We are very excited that the release of Warcraft: The Beginning is almost upon us – just a few more sleeps, because it’s in cinemas on June 16!
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Sponsored Video: ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt BLOOD AND WINE’
Become professional monster slayer Geralt of Rivia and explore Toussaint, a remote land untouched by war, where you will unravel the horrifying secret behind a beast terrorizing the kingdom. With all trails leading to dead ends, only a witcher can solve the mystery and survive the evil lurking in the night. Introducing an entirely new realm to traverse, new characters and monsters, Blood and Wine is a 20+ hour adventure full of dark deeds, unexpected twists, romance and deceit.
This second expansion is available May 31st on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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Sponsored Video: Fire Emblem Fates – Choose your path (Nintendo 3DS)
The next installment in the Fire Emblem tactical role-playing video game franchise has arrived: Fire Emblem Fates on Nintendo 3DS. It’s available as two different versions – Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright and Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest, which path will you choose?
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Honest Movie Trailers: Wreck-It Ralph
Screen Junkies are back with an hilarious new ‘Honest Movie Trailer’ – this time they set their sights on one of our favourites: Wreck-It Ralph.
‘Revisit Disney’s epic adventure that finally cracked how to make a good video game movie… by not focusing too much on the video game – Wreck-It Ralph!’
Source: Screen Junkies via Laughing Squid
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Secret Mortal Kombat Arcade Menus
An amazing discovery has been made: a secret menu in Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 arcade games! The ‘EJB menu’ (named after co-creator Ed Boon) is purely a maintenance menu in Mortal Kombat 1 and 2, while in Mortal Kombat 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 you can also access a hidden Galaga-style game.
- MK1 code: P1 block (x5), P2 block (x10), P1 block (x2), P2 block (x1), P1 block (x2), P2 block (x3), P1 block (x4)
- MK2 code: P1 block (x5), P2 block (x10), P1 block (x2), P2 block (x8), P1 block (x2)
- MK3/UMK3 code: P1 block (x5), P2 block (x10), P1 block (x3), P2 block (x1), P1 block (x2), P2 block (x2), P1 block (x3), P2 block (x3)
The Mortal Kombat 1 EJB menu
The Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 EJB menu
The Galaga-style game – cute!
But don’t take our word for it, see for yourself in this video from YourMKArcadeSource.
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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.
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Paper Video Games
In this clever stop motion animated video by MysteryGuitarMan (a.k.a. Joe Penna), classic video games (Asteroids, Flappy Bird, Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario Kart, Pac-Man and Pokemon to be precise) are recreated using printed or projected stock footage – very impressive and very cute!
Also by MysteryGuitarMan:
Stop Motion Mario
Source: MysteryGuitarMan via Laughing Squid
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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.
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Portal Vs. Half-Life
Nukazooka pits Chell and Gordon against one another in an epic battle over that elusive cake. We want to play this game!
Source: Nukazooka
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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.
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Super Mario World Transformed Into Flappy Bird
Get ready to be amazed, Seth Bling has transformed Super Mario World into Flappy Bird using only SNES hardware. Seth made use of glitches to inject code (written by p4plus2) and claims this is ‘the first time a human has ever completed this kind of exploit‘ – amazing!
Find out just how he did it in this neat video (or watch the whole process via the Twitch livestream archive, or check out the code injection notes).
Source: SethBling via Laughing Squid
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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.
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‘Player Two’: Videogames Can Be A Spiritual Experience
Player Two is a short film by John Wikstrom based on a YouTube comment by 00WARTHERAPY00 on the PBS Game/Show ‘Can Video Games Be A Spiritual Experience?‘ episode. This beautiful film tells the touching story of a boy discovering a ghost driver of his father’s fastest lap in RalliSport Challenge on an old Xbox console years after his death.
Source: John Wikstrom on Vimeo via Laughing Squid
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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.
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Donkey Kong In Real Life
Have you ever wondered what Donkey Kong would look like in real life? Of course you have. Well wonder no more, Banks shows us exactly what it would be like – and it’s awesome!
Want more? Watch Tetris in real life or the making of the Donkey Kong in Real Life video.
Source: MyNameIsBanks via Cheezburger
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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.
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