Carl Sagan Meets Halo [Video]
Geek hero Carl Sagan’s moving Pale Blue Dot monologue over Halo Reach footage. If this isn’t the convergence of all things awesome, I shudder to think what might be.
Category Archives: Games
Epic Day of the Tentacle Sneakers and Tie
Check out this absolutely amazing Day of the Tentacle-themed pair of Converse sneakers by Madrid-based artist Maya Pixelskaya. She also made this awesome-looking tie (below) to go along with it. [Source: Maya Pixelskaya]
External Hard Drives Disguised as NES Cartridges
Gamer swoon alert! The first game I ever played to completion was Super Mario Bros., like most of my early-80s classmates. These days, I don’t do much gaming at all—but I do spend quite a lot of quality time with my computer. Etsy dealer 8BitMemory has an awesome way to introduce the games from our […]
Real Life Buster Sword (From Final Fantasy VII)
Remember the Buster Sword, that ridiculously-sized weapon from Final Fantasy VII? Well, youtuber michaelcthulu actually crafted a real one and shows us on film how wielding something like this in reality might not be the best of ideas. Check it out. [Via Geekosystem | Neatorama]
Tabletop RPG Fans Behold: A Self-Loading LEGO Dice Tower
Rolling your dice by hand is SO yesterday, here’s the cool new way to do it.
Yummy: PS3 Bento Box [Pic]
Previously on [GAS]: Xbox-Themed Bento Box [Via]
Dungeons & Dragons: A Threat to Prison Security
Sometime you read a story and it takes a lot of re-reading and double checking before you can bring yourself to accept it truly is legitimate. This is one of those stories. The seventh circuit of the United States Court of Appeals has just published (The case was published back in January 2010, not 2011) […]
Trademarkville! Zynga stakes claim on Facebook “villes”
The upcoming Facebook game Blingville is still in beta testing and already the folks at Zynga are pulling out the legal guns. They sent the creators a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that the new game’s title is infringing Zynga’s trademark in the “ville” franchise of Zynga’s Farmville, Cityville, Fishville, etc. Blingville is already fighting back though, […]
Wolfenstein 1-D
The game that changed everything, now converted to a one-pixel line! From WONDER-TONIC, Wolfenstein 1-D: In 1992, Wolfenstein 3-D revolutionized video games and created the 3D first-person shooter genre. Now, after decades of development, Wolfenstein 3-D has been converted to breathtaking, epoch-making 1-D. You can now play the game in a single, dazzling one-pixel line. […]
Little Big Planet in Real Life [Video]
A rather entertaining video that simulates a game of little big planet using 2 sackboys and some cardboard to re-create the game’s scenery. Check it out! Speaking of Little Big Planet, have you guys tried the new game? I’ve bought it for my son’s birthday, but can’t get myself to crack the game open to […]