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A Portal and Legend of Korra Mash Up

Posted in Television, Video Games, tagged , , , , , , on July 20, 2012| 2 Comments »

Oh my goodness, I aboslutely love this.  There are two references here: Portal and Legend of Korra.  This is from one of the first episodes of Legend of Korra where Chief Beifong allows Korra to leave her prison cell, but not without leaving a message.  And as Korra leaves, she fires a message right back.  The genius is replacing the body art with skins from the portal series.  Korra has become Chell and Chief Beifong as Glados.

What’s so great about this is because this interplay between the two characters from Legend of Korra resonate fairly well with the characters from Portal.  The adorable [yet slightly weird] relationship between Chell and Glados is exactly how Korra treats Chief Beifong.  I wish I could credit someone for something so great, but in all honesty, it’s so hard to find sources to unmarked GIFS such as these.  If anyone knows please enlighten me.

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A Badass Salarian: Tazzik

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , , on July 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I originally thought this was some artist’s crazy rendition of a Salarian badass, but then it’s actually from a Mass Effect comic book – Mass Effect: Redemption.  This is Tazzik, one of the agents of the Shadow Broker who’s known for his crazy large size for a Salarian.  Even Krogan are surprised by his large size.  He’s incredibly badass and he seemed to have played a role in the recovery of Shepherds body.  Check out his wiki entry on the Mass Effect wiki to see what he did.

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Morning Banana Oatmeal: Silent Videogame Protagonists

Posted in Lists, Video Games, tagged , , on July 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 

I personally do enjoy the bliss of silence.  And many of you who’ve played video games understand that every once in a while, you’ll have a protagonist who essentially goes along with the flow.  He/She doesn’t protest nor do he/she have anything to say about a particularly horrible incident.  Sometimes these are detrimental to the plot and sometimes it’s just the way some people are.  UGO has compiled a list of their favorites silent protagonists.  I unfortunately haven’t had the opportunity to play as number 1.  Someone recommend that I do and I just might take them up on that offer…

Silent Videogame Protagonists

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DLC Preview: Mass Effect 3 Earth

Posted in Articles, Video Games, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »

With the new DLC just under a week from launch, I figured I’d take the time to outline the basics of what we’ll be getting come next Tuesday. For those hardcore Mass Effect multiplayer fans out there, there is hope. With the new Earth DLC we should be getting a slew of new content that will cater to everyone. With a new character for each class, a few new maps, and a few new guns, this update will keep the battlefields interesting for a long time to come. I’m personally very excited for the upcoming patch, and hopefully after reading the details of this article, you will be too. The character information as well as their skill lists will be included at the end of the article. (more…)

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Did You Know Gaming is a Joyous Website

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 11, 2012| 2 Comments »

Did You Know Gaming is an amazing tumblr-like website that updates everyday with a random tid-bit about gaming.  To both the hardcore and casual gamers, these little facts and trivia pieces about some of our beloved games range from thoughtful nods to jaw dropping moments.  I’ve compiles a couple of my favorites, but you should do yourself a favor and check out the website itself to view dozens upon dozens of random facts about your favorite games.

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Dead Island Trailer in Chronicle Order

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , , , , on July 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »

A while back, I posted a neat article about how Sean Bean dies a lot and the soundtrack that followed it.  The soundtrack came from a video game called Dead Island and I posted the trailer that went with it.  Probably a trailer that’s more emotional than majority of Hollywood trailers out there, I simply had to look into it more.  Then I found that IGN, a popular video game review site actually fixed the chronological order just for funsies.  It may lose some of the emotional blow it once had, but it was still kinda neat.

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Mario Party – Luigi Wins by Doing Nothing

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , , , , , on July 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »

There’s a funny collection of videos online regarding the infamously infuriating game Mario Party. Throughout the series, the AI characters have been known to be notoriously dumb in some of the mini game challenges. So this collection of videos has a character doing absolutely nothing and winning a vast majority of mini games. The funny part is that they’re all done with Luigi. Luigi, who’s known to be the character who usually gets the second hand for everything is ironically winning for once. Here’s a collection of all the videos ranging from Mario Party 2-9.

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A Self-Solving Rubix Cube Machine

Posted in Articles, Video Games, tagged , , , , , on July 6, 2012| 1 Comment »

I admit, this isn’t videogame, movie, nor is it tv related.  But I thought it’s generally neat how amazing this thing is [next thing you know, Banana Scoop will be covering technology and gadgets haha…Uh oh, we kinda already do that don’t we? Lol.]  But otherwise, this image just screams awesomeness for several reasons. 1) It’s made of Lego and Bionicle.  Trust me, I know those pieces, I played with those things for a better half of my life.  2) The movement is so seamless that it must be some sort of Graduate student’s final project or something like that.  Not only does it perform the task it asks you to do, it also lowers and raises it, and is designed to look somewhat attractive.   How do you begin to code something like this?  I’ve only taken one Computer Science course, but the sheer mechanics of this are mindboggling…

Keep watching in it’s awesomeness and then proceed immediately to buying a Rubix cube to prove you’re smarter than a machine.

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Tetris is a Much More Dangerous than It Looks

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , on July 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

In another life or dimension, I would’ve been an animator.  I love to draw and craft stories, and doing little quirky and clever things like this would bring me great pleasure in life.  However, the engineer’s life called out to me so I’m instead spending my life studying and solving the world’s problems.  But enough about me, let’s get back to his neat animation.  It’s fairly long, so if you’re in the middle of it, give it moment to reset and watch the thing in full.  It pretty much plays on the cleverness of Tetris and the surprise ending definitely won’t be something you expected.

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Resident Evil 6

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , , , on July 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I recently stumbled upon a video of an early tech demo for the upcoming Resident Evil game and I don’t believe that I have ever been more disappointed with a developer. The amount of time and effort that went into making RE one of the greatest survival horror stories of all time just went into making it another generic third person shooter with a bulky protagonist. I’ll probably watch what happens to Chris Redfield and crew on YouTube since something tells me that I won’t be rushing to stores to pick it up. I’m fairly certain it will turn out to be a worse disappointment than RE5 was. Link to the video is included above for those of you that want to see what I’m talking about.

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A Glorious Videogame Webseries: Red vs. Blue

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , , on July 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »

There are a lot of memorabilia from my childhood: LEGOs, my Playstation 1, Disney and Pixar classic movies, etc.  Sometimes I think my generation is the first generation to include products of the internet as part of their memorabilia.  For any boy at the age of 10 or so, we looked for things to obsess over.  Red Vs. Blue, a Machinima web series made from the game Halo, filled that void. The developers Rooster Teeth essentially created a well written web series that has become highly popularized since it’s first conception in 2003.  The story essentially revolves around two warring companies in a blood gulch that are pitted against each other.  They question their existence and purpose in the most hilarious manner and this rather simple story expands into a 100+ webisode series that has grown an extremely large fan base.  If you’re interested in Halo and haven’t seen this series yet, you have no idea what you’re missing out on.  Watch the above video and be sure to visit Rooster Teeth to check out the other AMAZING things they do on a daily basis.

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22 Inevitable Features of Future Gaming

Posted in Articles, Video Games, tagged , , , , on June 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Summed up in a series of pictures, this list from Cracked sums up what gaming in the near to far future will entail for us. From holographic homework decoys to an Xbox seducing your significant other (if it hasn’t already for you ladies out there), this article has it all. An interesting series of images to say the least, with a few recognizable jabs at certain online communities such as the all too familiar XBL rage message, detailing how one incredibly angry player wishes to do unmentionable things to your mother or making fun of you for having no life. Either way, you win. Check out the images from the source below!

Source: 22 Inevitable Features of Future Gaming Systems

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Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut Fills the Void

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , , , , , on June 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

If you’ve finished the Mass Effect 3 campaign, you know that the extended cut was released last Tuesday for US and Canada to possibly fill any plot holes some [all] players wanted.  There have been an entire mess of theories arising, the most popular being the indoctrination theory, which in short was the idea that the entire final 30 minutes or so were simply an illusion and that you were in Shepherds mind fighting of metaphors for indoctrination.  Was that Bioware’s actual intention?  Does Shepherd still have an enemy to fight?  If you haven’t read up on the theories yet or are just curious to what my take on the series is, I suggest you continue reading below.  But beware, if you’re still interested in picking up the series, mass [lol] spoilers ahead.

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Wii U Issues Already?

Posted in Articles, Video Games, tagged , , , , , , on June 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »

In today’s article we’ll cover something I found a little interesting. According to the article below, the Wii U, before even launching, is being named the ‘power orphan’ of the next-gen consoles. It’s understandable considering Nintendo’s penchant for not necessarily focusing on top of the line hardware when it comes to console based goals. Will this affect how the Wii U sells considering how well the original Wii sold in comparison its competitors? I’m not quite sure how it will pan out but developments like these never bode well for the console in question. Read more in the article below to check out what else has been said.

Source: The Wii U’s Power Problem

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Shepherd Wants to Bang: Gamer Poop

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , , , , on June 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Machinima is known for taking video games and cutting them in different ways to produce humorous and creative results.  Gamer Poop is a division of Machinima that takes the cutscenes of video games and then cuts them together for lewd and crude conversations.  In honor of Mass Effect 3 releasing more free DLC, here are some fairly hilarious videos of Shepherd being in love too much with women and steak.  Due to it’s popularity, they’ve created even more videos and they can be seen below.

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The Three Point Landing

Posted in Movies, Television, Video Games, tagged , , , , on June 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

For those who don’t know what the 3 point landing is, the video should be clear.  But in case you need reassurance before you watch the minute long video, it’s when any character, movie, television, or video game, falls from a certain height and conveniently land on both feet and one hand on the ground.  I’m assuming you require your hand to absorb some of the shock from you body so it doesn’t all have to go directly to your poor ankles, and instead can forcibly break your wrist.  But that’s beside the point.

There are two aspects to the 3 point landing.  Clearly.  The landing itself and the just as cliche head raise to look the enemy in the eye.  Check out the video above and then immediately jump from you bed and perform the landing and head raising yourself for maximum pleasure.

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Morning Banana Oatmeal: Geek Fantasies that are Actually Experience-able

Posted in Movies, Television, Video Games, tagged , , , , on June 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I absolutely love posts that combine the categories, “Movies”, “Television”, and “Video Games”.  Cracked has put together a list of 5 awesome fantasies that should only exist in movies, television, and video games that are actually legitimate parks and programs.  Did you ever want to go to Middle Earth?  How about be a spy?  Check out  the article below to see how you can do these things.

Geek Fantasies that are Actually For Sale Somewhere

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Game of the Week: Mass Effect 2

Posted in Reviews, Video Games, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 21, 2012| 1 Comment »

It’s flip week I suppose, seeing as I covered the sequel to a game before the actual game came out. Anyway, this week’s game of the week is Mass Effect 2. Featuring an all-star cast of lovable characters, my favorite of which is currently Doctor Mordin Solus after his glorious rendition of The Major-General’s song. With a wide-array of ways to play with an even wider array of things to say, Mass Effect 2 is definitely one of the best games I’ve played to date. Check out the rest of the article to get my in-depth review of Mass Effect 2. (more…)

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SNES Games In Real Life

Posted in Video Games, tagged , , , , , on June 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

This is a very cool video of applying some of our favorite SNES games caked onto real life places and scenarios.  Whether it’s Mario at an actual desert or DK in an actual jungle, or maybe even the Street Fighters actually fighting in the street, this is a cool compilation of [some very old] video game pop culture with today’s current and very real life.

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Receiver: The Shooter That Changes Every Time You Die

Posted in Articles, Video Games, tagged , , , on June 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Or not. Receiver, created by Wolfire, is an interesting game that was developed in an astonishing seven days. Despite not being gods, the people over at Wolfire know how to create a compelling experience in a very short amount of time. Showcasing permanent death as a feature in the game, it’s not so much the game changing every time you die as you starting a new character on a brand new world. Either way, it looks like an interesting enough game to keep tabs on. I have yet to give it a whirl, so if any of you know anything more about it, let me know! Also, check out the article below for more information.

Source: Receiver

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