GAMER VID: SKYRIM BEAR LUTE

This edition of Gamer Vid comes from the "The Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim" modding community, particularly a creative fellow in Russia. Just sit back and enjoy the bear lute show! Surely this beast graduated from bard school with full honors. I could imagine this conjuration spell definitely coming in handy during a skirmish. Bandits, necromancers, giants, and dragons will be stopped in their tracks at the surf music and entertainment. What other fun "Skyrim" mods have you seen?

Live on. Game on.

GAMER VID: THE IMPOSSIBLE GAME X MINECRAFT

Assuming you are familiar with "The Impossible Game" and "Minecraft," which most gamers today probably are, you will thoroughly enjoy/appreciate this mashup. Enjoy/appreciate.


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GAMER VID: PORTAL IN REAL LIFE

via Vimeo

Besides Dan Trachtenberg's marvelous "No Escape" (which I realized I have not covered in The Video Game Tome as of yet, but will soon) this is one of the best fan-made "Portal"-inspired shorts I've stumbled across. It is going viral in a major way today. Jason Craft posted this to Vimeo just over a day ago and the major gaming sites are already sharing it.


This is an enjoyable look at what it would be like to have a Portal gun in real life, y'know, the stuff geek reveries are made of. What these guys lack in acting they definitely make up for in special effects. This 3-minute clip has better special effects than some Hollywood productions! As a faux-home movie it reminded me a lot of "Chronicle," which hit theaters earlier this year. Anyways, enjoy! This is inspiring to indie filmmakers and "Portal" gamers alike.

GAMER VID: MODERN DOVAHKIIN

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Just like "Gamer Pix" (where I present a "picture of the day") this is a segment of The Video Game Tome where I will highlight a "video of the day," typically a short one at that. Do not let the name deceive you however, this probably won't be a daily thing. In the least I hope to share a VOTD on at least one of my main blogs, this being one of them. When I started "Gamer Pix" last november it was with a screenshot from "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim." It is only fitting that the first video I share is "Skyrim"-related too. Enjoy the videos.

Do yourself a favor and start following the Warialasky channel on YouTube. These are the guys behind the "Lazy Jedi" video and clearly they have a thing for video games. I'm sure I'll highlight some of their other stuff in due time. Today they posted "Skyrim: Modern Dovahkiin" (see above). "Skyrim" was widely considered last year's (which was a very good year for games and films alike) best. I consider it one of the best I have ever played. 

Just one of the elements that brought that game to greatness was the fully orchestrated music by series veteran Jeremy Soule. The main theme of which, "Dragonborn" ("Dovahkiin" in dragon tongue), was rendered by a barbaric choir. It's the stuff epics are made. Watch this video to see a neo take on the theme, with the manly vocals we've come to recognize (courtesy of BYU's own Men's Chorus). Besides the rockin' music the visuals feel right at home to anyone who has trudge through Skyrim's harsh tundra. Kotaku is already raving about it this morn. Yep, that's Provo in the winter... I don't know how I didn't know this was going on right in my town, but at least I can enjoy the final product. I hope you do too!