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Baskin-Robbins Creates Camouflage Ice Cream. Good Luck Finding It.

Celebrating the military community all November long, Baskin-Robbins’s flavor of the month is First-Class Camouflage. It’s right there. Follow the arrow. First-Class Camouflage is a delicious blend of leaves, tree bark and sand — oh wait, it’s chocolate, salted caramel and dyed cake — served in a waffle cone or bowl decorated so we can’t…

Nerd Favorite Nathan Fillion Has Plans For The Zombie Apocalypse

If it were to go down, Castle’s Nathan Fillion and hiswise, but no so serious words would come handy. He was talking with Jimmy Kimmel about zombies and as it turns out surviving a zombie apocalypse is not about melee weapons but more like knowing your friends and their apocalypse-compatible skills. Nathan Fillion is Worried…

There’s a Nintendo Direct tomorrow focused on upcoming Wii U and 3DS games. What’s Nintendo putting out in 2015 and when? Expect those questions to be answered and maybe a few surprises in tomorrow’s Direct, scheduled for 5 pm Eastern time.

Chocolate Carbonite Freezes More Than Just Han Solo

Henry Hargeaves is a food photographer and his latest project sounds like a really random one. Putting all our favorite childhood characters and their shape in frozen carbonite-looking chocolate. Just like Jabba did it with Han Solo. There they are. Raphael, Homer, Batman, Optimus Prime and more. All edible. And he got the facial expressions…

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Arrested in Thailand

Until recently, only two of the three The Pirate Bay co-founders were in police custody: Peter Sunde was arrested in Sweden this past May, while Gottfrid Svartholm was just sentenced to 3.5 years. And yesterday, a third co-founder, Fredrik Neij, was arrested while trying to cross the border into Thailand. As Tech in Asia reports,…

A Figure Buyer’s Guide to Otaku Mecca Akihabara

So you’ve come to Japan and have even made your way to otaku mecca Akihabara. Since you’ve followed our guide, you already have all the Japanese games you could want! But that’s not enough to satiate you: You want anime and game figures as well—but have no idea where to look. Don’t worry. We’re here…

I Could Slay Zombies to this Soundtrack All Day Long

Going into OneChanbara Z2: Chaos, I was expecting a lot of fanservice and some surprisingly enjoyable hack-and-slash action. However, I was not expecting an excellent soundtrack to carry me through the six hours it took to beat the game. So here is some of the game’s best music to slay zombies to. ICHIBAN WA ME…

The Ten Most Expensive Games Cost More Than $2 Billion

The past decade or so game budgets have ballooned and now often rival those of an average Hollywood movie, and according to AllTime10s, these are the most expensive of the bunch. 10. Deadpool — $102,100,246 9. Unreleased Halo MMO — $103,242,337 8. Max Payne 3 — $108, 776,623 7. Red Dead Redemption — $109,078,902 6.…

My Boy, A Zelda Christmas Is A Merry Christmas

The Christmas sweater is an artform. One that has just been pretty much perfected. Well, I guess you could argue against this technically, since this is just a screenprint on a regular sweater, and not an actual knitted jersey, but whatever. The pic wins where the fabric falls short. X-MAS, MAH BOY![theyetee]

An Unexpected Nintendo Game Is Headed To Arcades

Nintendo has a long(like, real long) history with arcade gaming, a tradition that’s continued into recent times with stuff like F-Zero and Mario Kart. But those are two games you would expect to see in an arcade. Nintendo’s latest arcade title, Luigi’s Mansion, is not. Yup. Luigi’s Mansion. Nintendo has handed the GameCube and 3DS…

Blacksmiths Forge Skyrim Helmet, Shoot At It

This Skyrim helmet isn’t just for show. It’s tough! It could probably actually save your life, should you ever be in everyday situations like “someone is swinging an actual sword at my head,” or “someone is shooting actual arrows at my head.” You know, typical stuff. Unfortunately I sincerely doubt that AWE me‘s version of…

How McDonald’s McRib Sandwiches Are Made

Is it that time of year already? Of course it is, I’ve already had three limited-time only McRib sandwiches since they came back a week or so ago, and there are more in my future. It’s probably a good time to find out how they’re made. Responding to a strong detractor of Micky-D’s ground pork…

​That Elite: Dangerous Space Captain May Be Someone’s Lost Loved One

Now this is a beautiful way to use a Kickstarter reward. Like a lot of PC games these days, the super-cool PC space sim Elite: Dangerous was made possible by a Kickstarter campaign. As one of Frontier Games’ Kickstarter rewards, backers were allowed to add their names to the game’s pilot database, which would mean…