“And I looked, and beheld a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.” — Revelations 6:8
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Ground Kontrol Wins!
Who has the bestest retro arcade/bar in the country? Would I be asking this question here if the answer wasn’t Portland? Thanks to Ground Kontrol’s legions of fans, GK snagged first place in Stride Gum’s recently ended “Save The Arcades” contest. As mentioned when we last brought this up, the grand prize for GK’s radness […]
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Apropos Of Nothing, Lego Mindstorms Robotic Chess
Lego Mindstorms Robotic Chess Set. Five words that four guys spent one year, $30,000 and 100,000 Lego pieces to construct. And in completion we have a totally damn awesome chess set that … well, just watch that video up there. Afterwards, I dare you to construct a cynical retort. Dare you to explain why this […]
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Awesome: Tetris Vs Contra
If there’s anything the ‘net can do (aside from fill your life with glorious pornography) it’s distract you from your responsibilities with goofy-as-hell cartoons. Thus, Tetris Vs Contra. Two glorious minutes of poorly animated excuse for me to take my eyes off of Twitter and Vienna. Spacebo komrade! Propers Geekologie
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The Nintendo 3DS Info Blast
Nintendo Meet the new boss, BETTER than the old boss No doubt, the biggest news out of E3 2010 is the Nintendo 3DS. Even if the handheld was simply the latest descendant of the GameBoy, it would have been a huge damn deal, but considering it also outputs 3D graphics without necessitating silly glasses or […]
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Mid-Week E3 ‘Splosion (Or, How I Learned To Stop Ripping Off Kubrick Out Of Boredom)
Do you like videogames? Then you probably already know that the annual E3 convention is currently turning Los Angeles into a slightly shinier hell hole by the Pacific Ocean. Way to ruin my intro, shitbird. This year’s event is relatively lame, to be straight with you — and I still oppose the idea of reopening […]
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DC Universe Online Makes Me Sad
So far E3 is a bust. New Zelda, new Call of Duty, blah blah fucking blah. Thus, it’s a new trailer for Sony Online Entertainment’s upcoming DC Comics-based massively multiplayer online roleplaying game DC Universe Online that catches my eye. And why exactly is this video the proverbial splinter in the paw of my mind? […]
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Forget Mortal Kombat Week! We’ve Got REAL News!
Valve Software How droogy… Team Fortress 2 is now available on OS X. *Cue chorus of singing, dancing cherubs and as-jubilant-as-burning-corpses-can-be Seraphim* Full details on the “Mac Update” can be found here, but the quick and dirty version is as follows: – Team Fortress 2 now available on OS X – Game now includes an […]
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Mortal Kombat Week Rolls On …
Because one unexpected trailer for a franchise most people forgot about sometime during the previous century is just never enough, Warner Bros. Interactive has released the first trailer for Mortal Kombat. Yeah, just “Mortal Kombat.” No numerics or foreboding subtitle or anything. The developers apparently want to go for a retro style with this one, […]
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Castlevania On iPhone? Sort Of …
How do you make a Castlevania game work on the iPhone? How do you translate tight, traditional 2-D action-adventure to a medium that lacks so much as a directional pad? Konami’s answer seems to be “Remember Capcom’s Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo? Why don’t we do that with Symphony of the Night?” Now I don’t […]
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New Mortal Kombat Flick Appears To Kick Ass
Gamers have been praying for a videogame-to-film adaptation that properly brings their favorite pixel-based mythologies to the silver screen ever since Christopher Nolan’s Batman films proved that the same can be done for comic books. If the following trailer is any indication, Mortal Kombat fans might be getting their violent magnum opus soon enough. Early […]
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Games, Geeks, Groupthink And Genuine Discourse: An Experiment
Gamers, on average, rarely look this bad … I don’t think I’m going to blow any minds by saying that there are certain long-standing stereotypes attached to those who play videogames. Certainly, they aren’t as insidious or divisive as other stereotypes we’ve seen recently — I’ve never been asked to leave my local anarchist café […]