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Blik, maker of fine stickables, and Namco Bandai, the people who own Pac-Man, are combining their respective powers to bring Inky, Pinky, Blinky, Clyde and other memorable 8-bit sprites to your wall. Starting today, you can put only the finest of Pac-Man decals on your walls, safely and stylishly. More »
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Movie to video game adaptations of the early 1980s were difficult things. Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, and The Empire Strikes Back were as hard to master as they were hard to genuinely enjoy. More »
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Assassin's Creed makes a surprisingly good looking retro game. Majami Hiroz reinvisioned the modern classic Assassin's Creed in 8-bit style graphics. It looks more like a 3DS 3D classic than an actual retro game, but that makes it all the more beautiful. More »
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For the glasses wearer looking to lower the resolution of their frames, designer Dzmitry Samal offers pairs of retro-futuristic pixelated glasses, inspired by late '80s video games and "society's fascination with an 'informational aesthetic.'" More »
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And you thought it was impossible to improve on Rebecca Black's TGIF anthem "Friday"? You were so very, very wrong. [BlameThank Gary Whitta for finding this] More »
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If this were a real game, it would be the best game ever made. I can already see the ads; Which seat will YOU take? More »
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Resolution of your iPhone camera got you down? Are HDR photographs just too dynamic for you? With the lo-fi magic of the 8-bit Pocket Camera app, you can make your iPhone's photographic capabilities look a good 13-years-old, emulating the qualities of Nintendo's Game Boy Camera. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5787807&view=rss&microfeed=true The fifth annual Blip Festival hits New York City's Eyebeam Art + Technology center May 19-21, featuring the best in pixel art and performances by chiptune greats including Anamanaguchi, Bit Shifter, and Nullsleep. It should not be missed. More »
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Composer and sound designer Jake "Virt" Kaufman follows up his Super Mario Bros. hi-def sound design experiment by giving 8-bit games like Tetris, Pac-Man, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda and Contra the "ultra nextgen AAA" sound design treatment. More »
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Plenty of classic video games have been slammed into this kind message from Dash Coleman. See if you can identify all of the memorable death scenes. More »
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White Mage, Red Mage, Black Mage, what's the difference? In Dorkly's latest video we discover that not every White Mage is as enlightened as the next. More »
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The water supply in New York City goes 8-bit once more, with this update to the 2008 version, now flowing bigger, more 3D than before. Photographed by Benjamin Norman and seen at Make. More »
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We know, Christmas was so last week, but indulge us. This is so good it doesn't matter what time of the year you watch it. More »
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Bethesda beats any potential fan-made Fallout 3demakes to the punch by creating its own for the Japanese Fallout website. It's all in Japanese, but old school role-playing is the universal language. More »
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Before you scrutinize this video, sit back and absorb it. Take it for what it is said to be: An unbelievable stop-action ode to video games made entirely of quarters. More »
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I always figured practicing safe sex in 8-bit was as easy as defeating Condom Man and stealing his powers. Not so says the Leicestershire Teenage Pregnancy Partnership. There's also jumping involved. More »
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What's the sweetest meat of Mario's eternal rival, Bowser? Artist Jude Buffum breaks down the choicest cuts of Nintendo villains Bowser, Ganon, Blooper and more in a new series of meat diagrams that video game butchers would swear by. More »
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This is South Korean pop outfit Girls' Generation. The ladies are not 8-bit. But what if they were? More »
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8 Bit Wood specializes in making video-game themed pixel art with thousands of little blocks of wood, stained and glued together and then sealed. More »
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I have no information that anyone is actually building this for PC, but it's amusing to consider. By YouTube user AnttiApinaPro, seen by reader Morris. More »
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A man is born, lives, loves, loses, dies, and restarts in Consoul, an 8-bit movie by Lasse Gjertsen. More »
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Marvel characters rendered Mega Man-style by DeviantArt's suzuran, seen via Capcom-Unity. See an even larger version, with even more Marvel Super Heroes, on the jump. It'll display tiny, so click for full size. Can you ID them all? More »
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Designer and motorcycle enthusiast Igor Chak's Space Invaders couch concept, which exists in the virtual world until Taito sees fit to start releasing designer furniture. More renders at Chak's personal site. More »
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I recently did a spot of world travel, and while Google Maps was very helpful, it didn't look (to me at least) enough like an 8-bit video game. More »
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Hey, remember Gary, the 8-Bit man (well, woman)? Gary was made for a commercial, and this is that commercial. It's a retro gamer's fantasy come to life. More »
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Step into the boots of action stars Jet Li, Sylvester Stallone, and Jason Statham, in an 8-bit Facebook action game based off of their upcoming movie, Contra The Expendables. More »
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This is Gary. Gary is an 8-bit man made flesh. More »
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The sorcerers at Meat Bun have summoned forth a magical set of t-shirts for their summer 2010 line, "Wizards 'n Warriors," celebrating the 8-bit fantasy fighters and casters who made the early days of gaming so magical. More »
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The third Twilight film, Eclipse, opens tomorrow, but you can save yourself two hours and $10 by checking out the more satisfying 8-Bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive YouTube game instead. More »
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I like my iPhone games like I like my women: cheap, easy and good-looking. More »
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While characters like Mario were designed from the limitations of the pixel, modern game developers have embraced the element as part of a modern aesthetic. Artist Simon Cottee explores the visual building block in his documentary short 'Pixel.' [via BoingBoing] More »
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Agent Midnight over at DeviantArt thinks Scout Man has what it takes to be a real video game, though he might need a little help. Check out the rest of his Team Fortress 2 sprite work here. More »
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When the concert ticket, the downloaded album and the official t-shirt aren't enough, there is the official video game of the band. Why play Linkin Park's video game? It is for the fans. More »
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Grammy-winning rock band Linkin Park have teamed up with mobile game developers Artificial Life to create Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion, an iPhone game that looks like it could actually be highly entertaining. More »
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This display case, containing a pristine, never-played Nintendo Entertainment System, and a never-used Robotic Operating Buddy (we like to be formal on first reference here) fetched $4,150 in an eBay auction that just closed. More »
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Here's what happens when you take a relatively primitive game and downgrade it to an extremely primitive game, courtesy of Carnegie Mellon student Chloe Fan. More »
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Regular maps too informative for you? Too lacking in colorful sprites? Retro cartographer Brett Camper has devised 8-bit NYC for the gaming crowd who can't make heads or tails of anything that doesn't look like a Dragon Warrior map. More »
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Car maker Toyota unveiled the FT-CH "dedicated hybrid concept" at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, a car notable for its younger skewing design, cheaper price and, in Toyota's own words, its "8-bit generation" inspired design. More »
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Cracked takes a thoughtful look at what five iconic v8-bit video game characters would look like if their sprites were magically granted life. The results are just a wee bit disturbing. More »
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The latest issue of Nintendo Power outs a second retro installment of Mega Man. Can Sheep Man pull the wool over the blue bomber's eyes, or will he be thoroughly fleeced? More »
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