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Features
Kotaku’s Fall Fashion Special
8:00AM AJ Glasser | Spring is here and that means prices and temperatures are rising. But you can still score a nerd-tinged wardrobe without breaking the bank, thanks to this handy save-splurge gamer apparel guide. More »
Culture
Asteroids Movie Is About Relationships; Also, Blowing Up Crap
8:45AM Owen Good | The Asteroids movie will deliver a “really strong, deep mythology,” for “this big thing in space,” says the guy blamed credited as the film’s producer. More »
News
Universal Wins Rights To Produce An…Asteroids Movie
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | This should be a hoot. Seems Universal Pictures have won a bidding war against three other studios for the right to produce a movie based on Asteroids. Yes. The 1979 game Asteroids. More »
Culture
Tomatoes Can Play Asteroids Too, You Know
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | From the same people that brought you the history of gaming (in Sauerkraut) comes this: a game of asteroids. Played with tomatoes. Don’t ask why. Just ask “Zaxxon with celery next, please”. More »
Culture
Play Assteroidz! Shoot Bullets From David Lee Roth’s Crotch
7:00AM Brian Crecente | Assteroidz! is the perfect blend of David Lee Roth high-kicks and screams with Asteroids. Yes, perfect! More »
News
Asteroids High Score Unbroken For 25 Years
7:20AM Stuart Houghton | It was 25 years ago today, Scott Safran taught the world to play… Asteroids. On this day in 1983, 15-year-old Scott Safran began playing Asteroids at an arcade in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. More »
Commercial Shredder vs An Asteroids Cabinet
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Will it blend? OLD NEWS. So 2007. This year, it’s all about will it shred. That’s the question SSI are asking. SSI make commercial-grade shredders. These things don’t shred incriminating tax documents. They shred machines. Watch, then, as one of their units goes up against a genuine Asteroids arcade cabinet, in an effort to see which of the two will come out on top. Just…don’t put your money on Asteroids walking away from this one. Watch a commercial shredder devour an Asteroids cabinet [Boing-Boing] More »
Asteroids Coffee Table, Helloooo Compromise
6:00AM Mark Wilson | All those gaming figurines are neat and everything, but the last thing I want to be doing is explaining who Cloud is and how he carries such a large sword without his arm falling off during a dinner party. And multiply that statement times a thousand for my wife. Items like this Asteroids coffee table balance that gaming yin with having a house that doesn’t look straight out of a Pokemon episode yang. It’s subtle, classy and will match just about any couch you can throw at it. But only 50 will be produced in a limited run this year, proving once again that anyone who says happiness comes free is a fucking delusional bastard. Check out the “Invasion” version after the jump. More »
