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Papercraft Friday #19: Batmobile
Holy purple cannibals!* With the release of The Dark Knight this week on DVD and Blu-ray, I thought a Batman-inspired paper model might be appropriate. Not one to stick to the obvious Tumbler or Batman figure, I chose instead the 1966 Batmobile. The excellent site PaperInside.com, who I featured before, have an excellent model of the…
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Free Stuff
Hey, who doesn’t like free stuff, right? There has been a lot of talk in gaming circles the last few years about microtransactions, which are typically small monetary transactions for digital content. These could be actual games, like WiiWare or Xbox Live Arcade. Or they could be add-on content for games, like map packs, skins, songs,…
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Favorite Daily Sites #2: Sexy Videogameland
Continuing my installment on favorite websites I check out on a daily basis (usually as I eat my morning breakfast), I bring you Sexy Videogameland. No, this isn’t some Topless Wii site (not even gonna link it… get your mind out of the gutter!). Quite the opposite, it’s actually one of the more intelligent gaming blogs…
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Arcade Mania
Several months ago, I heard about an upcoming book about Japanese arcades written by Brian Ashcraft, who lives in Osaka and is the night editor at Kotaku. I have fond memories of arcades of my youth, and it facinates me that arcades are still so prevalent in Japan when they died out here long ago. …
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GOG’s got Simon!
I mentioned before about a fairly new site called GOG.com (Good Old Games dot com), who release classic PC games, DRM-free and guaranteed to work on Windows Vista and XP, for a cheap price. I bought Fallout and Fallout 2 the day they were available on GOG.com. Today, the folks at GOG.com announced the addition…
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Ding Fries Are Done
I heard this internet meme for the first time this Christmas season, and I can’t get it out of my head, so I thought I’d share the pain with everyone else. This is the original Burger King parody, not the parody of the parody sung by Peter Griffin on The Family Guy. Carol of the Bells will never…
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Papercraft Friday #18: Foldskool Heroes
If you look back over my previous Papercraft Friday segments, you’ll see that I’m not really keen on the boxy figure style of papercraft. The kind where you take your favorite TV or movie character and turn him into a square papercraft, usually cut from a single sheet of paper. But these little console and…
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CAG Fund for Child’s Play 2008 Charity Raffle Extravaganza!
It’s time once again for the Child’s Play charity fundraiser. As I mentioned last year, the Child’s Play charity raises money to buy toys, games and books for sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world. As a parent of a child who spent several years recieving treatment at one such hospital,…
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Employer Confidence
My brother and I went to the Apple store in the mall this weekend, and while walking in through Macy’s, my brother noticed the banner above the door: How confident would you be in working for a company that can’t even spell right on its own “hiriing” advertisements??
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NXE Secret Hairstyles
This little trick is not so secret, as it’s been going around the internet, but it’s not immediately obvious and it took me a few tries to do it because of some false information out there, so I thought I’d post it. There is a way to unlock wacky color hairstyles in the avatar creation…
