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You Won’t Jump Over the Flagpole in These Awesome Mario Heels
Artist Jamie Ferraioli proves that stunning, feminine accessories are in no way at odds with nerd culture with her gorgeous, hand-painted shoes. These heels and flats display meticulously detailed hand-painted art from Super Mario Brothers and The Legend of Zelda. My personal favorite part is the lava painted onto the platform sole of the black…
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Unauthorized Presales Land NECA’s Awesome Portal Gun Replica on Indefinite Hold
You know that awesome Portal gun NECA was working on? The one everyone was excited about buying? As it turns out, folks were excited about selling it as well, and that excitement might have just gotten the amazing replica cancelled. Kotaku reader Will passed along an email on Friday that he had received from online…
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Why Mass Effect 3‘s Ending Doesn’t Need Changing (SPOILERS)
If you died tomorrow, if some kind of disaster struck and removed you entirely from the world, would the choices you’d made with your life to date matter? Would it matter what you had accomplished? Who you had loved? If you had saved another’s life? Would your life’s work have meaning? Would there not be…
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Video Game Character or My Little Pony? Yes.
Some would say that the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic phenomenon has nothing at all to do with video games. I’ve got several images that prove otherwise. Grown men in love with a cartoon aimed at little girls? Preposterous! Outrageous! Truly, truly, truly outrageous! The Brony phenomenon is really nothing new. Over the years…
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Great Moments In Gaming Humor, Liquidious Fleshbag
The companion characters in Mass Effect are living, breathing, loving characters with unique personalities and motivations. They are also pretty boring. They could learn a lot from HK-47, the assassin droid from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. “Correction: Assassination is my primary function. I also possess excellent hearing and can bend spoons.” The…
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The Dorkly Weekly: When You Put it That Way Yeah, Zelda II Was Kinda Dirty (NSFW)
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link briefly exchanged the series’ fairy-based healing mechanics with an going into a house with a strange woman and coming out healed feature. I’ve always assumed the worst. Dorkly does too, only they make it awkward for everyone. This one’s a little not safe for work, so those with delicate…
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Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battle: Commander Shepard Versus Sephiroth
As if the Reapers, the Geth and a twisted web of intergalactic political intrigue weren’t enough to deal with, Fan-Fiction.net author Master-of-Mythology has to throw one of Final Fantasy‘s most powerful villains at him. Some days it’s just not worth getting out of bed with Tali. Ah, the heady freedom of being a fan fiction…
By Mike Fahey
