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This Portable GameCube Looks A Bit Like A Wii U

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10:30AM January 9, 2012 | Mark Serrels

Opinion-based ‘fact’: The GameCube was so much better than the internet gives it credit for. Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine, Pikmin, F-Zero GX, Resident Evil 4… for what was arguably Nintendo’s least celebrated console, the GameCube certainly had its fair share of incredible games. This awesome mod totally makes the GameCube portable and it kinda looks like the Wii U controller. More »


Retro

Sega’s Creator, The Nintendo Console And The Kid With The Awesome Theme Song

4:00PM November 21, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Last week wasn’t just the tenth anniversary of the Xbox. It was the tenth anniversary of the North American release of the Nintendo GameCube as well. More »


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Nintendo GameCube Turns 10

8:00AM November 19, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Happy 10th birthday, Nintendo GameCube. No one threw you a party. The GameCube is, I believe, the most wrongly disrespected console in gaming history. People laughed at it because it was a purple box that played a Luigi game in an era when more people wanted to play Grand Theft Auto III on a black PlayStation 2. More »


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A Perplexing Way To Play16 GameCube Games

4:20AM October 25, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Blessed with a surplus of ancient Commodore 1702 monitors and a handful of GameCubes, Personal Computer Museum curator Syd Bolton stacked them all together to form a pleasantly confusing cube of cubes. More »


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What Animal Crossing Can Teach Us About The Anger Of Occupy Wall Street

2:40PM October 21, 2011 | Owen Good

Don’t get what’s motivating Occupy Wall Street, or any of the Occupy demonstrations worldwide? Look to a video game, writes one blogger. He believes Animal Crossing supplies an allegory for the protesters’ anger, and it involves being pressed into servitude by a debt you had little choice but to acquire. More »


Retro

A Video Compendium Of 25 Years Of Console Loading Screens

2:00AM September 18, 2011 | Owen Good

There’s something weirdly nostalgic about these two videos, which are a compilation of every boot screen for every console ever to have one, going back to the Sega Master System (the Mark III in Japan) of 1985. More »


In Real Life

Now That’s How You Make A Game Of Super Smash Bros Melee Interesting

11:00AM August 31, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

What may be the greatest variation on the log flume photo gag — you know, the one in which log riders are engaged in the most casual or precise of activities, like playing Jenga or Monopoly during an intense drop — manages to work in a Smash Bros reference. More »


In Real Life

Luigi’s Mansion Made More Terrifying

5:40AM August 9, 2011 | Justin Page

Luigi’s Mansion takes a dark turn in Ty Dunitz’s killer piece for this years FanExpo (August 25-28). Available in a very limited quantity at the show! More »


Retro

Why Metroid Prime Means So Much To Me

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4:00PM August 8, 2011 | Mark Serrels

Yesterday was the 25th Anniversary of Metroid being released on the NES. So, with that in mind, I felt it was appropriate to repost this piece, a look at one of my favourite games of all time – Metroid Prime. Very few games affected me to the same level as Metroid Prime, so consider this love letter an early (and late) birthday present Samus! More »


In Real Life

Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!

2:00PM June 17, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

As amazing as it may seem for a company we associate with something as modern as computers, IBM was founded on this day, June 16, all the way back in 1911. More »