Video: Final Fantasy VII Intro Remade Using Unreal Engine. Nostalgia Arousal GET.

Making the rounds today!, a recreation of FFVII’s introductory sequence using the Unreal Engine. Pretty sweet until it goes all First Person Shooter perspective. Keep the dream alive guys, keep it alive.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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Kinect Helps Two High School Kids Win $100,000 National Science Prize. Swag.

The Kinect. I’ll let you in on a secret. I cracked, gave into curiosity, and asked for one for Christmas. Call it the Child of Eden  effect. Whatever you feel about it as Gaming’s Future, its technology has been leveraged into some dope things. The most recent? A national science prize for two high schoolers.

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Marvel Teases ‘Phoenix’ Reveal Coming This Wednesday During Live Event.

Marvel is set to reveal the fuckin’ Phoenix Force and whatever sort of event in hand for it this upcoming Wednesday during an live event. Ya’ll know how I feel about Phoenix, Jeanie, and gorgeous telekinetic forces of destruction. Here’s hoping it involves her resurrection, and the utter vaporization of Emma Frost. Yeah, I’m still going there.

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Monday Morning Commute: Never Tell Me the Odds.

I’m tired and cranky and hungry. The pile of work on my desk is increasing at an exponential rate. My gums are bleeding. How’s my breathing? Belabored. All I want to do is lay down for the night and wake up tomorrow. Know what I can’t do until I finish about seven different projects? Lay down for the night and wake up tomorrow.

Goddamn do I hate Mondays.

But I’d be a liar to imply that I don’t have a soft spot for the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE, OL‘s weekly show-and-tell feature. Here’s how it works: I’m going to give you a guided tour of my demented mind, steering you away from the Freudian nightmares and towards the entertainment wet-dreams. After scoping out the monsters lurking in my brain-bone, it’s your duty to hit up the comments section and show off the wares you’ll be using to survive the workweek.

C’mon, you think we’re afraid of the 9-5? You think we can’t survive the daily grind? Bring it on! FLAME ON!

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Gareb Shamus Resigns As President Of Wizard World. Childhood Weeps.

…And so they fall! Gareb Shamus used to be a beast of the comics world, running the ubiquitous Wizard World magazine. God, I loved that son of a bitch back in the day. Now the man is within castle nor throne, nor magazine. He has resigned as president of the entire enterprise.

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Earth-like Planet “Confirmed”. Like Tots Srsly This Time.

There’s been “confirmation” of an Earth-like planet. No like totally serious, man. We just don’t know if it’s gas, or rock, or solid, and it’s really, really far away. Man, I’m a negative bro today.

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Video: Batman Lurks On Gordon In The Shower. And Bedroom.

Now that I think of it, Batman’s pretty douchey when it comes to his relationship with Gordon. Dude just disappears in the middle of a conversation. Assumptive ass, thinking Jimmy can’t add anything. Not to mention how weird it is, which is something that this SNL Digital Short picks up on. Good shit.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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The Truth of the ‘Skyrim’ Time Machine.

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The accuracy of this shit is unnerving. The Skyrim. It has…abilities.

Robocop Joins The Cast Of ‘Star Trek 2’. Fantastic.

Peter Weller, also known as goddamn Robocop, is joining the cast of Star Trek 2. Rejoice. Throw your robo-hands in the arm. Get the fives highing, and celebrate the idea that Detroit’s baddest (it was Detroit, right?) will be rocking out galactic style.

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Teaser: PS3 Exclusive ‘The Last Of Us’ Debuting At Spike VGAs.

Sony’s teasing a PS3 title ‘The Last of Us’ with some footage of 9/11, warfare, ants, and other awfulness. It’s 45 seconds of confusing, but it’s got us all talking. Hasn’t it?

Hit the jump for the trailer, leave your speculation.

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