Starcraft 2 Launched - Hell, It's About Time!

In conjunction with the much-awaited launch of StarCraft 2 ("Hell, it's about time!" as the Marine would say!), BrickGamers presents to you a LEGO StarCraft 1 short game video. It's bound to bring back memories if you've played it before! Enjoy! Here's hoping if you're one of those who waited till today to get the game, that it's finally worth it after a decade of waiting! Here's also hoping SC2 matches up to being the game of the decade!

Open Sesame...anywhere!

Harrison's work will remind the folks who bought Valve's Orange Box about the time they spent running through DIY man-made Portals. The trans-dimensional fun! If you haven't played Portal, try the free (albeit 2D) Flash-based version here. It's about 8MB so it will take some time to load over a slow connection.

Source : Brothers Brick

Halo 3 Rat's Nest Map

If you've played Halo 3 (only on the Xbox 360 gaming console sadly), then you might have come across this before - it's the Rat's Nest (not literally!) multi-player map, in Lego-style of course!

It's space-age marines blasting aliens in the eternal struggle of humanity's survival! This awesome scene by Vidgamer838 about the Rat’s Nest (Halo Wiki) map captures this scene.

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Vidgamer838 earlier did a Halo Mongoose ATV earlier, which we featured here

Battle Cruiser is Online

In-line with the news that the Blizzard computer game StarCraft2 will be out soon around end of the year or so, there's been a rise in the interest of all things StarCraft - and Lego fans are no exception!

This is a Terran Battlecruiser, built by BrickShelf user Vana, which we might add, borders on the level and class of Lego's own Ultimate Collection sets! We sure would like to see Lego make this set as an official offering - assuming there's such a partnership with Blizzard to make these!

See more shots of it here.

Source : Brothers Brick

Halo Creation

Don't know what this is? It's a Mongoose ATV from the computer game series Halo. You can see other shots of it here. Built by VidGamer838 (where you can see his other Lego creations).

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Mammoth Tank ready!

This isn't just any minifig-scale tank, it's a minifig-scale Mammoth tank, from the computer game Command and Conquer series. You can check out more shots of this tank from here.

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In the grim future, war has never been so...cute!

Inspired by the mini Dreadnought which we posted earlier, Brickshelf user Jarek presents a Warhammer 40,000 micro-diorama featuring a few of his designs, including a cute Predator tank! (all links will open in a new tab/window)

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Faith, Is Eternal!

Those of you gamers (be it Table Top Warhammer40K or Dawn of War fans) will instantly recognise work of Lego Fan Flickr user Alex Kahler, a hellfire dreadnought which is in small scale, but yet, he amazingly retained almost all the important details.

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Brick Wars

In the days before computer games became entertainment, those of us fortunate enough to have Lego would spend countless hours doing mock warfare with them - in one instance they will be knights fighting with weapons and magic, in another they may be pirates looting an island, or even flying in space firing lasers at each other.

Using Legos in these context is known as Brick Wars, basing on the Wargaming game, made popular by Warhammer. Half from table games such as Dungeons and Dragons, half from Warhammer, Lego Brick Wars pits Minifigs (Lego mini figurines) as people in a make-believe world on a table. Apply the rules of D and D and Warhammer, and you've got yourself something beyond just Lego sets!

In the middle of the plastic maelstorm we have Mike Rayhawk to thank for his free materials, inspiring pictures, and illustrations, plus a great site to showcase it all! If you're interested to make use of your Lego Minifigs, or want to try your hand at Lego Wargaming, check out the Brick Wars site at www.brikwars.com

Covenant Grunt

Lego Master Builder LegoHaulic does it again - his art that is. This time, it's a Covenant Grunt.

The mass lackeys from the Halo series, these grunts shoot, panic, and run around making funny noises, but make up their lack of skills with numbers. Every time we see one of these we have the urge to go and gun-butt them!

Have a closer look at his grunt at Flickr or Brick Shelf, and check out his other works on Flicker and Brick Shelf as well.

Source : Brothers Brick

Hardcore

Hardcore movie that is...Alien versus Predator 2 - Requiem, which was shown near Christmas Day 2007. With the tagline of "This year there will be no peace on Earth", it's not surprising even kids were killed in the show! BrickGamers took time out to capture this twist in movies being more real, with the following comic: