Wonderland

Missile Command skirt

Purty!

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Portal Science tee & Space Invaders icecubes

Two cool things from Thinkgeek - first, the "Look at me still talking while there's Science to do" teeshirt (ref), for both men and women. I love it.

Plus, space invader icecubes. Inevitable, and chunkily wonderful.

Put them in your Zelda lethal shooter cocktail, balanced on a perlerbead coaster, and marvel in your game geekery. I do.

Resident Evil: the CGI movie

Spotted in HMV today, a CGI resi movie:

Happened at xmas, apparently. And... what now, 4 stars on Amazon.com (here's the UK link)? Over a 100 reviews (here's the most Helpful one)??

That was unexpected.

The Triforce: the drink

Oh it's a beauty, but LETHAL: rum, banana liqueur and goldshlager, fer crying out loud: iron livers only need apply.

Gorgeous though. But bleurgh, goldschlager and bananas! Served on a pink DS! It's the stuff of legend. (ba BOOM!).

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Bobba

Ergh, I totally forgot to post about Bobba, eastercon got in the way. But here it is: Sulake's new mobile phone virtual world. Habbo for mobiles!

I have no idea what it's like as I own neither a Nokia nor an iPhone. Sulake got over a million people playtesting the idea but reviews are short on the ground so far. Seems that you can create your own spaces within Bobba though, and knowing Sulake there'll be plenty more creative things to do in the space. Roll on an Android version ;-)

Crazy amounts of cash: IMVU and SL transactions

Two interesting things here: firstly, in case you thought Second Life was maybe old news, VWN reports that Linden has announced it's expecting $450m of user transactions within Second Life in 2009.

Last week on the Second Life Blog, Linden Lab predicted that the user-to-user economy for Second Life in 2009 would be $450 million. This is based on a 2008 user-to-user economy worth $350 million, $100 million of which was revenue generated for users by their user-generated activities.

I'd love to see what kind of a power curve that spreads across. A growth of $100m in this economic climate is probably also way optimistic? But still, serious money all over the place.

Meanwhile IMVU (Second Life with manga eyes) is raking in $1.7m a month in the same way: users create content which they sell to each other, with the parent company taking a percentage of each transaction. Poses and avatar enhancements are the major sellers in IMVU, so says IMVU's brilliantly titled "Vice President of Product Development and General Manager of Direct Revenue", Lee Clancy:

"One of the most popular categories we have from a virtual goods perspective is poses and animations that users can activate via different words in the chat experience. Those are consistently among our top sellers, ways to have your avatar do things outside of the core set of basic actions."

As the pressure in real life to look young and perfect continues to dominate, virtual worlds will undoubtably continue to be a draw to those who find preening a virtual model of themselves an easier and more satisfying thing to do than dealing with the lumps and bumps of our realworld meatsuits. Funny old world, isn't it.

Lash Out And Cover Up

Thank you, Rexbox. Thank you!

(In ref to this, in case you're not from round these parts)

Games Captain

Via NotCot, came across this site selling remakes of olde vintage-style British school badges. Most of the remakes are naff as anything ("princess", "classy", etc), but this one's really fabulous:

Not directly linkable, unfortunately - search for GAMES and it's the only result.

Ultimate Werewolf

There was (is) a recent obsession with Werewolf round these 'ere parts. Now I'm lusting after this, but there's only one available on Amazon and only in the US:

Rowr!

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Super impressive Horde cupcakes

Crunchy and smooth at the same time. Like the Horde ;-)

Art, that is.