PEAK arrived on storefronts this summer as a deceptively simple climbing game — and promptly became one of the surprise hits of the year, selling in the millions and reigniting interest in physics-forward co‑op survival. What looks like a modest indie about scaling a mountain is, beneath the...
Neat Op-ed by Newt Gingrich: "If the Asteroid Had Missed," If the Asteroid Had Missed - Newt Gingrich
Wow, that is interesting. Never crossed my mind, but it would be an interesting study to see what types of life forms would survive such creatures as those roaming around in those times...
In Max Brooks’ first Minecraft book, “The Island,” readers follow the inner thoughts of Guy, a man who wakes up and finds himself having to survive in a weird world of blocks. Now, in the sequel, “The Mountain,” Guy strikes out across the sea to see what else the world holds, and he lands on a...
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Grounded, the new survival adventure game from Obsidian Entertainment, is now available through Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview with Xbox Game Pass, so you can also play on PC.
In this game, players wake up in a suburban backyard after being mysteriously shrunken to the size of an ant...
A very short clip, and I won't translate it, because it's 80% bad words. But I guess you can get the meaning? It could be Politics too?
Man just trying to get it done, gets a swamp, wants to turn it into a field to feed wife and kids - survival.
Included in the web I've linked to is a video showing the Microsoft Surface being frozen, cooked, used as a skateboard, showered with wine and general abused. See if it survived here:
Surface survives heat and cold, but not wine, in torture test
Evelyn Rogers, 75, of Liberty Hill had gone outside to water her plants about 6 p.m. Aug. 18 when she sat down to rest on a canvas chair because it was so hot.
When Rogers sat down, she saw a piece of plastic sticking out underneath the chair's bottom and pulled on it, she said.
That's...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is coming Nov. 8, 2011, Kotaku has learned, delivering with it mammoth battles that engulf a dozen cities around the world including New York, Paris and London.
Multiple sources have shared details of the game's story, art, sounds and game modes with Kotaku...
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Driver Andrew Linn survived after a 5cm-wide (2in) metal pole went through his mouth and out the back of his skull during a car crash.
Mr Linn would have died if the pole went in either direction. The 34-year-old fell asleep at the wheel and hit a fence.
One of the poles impaled him...
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A 10-year-old girl was terrified when she discovered a five-foot corn snake lurking in her family's bathroom after it slithered up through their loo.
Roberta Vaituke spotted the snake when she popped in to use the toilet.
She ran to alert her parents and brother.
They plugged up...
A 16-year-old girl jumped or fell off the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday and survived, San Francisco Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The girl was in the water for 20 minutes after the first call to dispatchers and was found conscious and responsive. She was transported to Marin...
A dog that survived in a house swept away to sea three weeks ago by the devastating Japan tsunami was saved on Friday by a coast guard rescue team flying over an island of debris.
Local television showed an aerial view of a brown medium-sized dog trotting around the roof of the house -- the...
Amid the devastation in tsunami-hit Japan, video footage has emerged capturing the forlorn sight of a spaniel attempting to draw rescuers' attention to its injured canine companion in the country's Ibaraki Prefecture.
Canine blog Life With Dogs uploaded the footage to YouTube after...
Drunk Michal Kawolski was rescued by astonished coastguards after floating out to sea on a sheet of ice while still clasping a bottle of vodka.
The 23-year-old was spotted by coastguards as he floated past them off the coast of Gdansk, Poland.
Mr Kawolski had been drinking with friends...
It wasn't hoppy days for this tree frog when a hungry snake decided to hang out with it in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin.
The poor amphibian was happily hopping along when a hungry snake snatched it from above.
And it was all downhill from the moment it left the ground as, following a...
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- New Orleans police said a man who was shot by his brother was spared serious injury or death when the bullet bounced off his gold tooth.
Police said Waltdell Davis, 20, used a .22-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver to shoot his brother, Walter...
The handlers donned the panda outfits to release giant panda Cao Cao and her cub Cao Gen into the Wolong Nature Reserve.
They have worn the outfits at all times when handling the creatures as it is thought that a healthy fear of humans will be good for them in the wild.
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Why Did Neanderthals Have Such Big Noses?
For more than 100 years, scientists studying Neanderthals, humanity's closest known relative, have pondered one question: Why did they have such massive noses?
This isn't just a question of beauty. Scientists posited that the big snouts could...