DIE-HARD GAMER MUST-HAVE: Refurbished Wooden Atari 2600 [Pics]

This wooden Atari 2600 VCS Portable is currently going for over $1,200 on eBay. The system is housed in a varnished wood and has been fitted with a 3-hour-charge battery pack, two players controls, brightness and volume controls, composite video and mono audio outputs, and a pause button. And it only weighs 1.3 pounds.(!!) [Ian Brooks […]



Sim City’s Traffic Problems Are All Too Real

The much anticipated reboot of SimCity has been released. And unfortunately it’s brought all the delays, headaches and frustrations of real municipal planning. The big problem is that even if you just want to use it as a private virtual Lego set, the game requires an Internet connection to play and Electronic Arts servers have […]



Life-Sized Papercraft Zelda [Pic]

I’m not super-familiar with how difficult papercrafting is, but I’m willing to bet that it takes a significant number of hours to build something life-sized. Minidelerium, a Swedish papercraft hobbyist, made this kickass Zelda figure in 126 hours, which is three weeks of working 8-5, Monday through Friday. (She then gave Zelda away, which seems […]

Beautiful Journey (Game) Violin Medley: Apotheosis & I Was Born For This (Taylor Davis) [Video]

Wow. Just Wow. This is absolutely beautiful! Hi everyone, this is my rendition of Apotheosis and I Was Born For This from the Grammy nominated video game soundtrack Journey composed by Austin Wintory. As soon as I heard some of the pieces I fell in love with the soundtrack and wanted to make a video […]

“Levels of Tetris” (Avicii / ‘Tetris’ Theme Song Ragtime Mashup)

An excellent mashup of various Tetris songs by Youtuber Scott Bradlee: I’ve always believed that modern electronic dance music was heavily influenced by old school NES games. Since stride piano is kind of the piano equivalent of electronic dance music, I decided to create this ragtime mashup. [Scott Bradlee]

Fantastic Nintendo Sleeve Tattoo [Pic]

I’m an old school gamer geek. Guess it shows. This one is about life. Going from evil at the bottom to good at the top. We all want extra life, don’t we? Done by the fantastic Mina @ Hawk and Sparrows in Malmö, Sweden. [Via FYT | FG]