In Real Life

Rap Videos Straight Out Of Skyrim Are Surprisingly Familiar

Alcohol, bragging, dancing women, reappropriation of the word “word”… this rap video featuring MC Dovahkiin, also known as Big Dragonborn features all the necessary components for a modern rap video.


November 17, 2011
In Real Life

Female Link Rocks Out Zelda On Her Fiddle

Violinist Lindsey Stirling has a whole bunch of YouTube videos in which she “rocks out” on her violin. She does that on her latest video, but this time she’s dressed as Link and playing Zelda music.


July 23, 2011
In Real Life

Kinect Makes This Music Video Sing

There are no post-production effects added to this video, everything, happening on singer Olga Bell’s face is happening in real time, we’re told.


June 18, 2011
In Real Life

It’s The Albanian Pop Music Version Of Tron: Legacy!

If your favourite part of Tron: Legacy was the bar scene, then this insane pop song from Albanian star Aurela Gaçe is for you. Called Ca$h, the music vid is set in the Eurotrash Tron universe (watch and you’ll see what I mean), and the sound is pure Italo Disco retro.


May 24, 2011
In Real Life

How Many Game References Can You Find In This Pixel Music Video?

Inspired by the 8-bit era of gaming, artist and animator Mike Scott created this astounding pixel music video for South African band Goldfish’s song “We Come Together”, riddled with references to classic video games. How many can you spot?


April 13, 2011
In Real Life

The Rap Song That Dreams Of Mass Effect And Fallout 3

My favourite video game rap song of all time is “The Video Game Song” by Sole and Alias. It’s getting a little old, though, so Sole is back with a new game-heavy track, called “The Deadliest Game”, and it’s great.


March 24, 2011
Nintendo

Nintendo Gives With One 3DS Update, May Take Away With Another

This morning North American owners of early 3DS systems awoke to find that Nintendo was delivering their first free 3D video to the system. But the company warns they may delete, without warning, in a later update.


In Real Life

It’s Spyday, Spyday, Gotta Murder On Spyday

When Team Fortress 2′s mother-lovin’ Spy meets teen pop anti-sensation Rebecca Black, nobody wins.


February 3, 2011
In Real Life

Is This The First Kinect-Created Music Video?

Some music video directors spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on fancy special effects. Filmmaker Dan Nixon just spent $US150 on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect to create the music video for Echo Lake’s “Young Silence”.


September 21, 2010

Guitar Hero Randomly Inserted Into Soundgarden Video

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Soundgarden’s album Telephantasm will be inside the first million copies of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock on September 28, so someone felt obligated to include the game in this animated video for the previously unreleased song “Black Rain”.