For people who grew up on games like Pac-Man, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and Super Mario Bros. these Retro Arcade Game Messenger Bags are like a little piece of heaven. I’m a geek, which means I tote a lot of crap around with me wherever I go. My camera, a book or two, my various electronics, a moleskine, so ...

Hey, what do you know, it’s Saturday and I’m sitting here blogging. Not my usual, but hey, I happened to be in the area. And whoopy, check out what I came across. Some new awesome My Little Pony models to add to the growing collection of Pony mash-ups we’ve seen over the past month or two. I like to call ...

Xbox modder Richard posted some photos on Picasa of his Xbox 360 overhaul. Basically, his mod makes the console look like some sort of suped-up muscle car. But a discernible theme is hard to point out, as Richard left that out in his album description. All I know is that the console casing has been painted hot rod red and ...

Here is the developer preview of the second circle of hell, Lust, from the upcoming Dante’s Inferno video game by EA. Disturbing, visceral, dark, tormenting and, most importantly, awesome. All words which describe what we can see from the game. The devs decided not to go overly smutty, considering the subject of Lust, though instead delve into the dark torment ...

Fact: Master Chief won the “Best Dressed” superlative in his graduating class’s yearbook. Quite a stud, Master Chief was. Quite a stud indeed. And apparently an athlete. I see he earned his varsity letter. Assuming he didn’t threaten the varsity coach with a head shot. More Master Chief nostalgia after the jump.

While I like to do Afternoon Linkage every day, sometimes I just don’t get enough time to take care of it. For this, I am sorry my faithful readers. I’m now going to jump into a vat of lava. Hot lava, that is. Weird Al does Craigslist This is why moderation is key, folks Have you earned your Arduino merit ...

This has to be one of the best street pranks ever. Spotted on the streets of Manhattan, some urban prankster had the ingenious idea of altering the “stop” hand of a traditional crosswalk light to resemble a hand flipping the bird instead. Want to cross the street? Fuck off! No really, just go away. Viva las vandalism! This is so ...

You gotta hand it to Blizzard for having incredible taste. Taking a page from the Warcraft coffers, the team comissioned a 12-foot Orc statue from WETA, the special FX gurus behind the Lord of the Rings series of movies. Originally, the statue was shrunk down and given to employees as a gift but now all can bask in the Orc’s ...

I’m sure plenty of you Xbox 360 owners are huge Gears of War fans, whether it be the original or its sequel. Well you’ll be happy to know that Gears of War 2 writer Josh Ortega just spilled the beans on Gears’ long-term plan. Sez Josh: “You will not be disappointed in the next ten years…It’s a ten-year plan. Gears ...

It’s February and you know what time it is: time to announce the winners of our latest contest! We had a lot of great entries from you and it looks like everyone with a PS3 is super-psyched about the Killzone 2 beta. We’ve picked the two best comments from people who wrote more than one sentence and followed the rules ...