Is this a new 3D Pokémon game in the works? No, no it’s not, but how cool would that be?
These crazy photos of mini-Pokemon toys are done by Flikr artist Alexander.Quinn. By “done”, I mean extreme past tense; he posted these pictures in the Summer of 2010. What is old, is new again!
The above picture was also featured (if you can call it that; it’s just a picture with no text) on Kotaku. Either way, the accomplishment is more than I can say for myself.
How crazy would a Pokémon game with these graphics be?
Tony Stark IS Iron Man. At least that’s what Iron Man 3 portrays.
I never expected to see Iron Man 3 this early. I probably would have waited for the DVD release before seeing it. I had no expectations going into the movie. My mind was clear in terms of any spoilers which is very rare for my movie outings. Marvel movies are passé; it’s DC’s turn in my mind.
The Iron Man 3 story is pretty good. For a very PG movie, I was never bored. There was always something going on. Robert Downey Jr. does a fantastic job at Mr. Stark once again. For the most part, the movie deals with aftermath of the battle of New York in The Avengers. Beyond that, the movie is about Stark surviving without the Iron Man suit. Iron Man 3 is basically Marvel’s version of The Dark Knight Rises: Who is Iron Man?
If you recall from The Avengers, Captain America asks Mr. Stark, what happens when you take away the armor? That’s the premises of Iron Man 3 and it answers the question well — complete with mental breakdowns and a nemesis that can beat the iron suit. This time, Tony needs to out-think the enemy to win.
Different Iron Man suits in the comics. Click for bigger view
The highlights of the movie are seeing so many different Iron Man suits and Tony being able to remote control them. From the impressive Mark 47 to a gigantic suit that can re-enforce its spine to become an over-grown car jack is just cool. Tony taking control of the Mark 47 with a headset blows my mind and opens up so many cool possibilities.
The question Iron Man 3 leaves us with is this: How does Tony Stark move into The Avengers 2 after his surgery at the end of Iron Man 3?
There are very few collectible trading card games for mobile platforms and even fewer that are good. Order & Chaos Duels is a great game but does throw up the In-App Purchase wall very quickly.
This game is fun and easy to learn compared to other mobile TCGs. If you have a background with Magic: The Gathering or any TCG, you’re at an advantage but it’s not necessary since the tutorial does a decent job of explaining how things work.
The goal is simple: Bring the opposing hero to zero health. In a very basic explanation, you have two main phases; your casting phase and your attacking phase. Your casting phase is where you place your minions, cast spells or discard a card to increase your mana pool. Then you have the attack phase where minions either attack the adjacent minion or the opposing hero.
Before you even get into a match, you’ll pick the race and profession of your hero. Unfortunately all you can read is a very basic synopsis of how the hero works. You can’t read the hero’s ability until you get into a match. Also if you accidentally click the hero twice you’ll select the hero and there is no going back. You can’t delete a hero.
To progress in any TCG, you want better cards. In O&C Duels, you gain new cards by playing through the campaign or spending gold or runes. Other than the campaign cards, which seem to fit in your deck, the ones you buy are always random and may or may not help you. It’s a shame that Gameloft doesn’t allow players to pick what type of card they want to buy, even if that means getting a really bad card. It’s better to get a terrible card that syncs with your deck than feel like you wasted gold or runes on a card you can’t use.
The campaign in Order & Chaos Duels is fun but eventually you’ll hit what I like to call ‘the new card wall’; you just can’t beat the next NPC until you get better cards. So the game forces you to pillage other players or go head-to-head in an online multiplayer match to earn gold and runes. Or what Gameloft really wants you to do: Buy runes from the store. If you don’t go the purchase route, you’re in for a really long grind. If you do decide to buy some runes, get ready to fork over some serious cash: $100 for 10,050 runes which equals to 50 new rare or epic cards and 150 common cards. Enough to keep you competitive for a long time if you’re lucky those cards sync with your deck, but are you willing to dish out a hundred bucks on a mobile game?
Order & Chaos Duels sets the standard for mobile TCGs with a great campaign and awesome visual effects for each card ability, but Gameloft makes the grind for new cards really long and asks too much money to buy them. In the end, after about a month of grinding O&C Duels sits on my phone untouched.
What happens when you mix Beetlejuice and Minecraft together? You get this epic roller coaster.
The author says the roller coaster was created in Creative Mode on the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft. I guess the console version of the game isn’t so useless after all. It took the author two months to create this epic ride.
Besides the infamous Creeper, Endermen are the next nuisance of most inhabitants of Minecraftia. Endermen, for those that don’t know, love teleporting around your home and steeling blocks. Here are two epic fan made pieces of these mystical creatures.
Although it looks like a Pokémon version of the Enderman, it’s still a really awesome picture of the creature getting angry. Someone probably looked at it. The picture is by deviantART artist Hiji-K, who also has a comic to go along with this drawing.
This epic piece of work, actually done in Minecraft, is a feat by Ludolik. I didn’t know Endermen can bleed. Makes be feel a bit sorry for killing them. OK, I’m over it. The artist has made the word save available for download if you want to tinker with it.
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