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This Ridiculously Easy Game Show Question was Good for $100,000 Today
Ridiculously easy for us of course. I’m sure when some neckbeard gets to $100,000 on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and goes deer-in-the-headlights when asked “Which Pope commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling,” every snark on the art history blogs is all lolwut and SMFH and such. Yes, “I don’t think it’s…
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Even If Yoshi Is Gay, Where are the Other Gay Video Game Heroes?
Can an egg-laying dinosaur without sex organs be gay? IGN’s Jack DeVries makes the case that Mario‘s green dinosaur steed with the prehensile tongue is “dating”-in the strange, largely irrelevant backstory that frames the series-Birdo, the pink, bow-wearing dinosaur first seen in Super Mario Bros. 2 Birdo, according to official Nintendo lore, is male. The…
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Rhythm Paradise Brings Most Exciting Keynote Slide of the Year
Follow up to the cult portable series Rhythm Heaven, Rhythm Paradise is coming to Wii this summer. We don’t know much beyond that it designed to be played “only with buttons”. But it’s clear from the slide a whole world of spaghetti stabbing awaits. Nintendo Heaven Financial Results Briefing (March 2011) [Nintendo.co.jp] Update: It has…
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It Sure Looks Like Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is Coming to the 3DS
The magazine scans reader David points us towards are ridiculously blurry and the images vague, but three things are certain: That spiky-haired character is holding a Pokéball, the game is on the 3DS, and that’s Agate Village from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness For more than a decade now, Pokémon fans have been clamoring for…
By Mike Fahey
