in real life too. But will we ever really get to use them the way people in science fiction do? And could rail guns be used for a non-violent reason — inexpensively launching payload into space? More »
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If you've ever wanted to shoot your Facebook friends in the head, this is your chance. AMC and Eye Wides Games are releasing The Walking Dead Social Game next month, so you and your friends will team up to defeat the Walkers, and then turn on each other as one of you inevitably goes zombie — or starts sending too many annoying requests. More »
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Video game studio Quantic Dreams — who you may remember helmed the PS3 crime thriller Heavy Rain — has now released a new short film starring the voice and digital likeness of actress Valorie Curry (Twilight, Veronica Mars). According to Quantic Dreams CEO David Cage, this heart-rending short uses technology more typical of Hollywood than video game studios. He explained to Eurogamer: More »
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You already knew that Mass Effect is quite possibly the most important science fiction universe of our generation. But how did Mass Effect develop into such an important game? As we eagerly await the third installment of the trilogy, it's interesting to learn more about the creative choices that led us here. More »
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We've been following the aborted Steampunk Batman video game Gotham By Gaslight for some time now, and here is the first footage we've ever seen. More »
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There is a universe where the last Star Wars action figures came out in 1985, the Battle of Endor took place on Kashyyyk, and the prequels were actually a three-night-long PBS mockumentary — directed by Errol Morris — on the vagaries of moisture farming. Suffice to say, we don't live in that universe. More »
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Angry Birds Space will be coming out for iOS, Android, Mac and PC next on March 22, the game's developers at Rovio, tell Kotaku. More »
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We've heard the Tron Legacy soundtrack transmogrified into floppy disc farts. Now witness France and/or robotdom's premier deejaying duo turned into the digital drone of Commodore 64s and wheezing MS-DOS games. More »
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Starting next Wednesday, Dark Horse Comics will release a six-part miniseries based on Bioware's Dragon Age roleplaying game. Here's an exclusive first look at the full collage of the miniseries' cover art. The first issue hits February 22 on Dark Horse Digital, and here's the plot synopsis: More »
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This week, the video game world lost a great concept artist. Adam Adamowicz was one of the concept artists behind Fallout 3 and Skyrim, two visually stunning games. Take a look back at Adamowicz's designs for Fallout's retrofuturistic apocalypse. More »
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Much in the same way Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica have received the RPG remix from College Humor, AMC's "chemistry teacher turned meth cook" drama Breaking Bad has also been given the clever 16-bit treatment. More »
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Say goodbye to your innocent childhood vision of multi-colored Space Invader bugs dancing happily across the sky. Character artist Tom Carruthers would like to replace it with a fang-filled piece of fleshy nightmare fuel. More »
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Those Portal turrets really aren't such bad robots. After all, it's not their fault that they're programmed to shoot you in the face. Everyone's favorite guilt-tripping sentinels get into the gleeful spirit with "This is Aperture," an ode to the puzzle-filled test facility sung to the tune of The Nightmare Before Christmas's "This is Halloween." [via Metafilter] More »
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The fifth addition to the long legacy of ladies kicking T-Virus ass in questionable attire, better known as the Resident Evil franchise, has finally released its first trailer. More »
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Syfy has finally found a lead for their joint television and massive multiplayer online series, Defiance. It's Cooter from True Blood, better known as Grant Bowler. And with the announcement of their lead, a few new details for this space Western have been revealed.

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A few days ago, Kotaku posted a gallery of concept art from a rejected pitch for a steampunk Batman videogame based on the Elseworlds comic Gotham by Gaslight. So what exactly did we miss out on? More »
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While waiting around in their pens, swine can get ornery and restless. To placate the porkers, a group of Dutch designers are devising a basic video game that allows humans to square off against pigs (and vice versa). It's an extremely cute idea until you realize your porcine opponents are bacon-bound.

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A while back, we told you about Organ Trail, a zombie-filled webgame inspired by that classic work of morbid edutainment, Oregon Trail. Now the Organ Trail producers are expanding the original game and making it available on your computer and phone. More »
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Did you miss out on Battlestar Galactica? Do you dream of watching all of the show's drama, thrills, and frustrating scenes condensed into a four-minute piss take on 16-bit roleplaying games? More »
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Greg Bear returns to the Halo universe with Primordium, out next week. But you don't have to wait until then to start delving into Bear's second installment in the Forerunner Saga. Tor.com has the first chapter of Primordium, and the second chapter is live over at Halo Waypoint. More »
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