A lot of you are probably familiar with “The Amazing Brand0″ who are well known for their witty songs and music video based on old Nintendo video games. Well, they’re back with an epic melody to ‘The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past”. The Amazing Brand0 creates their unique mix of music combining the a little hip-hop with something that oddly sounds like a 80’s power ballad. It must be tough to be Link as he is probably the hardest workin’ elf in video games, especially when he’s not wearing any pants. At least Link is confident in the size of his… sword. The Amazing Brand0 has titled this song as “episode one” so lets hope that they continue on and create more songs about the pants-less adventures of Link.
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I’m guessing that this might be the oddest pairing of all time. Featured by Maxim UK magazine, The Cleverlys (@thecleverlys), a bluegrass cover band out of Arkansas that has done some great bluegrass covers of songs such as “Billionaire” by Travie McCoy and “Single Ladies” by Beyonce. Well, The Cleverly throws the geeks a bone by puts on an impressive performance by covering the theme song to ‘Super Mario Bros.’. I don’t know about you, but I am a fan of bluegrass and rockabilly music so this is an odd, but fantastic treat. There not much more to say about the video, but go and put a straw and in your mouth, kick back and enjoy the music.
Hit the jump and check out The Cleverly’s bluegrass cover of the Super Mario Bros. theme song!
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It makes a lot of sense to incorporate the world of steampunk with Iron Man. It really does. As a master mechanic and engineer, Tony Stark would have had no problem creating an Iron Man suit regardless of what time period he is in. Instead of the arc reactor, powering the suit with steam is a viable choice. Jonathan Kriscak of Pack Rat Studios took this concept and ran with it and created an amazing custom Steampunk Iron Man. This eleven inch monster was created from the parts of a Cletus action figure (the NFL on Fox robot), and various Transformers action figures. Whats really awesome is the amazing paint job that Jonathan applied to this figure, especially around the bolts and rivets. Another cool aspect of this custom figure is the light that shines in the figure chest. It actually flickers resembling a fire inside a oven. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wrap my brain around all the cool features on this toy and the amazing amount of detail that Jonathan put on this steampunk Iron Man.
This amazing figure is on sale on eBay and the auction ends on April 23. Hit the jump and check out more pix!
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One of the best reason to play a fighting game online has to be the fact that when you win, you can talk all the shit you want without any fears of physical consequences. On the other hand, if you are like me, I tend to silently log out when I get my ass handed to me in ‘Marvel vs Capcom 3′. However if you are Ryan Tellez and TheWarpZone, you prefer to sing to your foe with a little love song before beating them into a pulp in ‘Mortal Kombat’. I guess it doesn’t matter whether your opponent you face is a girl or a guy as long as you pull off the “fatality”, but I guess singing sweet nothings to a little Asian kid is crossing the line somewhere. I don’t know and I don’t want to find out.
Hit the jump and check out TheWarpZone’s music video for “Fatality (A Mortal Kombat Love Song)” written by Ryan Tellez
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Samus of ‘Metroid’ has to be one of my favorite video game heroines of all time and growing up in Hawaii made me fond of the ukulele as well. So, when I ran into this awesome Samus ukuele by Tom Lay, my brain spun and landed in memory lane.
I sanded down my cheap(very cheap) ukulele, fixed a crack in the wall and give it a shiny new Metroid themed finish.The teeth on the Metroid shows the colour of the exposed wood (finished with a gloss). Didn’t change the tone of the uke.(surprisingly).
I do love the simplicity of the design and the well done incorporation of Samus’ head into the body of the ukulele. There is a lot of cool guitar and ukulele out in the world, but these one of a kind custom works of art can’t help but get you excited like when you were a little kid. Well done, Tom!
Hit the jump and get a closer look at Tom’s Metroid Ukulele!
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If you know anything about me, I am a HUGE fan of 2D artists. I think that beautiful pencil art is slowly losing the battle against digital art and I hold dear any artist that proves otherwise. Maybe that’s why the incredible art of Mike Henry AKA zatransis (@zatransis) of Big Menace Industries has me in awe and envy of his incredible talent. Hailing out of San Francisco, California, this professional 2D artist has worked in the video game, comic, and animation industry. His unique style of caricature-style art with beautiful use of vibrant and deep colors sets himself apart from the rest. The over-exaggerated facial features and embellished expressions oozes attitude and emotions from the drawing and gives it a life of it’s own. Everything from the Joker’s vicious grin, to Mr. Freeze’s cold stare, and the whimsical glimmer in Harley Quinn’s eyes are a testament to Mike Henry’s amazing attention to detail. While I have ranted over the years that Bruce Timm (@brucetimm) of ‘Batman and Superman Adventures’ fame is probably the best illustrator/animator to ever draw Batman, I would have to now say that Mike Henry has proven me wrong.
Hit the jump and check out Mike Henry’s amazing Batman Villain collection. You can see more of Mike’s work at his DeviantArt page!
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There is as much boob mashing as their is button mashing…
Yesterday, Warner Bros. Interactive released the long awaited ‘Mortal Kombat’ video game for Playstation 3 computer entertainment system and XBox 360. While the iconic fighting game, infamous for ultra-violence and gore doesn’t need to be promoted too much for people to get excited, Playboy’s resident gamer and gadget geek and Cyber Girl of the Year 2008, Jo Garcia (@gamernextdoor) (in purple) decided to put together a little Mortal Kombat promotional video together with the help of UFC ring girl, Brittney Palmer (in blue). Filmed in the UFC Gym in Rosemead, Calfornia, the lovely gals throws down and trains for a fist-a-cuff (or more like boobs-a-cuff) in… Mortal Kombat. I guess if Mortal Kombat is the “violence” in the equation, Jo and Brittney brings the “sex” in “sex and violence”. I’m not really surprised that a videos like this exists, considering nobody really complains about two half nekked girls touching each other, bending over, and jumping around, but I’m more surprised about the pairing of Playboy and Mortal Kombat more than anything else. I would have expected it from ‘Leisure Suit Larry’, but this cross promotion really caught me off guard. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed watching the promo, but I would have loved to know who this even came together (no pun intended). I apologize if it sounds crude, but what can I say… I’m a dude. /shrug
Hit the jump and check out the video by Jo Garcia and Brittney Palmer for ‘Mortal Kombat’. Mortal Kombat is available in stores now. These girls are not.
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