Wonderland

When in Rome

Eat and sweat a lot, apparently. It's unbelievably hot here, here being Rome, which is why I haven't posted a thing recently - travelling, sweating, and managg', Italian internet is flaky as anything. Up, down, up down. Down. Up? Up.

Down.

Italy's playing Ukraine. One of the Italians just hurt his own foot kicking a Ukrainian - and is trying to get attention for it. Bloody marvellous stuff.

Top Ten Best Videogame Kills Ever. Includes the superbly grisly chainsaw-to-the-neck which I suffered once in Resi 4. Wrrrr.

GDC's call for papers is open...

The UK's first pr0-gaming coverage is going to go out on the Extreme Sports Channel (starting niche, then): 4.5 hours of live football of some sort, then Project Gotham 3. Not the most thrilling of game choices, I'd wager, but if the players are interesting and have character, then it could be good. If they aren't, it'll be a disaster, of course. I wonder if my Telewest setup carries ESC?

Paul Marino's definitive machinima blog (he organises the Mackies - machinima awards).

Only in Sweden: a pop song about an IRC bot. Apparently it's way up in the charts! (Thanks Moose!)

Brigitta sends in word of this "pretty sweet lo-fi online game": retro-style motorbike racing. Worth checking out not least for the hilarious graphics: giant sushi?? Thoroughly approve.

Over and out. x

Nintendo Power Mints at Fractalspin

As if I needed another reason to send Fractalspin the contents of my wallet: they're now selling Nintendo Power Mints. I haven't a clue what the mints are like (probably reasonably minty), but the tin's a winner.

Some action shots over at onNintendo show that it is indeed the same size and shape as the NES controller, and apparently there's no better storage solution for keeping your DS games fresh. Tack 'em onto your LED watch order for $3.49 (just under 2 quid).

Xbox bluetooth headset

Now you can walk around your apartment, wireless controller in one hand, 'tooth set plugged onto your ear, and trashtalk from the bathroom. Oh the superiority!

Hmm.

(via 360fanboy)
 

MapWoW updates

I blogged MapWoW (uses the Google API, clever) yonks ago, but never really had cause to use it - until now. Mining. I need iron ore, and MapWoW will show you where it is.

It's not pretty, but it's bloody useful. Desolace, here I come.

(via GamersGame)

Counter-Strike Dance Dance Revolution mod

I'm not sure I've ever seen anything sillier than this. It's delightful.

YouTube (via Kotaku)

Hey, don't do what I did and press play, then lose the tab, and scrabble frantically about as the hilariously bad soundtrack blasts out embarrassingly for a really long time. Pwned by tabs. For shame.

"Through Robin's Floor"

Through Robin's floor 
Originally uploaded by Jakob Lodwick.

How about this for an amazing photo? Someone on Flickr lives in an apartment with a hole in the floor....

Yoz and Baby

I'm reproducing this picture of Yoz at work, because I've been rolling around clutching my sides for five minutes and I had to share.

"With a little wrangling, a baby can fit into even the most hectic lifestyle with only minor adjustments needed every 30 seconds."

More funny guild names. And stuff.

Some of them are plain offensive, but some bring a smile - I particularly liked My Little Pwnies, Gnomeland Security and, earning points for being so pun-hardcore, Horde'oevres.

There's a lot of noise about WoW again round and about. It's making people play fewer retail games. It's about to go tits up. The damn players are ruining it. No-one can compete. It's bad for you (maybe). It's hard to give up (but why would you want to?). Me, I think it's a work of art; I spent many a happy (and peaceful) hour exploring Alliance territory last night, and I can't see anything wrong with playing a sociable game during 'entertainment time'. But then again, half the time I'm playing on my laptop while in a beanbag, with one eye on the TV which is usually playing a drama DVD. I like to think of it as evolved, darlinks.

Then there's all the motivational posters. Thumbs up to Jen for finding those kittens (urgh. Heartstopping), and everyone's at it now.

Meanwhile, there's a call for 'digital folk art', from The San Jose Museum of Art. The site announcing this is a schlockfest of bad jpegs for text, and a terrible picture, so this doesn't bode too well, but I must learn to withold such hasty judgement. JPGs for text though, honestly. I'll hand-type out what they say: "Ludica is seeking submissions for an exciting virtual exhibition showcasing artistic player-created content in Second Life".

Accepted proposals will be given a specific amount of time to create/install the works on the island 'Brilliant', provided courtesy of Linden Lab, in Second Life. The New West Island featuring submitted works will be on display at the San Jose Museum of Art from July 7-13th, 2006.

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I am unsure as to why this post became the length it did.

Sonic papercraft

Ooh! Official papercraft, and elaborate papercraft, and colourful, beautiful, gorgeous Sonic papercraft at that.

Somebody needs to set up a business assembling such nerd papercraft for I am too lazy and not so hot with the glue bottle to achieve such lofty heights of construction, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Found by the irrepressible geekonstun, over at Kotaku.

More motivational messages for gamers

Following on from Alice's post of... golly, quite some time ago, a new round of mocked-up motivational posters for gamers have popped up courtesy of Aggro and his mates. They're all pretty funny, but this one... this one is utterly delightful:

Pardon me while I squeak OMGKITTENSMEWMEWMEW!