In Real Life

Legendary Battlefield 3 Stunt Re-Created On Film

Check out this awesome video of a Battlefield 3 tour de force made (to seem) real. Battlefield 3 fans may remember the original in-game stunt, in which a fighter pilot leaps from his cockpit and then shoots down an enemy jet with a rocket launcher before landing safely back in his jet.


February 9, 2011
PC

A Bus Does Impossible Things In Grand Theft Auto

Add barrel-rolling buses to the long list of Grand Theft Auto activities you should not try — not even think about in real life. This amazing stunt footage, captured from GTA IV, is so impressive that it would make a certain barrel-roll-loving gaming fighter pilot proud.


September 8, 2010
In Real Life

Look Ma, Super Street Fighter IV With One Hand

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Aided by a standard-issue Street Fighter IV FightStick, this guy pulls off all of Ryu’s Trials in Super Street Fighter IV – using one hand. And he collects the achievement for it, to boot.


August 10, 2010
In Real Life

See Dozens Of Guitar Hero Controllers Die In A Volcano

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The makers of Power Gig: Rise of the SixString, the rhythm game that uses a real electric guitar as its controller, want plastic guitar peripherals to die in a fire – or the molten lava of an active Icelandic volcano.


July 27, 2010
News

APB’s Human Avatar, The Final Stage

Realtime Worlds’ endeavour to create a human avatar modelled on APB has reached its fifth and final stage: the outfitting. And Josh didn’t do so bad.


July 8, 2010
News

How Much Would You Pay To Work In Video Games?

For a New York graphic artist, it’s $US1000 – just $US998.95 more than the price of freedom. He’s offered $US1000 for information that leads to getting hired to a video games gig, but there are conditions.


April 19, 2010
In Real Life

Splinter Cell Stunt Almost Gets Someone Shot

Note to flacks: Cops aren’t considering concepts like viral marketing or cosplay when an actor staggers into a pub district to point a plastic gun at the patrons. Promoters of Splinter Cell Conviction just learned this in New Zealand.


April 14, 2010
In Real Life

Just Cause 2 Is Actually A Simulation

Kotaku AU

An Austrian skydiver grapples two planes together, Just Cause 2 style, as seen on News.com.au.


October 30, 2009
News

Jury Awards $16 Million In Fatal Win-a-Wii Stunt

A jury awarded $US16 million to the family of a Sacramento-area woman who died in a 2007 radio stunt in which participants chugged water and held their bladders in order to win a Wii.