Did StarCraft II just come out? I don’t know. I have no affinity for PC games or real-time strategies game, so I rely on you knuckleknobs to tell me if something big like that is happening. If Lego made StarCraft, like in this fan-made video from Kooberz Studios, I’d probably be a bit more interested. I probably wouldn’t be any better at it, but I wouldn’t be quite so ashamed if I was only losing Lego pieces. (Via Kotaku)
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.