Two years after a 4:55 speedrun was set for Super Mario Bros. and many speculated a sub 4:55 may be humanly impossible, Twitch streamer Niftski has done it, setting a new world speedrun record with 4:54:948. For reference, the tool-assisted speedrun record for Super Mario Bros. (in which button input

This is Doom 2 – Hell On Earth made out of cardboard by Bill Thorpe of Youtube channel GAMES made of CARDBOARD. The production value is relatively high (it even includes a cameo by id Software cofounder John Romero as his severed head Easter Egg from the final level of

This is a video discussing and displaying the evolution of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, from the initial Unreal Engine tech demo of 1996 to the upcoming release of Unreal Engine 5 and Metahuman Creator. We sure have come a long way, haven’t we? The early graphics look so antiquated I

Metallica performed for BlizzCon this year to get people super amped about video games and the Twitch Gaming channel that was streaming the keynote and subsequent musical performance dubbed over the band’s ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ with elevator music to avoid any possible copyright infringement. Smart thinking, and I

Because Warner Bros. is convinced it can somehow top the perfection that was 1995’s Mortal Kombat and 1998’s Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, this is the recently released red band trailer for the Mortal Kombat reboot set for release April 16th. It’s about as ridiculous as you’d expect, although the graphics are

Because life imitating video games imitating life, this is a video of a guy walking around like he’s a character in a video game, and getting stuck on an invisible wall until he pays the gatekeeper to access the area. I’m not sure if this is Twitter user KaoruGans0 (who’s

This is a video of snow falling from the metal roof a home in almost perfectly uniform bricks. The person who posted it to Twitter mentioned it reminds them of Klax, an Atari arcade game from 1990. Admittedly, I’m unfamiliar familiar with Klax, but it did remind me of Tetris,

MetaHuman Creator is a new tool being released by Unreal that allows anybody to create their own remarkably realistic looking digital humans “in a matter of minutes.” Obviously, I’m going to make a digital clone of myself, but with a penis I’m not constantly tripping over. Bringing compelling real-time digital