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Adventure Time 3DS game loot to include salt and ketchup.
There’s some new screenshots out for the upcoming 3DS/DS game Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?, a game based on Pendleton Ward‘s TV series, which shows how BMO interfaces with the player. BMO also carries around loot like salt and ketchup, which are no doubt necessary for s
Experience an artist’s mindscape in ‘Bad Trip.’
How do you show someone what it means to be you? You could tell them, or write about your experiences alongside photos. Or if you’re Alan Kwan, you attach cameras to your glasses every day and turn the footage into houses in the virtual landscape of your mind. A recent graduate of the City Universit
It’s possible to make money from writing about videogames!?
Videogame journalism is tough to break into. Often other writers don’t want you to know about their favorite places to get published, or they simply assume you already know about them. There’s no point where your future income is set, and there are all kinds of weird tax laws when it comes to contra
Navigate this site by playing Mario.
Tired of boring website layouts? This website for the East India techno-fest, Concetto, lets you play Mario to navigate between pages. Jumping to hit a block scrolls through photos of past events, and caves of pipes take you to various sub-pages. Fun for a first-time visit, but probably kind of a pa
PAUSE: Epic cross stitch of all 151 original Pokémon.
Videogame fans are growing up, and we aren’t always satisfied with a five-dollar poster anymore. While there are plenty of prints and figures for the fan with a little more money, some prove their love of videogames with long hours of labor. Eponases made this cross stitch of all original 151 Pokémo
Augmented reality kitchen set is Cooking Mama without the kawaii.
This is the best part: This simulator calculates the heat transfer from the pan to the meat or vegetables that are being cooked, and displays the visible changes caused by heating. The fry pan interface allows for three dimensional input, and as well as moving the fry pan to aid the cooking process,
Why you read Nintendo Power even if you didn’t own an NES.
Over at the New Yorker, Reeves Wiedemann laments the loss of Nintendo Power which served his adolescence the same illicit joys as Hustler. (His analogy, not mine.) It’s by far my favorite eulogy for the advertisement rag that doubled as “journalism” and a reminder of the immense cultural sway that N
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