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DIY: Make Your Own Ooze With This Venom Slime Tutorial!
This September, Loot Crate is celebrating INVADERS from another world! In honor of Venom’s slimy, shapeshifting form, we’ve concocted a super black slime recipe you can make at home. What are you waiting for? Join the invasion with this...
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Gaming: My Favorite DOOM Memories!
When you think of the most iconic first person shooters ever made, there aren't many that come to mind more often than ID Software's 1993 classic, DOOM. Since the game's initial release, the DOOM legacy has included several other video games...
Exclusives
Loot Crate Studios Presents: EDUCRATED! Venom Edition!
Join us as we do our best to ensure that you are fully EDUCRATED, via our YouTube channel! Educrated is a show that dives into some of the franchises we love and would love to share with you. Through fun facts, trivia, and employee...
Behind the Crate
Looter Love: Jake and Finn Adventure Time Crate Craft!
When the going gets tough, we all need someone to watch our backs. It’s time for a #TEAMUP! This past July, Loot Crate Looters celebrated some of the best #TEAMUP(s) in pop culture history with EPIC loot featuring Ant-Man & The Wasp, Teenage...
Lists & Things
Prepare to Battle the INVADERS With Our September Spotify Playlist!
It's almost time to go back to school! We know, after the long restful summer it kind of feels like getting ready to go into battle. The sort of thing that you might need to prep for if there was some kind of alien invasion or something......
Features
Feature: Under-Appreciated Aliens in Pop Culture
Extraterrestrial beings are the epitome of what makes sci-fi, well, sci-fi. Aliens are such an anomaly to humankind that we've created our own versions of their likeness in pop culture. Sometimes their unfamiliarity with the norm or Earth makes them...
Comics
Tuesday Trivia: Do You Know These Facts About Venom?
I know the release of Sony Pictures' Venom isn't until October 5th which is why we're getting you geared up ASAP! Loot Crate, Loot Crate DX and Loot Wear ALL have Venom loot for September's INVADERS! To start to get you in the mood, we got together...
Comics
Video Vault: Film Theory Asks: Is Deadpool Trolling Us?
Once again, MatPat over at The Film Theorists and his team (some may say stronger than the current, ahem, X-Force) have done one of the craziest little dives into Deadpool 2 to find some secrets. This movie is chock full of easter eggs, but are the...
Lists & Things
Feature: Jumping in Fright at Alien Invaders!
The thought of an alien invasion is, in every sense, pretty scary. While not something that is likely to happen as we know it now, there has always been that sense of "what if?" when it comes to films about aliens. That is why so much of pop...
Friday Five
Friday Five: "Hey It's That Person!" - Alien Anthology Edition
If you’re a real movie nerd, chances are you get as excited when you see a supporting character with a familiar face as you do when one of your faves is the star. Let’s celebrate these heroes!… Back in the early World Wide Web days, defunct...
Lists & Things
Loot Crate Quiz: It's INVADERS Trivia Time!
From evil extraterrestrials to ancient Sumerian deities, we're getting ready for an epic invasion this month at Loot Crate, as we celebrate our favorite out-of-this-world creatures on the attack! How well do you know these infamous INVADERS from...
Exclusives
Exclusive: Marvel's Spider-Man Q&A with Ryan Schneider of Insomniac Games!
When you think of some of the most popular and successful superhero franchises, there is typically a handful that come to mind – and these days it feels like so many of our favorite superheroes are getting screen time in new and exciting ways. ...
Features
Gaming: Role Playing Games to Scratch the D&D Itch!
I played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time when I was 10 years old, and I was immediately hooked. Up to that point, I had played several different adventure and/or role-playing video games, but there was truly something magical about the...
Looter Love
Looter Love: Sanrio SPLASH Crate!
This summer, we made quite the #SPLASH! Sanrio “Small Gift” Crate Looters went on an undersea adventure full of beautiful mermaids, sparkling shells and Hello Kitty! Let's see what our awesome Looters loved the most! This past July, we sent...
Comics
Feature: What About the OTHER Symbiotes in Venom?
So, Venom is coming before you know it and that film has all of us major Spider-Man and Co. fans so curious! Venom getting his own movie means that maybe we'll see more of the Symbiotes and if that's the case, well, just who will we possibly see?...
Gaming
Tuesday Trivia: The Dark Souls of Dark Souls Trivia!
Praise the Sun! There's a lot of heft to the Dark Souls lore, for sure, but what about just the other trivia? The stuff every Souls fan should know? Well, let's break it down! 1. There is a character named Patches that can be found throughout...
Gaming
Video Vault: Reveal Trailer and Release Date for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice!
I am an unabashed fanboy for anything that From Software, the developers behind the Dark Souls series, makes. They could literally make a Clifford's Big Red Birthday Party video game, and I would more than likely pre-order the special edition...
Gaming
Video Vault: Everybody Wants Some Space Invaders Tips!
It's one of the most beloved games of the early home console era: Space Invaders! For those retro fans out there, Slate has some tips here to get your games going strong to defeat the one and only O.G. Invaders... they've even got the name right...
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