17 Jun
May the best severely dated video game character win

Pacman Vs. Mario. Do the math.


These remind me of those old school glasses they’d give away in the 80s from Burger King and McDonalds, you remember those? Every summer BK and McD’s would battle over whichever movie license was cooler that year, and then put out some amazing drinking glasses for kids to endlessly barter over (the Empire Strikes Back […]


21 May
Number 7 in the series may only offer a temporary fix, but not a solution to the CoD addiction...

With the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops just on the horizon, Activision unleashes its second teaser trailer for the game. This reel opens with a jet fighter air strike and a standard, disgruntled voiceover. “A lie is a lie. Just because they write it down and call it history, doesn’t make it the […]


20 Nov
69 Classic arcade games WITH an attached keg? My life finally has meaning...

Firmly landing in the category of Inventions Out of the Wildest Fantasies of Madman Mundt comes the Arkeg — a classic video game console with an attached keg in its belly. Are you kidding me? This feels like some kind of cosmic joke, ready to be pulled out from underneath me at any moment. Can […]


[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/5336366[/vimeo] They invented vodka, the AK-47, the periodic table of elements and, of course, Tetris—the Russians are pretty full of themselves. Mathias Janko, a German, reveals the truth behind one of the greatest games ever, that also happened to defy the laws of gravity. I don’t know that I’ll ever look at elements and minerals […]


18 May
It’s All About Videogames, Anime And General Nerdyness

Super Combo is the work of Pete Harrison (a freelance graphic designer from the UK going under the alias Aeiko,) and Olly Moss (a dabbler in photographs, drawings and graphics, also from the UK), two self-proclaimed geeks that find inspiration in videogames, anime and general nerdyness. Guest artist Steven Lefcourt designed this particular tee. Their […]


2 Jun
Oh what sweet memories you bring back, crusty black console of love...

Ooooh lordy does this bring back memories. Everyone likes to flap their lips about Atari this, and Commodore that. But why oh why does everyone always sleep on my beloved ColecoVision? Aside from the fact that Coleco was mostly known for making pool filters in the 80s, they ventured into the home video game department […]