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Build A Mario Church For This Window
Stained glass is something Jewish kids can enjoy while guesting in their Catholic friends’ cathedrals (like what happened to me on Sundays after sleepovers). If only all stained glass windows were this geeky. This Mario Bros. mushroom was created by artist Radiance Art with over 80 individual pieces of glass. It’s mounted in a 15-inch…
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Taylor Swift Gets Sparklies In Band Hero
The only thing missing from this behind the Band Hero scenes with Taylor Swift video is Kanye West. Yeah, bet you didn’t see that joke coming a mile away. In all non-meme-related seriousness, though, the video showcases the motion capture used to get Miley Cyrus’s would-be rival rendered into the game. Apparently, the starlet requested…
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My Mail Got Nerfed
I don’t remember being assigned a Nerf N-Strike Elite review, but lo! A copy has been sent to my house for review purposes by the good folks over at EA Play Label. Assuming word doesn’t come down from on high that I should break this bad boy open and get down to business, I’ll be…
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The Music of Final Fantasy Tactics Live In Tokyo
More than a year ago, a call went out across Japan for music and managerial types to put on a Final Fantasy Tactics concert. On November 22, that ambition’s being realized live in Tokyo. The small-ish production will feature an arrangement of 61 songs, performed in medley form. I’m not up on my Tactics soundtrack,…
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Actually, Looks Like There Will Be a Bad Company 2 Beta Soon
Earlier today, GameStop outed a beta – with a launch date – for Battlefield Bad Company 2 in a preorder deal later taken down. EA confirmed to Blend Games that news is coming this week, but no beta date. The scramble started when GameStop published a 24-hour promising deal promising access to the PS3 beta…
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TF2’s Mann Co. Responds to Its Customers Once More
September’s “Team Update” brought another mention of Team Fortress 2’s macho product supplier Mann Co., and some folks took the hint and wrote the company’s address again. Lo and behold, here’s more form-letter hilarity. And – classic comic book covers! Kotaku reader Wayne T. received a form letter, two 1960s/70s era comic covers (“Saxton Hale’s…
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Preorder Bonus Puts L4D Headwear in Team Fortress 2
“For the first time in history,” writes the TF2 Team, “two separate Valve universes collide!” If you pre-order Left 4 Dead 2, you get Bill’s beret from Left 4 Dead to trick out your Team Fortress 2 guys. The deal’s of course restricted to pre-orders of the PC L4D2, Steam or retail. However, if you’ve…
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Xbox Live Ops Manager Ain’t Going for this Facebook/Games Thing
In the latest thrilling episode of Major Nelson‘s podcast, the gang raps about the DSi XL and its virtues and drawbacks, and regular guest “e” (Eric Neustadter, the Xbox Live operations manager) says this whole gaming/Facebook synergy? Not diggin’ it. “I find the in-game uses, OK, may be interesting, the out-of-game, hey, it’s a camera,…
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Awesome Custom Mario Costume Packs Its Own Soundtrack
Perhaps a little late for Halloween, but you can use this modded Mario costume for inspiration and get to work on yours for next year. Certain motions while wearing the suit trigger fireball, jumping and 1Up sounds, among others. The get-up was built by an Adafruit Wave Shield user, connecting the gadget to an Arduino…
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Fight Night Gets Three New Fighters, Price Cut
Three new fighters will be offered in the latest round of downloadable content to be offered for Fight Night Round 4, Electronic Arts announced on Monday. Bernard Hopkins, Sonny Liston and Evander Holyfield will join the game. Furthermore, the game’s suggested retail price drops another $10, to $39.99, just in time for the holiday retail…
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Aussie L4D2 Gets a Deep-Clean Sanitizing
Hey look! Disappearing bodies! No, this isn’t some homage mod to the days of 8-bit fatalities, it’s one of the features put into the Australian Left 4 Dead 2 so it could be approved for sale. You can see for yourself in that video above. The scorecard, according to the Steam community forums is comprehensive:…
By Owen Good