Artist Brian McLachlan made a set of comic book covers for cult movies including Shaft, The Warriors, Mad Max, Heathers, and The Goonies. Pictured above is a scene from a Red Dawn remake that I would love to see.

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Xbox's new Kinect gaming platform may seem nifty and high-tech, but as this video shows, it can't do all of the things that Connect Four can. It's four times as advanced -- or else, they would have called it "Connect" instead of "Connect Four, right?. Comedy courtesy of IGN.

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Marvel has a page of preview art for Deadpool #1000 by Phil Bond. You can view the full page at the link. I gather that Canadian government representatives are trying to persuade Deadpool to work for them.

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An anonymous family facing the foreclosure of their home found a box of old comic books in the house. Most are now worth only a few dollars. But one was the prized Action Comics #1 -- the first comic book to feature Superman:

In a statement released through ComicConnect, the owner of the prized comic book said the family was still "a little shell shocked" after the unexpected find. "I was so nervous when I realized what it was worth," the owner said. "I know I am very fortunate but I will be greatly relieved when this book finds a new home."

Last Thursday, the couple's copy received a 5.0 VG(Very Good)/Fine rating on a scale of 1 to 10. It could fetch upwards of $250,000 when it goes up for auction on ComicConnect.com from Aug. 27 through Sept. 17.

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Flickr user Ryan Palser made an AER9 Laser Rifle from Fallout 3:

I built it from scratch, using mostly wood and sheet plastic. It's an amazing design, and was a great learning experience. Being the first "realistic" prop that I've attempted, I'm pretty stoked about the final result. I got the blueprints from Harrison Krix over at Volpin Props.

You can view more pictures at the link.

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Artist Jonathan Kuriscak makes custom action figures. He's created a set of (dieselpunk?) bounty hunters from Star Wars from a World War II setting, such as the above Boba Fett rocketman figure.

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This is fun! Ed Fries of Code Mystics put together a playable version of Halo that resembles a classic Atari 2600 game. When you start, go straight up to find a gun. Use the arrow keys to maneuver and the spacebar to shoot.

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Doug Savage, the cartoonist behind Savage Chickens, assembled all of Chewbacca's dialogue in one comic. Pictured above is one section.

That silver-tongued Wookie had the soul of poet, I tell you.

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Buzzfeed has a great roundup of geeky My Little Ponies, from Spider-Man to Samwise Gamgee to Han Solo in carbonite. Pictured above is My Little Rorschach by deviantART user Spippo.

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The comedy team Smosh consists of Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. In this video, they explain why it would be bad for cartoons to be realistic using scenes from alternative versions of Pokémon, Dragon Ball Z, The Simpsons, He-Man, and others.

(Despite the censor bar that appears in the screenshot, it's completely SFW.)

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1971 saw the birth of The Oregon Trail -- one of the earliest educational computer games. It was originally text-dependent until later versions included reasonably impressive graphics. The above video is a trailer for a non-existent movie that stays faithful to the game, courtesy of the comedy sketch group Half Day Today.

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Residents of Derby, UK, named a new street in honor of Lara Croft, a native of their town. It's called "Lara Croft Way."

The name was chosen from a shortlist by public vote, with 89% of those polled opting for the character devised by Derby-based game studio Core Design.

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I had no idea that Batman did this kind of work. Apparently, he has a YouTube channel filled with short educational videos about all manner of common activities, such as reading, converting a .doc file to a .pdf, crocheting, and how to get out of the "friend zone" of a relationship. In the above video, the Dark Knight explains how a drive-thru window functions.

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Masked robbers entered an Internet gaming cafe in Hawaii. They took money from the customers. Then they made a big mistake. They tried to take a Nintendo console away from a customer:

Customers hand over whatever change they have while a suspect punches video monitors at the counter but the cameras are still rolling. That's when the suspect in black approaches Dylan Hays.

"They tried to take his DS, his Nintendo DS and he wasn't having that -- so he came back swinging," said Wolery.

"Then he hit me and I kind of just got angry and I bull-rushed him out there door," said Hays.

"I pulled him down the ground over here, the table got moved and I had him down on the ground he was still hitting me," said Wolery. "Dylan pulls off the guys mask -- he runs out the door -- his friends are outside waiting. Let's get out of here, let's get out of here and we were holding one guy in and still fighting him and the other guys come into the store --pull him out and take off."

Police arrived on the scene about minutes later and arrested the thieves. So why did Hays fight back? Here's the most interesting part of the news story:

"I mean we're gamers, we've been immersed in that culture where like we all want to Superman, you know we're missing something partial in our brain that says yeah this might be dangerous," said Hays.

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Pixelation user junkboy has, over the years, presented screenshots of modern video games in classic 8-bit pixelation. He's assembled many of them in a huge post, such as the above image from Red Dead Redemption. At the link, you can click on an image to see a larger view.

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