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8-Bit Left 4 Dead De-Make Arrives In January
2:40PM Owen Good | Here I thought all the flashing corpses meant we were watching the Australian version of Left 4 Dead. I kid, Luke! I kid!!! No, this is a bona fide playable 8-bit “demake” of L4D, available soon for PC. More »
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Laser Engraver Blasts Out Super Mario Theme
4:00AM Owen Good | Well, not with its laser, with its motors. Hacklab, a Canadian mod collective, wrote some code to make it happen a while back, but it sounded a little too perfect. The guy who shot this confirms it is real. 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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11:30AM Owen Good | Tuna-can Pac-Man, as seen at Walyou, via Hawty McBloggy. Original photo from March 2008.
Pac-Man, In Cans, Before Cans Were Cool
11:30AM Owen Good | Tuna-can Pac-Man, as seen at Walyou, via Hawty McBloggy. Original photo from March 2008.
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Oh No! Mario & Luigi Wanted For Assaulting NY Cabbie
6:30AM Michael McWhertor | With New Super Mario Bros. Wii hitting this weekend, you’d think the bros would be on their best behaviour. But cops are on the lookout for Mario and Luigi following an assault on a New York cabbie. More »
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Modern Warfare 2 On Fox & Friends
12:00AM Brian Ashcraft | This morning, American broadcast network Fox brought its “fair and balanced” reporting to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The headline? “A game that lets you play as a terrorist?” More »
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Dustbusting Blinky’s Got Pac-Roomba On The Run
2:00PM Owen Good | Roomba Pac-Man? Done before, but mostly as a cosmetic enhancement. Here it’s taken to the next level — five Roombas (Roombi?) engaged in a contest of Pac-Man with programmed “chase” and “escape” AI. More »
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1:10PM Owen Good | Sonic the Hedgehog rendered by 784 Rubik’s Cubes. As seen on Technabob via Gizmodo.] More »
Sonic’s Cube
1:10PM Owen Good | Sonic the Hedgehog rendered by 784 Rubik’s Cubes. As seen on Technabob via Gizmodo.] More »
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And Now … The ‘NEStickle’
8:00AM Owen Good | Reader Osama D’s French friend built him this fighting stick out of a Nintendo Entertainment System, before leaving for his home country for good. You know, when I say goodbye to folks, I usually just buy a card or something. More »
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