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Forget Lego Batman, I want to play this. Valve's Erik Wolpaw takes you on a tour through a tiny portion of Zombie Apocafest, a huge collaborative entry to this year's BrickCon convention for grown-ups who like to play with Legos....
POSTED Monday, October 6, 2008
The blog Pwn or Die has created a series of homages to Sarah Palin by imagining what she'd look like if she were to appear in beloved videogames. Personally, I don't mind this sort of partisan politicking on a game...
POSTED Sunday, October 5, 2008
These aren't technically related to videogames -- yet -- but the 1st annual World Mind Sports Games begin today in China. Events include chess, bridge, Go, and what looks suspiciously like checkers but is called draughts, probably to protect "mind...
POSTED Friday, October 3, 2008
It's been one heck of a thirty-year ride, give or take a few years depending on when you came aboard. For me, it started in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the Wal-Mart on the corner of Markham and John Barrow. One...
POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008
MSNBC posted a short video clip about Warhammer Online. The clip consists of about 40% CG cutscene, 30% gameplay, and 30% taking head footage of some of the developers at the Tokyo Game Show. Fortunately for the clip, one of...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Yeah, sure, the new Nintendo DS with a pink breast cancer ribbon logo is a mostly a marketing gimmick. If you buy one, $5 of the $130 cost goes to Susan G Komen for the Cure, the largest breast cancer...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
Showing a characteristic cluelessness as to how polls and politics works, the Xbox Live press center trumpeted the following numbers based on "nearly 100,000 LIVE Americans [who] turned out to cast their “votes” in a poll over Xbox LIVE, making...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Last week, I posted about a Castle Crashers-themed car at the LeMons 24-hour race in Toledo for cars that cost less than $500. The car in question had a lovely green castle crasher painted on the hood and a brick...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
...online spaces like World of Warcraft are making some spooks, generals and Congressmen extremely nervous. They imagine terrorists rehearsing attacks in these worlds, just like the U.S. military trains with commercial shoot-em-up games. They worry that the massively multiplayer games...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Hey, if you're going to be in Los Angeles to try to get onto the Rock Band reality TV show, you might as well go all-in and try to get into the Gears of War 2 reality TV show, too!...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just published a survey of kids aged 12-17 about their videogaming habits. The big surprise is that 99% of boys in that age group play videogames. Wow. Who knew that one in...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
I'm not sure which is an more odious idea: Rush Hour director Brett Ratner doing a Guitar Hero movie or producer Mark Burnett doing a Rock Band reality TV show. While the former is just Ratner shooting the breeze with...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
As you probably already know, the 24-hour LeMons race is this weekend at the Toledo Speedway. The LeMons, not to be confused with the LeMans, is limited to cars worth $500 and under. No, I'm not missing a zero. This...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
This election has been super easy for me, since I became a single-issue voter on March 20, 2003. But many of you don't have that luxury. You might actually have to weigh the candidates' positions on multiple issues. That can...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Joe Santulli would probably laugh at the closet where you keep your games. He's got an entire warehouse of games. You can just smell the musty 80s as he walks along the shelves of cartridges and past the row of...
POSTED Friday, September 5, 2008
G4 has figured out the best way to harness the energy of Will Wright. Besides getting him to make a game, of course, which Electronic Arts has already figured out. Instead, G4 has set up a camera in front of...
POSTED Thursday, August 21, 2008
Over at Cake Wrecks, an amusing chronicle of cakes gone wrong, you'll find this attempt to kick anti-violent game crusader Jack Thompson back into action to protect the children of America. Unfortunately, the comments section pretty quickly debunked it as...
POSTED Wednesday, August 20, 2008
If you want to videogame the 2008 Summer Olympics, don't fall for some cheap official game with a Metacritic rating of 60%. Instead, here are 15 games that can help you capture the experience the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....
POSTED Friday, August 15, 2008
Some of you might be suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from yesterday's link to the Soulcalibur IV cosplay. I apologize for that. To make up for it, here's a link to 1up's collection of the best examples of what people have...
POSTED Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Personally, I don't think these little guys ever went out of style, but it's nice to see them validated by people who know what's hip. Granted, when it comes to haute couture, Japan isn't quite Paris, but it'll do. Even...
POSTED Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Continuing today's theme of Not Safe For Work posts (it's Monday, you didn't want that job anyway…), check out Legend of Neil, Sandeep Parikh's funny and profane live-action take on Legend of Zelda. Yeah, yeah, it sounds really lame, but...
POSTED Monday, August 11, 2008
I'm not sure what it says about a site that's willing to trade the dignity of its readers for traffic. But I want you to know, dear readers, I'll never do you that way. However, I will happily perpetuate Destructoid's...
POSTED Monday, August 11, 2008
Before Angband, before Trade Wars, and before Nethack, there was Star Trek. Before Pong, even. In fact, the original series had only been off the air for two years when Mike Mayfield, a high school student, made his Star Trek...
POSTED Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The drawback of going mainstream is that the Today Show talks about you. They did a short segment on Rock Band 2, which for some reason included talking to a dude who said, "[Rock Band] came out Thanksgiving 2007 and...
POSTED Thursday, July 31, 2008
Funny [sic] videogaming video shows are a dime a dozen, which is a reference not just to their ubiquity but their approximate value. And that's being generous. But wade through enough of them, and sooner or later you'll find something...
POSTED Thursday, July 24, 2008
In Parenting magazine's list of six ways to be a great parent, the first way is to play videogames. Yes! Fist pump! I think we can all get behind this one. The author of the article talks to a Cincinnati...
POSTED Monday, July 21, 2008
Sometimes good things come out of corporations pulling together. Take, for instance, the recent collaboration between Electronic Arts, Yahoo, and Swedish fasionistas Hennes & Mauritz. First, Electronic Arts releases The Sims 2. Somewhere along the way, they team up with...
POSTED Wednesday, July 9, 2008
"Ah, here's your problem. A car this is size is going to need at least an N64 controller." Thanks Best Pic Ever via Blue's News....
POSTED Monday, July 7, 2008
Happy birthday, America! Well, the bits between Canada and Mexico. Hey, what are you doing reading a gaming site? Go do something appropriate, like enjoy some fireworks, play a few rounds of golf, take in a movie, read a book,...
POSTED Friday, July 4, 2008
In Ohio, you can go to the library and check out War and Peace, The Water Method Man, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, and Madden NFL '08. According to the Dayton Daily News, four Ohio branches of their...
POSTED Thursday, July 3, 2008
That picture up there is probably about the actual size of the upcoming lightsaber stylus for the Nintendo DS. You can get larger ones that actually light up. How cool is that?!?! I mean, um, how dorky is that? Because...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Upon receiving a Nintendo Wii and a copy of Wii Fit for his birthday during an on-air presentation last month, CNN's Anderson Cooper had the followinfg comments: I have no idea what's going on. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Can I...
POSTED Wednesday, July 2, 2008
A publication that shall remain nameless because the last thing I want to do is contribute to their traffic – let's just say it rhymes with Spewsday – reported that six teens arrested for basic thuggery were inspired by Grand...
POSTED Friday, June 27, 2008
Roger Travis (pictured above posing with a virtual isthmus) teaches classics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. He also plays videogames. If you sign into Xbox Live, you can see from his gamertag that he's seriously into Halo single...
POSTED Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Stephen Totilo has crunched some of the numbers available on the Wii's new Nintendo Channel. Apparently, his analysis is too incisive to fit on one blog. So for MTV's Multiplayer, he offers a sort of appetizer talking about WiiWare titles....
POSTED Tuesday, June 24, 2008
On Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, a news quiz show on NPR, there's a feature called "Bluff the Listener", in which the show's panel presents three stories, two of which are fabricated. A call-in listener has to guess which is...
POSTED Tuesday, June 24, 2008
An hour-long documentary called Tilt, available for purchase online for $20, details a last-ditch effort to combine pinball with videogaming. Pinball 2000, pictured above, superimposed holographs over the table. Its modular design allowed arcade operators to swap out different themes...
POSTED Monday, June 23, 2008
I'm really disappointed in British gaming blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun. They just posted a collection of many of the borderline pornographic things people are doing with the recently released Spore Creature Creator, which already boasts over a quarter of a...
POSTED Thursday, June 19, 2008
You met the heavy weapons guy a while ago. Since then, you've met the demoman, the engineer, and the soldier (if you haven't met them yet, you really should go here and do so). Now it's time to meet the...
POSTED Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Blik makes "surface graphics…for people who like to change their mind [sic]". They describe them as "stickers for grown-ups". The idea is that you put them on the wall as a way of redecorating without messy paint or wallpaper. Among...
POSTED Monday, June 16, 2008
I knew the spectate feature for online games would finally come in handy! Two scientists – one from a Danish university, the other from a Romanian university – donned lab coats, took up clipboards, and then blew their grant money...
POSTED Friday, June 13, 2008
Please don't read this. Seriously, just skip on down to the thing about Fireteam Reloaded. Also, please don't post a comment about what a loser I am for saying what I'm about to say. You think I don't know already?...
POSTED Wednesday, June 11, 2008
If you've been around as long as I have…wait, hold on a second. Okay, I'm back. There were some kids on my lawn playing their newfangled PSPs who needed yelling at. As I was saying, back in my day, there...
POSTED Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The Australian Consumer Association published an article on Computer Energy Costs. Included alongside actual computers were televisions and console systems. There's a chart here, but the summary of the study is as follows: The device that consumed the most power...
POSTED Monday, June 9, 2008
Infinity Ward has flipped a switch in Call of Duty 4 that doubles the experience points you'll earn between now and Monday. Unless you're playing on the PC, in which case you'll have to make do with the four new...
POSTED Friday, June 6, 2008
Via We Heart It....
POSTED Thursday, June 5, 2008
I bet you didn’t know there's a blog called gaygamer.net. Their tag line is "For boys who like boys who like joysticks!" At which point I just sigh and shake my head at the silly boys' club that is gaming....
POSTED Thursday, June 5, 2008
Most MMOs don't have collision detection for a couple of reasons. For starters, it's a strain on bandwidth if the world has to constantly calculate where two characters intersect each other. Instead, it's much easier to just let players...
POSTED Tuesday, June 3, 2008
The embargo on Capcom's recent press event lifts today, so you'll be seeing all sorts of Resident Evil 5 info popping up. Last night at midnight, Gametrailers posted the most recent trailer. Capcom took some heat for their last...
POSTED Monday, June 2, 2008
Ever wonder why it sucks to play Scrabble with your girlfriend, who can't seem to grasp the concept that you have to jealously guard the Triple Word Score squares from enemy Js and Xs, and especially Qs and Zs?...
POSTED Friday, May 30, 2008
Thanks to Keith for the Youtube links to Nintendo's latest ad campaign for the DS, featuring Carrie Underwood and Liv Tyler. Maybe you've seen these on TV. In which case I just busted you for watching Oprah! Actually, I...
POSTED Thursday, May 29, 2008
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