Once upon a time I painted a lot. I won some minor awards in high school, and I almost studied art in college. But the closest I ever got was watching Terry Zwigoff’s 2006 satire Art School Confidential.
It’s a about a wide-eyed college freshman whose idealism is beaten out of him by the pettiness, cynicism, and insecurity of the institution and its people. I decided to try to become an engineer instead.
Super Metroid boss Phantoon steps into Ridley's shoes by surprising Samus in artist Elianai dos Santos' fan-art (via TheOmegaNerd).
Video: Instead of an alien comeback, in Darren Wallace's version of the Independence Day sequel, creepy toys of the same era attack our planet.
Video: It's a supercut of the weirdest movie scenes with computers and computer interfaces from a time when even copying a simple file to a floppy was shown as some sort of magic trick.
It was two in the morning when I closed the case. Sat in the dark of my room, surrounded by paper covered in pen-scrawled leads -- 'Rome', 'Who is Eric?', 'The Rock'. I watched the credits roll, my mind still racing with the details of the murder. I realised I'd never played anything remotely like Her Story before and it's given me something no other game ever has.
Remember Nick Arcade? This is the show's unaired pilot episode, filmed in 1991 and featuring a host that wasn't Phil Moore. What it does feature, though, are some amazing haircuts, as well as one of the first public showings of a game called Sonic The Hedgehog.
