It’s a Starry, Deadly Night
Someone made a Van Gogh-inspired for Counterstrike. All the surfaces were scanned from parts of Van gogh paintings, although “Starry Night” and several other of his famous paintings that no one remembers the names of were directly recreated, “Starry Night” being the sky, of course. It’s pretty cool, if only serve as a reminder that all videogames don’t always need to look more realistic. Also, it would be totally fucking awesome if you could mod a Counterstrike game just for this level where you had to shoot people’s ears off. I’m sure Van Gogh would approve. (Via Geekologie)
About The Author
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.