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smash bros. characters given d&d-style alignments: fanboys & fangirls debate!

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Nintendo’s wildly popular Smash Bros. franchise is a dimension-shattering, world-colliding crossover in itself, but deviantART member Nakabeast added another delicious layer of nerdity by assigning Dungeons & Dragons alignments to some of the series’ most popular characters, like series newcomer Solid Snake:

If you think about it, Solid Snake can’t really be anything but Chaotic Good.…

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November 12th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun video games

woman flaunts her flute skills on rock band

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Anyone who’s played Rock Band knows that the singing part of the game is quite forgiving, in the sense that you don’t have to know the right words to the song. In fact you can just moan and groan throughout a song, as long as you moan and groan on key. YouTube user MsFrizzyHair takes that…

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November 9th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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13 minutes and 42 seconds of 3d dot game heroes gameplay

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The folks at Gamersyde were handed some footage of the opening minutes of the PS3 game 3D Dot Game Heroes, From Software’s upcoming homage to classic RPG/Adventure games. The graphics are really neat – it’s like everything is made of cardboard LEGO dot things.

If you’ve seen the trailers before then you’re probably familiar with the…

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November 5th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft retro strange + wonderful video games

surfacescape redefines tabletop gaming

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Anything that starts out of a suggestion from Penny-Arcade’s Mike Krahulik & Jerry Holkins – aka Gabe & Tycho – is bound to be geeky, and this one is no exception. The duo visited the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and ended up chatting with a bunch of students that were using a…

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October 24th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing future tech gadgets geek art + craft hacks + mods interactive just plain fun strange + wonderful technology

nuka cola vending machine: nuke-a-licious!

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Nuka-Cola is the popular soft drink from the megahit video game Fallout. Not only is it tasty, it can also restore a small amount of health. It can even be used to make drugs and grenades. As an homage to this very useful beverage, Kotaku reader Tugrik and his friends revitalized a beat-up 1970s vending…

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August 2nd, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft hacks + mods just plain fun retro video games

katamari wedding might have left some guests baffled

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You might have seen the Katamari Damacy wedding cake that we featured before, but that’s a tiny dot compared to this Katamari Damacy wedding. The accessories were well done, from the dorky but cute headgear to the bundle of flowers and of course the Katamari cake.

Actually I’ve only been able to play Katamari Damacy…

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July 30th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun strange + wonderful video games

papercraft nes is unplayable due to lack of cardboard controllers

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The folks at Cubeecraft just posted a cardboard NES console template, which you can download here, but they didn’t make templates for cardboard NES controllers. Or cardboard NES games.

Or a cardboard power cord. Or a cardboard RCA jack. Or a cardboard TV. Or a cardboard player. Or a cardboard house. Or a cardboard world.…

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July 28th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft just plain fun retro video games

ben heck’s commodore 64 laptop on auction, comes with free movie

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Ben Heck has put up his retro-futuristic creation, the Commodore 64 laptop, for auction. The proceeds will go to “a worthy charity”.  The winning bidder also gets an SD card – the laptop is equipped with both an SD card slot and a cartridge slot – and a DVD of Possomus Woman, a film written…

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July 10th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing cool toys gadgets geek art + craft hacks + mods interactive mobile tech retro strange + wonderful technology

megaman vs. metroid: please make this official nintendo!

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If I was asked what video game head-to-head I’d like to see, I’d probably say Sam Fisher against Solid Snake. Or all of the characters in Final Fantasy, villains included, against all the Suikoden characters. Mmmmm want. But I didn’t think of this match-up, one that certainly makes sense, although I’m not a fan of either…

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July 7th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: just plain fun retro video games

razer megalodon headphones will pummel your ears with 7.1 surround

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Let’s play six degrees of anything! How many objects do you think will it take to connect an extinct shark with a pair of headphones? The answer is – wait for it! One. Razer named their latest gaming headphones after a prehistoric gigantic shark, the megalodon. At least they chose an awesome shark – according…

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June 29th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: audio gadgets technology video games

logitech flight system g940: for serious virtual pilots

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Logitech continue their quest to serve the deep-pocketed hardcore gamers with the upcoming Flight System G940. The G940 is a combination of a force feedback joystick, a dual throttle and foot pedals and has more than 250 programmable button options, giving you easy access and total control of everything, from takeoff to landing to launching…

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June 8th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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dell xps 630 gaming desktop pc drops below $1000 for first time ever

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Looking for a SERIOUS gaming PC, but don’t want to spend thousands of dollars? Now’s you’re chance to grab a beefy Dell XPS 630 for just $999, the lowest price it’s ever been offered at (about half of what it originally sold for back in 2008).

The well-reviewed machine is loaded with a powerful Intel…

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May 20th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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