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Pac-Man Scarf Costs More Than PSP Go
PSP Go at $249? Yeah, who’s gettin’ ripped off NOW? Yesterday’s foray into high fashion leads us now to this, Pac-Man, ported over to fabric at a cost of $298. Of course, this is a limited edition, hand embroidered number, courtesy of Fummel & Kram. Why, it even comes with a tag that says “If…
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Peter Moore Challenges Obama to a Fitness-Off
President Obama again referred to video games as a family-life negative in his Father’s Day message. But Peter Moore – grabbing for publicity – challenges him to drop the rhetoric and see what they offer. Moore, the EA Sports honcho, was motivated to pose a 30-day EA Sports Active Challenge by Obama’s recent comments to…
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UncategorizedMore Proof that Anything + TF2 Soundfile = Comedy Gold
About 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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UncategorizedPlaying Larger than Larger-than-Life Gears of War 2
Every year some yoyo goes and builds the world’s largest TV, but it’s not every year some yoyo gets to play Gears of War 2 Halo on it. According to Engadget, the Jonas Brothers’ video director managed to hook up a console to this behemoth at the new Cowboys Stadium, home of a 160′ by…
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iPhone C64 Emulator Submitted, Denied
Manomio’s C64 emulator wasn’t refused for licensing reasons. It was refused because “an Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means.” That means booting ROMs, which is the whole point. Touch Arcade points out that “a number of apps in the App Store” already violate that provision, including: […] CHIP-8…
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The Father of Cartridge-Based Consoles
Overshadowed in popular culture by the Atari VCS, the Fairchild Channel F is little more today than the answer to a trivia stumper: the first game console to use cartridges. And this man built it. Reader Knoxximus passed along this interview, from February, with Jerry Lawson, who was the director of engineering and marketing for…
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Desert Bus Creators Take on Jack Thompson
This trailer for Penn & Teller: Bullshit – an unabashedly biased take on the talking points of various agenda pushers – puts our favorite disbarred lawyer in the crosshairs in the upcoming season. Looks like they’re going after the idea that video game violence begets real world violence, specifically Thompson’s claim that games represent “the…
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Father Knows Best: The Best and Worst Fathers in Video Games
Fathers are easy to find in video games. When they’re not antagonizing their offspring or killed off in the first level, they often serve as our main characters’ major motivation. In honor of Father’s Day, we celebrate dads in video games: from the good to the bad to the “Luke, I am your father kind,”…
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UncategorizedModder Builds USB Adapter for SNES Carts
The SNES is old enough that any hankering to play Super Mario World can be satisfied entirely by emulator. Still, here’s a USB hack that lets you plug old carts to a PC. Hackaday reader Matthias rigged up this solution, which makes the cart show up on a PC as an external drive with the…
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Silent Hill Models the New Fall Collection
Apparently Pyramid Head got tired of the 9 to 5 butcher gig, got a personal trainer and an agent, and now has made it big as an emaciated eurotrash model for a Swedish label. In what will likely be the only time I ever link to any site with more than one circonflexe in its…
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Breaking Down Assassin’s Creed 2
.html Just because a trailer is entirely CGI doesn’t mean it can’t tip off clues to gameplay features and story arc. Sure, there are gameplay trailers out there, coming from E3. But Gametrailers’ breakdown of what you can expect to do in the game likely done with Ubisoft’s assistance is nonetheless a thorough and enjoyable…
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Hero Cop Popped in Video Game Ripoff
A Lawrence, Kan. police officer who earned a medal for rescuing people from burning apartments now faces a 14-count federal indictment in an alleged buy-and-return video game fraud. Ryan Sayler allegedly pocketed just $526 in the scam, an extremely cheap way to earn more than a dozen charges of wire fraud. He’s accused of buying…
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Bioware Tweets Reveal Figurine, Print Sale
Twitterers on Bioware’s Mass Effect and Dragon Age accounts had been dribbling out image fragments that, pieced together on Friday, tip off the return of the Commander Shepard figurine, plus another item. The Shepard figure seems to be the limited-release version that accompanied the original Mass Effect launch. The Dragon Age item – is it…
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Cardboard Tube Samurai Coming to Tekken 6?
How could this be anyone else? Tekkenbob, the official Twitter account for Tekken 6, uploaded this yesterday afternoon, and it looks like Gabe and Tycho are designing a costume for the game. I suppose the backlit dual-wield weaponry could be argued to be anything – but the Pac Man logo on the gi means it’s…
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City of Heroes Teases Power Customization in Issue 16
For those in the know, Positron’s post on the City of Heroes forums yesterday tips off a hugebigimportant development in the cape-and-longjohns MMO. As in power customization, a concept begged for from day one. Posi came in and, in the words of one commenter, threw a chair and left, with this: So there has been…
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Early Mass Effect Listing Confirms New Content?
An apparently accidental listing of Mass Effect in the rebranded “Games on Demand” category (originally “Xbox Originals”) was pulled quickly after getting out, but its RSS feed presence still lingers. And it’s a little curious. Mass Effect as a launch title for Games on Demand, which goes live in August, isn’t exactly a surprise. But…
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Olivia Munn Not Nude, Not for a Lack of Effort
No matter what was discussed, agreed, or signed, when you’re in front of a Playboy lens, the nudity negotiation never ends. Olivia Munn learned that after two days with one of their more persistent stylists. The stylist, whom she impersonated with a swishy, faux-frenchy accent, kept suggesting she try outfits that were plenty evocative of…
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Weekend Coupons: War, What’s It Good For?
About $25 on Steam this week, if you’re a fan of the Total War series. Toys R Us has a dea; if you’re already planning on grabbing one of this week’s new releases. Software • Toys R Us is pegging next week’s major releases to some serious savings on current titles. This is a pretty…
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