A Video Tour Of The Ultimate Super Mario Beer Pong Table

Incapacitated with a broken ankle, reader lithium017 decided to spend his time doing something a bit more productive than spying on neighbors from his bedroom window: He built a Super Mario Bros. 3 beer pong table. To be more accurate, the six-foot-long table can serve as both a surface for playing Beer Pong on and…

Now Video Games Cause Tooth Decay

Various scientific and medical studies performed over the past few years have shown video games to cause violent behavior, obesity, and crooked fingers among young people, but at least we still have our teeth – or do we? A new study, run by the University of Iowa, has linked frequent video game playing to poor…

The Nintendo Download: No One Here But Mr. Driller

It’s a slow week in The Nintendo Download, with a couple of educational WiiWare titles, a NEOGEO shooter, several Game & Watch titles, and poor little Mr. Driller taking up the rear. Poor Mr. Driller. He’s potentially the highlight of this week’s Nintendo download, yet he’s buried down at the bottom of a list of…

How Much DSiWare Have You Purchased In The Past Year?

Nintendo is celebrating the first year of DSiWare today, which gives us the perfect chance to ask our readers this question: how much DSiWare have you purchased? As far as I am concerned, the Nintendo DSi has two selling points over the cheaper Nintendo DS: the cameras, and DSiWare. If neither of those features interest…

Man Versus Machine: Breaking the Unbreakable High Score

As you read this, history is in the making. Asteroids is being played with great verve. High scores will topple. Right now John McAllister, a Washington state locksmith, sits in a game room somewhere in Seattle playing Atari’s 1979 arcade classic Asteroids while cameras and a friend watch on. He’s been playing since Saturday, now…

Heavy Rain Chronicles: The Taxidermist Micro-Review: Let’s Try That again

Call it a missing chapter, an added short story or simply an extra sprinkling of Heavy Rain, but you may as well call for a do-over. The first downloadable episode of Heavy Rain, the acclaimed February serial killer drama for the PlayStation 3 from development studio Quantic Dream, offers a new chapter set early in…

iTunes Chart Toppers: EA Swarms the Chart

Electronic Arts’ Spring sale proves once again that sales can have a HUGE impact on game sales. Just look at all of the EA titles on this chart. Here’s the full list of games: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews Position Title Price Weeks…

Day-One Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package Buyers Get Seven Days Back

Several readers sent us tips this morning indicating that Microsoft gifted them seven additional days of Xbox Live Gold for purchasing the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package on day one. Julian sent us a picture, however, so Julian wins. What does Julian win? Well, credit, for one, along with the seven days’ worth of Xbox…

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Nintendo Doesn’t, Shouldn’t Fear the iPad

Gaming for Apple is an estimated half a billion dollar industry, but the company behind the iPhone, iPod Touch and now the iPad still seems reluctant to embrace the popular diversion. Despite launching the”magical and revolutionary” iPad with more than 700 new games this past weekend, gaming gets little face time in the ads and…

Manga Creator Blasts CNN For Being “Offensive” And “Insulting”

CNN reporter Kyung Lah recently filed a story on out-of-print erotic game Rapelay. One Japanese manga creator has taken her to task in an open letter. The game was released in 2006 and a controversy of the game was caused in the West in spring 2009. Oddly, CNN decided to revisit the game late last…

This Post is Not About The iPad

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Will The Nintendo 3DS Screen Look Like This?

Late last week, Japanese electronics maker Sharp showed off its new 3D touchscreen display. As a Sharp spokesman explained, the company would like to replace the LCD screens in mobile phones, smart phones, video games and digital cameras. Video games, hey, wait a minute! Nintendo has announced a “Nintendo DS” successor, the Nintendo 3DS, a…

Twenty Years Late, Tremors Gets A Game Adaptation

Tremors, a 1990 comedy/horror film about underground monsters terrorising a small town in Nevada, is about the best thing Kevin Bacon ever did. It’s also the best flash game I played all weekend. The aim of the game is simple: much like the movie, you need to assemble a cast of survivors, then elude the…

Resident Evil 4 Shambles Onto The iPad

Resident Evil 4 was great on the GameCube. PS2 as well. On the iPhone, though, it wasn’t so great. Could an iPad version be any better? Part of the reason it sucked was because the iPhone’s tiny screen and feeble horsepower neutered much of the game’s atmosphere, one of its most important aspects. But the…

Quentin Tarantino So “Not Interested” In Video Games

Whether it be comic books, exploitation cinema or cheesy TV, Quentin Tarantino might be a pop culture connoisseur. There is one type of pop culture he is not interested in, and that’s video games. “I cannot get myself interested in video games,” the 47 year-old filmmaker told Telegraph. “I’ve been given video game players and…

Let’s Watch An iPad Dissection

Now that the iPad has been released, that means it’s time for taking it apart and seeing what’s inside. Oh, what wonder awaits! It’s twenty minutes long! It starts off with the idea that it might be possible to put it back together, but then it ends with everyone feeling slightly melancholy. iPad Autopsy Video:…

Stay On Target, Space Invaders

The force is strong with this one, so increase speed, drop down, reverse direction! As seen on RedBubble

NSFW: Gaming Accessories, For Strippers

Pasties past·ies pl.n. “A pair of adhesive patches used to conceal a woman’s nipples and worn principally by exotic dancers or striptease performers.” Lady Tornade isn’t only a French burlesque strip-teaser performer from Paris, she also makes stripper gear like these Super Mario Bros. Power-Up Mushrooms pasties for women to glue to their chests and…

Resident Evil 4 iPad Screens