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Pepsi in Japan includes free Mario Bros. tape

I wish our Pepsi was this cool. It’s all part of a promotion tying in the “new” (for Japan) Pepsi Twist that includes a Pepsi-themed DS. [via]

At least Nintendo sells out in a cooler way than poor Sony, whose allegedly Coke-themed PSP just had a little Coca-cola logo on it. Good thing this is all […]

Coding is fun 4 U & me

Via Athena’s Legacy I came across Coding4Fun, a new section of Microsoft’s Developer Network aimed at the hobbyist programmer. One article in particular caught my eye, Beginning Game Development. I wish someone had told me about that before I went and ordered a book that will soon be gathering dust on the shelf. Not exactly […]

Free game: Mount & Blade

Mount & Blade is one of those games that gives you some hope for the little people making games these days without EA-sized budgets. It’s medieval combat without all the fantasy dragons-and-magic stuff every other game feels is mandatory. The whole thing is done by a husband and wife team and while occasionally it’s a […]

Silicon chips and such

Possible Xbox 360 pics are floating around. You’ve already seen them so I won’t bother. Amit at Damned Machines weighed in on the no-wired-controllers thing and I have to agree, controllers requiring diligence on the part of the owner aren’t good. I’m sure the batteries will last forever or there will be a charger, but […]

Sony flips stance on selling of in-game goods for cash

Sony has opened up the Station Exchange, a place for Everquest II players to buy and sell virtual goods in auctions and pay with real cash. Apparently the fact that Sony gets a service fee with each transaction means that the old reasons for banning the practice just kind of went away. Naturally you have […]

News roundup

Studios rethink video-game role - Movie studios figure out that, by and large, nobody likes crappy games:

“You can’t just throw a team of coders together. There’s a loyalty factor, a brand recognition factor,” [David Riley, senior manager with the NPD Group] said. When the video-game industry was first emerging in the 1980s, movie […]

GameStop and EB Games merging

The two become one and we’re all the worse for it:

GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME; GME.B) and Electronics Boutique Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq:ELBO) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger. The combined company, to be named GameStop Corp., will be a leading global video game retailer with annual revenues […]

Free game: Soldat

Soldat is a fun, basic 2d shooter that encapsulates all that you would want in such a game: running around with jetpacks and heavery artillery blasting the crap out of your enemies. Also: chainsaws. When deathmatch loses its appeal there’s other modes like capture-the-flag and rambo, but really isn’t that just making things more complicated […]

This is it boys, this is it

Pac Man hats. That is all. Return to your posts.

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Lost Levels

Lost Levels is like that friend of yours that has an encyclopedic knowledge of every game that wasn’t released in North America, except they actually have screenshots and downloadable ROMs to back it up. Learn about the truth behind the translated first Earthbound game, the Mario 3 rip-off Squashed, and Neil Gaiman’s experiences with the […]