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Check Out This Amazing Gears Of War Pistol Made Entirely Of Paper

6:00AM January 17, 2012 | Pierre Bienaimé

Some time ago we shared the papercraft wonder that was Leo Firebrand’s Fallout 3 homage: the laser pistol. Paper (and some papier-mâché for the gun handle) alone yielded a believable piece of the post-apocalypse. More »


In Real Life

How Tall Is Link? If This Life-Size Papercraft Is Any Indication, He’s 5’5″

3:00AM September 18, 2011 | Owen Good

Requiring more than 200 pages, 12 hours of work per day for a solid month, and what must have been gallons of printer ink, is this jaw-dropping life-size papercraft Link that the artist Michaela M. completed this week. Yes, she has a template for those with the time and the patience to try to re-create her masterpiece. More »


In Real Life

Here’s A Real-Life Minecraft Block You Can Actually ‘Mine’

2:00AM August 28, 2011 | Owen Good

Ben Purdy is a designer and technology artist who was working on a projection-mapping project when his brother mentioned that a projection sample looked a little like a Minecraft block. Inspiration thus hit Ben. More »


PC

Minecraft-Inspired Shoes To Help A PC That Went SSSSS-Bang [Update]

4:00AM August 21, 2011 | Owen Good

KyozoKicks, a custom shoe designer featured recently in Official PlayStation Magazine (and before on Kotaku), intended to wear these Creeper Vans to Gamescom this week. Instead, as his PC up and died, he’ll be selling them to raise money toward a new one. More »


In Real Life

Not Only Does This Nerf Lancer Fire Darts, It’s Fully Automatic

2:00AM August 7, 2011 | Owen Good

Sure, Nerf Lancers have been done before, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be done better. This one, from reader Nick G, is also for sale on eBay. More »


In Real Life

Your Face On An Action Figure? Badass

9:30PM May 20, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Based in Tokyo geek mecca Akihabara, Clone Factory is just that: a factory that makes clones. More »


Nintendo

Windowed AR Cards Reveal 3DS’ Secret

11:30AM May 14, 2011 | Owen Good

When the Nintendo 3DS is looking for an AR Card to start a game, it isn’t searching for or recognising its specific image-it’s recognising a colour, and then spawning whatever comes next off of that. To prove this, AR enthusiast Super Jezmerelda created cards with the question-box design cut out, then framed certain colours within that window. More »


Nintendo

How To Stuff A 3DS Inside A Game Boy

3:00AM April 18, 2011 | Owen Good

Let’s say you have a loved one sent to a prison, and you need to smuggle them a 3DS inside a Game Boy. (Look, just go with it). Goteking, who gave us the iPod-in-a-Dreamcast-VMU, now supplies a 3DS case made from a Game Boy. More »


News

Second Player Plastic Has Never Looked So Good

10:00PM April 13, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Shoot’em up series Darius has a new arcade game, Darius Burst: Another Chronicle and a new series of plastic models, like this. More »


In Real Life

Custom Tron Light Cycles Board Game Glows With Brilliance

1:30PM April 7, 2011 | Owen Good

Physical design, gameplay design, either way this custom Tron Light Cycles Board Game is a straight-up winner. Built by a modder to play with his sons, this one-of-a-kind, laser-etched board with tinted acrylic jet walls is like a Franklin Mint Chess Set from a very, very awesome future. More »