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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain Of Coins, Youth
12:30PM Owen Good | So far, it’s not known how if this glitch is repeatable or what circumstances would force it, but, dang, that box is barfing infinite coins and, thus, infinite lives, in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. More »
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Bayonetta’s Torture Moves — Press B To Summon Guillotine
2:40PM Owen Good | Look, beheading’s one thing. Getting kicked repeatedly in the arse by a woman in high heels, on the way to your own execution – that’s the torture. More »
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Here’s That Mario Mention In Assassin’s Creed II
2:00PM Owen Good | Earlier today, Stephen Totilo’s review of Assassin’s Creed II referenced the game’s homage to Mario. Here’s video of the fourth wall-breaking inside joke, which is so mainstream it’s not inside. And it doesn’t really break the fourth wall, either. More »
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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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Original World 1-1 Recreated In New Super Mario Bros. Wii
2:00PM Owen Good | New Super Mario Bros. Wii has barely been out 48 hours, already there’s a level editor for it, and already someone’s rebuilt World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros. 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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Lego Indiana Jones 2: You Won’t Like How This Ends
1:00PM Owen Good | The finale from Raiders of the Lost Ark, as interpreted by Lego Indiana Jones 2, has been posted and, unlike the witty rendering of the Nepal shootout, this one’s sanitised to the point of condescension. Disco-dancing replaces face-melting. Yes, really. More »
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Activision Customer Support, Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto You
9:00AM Owen Good | Bernard, a customer support rep for Activision, proclaimed that if he got more Twitter followers than his colleague, Randolph by Friday, he’d pie Randy in the face. Bernard came up short but carried out the attack anyway. That’s customer service. More »
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Mass Effect 2’s Elusive Man Is … Martin Sheen?
7:00AM Owen Good | Shepard confronts the behind-the-scenes puppeteer “Elusive Man” who blends the habit of Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files with the look of Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock — and the voice of President Bartlet from The West Wing. More »
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