If you need a good reason to grow a giant beard this winter, Matthew Inman of Mingle2 has put together a list of 10 of them, and they include fantastic reasons like “It instantly turns any man into a badass (It’s like having machine guns on your face)”, “Every beautiful woman you meet will want to touch, stroke, and possibly frolic in your amazing beard”, and “you can hide things in it, such as weapons, tools, and snacks.”
Click below to view the full list, including fantastic illustrations of each.
[The Bureau For Bigger Better Beards - 10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow A Giant Beard]
[Via: Neatorama]
Yarrr!
In Shore Siege, ye be shipwrecked on an island full ‘o’ monsters. You must defend your ship against countless hordes of vile beast and repair the ship to the point where ye can escape!
Thankfully, ye old pirate engineers are able to develop specific weapons to defeat the monsters ‘o’ the isle, and you must use these weapons to strategically defeat ye enemy while saving up enough doubloons to patch yer ship.
Are you ready to set sail?
Good luck, matey!
[Shore Siege]
Robokill: Titan Prime isn’t a game for strategists that like to pick and prod their way through complicated levels filled with puzzles and mazes.
Robokill: Titan Prime is however a game for shoot ‘em up gamers that love to buy the biggest guns possible and blast their way through entire rooms full of baddies.
Done in top down style, and filled with fantastic level design, engaging enemy personalities, and RPGish weapon upgrades, Robokill: Titan Prime is guaranteed to keep you fighting for survival for hours at a time with guns ablazin’.
[Robokill: Titan Prime]
[Via: Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
It might not be pretty, and you may only be able to race around the track forever against your two CPU opponents with no weapons or anything else to break up the monotony, but Nihilogic Labs has managed to create a working JavaScript demo of Super Mario Kart that includes three playable drivers and two different maps.
At this point, it’s just an experiment, and basically exists as a technical demo/proof-of-concept, but hey, it works, so go check it out.
[Nihilogic Labs - Javascript Super Mario Kart]
…Digg is a killer?
DiggKiller: The Game is a clever use of the Digg API that turns the site into a space shooter game.
By shooting at the enemy (Or is it bury?), you decrease its Digg score until it reaches zero and explodes in a shower of good and bad comments.
You then collect these comments for an increase in [...]