Imitation the Sincerest Form of Theft?

This is old news, but most people missed it when it first came through. Borderlands (2009) seems to have been heavily influenced by “Codehunters,” a film short created by Ben Hibon in 2005. It was made for MTV Asia as part of their 2006 Music Awards show....

Please Go Read this Comic

…if you’ve played Team Fortress 2 in the past few months. It’s true, it’s all true. I’ve pretty much stopped playing after the update that added 50 bajillion new weapons, with exception of playing against bots. There is just no way for me to devise a strategy on-the-fly against...

Red Faction: Guerrilla

I don’t even wince anymore at people in movies or video games getting stabbed by knives or swords but, on occasion, I still catch my body tightening up when I see someone take a sledgehammer anywhere on their body. We have all been hit hard by something dull and...

Emetophobics Beware!

…or “Screwing Around Again in L4D2, part 251.” This is 54 gigabytes of raw footage edited into four minutes of short clips for today’s attention-deficit netizens, myself included.

The Physics of Jiggly Bits [LP2]

In a recent Steam recommendation for Lost Planet 2, I said that it’s “the best coop game you’re not playing.” Something we didn’t know about when we first played through was the ability to unlock skins for other characters, in this case the Femme Fatales. These unlocks...

Creating a Custom Minecraft GUI Texture Pack

It’s actually very simple. Things you will need:The original Minecraft GUI image files are located in C:\Users\\AppData*\Roaming\.minecraft\bin. Open minecraft.jar with your archive program. Double-click the gui folder, then drag-and-drop gui.png and icons.png onto your desktop. These two files contain the GUI and main menu images. Edit those new pngs...

In Essence, Just Cause 2

I just started playing Just Cause 2 but already have close to a dozen mods loaded. There is a decently sized community with some really nice mods. Sadly, the one I was looking the most forward to was broken by a recent update: the Bolo patch allowed...

Bikinis and Full Plate

When we stopped playing Warhammer Online, I didn’t post anything on it, largely in part because I was so done with the game that I didn’t even want think about it anymore. I recently uploaded my WAR screenshots to the newly upgraded Gallery 3, which reminded me about the...