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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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We've seen the plastic spaceship design of LEGO craftsman Sven Junga previously — now check out his take on the Terran battlecruiser Hyperion from Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. As you can see, Junga is also assembling a larger Terran brick army to boot. More »
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When it comes to fan films, people love making movies A.) based on Valve properties; and B.) fairly nonsensical character mash-ups. This movie by Adrian Picardi and Northern Five Entertainment slaps these two flavors together. You can watch a making-of video here. More »
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Last night, pranksters from CalTech dolled up the famous Alamo sculpture in Manhattan's Astor Place with the exterior of an Aperture Science Companion Cube. Here's the note they left to boot. Prediction: cosplaying public art will be the next big trend come 2012.

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io9 recently had the opportunity to catch up with Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh, the stars of the long-running fantasy gaming web series The Guild. This duo also co-wrote The Guild: Zaboo, the next Guild tie-in comic book to hit the stands. More »
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Being the biased Super Nintendo owner that I am, I'm of the mind that the time-traveling RPG Chrono Trigger is probably the most unimpeachably perfect video game of all time (tied with Super Metroid, of course). So it leaves me absolutely tickled that the folks at Dorkly have decided to cater to my nostalgia and unceremoniously plop a Time Lord into the game's final battle. With a Gallifreyan around, Chrono Trigger would be over in five minutes. Hat tip to Zan!

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The military's newest digital training system is gonna open a can of whoop-ass on new recruits. And maybe a sonic blaster, too. More »
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Mysterious domain name snatchings are happening over at Lucasfilm. Has the latest Lucasfilm online activity just revealed a big Star Wars project on the rise? Definitely perhaps. More »
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Cult TV makers and all around genius lunatics Tim & Eric have created a harrowing trailer for the video game Saints Row the Third in which they bring to life the giant cat-headed Professor Genki and his collection of cat worshiping minions. Tall Cat Parade! More »
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This is so unapologetically stupid, but I can't help but applaud these guys for carrying a boombox around New York blasting the Immortals' always hilarious rave theme. (Random fact: The Mortal Kombat soundtrack has Orbital's "Halcyon" on it. Man, that song really got around.) Anyway, this video goes on for approximately eight minutes and has more critical merit than Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. More »
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Well, that's not entirely true. Calling the new 3D Hindi superhero flick Ra.One the Bollywood Tron or Iron Man would be a bit of a misnomer. The most apt parallel for Ra.One would be Automan, that swiftly cancelled 1983 cop show about a crime-fighting hologram. And like Automan, Ra.One is shitstorm preposterous in all the right ways. More »
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IDW Publishing has given io9 an exclusive sneak peek of the final issue of the Crysis comic miniseries, as penned by Crysis 2 scribe and Altered Carbon author Richard K. Morgan. The issue hits the stands Wednesday, November 2, and here's the synopsis: More »
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Sunlight Labs recently gave io9 the heads up about this groovy motion-sensing Vigo the Carpathian painting they constructed using XBox Kinect. You can find the technical info on how to build your own Scourge of Carpathia here. More »
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Over the past few years, a spate of terrific science fiction novels about videogames have asked what will happen to gaming — and gamers — in the future. Will political elections be decided by videogame? Will resistance movements be organized by guilds? And who will control the game spaces that already control so much of our imaginations? Here are ten novels (OK, one is a novella) that grapple with these questions. More »
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For years, the US Department of Health and Human Services has distributed brochures like this one to people who are considering surgery. The packets are full of things you need to know and questions you should ask your surgeon before going under the knife. More »
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The tenth anniversary of Halo is upon us. As part of the celebrations, we're getting a better look inside the evolution of the Master Chief's world. And it's totally breath-taking. More »
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Xenomorphs are the (giant, deadly, and acid-filled) cockroaches of the universe, so it's no surprise they've encountered such famous superheroes as Batman and Green Lantern. Here are ten occasions the Aliens invaded someone else's franchise.

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Every time something newfangled hits the scene and gets the kids riled up, some folks always assume that the devil is in the details. Like this guy right here, who also has an occult bone to pick with Minecraft, Guitar Hero, and Magiquest. It must be noted that he's not alone in this notion. More »
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Remember when we talked with Felicia Day about her upcoming webseries based on the RPG Dragon Age? Well check out the newly released extended trailer for Dragon Age: Redemption — it debuts next week on Machinima: More »
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In the past decade or so, comic-book movies have achieved a credibility that still eludes video-game movies. But that may be about to change, according to a new article over at Forbes. More »
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Alien Infestation has raised the bar for cool easter eggs. Apparently there's a mini-game hidden inside the handheld game, where the player can recreate Bishop's fancy knife trick with the stylus. But does Bill Paxton scream when you miss? More »
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Remember that concept animation from the THQ Avengers video game that was cancelled? A trailer for this never-to-game has hit the web and it shows off the heroes' deadly destinations, which you can spoil for yourself in the above video. More »
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In the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine video game, you're the best of the best, a genetically modified supersoldier wearing incredible armor and wielding incredible weapons. This is a third-person shooter/hack and slash action game, but beyond that it's a great military sci-fi story. More »
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We love pin-up art as much as anyone, but there's something weird about this newly released concept art showing the evolution of Harley Quinn in Batman: Arkham City. Maybe it's just that it shows how formulaic these sorts of female characters have gotten. More »
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The footage from a scrapped Avengers tie-in video game has hit the web, and the unused animation reveals a villain who we've all suspected has been waiting in the wings. Spoilers! More »
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In his new book Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, Jeff Ryan examines the history of the video game manufacturer using the company's unassuming corporate logo Super Mario. We spoke with Ryan about how Nintendo has crafted this de facto global video game spokesman, who's become venerated by millions. More »
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The Portal series is of exceedingly high quality, so it's unsurprising that the game is inspiring some terrifically snazzy fan movies. In Dan Trachtenberg's Portal: No Escape, a prisoner uses her Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device to escape from her captors. More »
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There's something so thrilling and electrifying about dystopian cityscapes — and this concept art of cyberpunk Paris totally hits our sweet spot. More »
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What would it look like if James Gunn, writer of such so-wrong-they're-great movies as Slither and Super, wrote a zombie-centric version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Wonder no longer. The first trailer is out for Lollipop Chainsaw, a game about a cheerleader who kills zombies. More »
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And you thought the fourth Resident Evil film would be the last, you silly, stupid fools. More »
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