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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 favorites are the piranha plant wine glasses. Or maybe the thwomp glasses, which glare angrily at you. Then again, they may be a bad idea; I’d be tempted to slam them…
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Dead or Alive 5 Couldn’t Have Picked a Better Time to Roll Out the Preorder Swimsuits
Now that all talk of misogyny, mistreatment and objectification of women has been put to rest; now that we’ve all decided to live together in perfect harmony and treat each other as respected equals; now is the time for preorder bikinis and shots of half-naked video game characters sparkling with rivulets of shimmering sea water.…
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BioShock Delivers Two Convincing Arguments for Picking Up LittleBigPlanet Vita
In case you were on the fence about preordering a copy of LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation Vita, LittleBigDaddy and LittleLittleSister are here to push you over the fence, and maybe kill you just a little. This wonderful pair of costumes comes the BioShock Pack, one of two preorder packs for the Vita version of Sackboy’s…
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The Official New Mass Effect 3 Ending Can’t Be as Good as These Fan Fiction Ones
Early tomorrow morning BioWare releases the free ending-enhancing downloadable content for Mass Effect 3, hopefully laying to rest the concerns of countless players that were disappointed with the game’s ending. But what of the gamer’s that took it upon themselves to write their own epilogues? FanFiction.net‘s Mass Effect archives are loaded with entries from players…
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UncategorizedMaroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” is Much Better When It’s About Star Fox
YouTube artist Beau “EpicBeau” Brians doesn’t let the stoic people of Japan get in the way of shooting the public dancing-filled video for his Star Fox song parody “Use Bombs Wisely”. Once upon a time a young man named Beau Brians and his friends created a Super Smash Bros. parody of Cee-Lo Green’s “Forget You”.…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Bowser is a Horrible Father
When I was a kid my dad would pick me up to spend the weekend at the house of whichever girlfriend he was living with at the time. It wasn’t pleasant, but at least he didn’t make me guard the airship from Mario. Super Mario Bros. 3 is a legendary game, but it didn’t do…
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Fake Gamer of the Week: Don’t Laugh, She Never Learned How to Use a Couch
She’s a model. She’s a gamer. She’s a nuclear physicist. She’s an incredibly accomplished young woman. She just never learned how to sit on the couch. It’s not her fault. The youngest daughter in a family of professional stock photo models, growing up surrounded by flashbulbs and fashion doesn’t afford one many opportunities to sit…
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SimCity Social Is Not Exactly Sim City, But It Is Very Social
“Kate,” Mike Fahey announced proudly to Kotaku’s group chat, “I just made birds poop on your city.” I switched tabs to look and lo and behold, yes he had. Waves of seagulls appeared, dropping their ugly white bombs all across my otherwise-happy little hamlet. The war was on. I immediately went to Mike’s town and…
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Mass Effect 3 Extended Ending DLC Available for Download Very Early Tomorrow Morning
When do you get to download and try out the new! improved! endings to Mass Effect 3? It depends what platform you’re on. According to a series of tweets from producer Michael Gamble, the DLC will likely be available in the early morning (around 5:00 a.m. Eastern time) for Xbox users, sometime in the afternoon…
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The Most Profitable Final Fantasy Game is the One Players are Still Paying For
In case anyone was wondering how ten-year-old Final Fantasy XI scored a brand new expansion pack while you’re still waiting for a Final Fantasy VII remake, consider which one makes Square Enix the most money. According to a picture-filled account of this weekend’s Vana Fest 2012 event at Famitsu (translated by Andriasang), Square Enix CEO…
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