…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, strangely [...]

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 largely [...]

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 Battles Phantom Commie Bear [...]

I’ll admit that during high school and through part of college, I played PC games that I did not pay for. At the time I justified these actions by saying that I wouldn’t ever be playing them if I hadn’t obtained them in the fashion I did. My funds were very limited and I bought [...]

Allow me to take a rare personal moment on the blog here, that has nothing whatsoever to do with videogames. I’m getting married on Saturday (the 7th) here in Toronto, and then I’m off to NYC for about a week thereafter for a honeymoon. I’m going to try and get some Twittering in while I’m [...]