Enjoy this surprisingly dramatic and gripping YouTube mini-documentary about one of gaming's strangest and most obsessive cults: racing around Mario Kart 64's Choco Mountain track. Thanks to glitchy shortcuts, racers winnowed times down to just a few seconds. But getting the trick right for all three laps of a time trial? 20,000 attempts later...
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Jun 21, 2018
Mini-documentary about the race to conquer Mario Kart's Choco Mountain in seconds
The Planet Zoo economy is broken and flooded with genetically mutated warthogs
Nate Crowley wrote for Rock Paper Shotgun about the broken (as of this writing) economy in Planet Zoo. The game allows players to raise animals and then sell them for money or the rare currency called conservation credits. But the economy is broken, and desirable animals are unobtainable to all but the early adopters: In […]
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If Untitled Goose Game were a Playstation 1 game
If #UntitledGooseGame was released on PS1 made with #GodotEngine #gamedev pic.twitter.com/xDFai1Tcgt — Miziziziz (@miziziziz) November 13, 2019 Untitled Goose Game is the hit title where you play an obstreperous bird menacing a bucolic village. Game developer Miziziziz wondered what it would look like as an even lower-poly game on the originaly Playstation. It gives me […]
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Train passenger simulator
BigBread’s No Destination is a “game” in the classic spirit of Desert Bus, and you don’t even have to make the occasional steering adjustment. Just sit and enjoy the journey, looking out of a train coach at the procedurally-generated hills and woods of wherever it is you are. It’s just the first entry I’ve checked […]
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Get over a million royalty-free vector images for less than $40
The hardest part of web design can be nailing down the look. These days, even non-designers can easily spot a stale stock photo or lazily-made icon. What’s the solution? No matter what kind of artist you are, it’s always a good idea to widen your palette. And with more than a million vector images to […]
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These wireless earbuds pack a week's worth of battery life for 75% off
For all that tech that gets squeezed into them, the best wireless earbuds are ones we barely have to think about. That’s the whole point, right? We get wireless because we just want to hit play and have a hands-free, cordless soundtrack for the rest of the commute. If that’s your philosophy, definitely give these […]
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Grow your skills before the year ends with these eBook collections
Need a boost on that resume? Get a valuable tech education on your own time with these eBook bundles. They contain guides from Packt Publishing that cover everything from game development to machine learning. The Complete Mobile App Developer eBook Bundle It’s a veritable gold rush in the App Store these days. Get in on […]
