What some of our favorite skeletons from cartoons and videogames may have looked like before they became undead. For instance, Skeletor looks like a child molester.
Some scientists hooked a mouse up to a computer and had it play a modified version of Quake 2 to study their brains as they navigated the virtual maze. Needless to say, the mouse totally pwned some noobs.
After insulting him by giving his character a low rating in a new fighting game, MMA fighter Mayhem Miller flips out and gives the EA Games head developer a piece of his mind, not to mention a wet pair of pants.
Nothing spells drama like go karts and Italian stereotypes! We love the idea, but we'll wait patiently until Dame Judi Dench scores a cameo as Diddy Kong.
Apparently the intro to a German documentary of video games, this clip is a dizzying orgy of video games, sex and violence.(via)
The Ladies of Nintendo go punk rock. Peach, Zelda and Samus took a wrong turn somewhere between Hot Topic and the Mall of America parking lot. Awesome tattoos on Peach though. I could go for a Bowser ink job any day.
Life can be rough when you live every day like it's a video game.
The crazy kids at Something Awful uncovered this beyond-terrible porno parody of Super Mario Bros. featuring Ron Jeremy as Squeegie, a computer program who - with his brother, Ornio - gets stuck inside the computer (and a boatload of vaginas - HEY-O!). Squeegie eventually rescue the princess from King Pooper (!) by “throwing him in a bathtub and turning him to smoke,” which should give you a pretty good idea about how much you want to own this.
Pacman joins a popular social networking site just to find that he's being followed by some old friends.
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You've put off buying one long enough — everybody loves the Wii, and you will become more popular once you have one.
New Trailer for Lucas Arts upcoming MMPORG based in the Star Wars Universe Warning: viewing may cause your lightsabre to engage with out warning.
Eurogamer.net wrote a review of the MMO Darkfall Online, and gave it a pathetic score of 2/10. The Darkfall loyal then unleashed a storm of nerdrage against the gaming site, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Onyxia Wipe “More Dots!” debacle of 2006. A bit too “inside gaming?” Yes. But it's also pretty epic.
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Each of the scenes is instantly recognizable, and it looked like some of these took quite a bit of time. There’s a lot of attention paid to detail, as not only are the characters and stages recreated, but energy gauges and other in-game information, too.
WiiSpray turns your Nintendo Wiimote into a virtual spray paint can. Wheeeeeeeeee! This one's just a prototype out of Bauhaus University, but still, very cool.
A song for geeks by Superpowerless. [Editor's Note: Do not watch this video if you don't like awesome stop-motion music videos about retro video games with cool roboto-voice sound effects. You won't enjoy it.]
Movie Buzz In Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan's twigs and berries are on full display, which has led to a revolutionary idea for the film's video game adaptation.
Culture Buzz In this game, you are Death, and you wreak havoc on cute, brightly colored creatures who probably deserve to live.
I am really letting my geek flag fly with this one. But just think about the kind of guys you (I?) could pick up with this t-shirt. The mind reels.