Human catapult

I probably played dozens of hours of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds before I realized there's an underground bunker in the lobby. For whatever reason (it's not? my stupidly expensive fast internet or high-end graphics card!), I load into the waiting room late, and always make a mad dash for guns to practice shooting. When there are none, it's table-jumping, swimming out on the coast, or sprint punches.

I rarely wander over to the plane, which apparently doubles as a secret trampoline. Here's Reddit's r0fland with an excellent jump and wet dismount.

We have yet another goof for our wacky, hijinks-filled PUBG streams.

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It...rocks

A glimpse into the future of BotW speedruns. pic.twitter.com/2a7dFRaXEN

— Venick (@Venick409) March 8, 2017

While my Switch-less self is living a Zelda-free existence, seeing things like this gives credence to everyone talking about how cool the new Legend of Zelda is. The climbing mechanic in Breath of the Wild is cool on its own, but being able to use it for experimentation in self-catapulting is exactly the kind of thing that makes my heart flutter. That's how you play a game. And speedrunners are going to have a blast with it, I'm sure.

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Raw Fury signed on as publisher

This teaser trailer for Odd Tales' The Last Night has mere seconds of non-logo footage and yet here I am sharing it with you lovely people. It checks off more than a few boxes with its cyberpunk setting, eye-catching art direction (wait'll you see the gif), and genre influences (Another World, Flashback).

I'm not sure if we ever covered it here on the site or if it just made the rounds on the community blogs, but The Last Night was preceded by a game-jam entry of? the same a ??couple years ago, and it's playable to this day right in your browser. It seems so dang familiar! Maybe you'll feel the same way.

"The story here is that The Last Night has been thriving behind the scenes all these years and now we're preparing to show the world what Odd Tales is creating," said the publisher. I want to see more.

The Last Night [Raw Fury]

_{[Disclosure: Raw Fury's Hamza Aziz previously wrote for Des??tructoid. As al?ways, no relationships, personal or professional, were factored into this news post.]}

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It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world

Rain World, a game about not getting e??aten, is still coming along. I'?ve got the gifs to prove it!

But first, writing on the PlayStation Blog, artist and programmer Joar Jakobsson put into words why this title continues to captivate us (and why, otherworldly visuals aside, it's such a looker in motion). "With Rain World," he said, "we are doing quite a lot of things differently from the standards of video games. As m??uch as a game, we've built a kind of living ecosystem simulation where creatures exist independently of the player and autonomously search throughout the world for food and shelter."

Citing examples of that design in practice, Jakobsson noted that "slithering neon lizards you encounter have brutally dangerous claws and teeth, but are also individuals that can learn to recognize you. The mighty ?vultures swooping down from above are fierce hunters of both lizards and slugcats, but they're not mindless machines — if you wrong one it may decide to track you specifically and you’ll never again be able to pass under open sky without an anxious eye upwards. The scruffy scavengers rooting through the garbage heaps are distrusting and dangerous, but save one from the jaws of a vulture and you might make a friend, or eventually even gain the trust of the entire pack."

Si?mply put, "the world and its inhabitants give you no special treatment," and rather than growing more powerful, "you'll gain knowledge about how other creatures work such as their hunting habits and tastes in prey." Wonderful concept. I don't mind waiting?? for a game like this to take its time.

With added context for the food chain's inner workings, I think you'll enjoy these gifs that much?? more.

Even the bugs in the first gif are well-animated!

Rain World: Surviving in a Living Ecosystem [PlayStation Blog]

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This is how we all emerge from Vault 111

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When the GIF is funny...

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So wrong, yet so right

On weekdays, I typically wake up to a couple hundred fresh emails sitting in my inbox. When even?ts? are happening, like this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (which I'm not even attending!), things can get considerably more wild. Everyone has something to pitch.

Against all odds, the first email that caught my attention today was, no joke, "A Bloodborne werewolf jerking off." I couldn't not click it immediately. Can you blame me?

Upon further inspection, the email was from Darren. It contained a gif.

This might just be the crown jewel of funny physics-based mishaps in From Software games.

Even better: the automated name for the gfycat link is "DefensivePoisedAmericanwarmblood."

[Via reddit]

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But just for a second

If I grind Arkham Knight out to one-hundred percent and find out this is?? what the "Knightfall Protocol" is, I'm going to be so pissed.

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Now that's an Air Bud

This GTA Online player looked to be dead in the water. The ground isn't much of an advantageous position to ha??ve when your enemy is floating in the sky. "Wasted" is imminent, right?

Not if your bestie has anything to say about it.

I was? playing GT?A:Online with a friend, and was pinned down by the cops. He helped out by being air support [reddit]

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Swing by Necropolis at PAX East

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Cowboys in space, where they belong

This cool little top-down action/adventure game, The Wild XYZ, caught my eye on Tumblr today. It began life as as a prototype for the Space Cowboy Jam, and designer Joseph Gribbin has been chipping away at completing it ??in his spare time with a release later this year in mind.

There aren't many gameplay specifics listed yet, only a lone devlog post and some gifs, but I can't stop watching them. Rolling looks good; shoot-'em-up-y bosses, too. Also, I had no idea .xyz was available as a domain extension. It's used perfectly on the game's website.

Curious to see where this project goes.

The Wild XYZ [Tumblr]

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Anyone else playing through the trilogy on Wii U?

Turns out I'm rustier at Metroid Prime than I thought.

I had long forgotten about this tunnel sequence in the fiery Magmoor Caverns. It's sure giving me hell. In order to reach the (entirely optional) ledge above, you have to time your bomb jumps just right or you'll plummet into lava and hear that hideous suit-melting screech again. Quick, get out!

With enough practice and, crucially, an abundance of patience to go along with it, you can get up there eventuall?y. But just to make? sure you've truly mastered the trick, you have to pull it off a second time. And then a third. Mess up even once and it's back to the beginning you go.

The reward for all of this? A much-deserved energy tank containing extra? health for Samus.

If you haven't grabbed Metroid Prime Trilogy from the Wii U eShop, I encourage you to do so while it's temporarily half price at $9.99. The first game in particular is some of Nintendo and Retro Studios' best wo?rk. It's an adventure high on atmosphere that's ??just begging to be dissected.

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The Behemoth knows what's up

I'm a jerk who totally forgot about The Behemoth's Game 4 despite playing a fun chunk of the tactical rol?e-playing title alongside its narrator, Will Stamper, and loving every minute of i?t.

So to selfishly put it back on my mind -- and to give you a swift reminder as well, if you're in the mar??ket -- let's look at some cupcakes. They're a healing unit type, and yo??u can deck them out with accessories like lemon meringue or a piece of waffle cone. What a swell game.

At PAX East, The Behemoth plans to show off the recruiting mechanic, which lets you capture the last enemy standing in a battle. It's the thing that pushed Game 4 onto my most-wanted list.

Cupcake Couture in Game 4 [The Behemoth]

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No one uses this thing for trash talk

EA Sports had this crazy idea that sounded as though, in a perfect world, it just might work. They empowered football fans to create their own GIFs complete with player animations, backgrounds, and smack talk with an impossible easy-to-use generator that even a monkey can figure out -- we know, because we did. They called it the Madden GIFerator, and it was good. 

Originally "designed to help fans celebrate their favorite team's biggest plays and challenge their rivals," the GIFerator has spawned hundreds of GIFs that go far beyond simple jabs at ??other teams between sports fans. 

The Destructoid team took to the GIFerator to see what irreverent silliness we could come up with, and the results are, well, just about what you'd expect. Here's the cream of the crop from those who participated. You know what that means, don't you? You have to create your own and share it below. 

We'll be waiting. 

Brett Makedonski

Chris Carter

Brittany Vincent

Bill Platt

Andy Dixon

Niero Gonzalez

Darren Nakamura

Jordan Devore

Max Scoville

Steven Hansen

Alasdair Duncan

Patrick Hancock

Elliot Gay

Josh Tolentino

Dale North

Kyle MacGregor

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How is babby formed?

We've long known that The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth will have an all-new local cooperative feature but here are the specifics, as broken down by designer Edmund McMillen.

When the second player presses start, they'll randomly material?ize as one of a variety of babies at the cost of a heart container from Isaac. When this happens, ?"both players' damage/tears are lowered to balance things a bit, but every aspect of whatever items Isaac has at the time of spawning are applied to the baby, including usable items."

When player one uses an item, so does player two. Better watch out! There's also the chance of "special" and "cursed" babies, as well as babies tied to specific characters. (It wouldn't be Binding of Isaac without a bunch of variables.) While player two does have the immediate advantage of flight, they cannot pick up items. They can, however, drop out of Rebirth to return the heart stolen from player one -- and then, if desired, return later a??s the same baby.

Not your standard co-op setup, that's for sure. "I can ho??nestly say it totally changes the experience," Mc??Millen said. "It's a great addition for anyone who has a friend/significant other to play with and is an awesome way to get new players into the game."

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Cryogenic freezing isn't a thing yet, right?

The official Tumblr for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth has been rolling out regular, punchy updates for a while now -- lots of blurbs th??at, while exciting, haven't necessarily been worth a full post here. Being the fan of .gifs that I am, I co?uldn't resist sharing a couple new ones, viewable below.

Lasers. Lasers that bend every which way. Sold?

I was long ago, but it's nice to see my optimism for Rebirth validated. The? remake is due out later this year for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, and PS Vita.

"Spoon bender + Tech2 = badass."

"Brimstone (no demon visua?l y??et) + Spoon bender…."

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Spread the love

It's Valentine's Day, which means there may be someone in your life that you feel excited (or obligated) to show how much you love them, most likely with c??andy, cards, or some other physical things. It's a holiday designed to make us feel like we have to spend money, which is great for the larger economy, but potentially bad for your wallet. 

Destructoid is not immune to these pressures. We want to show you, the Destructoid reader, that we love you. So please, take these Valentine's Day-themed romance .gifs (transformed into .gif form by the lovely Ronin Usagi and Kevin Bacon) and spread them to all you hold dear. 

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Never forget

Never forget.

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