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It’s A Very Video-Game Christmas Season
2:40AM Mike Fahey | A survey conducted on behalf of the Entertainment Software Association this month shows that 42 per cent of American adults plan to give or hope to receive video games as presents this Christmas. Where do you stand? More »
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1:30PM Owen Good | Perhaps taking a page from the Team Fortress 2 Valentines from last year, Valve’s offering four sets of gift cards — with characters from TF2, Left 4 Dead and L4D2 — that are simply a holiday must. More »
If You Don’t Have A Holiday Card List, Make One
1:30PM Owen Good | Perhaps taking a page from the Team Fortress 2 Valentines from last year, Valve’s offering four sets of gift cards — with characters from TF2, Left 4 Dead and L4D2 — that are simply a holiday must. More »
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Old Atari Cart Remade Into Wallet
4:30AM Owen Good | It is $US55, however, the maker of this fine conversation piece says all of an Atari 2600 cartridge’s parts, except for one screw, are repurposed to help make it into a wallet. More »
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We Just Solved Mother’s Day for You
4:00AM Owen Good | Here at Kotaku, we like to think ahead and solve problems well in advance. So while today might be Easter, we’re already thinking about Mother’s Day. And here’s just the gift. More »
Ding In The Holidays With WoW Xmas Ornamentation
12:10PM Michael McWhertor | Looking for something special and especially dorky for the World of Warcraft junkie in your life? With this last-minute addition to the holiday gift guide, you can establish Christmas tree nerd cred with Paul Pape Design’s Khorium Ore-naments, a sculpted recreation of the rare spawn mineral deposit from Blizzard’s sort of successful MMO. They’re quite tiny, measuring 2″ by 3.25″, and feature real Swarovski crystals. A Khorium Ore-nament will set you back $US 9.95 for one, $US 24.95 for three. Quite an adorable little spawn, isn’t it? Khorium Ore-naments [Paul Pape Designs via Wonderland] More »
The Proper Way To Gift Rock Band
3:20AM Mike Fahey | And here I thought the Rock Band bundle couldn’t get any better. The picture above is from an eBay auction featuring a new, sealed PlayStation 3 version of Rock Band, two Guitar Hero 3 Gibson SG guitars, and a bleach blond woman dressed up in holiday cheer – and not much else. The highest bidder (U.S. only!) will get the bundle delivered to them on Christmas day personally by model and Suicide Girl Chloe. Fear not, Xbox 360 owners! There is another auction for the 360 version of Rock Band and Halo 3, to be delivered by the slightly less appealing but sure to have a winning personality Zoei. I don’t know what it says about me, but the most attractive part of these auctions is that after they give you the game they leave and let you play in peace. Obviously something broken in my head. ROCK BAND PS3 GUITAR HERO 3 BUNDLE SANTA’S HELPER [eBay via Polygamia] More »
Kotaku’s 2007 Gift Guide of Obscene Nicety and Sublime Naughtyness
12:10AM Brian Crecente | Every year the holidays roll around and every year I promise myself, the rest of Kotaku Tower and sometimes even the readers that we’re going to get off our collective asses and actually write up a gift guide. But the thing is, I hate gift guides. The hate, I think, comes from spending 12 years of my life working at newspapers where the list, the gift guide, the annual must-write-story was a thing to dread and hate. This was because as a newspaper writer you weren’t allowed to buck any trends or come up with neat ideas for things like gifts, instead you had to roll out the list of things people already knew about and polish them up to make them sound new and interesting. While I suppose you could say the same about this, our first real gift guide, I’d like to think that it holds some surprises and delights. Personally, I’ve already started bugging everyone I know to pool their money together and buy me Pigeon Island (Fahey’s find) for my next 50 Christmases and Birthdays rolled into one. If a $US 400,000 private island in the Caribbean isn’t your cup of tea (and it better not be because it’s MINE, ALL MINE), you’re still bound to find something that tickles your fancy among this list of goodies complies by all of Kotaku’s writers, be it a Japanese Gesture book or a life-sized Gundam. More »
