Context, such as it is.

… ok this is arriving a little later than expected… but here’s a sneak peek of the new project: PerpetualGeekMachine.net

…and auctioned for 1.1 million dollars. But, I take solace in the fact that it will eventually break down, and when the proud owner sends it for repair, it will be scrubbed. No matter what.

I want a North American version of this, with a geek in a game store, and a magazine rack peripheral. [Link > NeoGAF]

Australia is likely to ban Left 4 Dead 2, it seems. All because of a single asshole. Never underestimate the power of assholes. Antediluvian assholes with a q-tip army and a pen. Very dangerous. Or maybe all of Australia is in solidarity with these clowns.

In Gamer, King Leonidas is trapped within a huge prison-based real-life Halo game stuck on Team Deathmatch. The villain is Dexter, who acts like a southern AI Director from Left 4 Dead, who also has the nanomachine powers of Liquid Ocelot. There’s lots of running and shooting, a tea-bagging joke in the first 90 seconds, [...]

I just don’t know about those guys over at Nintendo anymore. I think they’re drunk on cash money. Like Activision, they seem desperate to shovel ever-increasing numbers of silly plastic peripherals at us. As if every game could be Rock Band. It supports my theory that I’ve long held, which is that the Wii was [...]

I have now ingested Microsoft’s E3 press conference, or at least the section dealing with their fabulous new sorta-3D camera, temporarily called Natal. This has been long rumoured and now the day is here; Microsoft trotted out no less a personage than Spielberg himself to tell us that controllers are the actual problem (look away, [...]

My first 2 minutes with this thing.

Saw this Tekken 6 image on the Stiq of Joy and I thought: this raises questions. Hard questions. Caption this, please. “PETA’s robot deathbear was no match for the praetorian Shirtless Republican Guard” “The element of surprise was in Pan-dor’s favour as he performed the rare Leg Breaking Throat Drop Technique” “Horribly Bump-mapped War Vet [...]