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In Real Life

This Artist Makes Even The Horrors Of Silent Hill Look Surprisingly Cute

Gorgeous prints of Okami, The Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy, while always welcomed, are not a rarity. Charming impressions of Pyramid Head, on the other hand, are a lot more rare. And, admittedly, with good reason.

5 September 2012

In Real Life

My Gamer Friends Need To Have More Kids So I Can Buy These For Them

Sadly, most of my friends who do currently have infants are not of any particular nerdly persuasion, and I do not yet have children. Clearly, the only solution is to badger my gamer friends into having babies.

In Real Life

I Want This Fantastic ED-E Sculpture To Follow Me Around For Real

ED-E and I were inseparable when I first played Fallout: New Vegas. Well, except for all those times that the demands of the plot separated us. But no matter: his perks, cheerfully sarcastic beeping, and killer laser were great company on an endless trek through the Mojave Wasteland.

21 August 2012

Nintendo

These Awesome Shoes Are What You Get When You Mix Glitter With Gaming

There have been a lot of very neat gaming shoes in the world before, but these ones are my new favourite. Not only because, as flats, they are something I could theoretically actually wear someday, but because they please my inner first-grader with their sparkles.

15 August 2012

Nintendo

Geeky Cross-Stitch Is The Perfect Melding Of Retro Game Art With Retro Crafting

Cross-stitch is the perfect medium for 8-bit and 16-bit fan art. Have you ever seen one of the patterns crafters use? They look like pixel art! They’re little grids of colour, showing which block goes where, in what shades, to add up to a visible whole. And the craft itself is pretty retro, invoking images of samplers sewn into pillows in every variety of “grandma’s house” that society has to offer.

7 August 2012

In Real Life

The Cutest, Cuddliest Krogan (and Turian, And Asari) You Ever Will See

There are some really cute characters in the Mass Effect series. Liara has charmed many a Shepard with her smile, as has Garrus with his.

31 July 2012

In Real Life

These Covers Make It Easy To Make Your Gaming Library Look Like The More Traditional Kind

I have to admit: I love these custom game case covers. The idea strikes me as a brilliant one.

20 July 2012

In Real Life

Too Bad You Can’t Actually Travel Across The Room With These Portals

Sure, it’s fairly cheap and easy to make yourself a Portal-themed mirror with some paint and a quick trip to IKEA. But what really makes a portal fun isn’t just its blue or orange halo but rather, that trippy infinity effect.

4 July 2012

In Real Life

A 5m Long Scarf For All Your Journeys

Journey is in many ways the story of a scarf. Or at least the scarf represents the breadth and depth of the story Journey has to offer.

26 June 2012

In Real Life

There Are Wine Glasses, And Then There Are Vine Glasses

Over at Etsy shop The Basement Invaders, Jason and Alex make a variety of Nintendo-inspired goodies. There are Yoshi egg earrings aplenty, but my favourites are the piranha plant wine glasses.

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