Gaming

If Mario gained double his body weight and if Yoshi grew horn-like ears, you’d have something like the logo on this Chinese beverage label. It’s just hilarious at what lengths companies will go to flee from copyright infringement, but still keep a recognizable symbol. Just look at Mario’s chubby cheeks and his fireman helmet. And poor Yoshi with those things ...

While making our rounds scourging the Internet, we came across this spiffy hack for your Nintendo DS. Using an asymmetric wavelet codec specifically made to playback video on the DS ARM-based hardware (whatever the hell that means), this Flickr member has managed to capture this image of the Nintendo DS video hack, running on his handheld. Flickr member, Gwire, says ...

[ev type=”youtube” data=”htl_vwkZWHw”][/ev] The music track is a song called “Pac-Man” by Power-Pill, better known as Aphex Twin. Check out this awesome tribute to one of the most beloved game characters. — Andrew Dobrow YouTube Video

[ev type=”youtube” data=”8X4tWIwx0ns”][/ev] This is one of the coolest mods we’ve seen out of any gaming console. We have no idea how this works, but its amazing how realistic sounding the guitar tones are coming from the DS. Very, very impressive and something we want to get our hands on. This also makes the prospect of a DS Guitar Hero ...

Sources say that the answer to a noisy 360 system is coming soon and is in fact already running as an upgrade on some systems. The software update was supposedly sent out to journalists to test with their debugging console. This update is said to reduce the noise from the disk reader of the Xbox 360. Depending on how this ...

Anyone who’s familiar with the Final Fantasy series of video games remembers the cute little chocobos and how entertaining they are. Square Enix announces the newest Final Fantasy game, Chocobo Tales, for the Nintendo DS Console, due out April 3, 2007. Chocobo Tales is said to have story line references which play back all the way to the original Final ...

What bachelor pad would be complete without this a Foosball table? How about a Four-in-one Rotating Game Table, including hockey, foosball, billiards, and dice football. Thats right. Cower in shame, normal foosball table. Each game locks into place to securely ensure your foosball game doesn’t get messed up at a crucial moment, god forbid. There is also the option of ...

The good thing about Nindendo DS is that it invents a new way of gaming, using a stylus and looking at 2 screens at the same time, the bad thing about that is you would need to hold the device with one hand and the stylus with the other. If you happened to be doing this for hours, your hands ...

We know from expereince with the PS2 that sustained use of the Playstation analog sticks causes them to get gnarled groves in them from all the vicious navigation. If you are sick and tired of having to play with those crude controller sticks, check out these sets of 10 PS3 analog stick covers. Not only do they look really cool, ...

We came across yet another Wiimote mod and couldn’t help ourselves to share it will all of our fellow gearheads. Budding mechanical engineer Chris Williams spent his weekend doing something only us gamers can dream about. Creating yet a new interesting way of controlling your Wii. A note to Kotaku from Williams: I’ve always hypothesized that the “mystery” button (un)connects ...