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16 Feb 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Gaming academic (and Kotaku guest editor) Ian Bogost shares with the world this scan from a 1982 issue of Videogaming Illustrated, in which 1982 celebrities share their thoughts on the video games. Being 1982, we’ve got a stellar lineup, including comedian Mel Brooks, Superman’s Christopher Reeve, and another comedian, Chevy Chase. And [...]
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4 Feb 2010It’s entirely fair to say that, while once well-matched adversaries, the last fifteen years haven’t quite worked out for Sonic the way they have for Mario. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Meetings of the two may not be quite this awful in real life, but in my mind, this is exactly how such a reunion would go [...]
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12 Jan 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; It’s called, “try hitting on anyone while you’re wearing that thing.” That’s right, Harry Potter there is someone’s husband. So if this sweater makes him the world’s biggest geek, it also makes her the world’s most awesome wife. Reasoning that “knitting stitches are basically pixels, right?” The Happy Seamstress converted World 1-1 [...]
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25 Jun 2009So, if you’ve been wondering why all the internet emergency lights were flashing this morning to notify you that EA and DICE’s free-to-play, microtransaction supported debut Battlefield Heroes had stealthily just gone live, and yet you still couldn’t find anything but a broken beta sign-up page, it’s because the battlefield-heroes.com and battlefieldheroes.com are apparently entirely [...]
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21 Jun 2009About 30 seconds in you see the clip that probably inspired this 5 minute masterpiece: “I must stop little baby!” Readers soccerboy33 and Hugo M. tipped this collection of nut-shots, bike crashes, failed stunts and America’s Funniest Home Videos runners-up, which of course are infinitely funnier when set to an antic soundtrack and narrated by [...]
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3 Jun 2009So, Mario and Luigi are Italian, but are they Italian stereotypes? Be warned, bad words and bad fake facial hair ahead! Thanks, B W!
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19 May 2009When TF2′s Scout received his update, the ad on the game’s blog was done in the style of an old-school mail-away. And you know, some people actually responded. What’s more, Valve responded back. Yes, people stupid/smart enough to print out the coupon and send it in have been getting real letters in the mail. Real [...]