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It's Your Day Off: Choose Something Awesome to Do With It Here

May 28th, 2012Top Story

It's Your Day Off: Choose Something Awesome to Do With It Here

It's Your Day Off: Choose Something Awesome to Do With It HereYou've got a day off. That's 24 hours of extra time to spend as you please. You could make something great, or you could take that time to recharge. So what's it going to be? The red pill or the blue?

It's Your Day Off: Choose Something Awesome to Do With It Here

I Want to Make Something


You don't want to sit idly by as your free time passes away. You're going to use this day to make something awesome, or make some serious progress on one of your side projects. There are few free holidays during the year. You're going to make this one count.

It's Your Day Off: Choose Something Awesome to Do With It Here

I Want to Relax


It's called a day off for a reason: you're not supposed to work. This is your opportunity to take a break, rest, and recharge so you're in good shape when it's time to come back to the real world. You're smart enough to know that taking a hard-earned break will make you more productive in the long run.

Illustrations by Lorelyn Medina (Shutterstock) and Leremy (Shutterstock).

Note: This is not to be confused with the Chose Your Own Adventure book series.

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Harry Potter, Batman Will Kick Your Ass All Over This Concept Art

May 28th, 2012Top Story

Harry Potter, Batman Will Kick Your Ass All Over This Concept Art

By Luke Plunkett

Harry Potter, Batman Will Kick Your Ass All Over This Concept ArtBritish artist Ross Dearsley has over the years done everything from comic art for Marvel to concept work for the video game business.

In this gallery you'll see stuff like his Harry Potter video game work, comic covers, Batman: Arkham City pieces and even some Judge Dredd.

You can see more of Ross' art at his personal site.

To see the larger pics in all their glory (or so you can save them as wallpaper), right-click on them below and select "open in new tab".

Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you're in the business and have some concept, environment or character art you'd like to share, drop us a line!

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Dinklage vs. Dickage: Game of Thrones' Memorial Day Fireworks

May 28th, 2012Top Story

Dinklage vs. Dickage: Game of Thrones' Memorial Day Fireworks

By Rich Juzwiak

Dinklage vs. Dickage: Game of Thrones' Memorial Day Fireworks

I bitch and bitch about Game of Thrones' tell-don't-show policy, but when this show shuts the fuck up, cuts the shit of having its characters talk about interesting things that are happening elsewhere or in the past or in the future instead of actually portraying those things, and gives us real action to sink our teeth into, it all seems worth it. At least, that was the case on last night's episode, which featured the most gorgeous display of carnage (involving green wildfire that Tyrion procured to fend off Stannis Baratheon's attack on King's Landing) I've ever seen on television.

This nicely complemented the more brutal hand-to-hand combat that featured prominently in the episode. We saw death by rock, an arrow through an eye and decapitation. The scenes from inside the gates, featuring Cersei going slowly mad and getting quickly drunk, in turn, complemented the battle overall. It was a delicately arranged episode about war, elegant without coming off as pretentious, thoughtful without skimping on the action. In sum, this episode lived up to the show's frequently undelivered potential, much like the penultimate episode of its first season (the one in which Ned Stark was executed). It's moments like these that make this show worthy of the patience it demands.

There wasn't really any sex this time around, so Dinklage wins by default. His character, after all, did arrange the wildfire and when leading the attack, had some fantastic lines like: "We'll come up from behind them and fuck them in their asses," and, "Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them." But really, the whole fucking show won so hard this week. If we get dragons next week, I may vow to never say anything bad about this show again.

Haha, not really, though.

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