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Entries for the ‘Games & Gaming’ Category

Combat Wii fitness with Wii eating

Okay, now I’ve seen everything. Well, at least until the next mad new thing comes along.
Introducing the latest new Nintendo Wii game - Major League Eating.
This is a $10 Nintendo Wii game based on the real life ’sport’, in which people compete to cram as much food into their stomachs as possible within a specified [...]

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Pic of the day 01/08/2008


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Fat princess causes a stir

The Lesbian Gamers (”because sometimes we use our hands for other things”) website has an interesting post about an upcoming Playstation 3 downloadable game called Fat Princess. It’s causing a bit of a stir, because the object of the game is to try and figure out how to pick up and move this chubby chick.
“It’s [...]

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Fantastic cosplayers

Cosplay is the relatively recent and mostly Japanese trend of dressing up like computer game, or animated TV and film characters.
Here is a huge collection of some really amazing cosplayers dressed up in their creations.
The detail on some of these is incredible. Enjoy!

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Horribly addictive online game

I ran across this yesterday and decided I’d give it a try. Several hours later, I forced myself to save and exit, or I would have ended up getting carpal tunnel syndrome in my eyes! GemCraft is one of those really simple games, but with totally addictive gameplay.

The idea is pretty simple. Beasties come out [...]

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Preview: Diablo 3

“Then there’s the enemies… There are a hell of a lot of enemies! Skeletons by the kazillion, zombies, big ugly rotting creatures that explode when you kill them and turn into scores of serpent-like beasties that bite…”

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Internet balloon race!

Stalking Venus has joined the world’s first Internet balloon race! See the balloon raccoon bobbing about at the bottom right-hand side of the screen? Well, he’s going to be the Stalking Venus balloon racing champion.
All you have to do is wait until the balloon race starts in a few days time (see our sidebar on [...]

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Niko Bellic un-tooned

Awesome un-tooned version of Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV by Pixeloo.

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The World of World of Warcraft

The Onion has this great piece of satire…
‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’

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WTF?! A playable parody of WoW.

If you’ve ever hacked-and-slashed your way through the mind-numbing tedium of an online roleplaying game, even one as good as World of Warcraft, you’ll like this. Greg Costikyan, has designed and developed a parody of WoW that fondly takes the piss out of the entire genre.
He’s created a flash-based side-scrolling game with his tongue placed [...]

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