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Playboy’s Jo Garcia and the Evolution of Gaming Makes Joysticks Happy (A Little NSFW)

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Here’s one for the guys… She was Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the Year in 2008, though I would give her the title in any year. Now Jo Garcia takes a look at the Evolution of Gaming in this sexy video, which is really the Evolution of Drooling,… since your senses

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September 25th, 2011 by: Conner Flynn

Video Game Controller Evolutionary Tree V.2.0 Still Has Missing Links

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If you bought the video game controller evolutionary tree that Pop Chart Lab released last February, know that your reference is now obsolete, because the artsy charts specialists have come back from their virtual archeological voyages and have updated the chart. It now features 119 controllers grouped into 7 categories,…

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September 7th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

The Evolutionary Biology of Hyrule: A Link to the Deku Tree

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With 15 games and a handful of spin-offs – and undoubtedly more to come – the Zelda universe has acquired its share of fictional plants, animals and floating eyeball things. Lots of them, as shown in this piece by Jude Buffum. He compiled “200 of the most important species”… in

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August 12th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Missing Link T-shirt: Does This Mean We Devolved?

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T-shirt maker/closet archeologist/pun master Jonah Block has a mind-blowing revelation about the evolution of man. Humans are descended from Hylians. Which means Hylians also came from monkeys. So Donkey Kong came first, then Link, then Mario.…

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July 25th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

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The Cursor is Mightier Than the Sword

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… having said that, I’m a bit miffed that this chart omitted the pen.…

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May 30th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Video Game Controller Evolutionary Tree Has a Missing Link to the Keyboard

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We’ve seen video game controllers cataloged periodic table-style, but I always thought an evolutionary tree would be more appropriate, especially since most controllers are just derivatives of a few classic designs. Finally, someone has come up with such a chart:…

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February 22nd, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

The Evolution of the Geek: What Stage Are You at?

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How much do you know about geeks? At what stage of geekiness are you? Amazingly, the work geek comes from ‘gecken’, which referred to circus performers biting heads off chickens. Wait, does that mean that Ozzy is a geek?

The word geek was eventually associated in the 1950s with people…

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October 21st, 2010 by: Range

Kyle Bean’S Evolution of the Mobile Phone in Papercraft

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This amazing work of paper art envisions the evolution of the mobile phone using the style of those classic Russian Matryoshka nesting dolls.

Artist/Designer/Illustrator Kyle Bean recently created Mobile Evolution…, an intricate set of nesting models from cardboard. See how each phone fits neatly inside it’s older, larger sibling?

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June 18th, 2009 by: Technabob

Evolution of Man T-Shirt is Stuck in the 80s

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If you think that mankind continues to evolve, perhaps you’re wrong. According to this clever video game T-shirt, we all stopped evolving somewhere back in the mid-1980s, parked in front of a Missile Command… cabinet.

Depicting the gradual metamophosis from ape to human to arcade addict, this shirt doesn’t take

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March 6th, 2008 by: Technabob

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