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Not Sure What’s Happening With Super Mario World and Chronic Gamer Girl, But It’s Damn Funny

The title of this video—which I got tipped to from the Twitter feed of Gawker colleague Adrian Chen—led me to believe it’d be focused on the pot-smoking antics of someone playing video games. There’s no marijuana in evidence but the proceedings are still pretty loopy. Sure, it looks like nothing so much as some improv…

Sure, Put Pokémon and The Avengers Together, Nobody is Stopping You

We may never be able to chart the depths of fandom that led us to pictures like this, but scratching our heads at them is only half the fun. The other half is realising the artist is maybe onto something. We’ve seen some messed-up fan fiction in our time, but to be truly bizarre, the…

What a Video Game Graveyard Looks Like

Photographer Thomas Schultz found this decrepit old garage last year in Arizona. It’s full of long-gone arcade machines. His series of photos, called Video Decay, is as beautiful as it is tragic. Especially since one of the cabinets is the amazing old Atari Star Wars game. Video Decay [FlickR, via Geek Art]

We Might be Getting a Game Called Yoshi’s Land for the Wii U

So, remember how last week a guy got accidental access to a “mock” debug menu for the Wii U? There might be more to it than that. While messing around in there, a description of a game called Yoshi’s Land Wii U was found. That listing has since been found on retail sites. Seeing as…

Look Out, Nintendo Has An Official Gesture, And It’s Chopping At Your Face

Here’s a hilariously odd piece of corporate expression; it seems Nintendo has adopted an official gesture when its senior employees are mentioning the word “direct”. Tiny Cartridge’s Eric has spotted that, too often for it to be a coincidence, when the word (part of Nintendo’s term for its impromptu press briefings) “direct” is mentioned, the…

A Statue of Diablo Itself? That’ll Cost Ya.

First shown off in unpainted form earlier this year, Sideshow’s enormously fancy Diablo statue, from Diablo III, is finally going on sale this Thursday. The poor thing’s in a weird place. I always feel bad for the artists and designers who come up with great-looking characters—which in turn make for great collectibles—only to see the…

Let’s Try And Fight Those Fanboy Urges, OK?

It’s been a peaceful few years, hasn’t it? As the current generation of consoles got cheaper, more and more people were able to buy more than one of them. They could play, and enjoy, games across different systems. And as a result, stopping being so emotionally invested in the one system they did own, to…

My New Favorite Internet Cat Has A Stronger Heart Than Most

This is Anakin. He was born without a pelvis or either of his back legs, but you’d never guess just by looking at how much energy and enthusiasm he has. And also by how he can move around practically uninhibited. Look at him climb! With only two limbs! Could you do that? I certainly couldn’t.…

The Kinect Finally Has a Proper Use: Funny Half-Life Videos

Garry’s Mod has added support for Kinect. The popular PC machinima/screwing around tool will be able to read your movements on Microsoft’s camera and, to the best of its ability, recreate the actions in the game. What results won’t change the world. But it will result in some funny, funny stuff. Especially since Kinect works…

Check Out This Badass Scoped Crossbow You Get In Battlefield 3‘s Expansion That Releases Today

Battlefield 3: Aftermath releases today. If you’re a premium member… playing on Playstation 3. Xbox 360 and PC premium members get the DLC on December 4, followed by a December 11 on PS3 and December 18 on Xbox 360 and PC for the standard release. But what’s in it? The video up top will show…

Story Details & Art Leak From Bungie’s Next Game, the Sci-Fi Epic Destiny

A leaked document has revealed at least some art and the basic story background for the next game from Bungie, the creators of the Halo universe. The document sent to IGN, and also to Kotaku, says that the game is set on a future Earth where, after a brief colonisation of the stars, humanity has…

At Least 77,000 People Want To See GTA V Release On The PC

You know it’s more than that, but at the time of this writing there are 77, 361 official signatures proclaiming each person’s desire to see Rockstar’s next Grand Theft Auto title release on PC. And why shouldn’t it? After all, as the petition to Rockstar to get GTA V on PC offers, the PC modding…

About That Halo Couple From The Best Buy Ad…

I saw two movies at two movie theaters this weekend and the same Best Buy commercial aired before both of them. I usually tune out the commercials at the movies (strange that we can avoid commercials on TV but get smacked with them in theaters, no?). This big-screen commercial did get my attention since…. wow!…

The First English Trailer For Etrian Odyssey IV Looks And Sounds Great

Monsters! Maps! Flying zeppelins! Dungeon crawling! I’m pretty psyched for this one: the Etrian Odyssey series has always done a good job of satiating those dungeon crawl cravings I get every so often. EOIV is out for 3DS on February 26.

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Before Or After: Which Fuse Box Cover Do You Like Better?

This is the new box art for Fuse, an upcoming shooter developed by Insomniac, the folks behind Ratchet & Clank and Resistance Here’s the full shot: This is what Fuse used to look like, back when it was called Overstrike (before they changed things up): So which do you prefer? Cartoony shades or gritty scowls?…

And Here’s Why Women In The Games Business Put Up With So Much Crap

Earlier today we showed you some of the many, many Tweets describing the sexism that women in the video game-making business put up with. These were all issued with the hashtag #1reasonwhy This morning, something else happened. Author Rhianna Pratchett decided to create #1reasontobe, a complementary tag that would collect reasons women have for working…

Watch Link Travel Through A Bunch Of Apple Products In This Pretty Short Film

The Legend of Zelda is a digital journey, but this particular journey transcends the digital. And it transcends the console, too. The paper effects you see off the computer (iPhone, iPad, etc) screens were rendered on Final Cut after the video was taken, but everything else is simply a matter of syncing up the individual…

Buy Issue #7 of the Awesome Hawkeye Comic and Help Victims of Hurricane Sandy

Matt Fraction’s one of the best comics writers out there now. And the gesture he’s making with the upcoming Hawkeye #7 should just confirm that. The creator of Casanova and scribe behind Marvel’s late, lamented Defenders comic will be contributing his entire paycheck from the Avengers spin-off to relief efforts helping victims of last month’s…

Five Comics That Merge Science and Magic This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…