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Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

February 20, 2012 – 12:39 pm | 3 Comments

Tiny Diggers has just been released on the iPad and soon the Mac computer. Here’s the details on this fun, educational game from TouchTilt Games.
Tiny Diggers Delivers Learning With Construction Trucks For Kids on the …

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Pac-Man is ready to eat your hot plates

June 26, 2011 – 10:31 pm |

It’s that time of year when Target blows a few months getting all artsy and fartsy with back-to-college dorm room decor. Which means you can find some fairly unexpected items… like, say, a Pac-Man pot …

Warren Spector gets his DuckTales wish, in comic form

February 18, 2011 – 12:52 pm | 2 Comments

From Deus Ex to Disney Ducks.
At multiple times in multiple interviews, Warren Spector expressed his love for Uncle Scrooge while deflecting questions about camera controls in Epic Mickey. Now it seems Boom Comics has made …

Grocery celebrates Wii giveaway with Mario pixel art display

July 30, 2010 – 8:37 am | One Comment

Aerofan Harshy sent us this picture from one of his local grocery stores (Schnucks, a midwestern US chain). They’re giving away a Wii and set up a bitchin’ display of Mario pixel art using Pepsi …

Lost in Shadow box art poses the question “How in the hell do you sell something like this?”

July 12, 2010 – 10:31 am | 2 Comments

I know you kids have your downloads and your megabits and your virtua storefronts, but I’m still old school enough to think that box art counts. Particularly when you’re talking about Wii games where the …

Add some Pac to your apps

June 26, 2010 – 7:58 am | One Comment

Apple’s iOS4 for iPhone is not even a week in release, and already somebody found a way to work a Pac-Man tribute into it.
iOS4 adds the ability to stick a background image in on your …

Celebrate Easter; new Pokemon game with Pika-Peeps

March 13, 2010 – 11:45 am | 3 Comments

Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver begin their re-imagined DS walking tours tomorrow, so why not kick back today with some custom made Pikachu Peeps. All you need is yellow bunny Peeps, some edible ink pens, and …

Q-Bert, in fondant

March 4, 2010 – 2:30 am | 5 Comments

This home must be packed with some seriously hungry and arty gamers. To celebrate her house turning 100 years old in 2010, Robin Dahlberg created one hundred gaming-related cupcakes for her New Year’s Party. While …

Pac-Man upgrades diet for digital age; now eats flatscreens

March 3, 2010 – 12:47 pm | One Comment

I have it on good authority that this TV was about to run the old 1980s Pac-Man animated series. Not any more.
Source: sheCHIVE

Collector’s Clips: Pac-Man Rub-Off Game

February 23, 2010 – 11:18 am | 3 Comments

Welcome to 1980 and the era of Pac-Man Fever. I recently found half a dozen of these unscratched trading cards, carefully preserved from my youth. They were the Big Get inside the packs. Most of …

Gran Turismo 5: Video / Cover Art / Screens

January 8, 2010 – 5:08 am | 6 Comments

Racing games. Played one, played them all, right? They’re all pretty much the same.
No. Not really. Gran Turismo, arguably one of the most successful racing franchises of all time, is set to add to the …

Here’s what a fake video game box looks like

January 5, 2010 – 5:26 pm | 7 Comments
Here’s what a fake video game box looks like

The ESRB recently issued a couple of television PSAs that highlight the rating system, in which some kids try to get their mom to buy them a T-rated game. Mom reads off the content warnings, …

Uncropped Mass Effect 2 art reveals massive head

January 4, 2010 – 6:16 pm | 4 Comments

Cropped on the box art, this image doesn’t look so bad. But unveiled in a full page comic book ad, our man Shepard looks like a full-on Photoshop Disaster. Either that head is way too …

Bayonetta Costume Contest Looking for Votes

October 13, 2009 – 9:18 pm |

Bayonetta is one busy gal.  First she finishes up one contest for a re-envisioned look, and now it appears she is still looking for people that can capture her look in real life.
Maxim.com has finished …

Eddie Riggs Wins the NASCAR Copart 300…Well, At Least an Assist

October 13, 2009 – 1:44 am | 4 Comments

On Saturday, a friend of mine had the hookup for some free tickets to the NASCAR Copart 300 here in beautiful Fontucky, CA.  Well, its actually Fontana, but if you are from around here, you …

Fairies in jars now available to real life adventurers

October 10, 2009 – 9:47 pm | 5 Comments

One of the simple pleasures of the Legend of Zelda games is the bottle. These things can hold magical wonders of all stripes, but nothing, for my rupees, tops the fairy. Capture a fairy in …

Neon Street Tetris

September 25, 2009 – 4:57 pm | 9 Comments

Watch as these freeboarders skate down a hill to form a giant tetris board.  Very impressive stuff, as they kept the pieces in formation, and no one crashed on the way down to the bottom …