Thursday, April 16, 2009
Culture
Wrestling Video Game Blamed For Child’s Parachuting Death
11:40PM Mike Fahey | Friends of 9-year-old Damori Miles of Brooklyn, New York, claim the boy was imitating moves from WWE SmackDown vs Raw when he jumped off of his apartment rooftop to his death wearing a makeshift parachute. More »
News
Target Pays You To Reserve Games
11:20PM Mike Fahey | In the US, Target wants you to pre-order popular video games from their stores so badly, they’re willing to pay you $5. More »
News
BlizzardVision Rakes in the Dough
11:00PM Brian Crecente | Back in February Activision Blizzard said it expected to rake in US$860M in net revenues for the March quarter, now the company says they underestimated how well they would do in the quarter. More »
Culture
Watch A DSi Tear Itself Apart
10:00PM Luke Plunkett | Courtesy of the wonders of stop-motion, watch in awe as this DSi – fed up with your taunts over its “fat” screens and lack of GBA slot – proceeds to tear itself to pieces. More »
Culture
What Possible Harm Could One Insane, Mutant Pair Of Sneakers Do?
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | If there’s one thing guaranteed to please our ageing eyes more than a pair of Monkey Island-themed Chuck Taylors, it’s a pair of Day of the Tentacle-themed Chuck Taylors. More »
Culture
The Pokemon X-Ray Machine
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | And not just a Pokémon x-ray machine, but a mobile Pokémon x-ray machine. More »
Media
Guitar Hero: Megadeth
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | This is not real. Well, not real in the sense that you can buy it. But it is real in the sense some people built it, off the back of GH: Aerosmith. More »
Culture
What Did Richard Garriott Do In Space?
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Well, he didn’t go there to hang out, eat freeze dried ice cream and float his rat tail. Garriott, son of astronaut Owen Garriott and designer of the Ultima franchise, went to space to work. More »
News
Trade In Your Old Consoles At… Radio Shack
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | As the US economy tightens, and business gets tougher, more and more companies are turning to second-hand goods sales to help pad their bottom lines. Which is why Radio Shack will now accept console trade-ins. More »
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