Amazing Aerial Views Of NYC
The crazy part is the video is shot using a remote control plane! via Laughing Squid
View ArticleOnly Known Video of the Titanic
This is the only existing footage of the Titanic which was constructed starting in 1909. It’s really impressive to see the massive vessel being built at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast. My...
View ArticleFlight Control In Real Life
This awesome video shows all the take-offs and landings of planes at Oakland Airport in California and Kelowna Airport in British Columbia. It’s amazing to see the intricate puzzles that planes weave...
View ArticleFun Little Tim Burton Robot Video
Tim Burton put together this great robot video to promote the upcoming TIME BURTON exhibit at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. I missed the exhibit when MoMA originally put it together in New York, and I am...
View ArticleTime Lapse Of the Week: Fungi!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scPOQC_Lpgo&feature=player_embedded An awesome clip from BBC Planet Earth shows time lapse footage of fungi growing in the tropics. The video clip ends with the...
View ArticleGeeky Ragtime Medley That’s Guaranteed to Make You Dance In Your Chair
This guy can play! He’s also extremely geeky; he’s playing the themes for Super Mario Brothers and Harry Potter as well as well as the Star Wars Cantina song in the Ragtime Stride style. Stride is not...
View ArticleBadass Video: Lego Black Ops
This video has been all over the interwebs lately so you may have seen it, but I would be doing our readers an injustice if I didn’t share it here. This awesome stop-motion animation from Keshen shows...
View ArticleInsert Coin—Awesome Quarter-Based Animation
I’ve always been a fan of animation—stop-motion in particular—but combining stop-motion animation, quarters, video games, and chiptunes? Brilliant. Tomas Redigh and Daniel Larsson from Ninja Moped...
View ArticleA moment of nostalgia in an 80′s commercial
Ever have a moment where you’re watching something on the television and the surprise appearance of a particular actor makes you choke on your drink in shock? Three friends and I had one of those...
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L.A. Noire Trailer Leaked, Release Date May 17
If you’ve been following the latest news on Rockstar’s highly anticipated crime thriller L.A. Noire, then you most likely have April 5th marked as its scheduled release date. Thanks to a sneaky leaked...
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Felicia Day, Living In a Dragon Age
USA Today reports that Felicia Day, of The Guild fame, has a new project brewing. Day has written a new web series, Dragon Age: Redemption, based on Bioware’s Dragon Age game series. Day will be...
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Even superheroes need love.
The lovely ladies of Team Unicorn have already given us some great geek girl videos, and they do not disappoint with their latest. Super Harmony is that special place where those that are different...
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Toys: Black Widow Gone Wild
If you aren’t familiar with Patrick Boivin, you should check out some of his amazing work, though odds are you have seen some of his stuff before. He has just uploaded his latest video, Black Widow...
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Bonus Points: Mario Kart, Guitar Hero, Doom, Minecraft Galore
Welcome back to Bonus Points, where awesome nerdy videos await just to keep you entertained. Today’s set includes videos of real life Mario Kart action, a song about Guitar Hero, a nifty Kinect hack,...
View ArticleMinecraft Documentary: The Story of Mojang
Just how much do you love Minecraft? Enough to help fund the documentary by 2 Player Productions? Check out this teaser video: If you plan on feeling especially generous, here are some details from the...
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Bonus Points: A Game Proposal, Supah Fwends, GTA Mario, & Doug Huggem!
Welcome back for more internet video tastiness! Today’s menu includes a very nerdy proposal, a cute webseries about superheroes who hang out a lot, everyone’s favorite badass saying things like...
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HBO’s Game of Thrones: Alchemist Edition
Westeros Smell-o-Vision, courtesy of Violet Blue Mysterious packages have been arriving on the doorsteps of various internet luminaries as part of HBO‘s opening salvo in their soon-to-be torrential...
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Bonus Points: Geriatric Jedi, Predator Musical, & Snow White Gets Real
What do old Jedi, active camouflage, double rainbows, frog legs, and Snow White have in common? Nothing, unless of course you count this dose of Bonus Points! Haaha! Yeah, that’s all I got. Hit that...
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Bonus Points: HoN Announcer, Elder Scrolls VI, Boos Scare Me, & Acro-Cats!
Today we explore the ramifications of mixing things we love, like Balls of Steel with tower defense, ponies with dragonborn, race cars with musical bottles, and maybe a smidge of cats doing things...
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Watch the Final Landing of Space Shuttle Discovery Live!
Today marks the final return of NASA’s most frequently used space shuttle, STS-133, a.k.a. Space Shuttle Discovery. Estimated time of landing is at 11:57:26a ET. Watch live via Ustream or NASA TV. If...
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Sexy Nightmare Slayers
Adam Green, director of Frozen and Hatchet, has brought us a new short video, Sexy Nightmare Slayers. Who are the Sexy Nightmare Slayers? None other than geek goddesses Clare Crant and Rileah...
View ArticleSimon Pegg and Nick Frost One-Up George Lucas
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost team up with Collegehumor for this week’s “Star of The Week” video. Traveling through Nevada last week to promote their new movie Paul, the two actors made a parody of the...
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Sucker Punch: Trenches
While browsing through Teaser-Trailer I stumbled upon a gem by animator Ben Hibon. He made an amazing little video to promote the steampunk film, Sucker Punch by Zack Snyder. This is how I like my...
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The Dungeon Master—A New Movie for D&D Fans
I like how far Dungeons and Dragons has come since the old days, back when I was a supernerd for playing the game, watching the cartoon, and painting the miniatures. While I agree with io9 that...
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New Sucker Punch Trailers
Animator Ben Hibon has blessed us with two more short animations set in Zack Snyder’s world of Sucker Punch. I really like that they are going that extra step to promote the film. These aren’t the...
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Left 4 Dead: Interactive Movie
Think you got what it takes to survive the coming zombie apocalypse? Well, now you can test your mettle with this interactive video from the nice folks at The Game Station. Hit the jump for the...
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The Governator was not an April Fool’s joke. Here’s a first look.
It was only a matter of time after he stopped being governor that he would be back. It is a shame that this is how Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing it. Right or wrong, he is hitting everything all at...
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Who can save the Spider-Man musical? George Takei, of course.
The Spider-Man musical has had more than its fair share of trials and tribulation. What could possibly save this floundering debacle? Enter one of geekdoms biggest stars, George Takei. Perhaps this is...
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Bonus Points: Live Action Mortal Kombat Series
There aren’t many things that could make this freezing Tuesday morning as awesome as it is right this moment. According to the world wide web, the first episode of a live-action Mortal Kombat series...
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Bonus Points 2.0: The Scotsman Strikes Back
After a brief hiatus, I’m proud to announce the triumphant return of Bonus Points, your source for the latest and greatest tidbits of geek/nerd/gamer badassery from around the web. Exhibit A: the...
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Collecting Caps: Fundraiser for Fan-Made Fallout Web Series
via Airline Productions It’s always interesting when fans are inspired by the books, movies, and games they love, especially when it leads them to expand upon the universes created by the original...
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Even more, Bonus Points 2.0!
Welcome back to Bonus Points, where we scrape the creme of yon frothing Internet to save you having to hunt down all the awesome yourself. This week was particularly fruitful with a metric ton of cool...
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Zombies In Love
Source: rigamortismovie.com We live in a pretty amazing age. People can imagine a story, film it and distribute it globally, without the backing of a major studio. But it was only in the past few years...
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Friskies Makes iPad/Android Games…for Cats
Games: Not just for people anymore! (Photo: Friskies Facebook Page) As if you needed another reason for your cat to start batting at your iPad screen, there are now games made just for Mr. Whiskers....
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Watch The Dark Knight Rises Trailer and Beg For More
Conceptual Dark Knight Rises Art Courtesy digitaltrends.com In case you missed it, here is the trailer for the long awaited film, The Dark Knight Rises, due in theaters July 20, 2012. If you went to...
View ArticleNew Portal Short Film Proves the Cake Exists
Dan Trachtenberg has created an incredible short film based on the world from the Valve video game Portal. Titled “Portal: No Escape,” this wonderfully shot and edited video gave me all kinds of...
View ArticleBully cats, or just havin’ a laugh?
Alright folks. We know what you want. Dubbed videos of cats doing weird stuff. If you didn’t, why would you have come here for Patty-Cake Cats? So, with no further ado, cats being jerks with humans...
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Emerald City 2012: Interview with Glitch Webseries Creator Tyler Hill
Glitch in action. via glitch kickstarter Sunday at Emerald City I chatted with Tyler Hill, creator, writer and director of the new web series Glitch. To check out the pilot before its official release,...
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Kapow! Comics, Cartoons and Collectibles
Today I don’t review any comic books. Today I review comic book reviewers. Well, not really, but I do want to bring something to your attention. Recently in Sydney, Australia, a number of fellow Aussie...
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Firefall Fest Lets You Watch Celebrities At Play. In Game.
Image via Red 5 Studios Okay, I’ll admit, that title was a bit cheap, but I have to do something to make up for forgetting about this one. I’m so bad, even Andrew had to remind me. The shame. As it’s...
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Greatest Video Game Music 2
Image via X5 Music Group Almost everything in life is better when it’s set to music. It’s the reason boring affairs like weddings and funerals come with musical accompaniment. Especially funerals....
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Borderlands 2 Short Change Hero Cover Is Better Than The Original
Image via Rexon UK-based rock band Rexon are fans of Borderlands 2, or at least half of them are. So, when they decided to do a cover of Short Change Hero by The Heavy, a song used in Borderlands 2,...
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GFBR Plays Hearthstone – An Introduction to the Game
Image via Blizzard Okay folks, buckle up because things are about to get crazy. To prove that Giant Fire Breathing Robot is never at the forefront of the Internet, as if it were in doubt, we have...
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GFBR Plays Hearthstone – Card Types and Crafting
Image via Blizzard Our second let’s play video is live, and once again we’re looking at Hearthstone. This time, we’re looking at more of the specifics: the various types of cards in the game, what they...
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GFBR Plays Hearthstone: Buying Cards
Image via Blizzard You know that all of us here at GFBR love you, don’t you readers? And I’m sure you know that some of us love you more than others. Like me, for example, I love you more than anyone...
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GFBR Plays FTL: Advanced Edition
Back in 2012, Subset Games released FTL: Faster Than Light. The game lies firmly within the “roguelike” genre, and sees you captaining a small ship which is out-manned, out-gunned, and outclassed at...
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Resident Evil 2 Reborn Thanks to a Dedicated Fan
Image via Rod Lima on YouTube YouTube user Rod Lima has the dubious pleasure of being my favourite person in the whole world. I’ve been a fan of the Resident Evil franchise for a long time now, with...
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GFBR’s Hearthstone Starter Decks
Image via Blizzard You know the GFBR’s video games team loves Hearthstone. You know that mostly because I never shut up about it on the Pyronauts podcast, but also because we’ve been slowly but surely...
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A long time ago, in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far, away…
Not many things I love in life more than Star Wars and Sesame Street. Here they are together in one place – so many feels! My brain might explode!!! Sesame Street/YouTube Check out Star S’mores, a...
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