March 9th, 2018It's time to take a trip back to the 1980s! Sure, maybe we haven’t perfected the art of time travel (yet), but we do have the next best thing: VR. Who would you be in this totally tubular decade, or at least, a virtual simulation of it? Take this quiz to unlock your ‘80s avatar!
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March 8th, 2018I'm not sure how many of you were watching cartoons in the early 80's but I definitely was. One of my favorites was the rather small run of the Dungeons & Dragons cartoons from 1983. Nice to know ProJared and Classy Reviews were into the Animated series too... well, to a degree! Check out their hilarious reviews on this crazy series...
March 8th, 2018March's crate theme is PLAYBACK, so this month Loot Crate Studios is playing back this classic 80's public access show gem: "FUTURE GAMES NOW!" hosted by Vance Silverfox, featuring the most BRAIN-MELTING games before they hit the shelves!
We're thrilled to be back with a brand-new theme video, and we shot this in old school cable style...
March 7th, 2018Getting to partner with incredible artist to bring YOU exclusive loot featuring your favorite franchises, is one of the best things we get to do at Loot Crate.
One of those creative minds being JSalvador; the brush stroke brilliance behind “SuperEmoFriends!”
J. Salvador started out in this business working in motion graphics...
March 7th, 2018Loot Wear is teaming up with female artists throughout geekdom to design and curate for our Loot for Her line. We're calling this program "For Her, By Her"! Each month we'll bring you a one on one with each artist we collaborated with, making unique apparel designed by talented women in the field.
This month we bring you star...
March 6th, 2018Blizzard wow'd people with the new 27th Hero to grace Overwatch and now that she's in the Public Test Realm, folks get to meet Brigitte! Check out this darling origin story for Brigitte, how she fits into the story of these incredible heroes with an additional update from Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan!
Make sure to get your butts...
March 6th, 2018We're pushing hard to get our nostalgia geared up with March's PLAYBACK theme! With that comes one of our favorites: Back to the Future! So, put your seatbelt on in your time-jumping Delorean and we'll get into some rad trivia facts.
1. If you can imagine it, Back to the Future was written and re-written forty times before the script...
March 5th, 2018If you've seen Back to the Future, well, you kinda love it. Sure, everyone's got their favorite of the trilogy but we have fun with all of these movies! One of those reasons is that super charming Marty McFly. Need a reminder?
I know you're just as nostalgia-heavy as we get over this, so make...
March 5th, 2018Comedy and rock fans, come along and nerd out with us on this one!: Our production team was thrilled to come along and shoot this behind the scenes video on Brendon Small's newest short film: Galaktikon, "Nightmare." Check it out above – and don't forget to watch the original film itself at Funny or Die!
Not only...
March 2nd, 2018Yes, indeed, it's Oscars weekend – that Super Bowl sized entertainment event that celebrity fans anticipate, but not all film geeks necessarily take that seriously...
If you are an avid reader of film comment online, you've no doubt come across at least half a dozen think-pieces so far this season about who the Academy Award voting...
March 2nd, 2018For this month’s Looter Recipe, I wanted to go big. I wanted to go bold. I wanted to go Batman. After brooding over Gotham City for inspiration, I came up with the “Dark Knight Brownie Cookies.”
To celebrate Batman: The Animated Series inside of March’s #PLAYBACK Loot Crate DX, I cooked up some UN-BAT-LIEVEABLE brownie...
March 1st, 2018I remember a time about thirty some odd years ago, where I would sit at a tabletop Pac-Man game while my grandmother socialized with her friends at a small diner in Simi Valley. I'd have a stack of quarters and would lose myself for hours. Such a simple game yet, here we are. Pac-Man stood the test of time.
Pac-Man came out back in the...
March 1st, 2018Welcome to our latest chat with the folks behind the scenes that help make the magic happen here at Loot Crate!
Creating awesome stuff is something that Loot Crate has done, and done well, for a little over five years now - whether it's creating incredible experiences with the kickass crates we send all over the world every month, the...
February 28th, 2018Whether they’re in the ring or managing the whole show, the WWE Universe is full of Superstars who carry themselves #LIKEABOSS.
Last December, WWE Slam Crate Looters brought more BOSS into their life with exclusive loot featuring Sasha Banks, Kurt Angle, Roman Reigns and MORE! Not to mention we sent Looters home with the debut of...
February 28th, 2018It's really easy to hate on some of the older film-to-game titles from the 80's and 90's because, well, they weren't terribly well done. Most of the time, they were just cranked out to get that film hype money from kids and their parents. Rerez's POSITIVES show gives us the good points to the Back to the Future Nintendo title from...
February 27th, 2018We're so hyped about this month's PLAYBACK theme that it's taking over our entertainment, top to bottom! From collecting vintage TV clips to filling our Spotify lists with happy memories...
In the past week we've shared a curation of fun Saturday Morning memories, as well as our monthly Spotify Theme Playlist which for March's...
February 27th, 2018We've got your favorite family from Springfield in March's Loot Crate and it got us thinking about all the juicy tidbits of trivia we could pull together! Sit down, get your personal Santa's Little Helper in your lap and let's rock through some facts!
1. If you're ever thinking you want to toss an email to Homer Simpson, his email...
February 26th, 2018We're reminiscing about some rad franchises in March that take us back to our youth, a PLAYBACK to some of our best geeky memories that shaped the fans we are today!
Our March PLAYBACK-themed Spotify playlist, curated by our own Dawn Banks, features some hit songs and terrific scores from a number of franchises in March that are...