Rockstar Games, Take Two seem to back off of PC game modders

Earlier this month, Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two angered the PC gaming community after sending a cease and desist letter to the developers of the OpenIV modding tool. OpenIV allowed people to create modifications for GTA IV and GTA V single pl...

Someone Built an Entire Functional Pokémon Game Inside Minecraft

Prepare to be blown away, Pokémon fans. what you are about to see is a video introduction to Pokémon Cobalt and Amethyst, a complete 60 to 80 hour game built inside of Minecraft. You read that right. Is your mind blown? It is an entirely new way to catch them all, inside of another game. It’s a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, packaged into an inception.

It’s based on the classic battle, capture, train gameplay of Pokémon, but a completely original creation.

The map places itself in a never-before-seen region, featuring a new set of 136 Pokémon and a new story dominated by an antagonist threatening to release a Legendary darkness that demands tribute. It is your task to seek the truth with the help of the region’s Professor and your rival – either capture it before it’s too late, or take Team Tempest down while saving the lives of those closest to you.

This project took its creator Phnixhamsta over three years to complete, but you can get it in an instant. Anyone with Minecraft version 1.8.8 or later can download and play it. Get it here.

Check it out while you can, before Nintendo lays the smackdown. Intellectual property lawyers are no fun at all.

[via Kotaku via Geekologie]

This Bicycle Rides on Car Tires

I’ve always preferred riding mountain bikes to road and hybrid bikes, thanks to their wider and more forgiving tires and suspension systems. I’ve seen some fat tire bikes before, but nothing quite like this. What you’re looking at here is a bike that rides on actual car tires.

This impressive build was created by Instructables contributor Mr-Mash, who started out with an old BMX bike and a pair of car wheels. Through some impressive engineering and welding work, he was able to transform those bits, along with some steel tubing, sprockets, and bike chain into this epic two-wheeler.

The project involved cutting the centers out of the wheels, then fabricating a new hub and spoke structure. It sounds like it was particularly tricky to get the hubs centered. He also had to build some extremely wide forks to hold the wheels.

From the video below, it looks like it takes a bit of effort to pedal, but it’s still quite impressive – and I’m sure the ride is super smooth. To check out the complete build log, head over to Instructables.