Belgian bruiser Jean-Claude Van Damme is perhaps one of the entertainment industry’s bloodiest action stars, and now he’s got the super-cut to prove it. The cut, by Ubisoft trailer editor Benjamin Combes, condenses Van Damme’s entire career in the killing-people business into 30 minutes of pure murder.

Say what you will about the quality of Space Jam the movie, but it’s hard to deny the quality of Space Jam the website. While nearly 20 years later the design might seem garish and outdated, the mere fact that it’s still standing is impressive in its own right. (Never mind the fact that it’s sporting pre-Buzzfeed…

For the past couple years, Seinfeld2000 has been exploring what Seinfeld would still be like if it were around today, and the voyage has been nothing short of fantastic. What started out as a parody of the bougie SeinfeldToday has ballooned into a multimedia experience, complete with video games, Arcade Fire videos…

It’s tough to argue that, even 30 years after its release, there’s been a piece of video game music more influential than Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. soundtrack. Those six songs played a huge role both in cementing the importance of music in games, as well as shaping how that music would sound. The music of Super…

In the ’90s video game world, you weren’t anything until your mascot had his very own (terrible) animated series. So in some respects it’s fairly unsurprising that video of Crash Bandicoot’s foray into animation has recently surfaced.

A lot of websites are going to try to tell you that their video of a lion cub trying to roar is today’s most adorable video. Normally, that would be entirely accurate (it just squeaks!) but not today. No, today that title belongs to a clip of the 62-year-old creator of Mario having the time of his life playing around…

Yu Suzuki just won a pretty enormous game of Lucky Hit, as the Kickstarter campaign for the role-playing game Shenmue III has raised $2 million in a little over nine hours. The campaign, which was announced last night at Sony’s E3 press conference, aims to resurrect one of the most-requested sequels to one of video…

It’s not exactly a secret that The A.V. Club digs a good oral history every now and then. They’re a great way to get in-depth, first-person facts about pretty much anything, from the poop emoji to Airplane! to Shaq.

“Shake It Off” has appeared in so many variations and permutations that it’s sometimes easy to forget just how tremendous of a jam it is on its own. So maybe it’s for the best that this hand-drawn, rotoscoped version of the “Shake It Off” video made by 49 University Of Newcastle Australia students leaves the audio…

One of the very first clues as to what exactly you’re in for with Mad Max: Fury Road is when the camera centers on a masked man bouncing around on bungee cords shredding guitar from the top of a truck (the Doof Wagon) that’s—to low ball it— 75 percent amplifiers. And then the guitar starts shooting flames.

2005’s Republic Commando is widely regarded as one of the best video games to ever emerge from the Star Wars machine, and certainly one of the best to come out in the prequel era. Beyond its stellar gameplay and squad AI that excels even by today’s standards, it’s notable for being one of the few Star Wars titles to…

Star Wars Galaxies, the Star Wars MMO released in the wild, wooly pre-World of Warcraft days, was a beautiful, insanely ambitious disaster. It allowed its players to get as close a simulation of living in the Star Wars universe as the world has seen. You could be a bounty hunter, space trapper, space stylist, or even…

BB-8, the rolling ball droid of the successful #bb8 emoji campaign and nothing else, is as adorable as he is inscrutable. How does the ball roll? How does his head stay on top of the ball? For that matter, how does the head move around on top of the ball that’s moving around? Why do all of these factors combine to…

The economy is an incredibly dense and vast topic that few understand and even fewer can explain. This really sucks for journalists, as it’s all but impossible to make economic coverage tolerable to the average viewer. So, in an effort to get people to actually care about what boils down to a bunch of numbers changing…

Last weekend, for some arcane and unknowable purpose, the website Veryman.Expert popped in to existence (much like everything weird on the Internet, it links back to Adult Swim). Once that inscrutable URL is typed into a browser, it delivers surfers to a strange, shuffling 3D recreation of a man in a pink Zentai suit…

Brazilian Artist Butcher Billy has reimagined a number of post-punk and new-wave icons as Marvel superheroes (he did DC earlier), and the results, a few of which are below, are perfect. Siouxsie Sioux turns into the Scarlet Witch, Mark Mothersbaugh becomes Iron Man, and John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) turns into a…

In the days before TVs were smart, when most people watched movies in theaters or by having shiny plastic discs delivered to their home by mailmen, Netflix “Watch Instantly” was a feature reserved only for the few brave enough to sit down at their computer and watch an entire movie. The web interface was, if not well…

The Coop Times, a recently published browser game by Adam Carr and Linebreak Collective, has effectively demolished the barrier between journalists and civilians by shedding a harsh light on the truths of the journalistic process. The game pitches its players a story (Giant bar brawl! Ice Cream man assaulted by…