21 posts tagged ‘video games’
Blink and you lose: try the intense stare-off challenge of staring at strangers online
Boing Boing,
How long can you stare at a stranger without blinking? That's the object of Stranger Video. When you visit the site and give it access to your webcam, you get paired with a stranger that you must stare at. The first person to blink loses. — Read the rest
Fallout: New Vegas fan celebration still going strong a decade later
Ask most any fan of the much-lauded Fallout games, and they'll swear up and down that 2010's Fallout: New Vegas still represents the pinnacle of the series. Whatever the objective ranking of Fallout games really is, New Vegas fans are everywhere, and the success of the recent Fallout Fan Celebration in Goodsprings, Nevada—the real-world small town you groggily awaken in at the beginning of New Vegas—is proof that they're not going anywhere anytime soon. — Read the rest
Starfield gets passed up for GOTY, fans are angry
First off, go vote in the official The Game Awards poll if you haven't already. Second off, you may have noticed that Starfield, the game everybody was convinced would cure their leprosy, is conspicuously not on the Game of the Year list. — Read the rest
Link Shouldn’t Talk
Vulture,
What do we want from a Legend of Zelda movie?
This six-hour EVE Online retrospective is the best sci-fi movie I've watched all year
YouTuber Fredrik Knudsen is primarily known for his Down the Rabbit Hole series, which focuses on strange historical happenings, whether online or in the real world, and breaks them down in impressive—and sometimes excruciating—detail. The series has been on hiatus for the past two years, but its long-awaited return more than justifies its absence: a colossal, six-hour retrospective on ambitious spacefaring MMO EVE Online, which sought to create an intricate, interlocked virtual universe, complete with its very own politics, economy, and star system-spanning conflicts. — Read the rest