video games

Must Play of the Day: Super Mario Crossover

Thanks to this, I won’t be doing any more work today. (Don’t tell Peter.)

Super Mario Crossover, a mash-up Flash game by developers at Exploding Rabbit lets you take on Mario’s world as Link, Mega Man, Samus, Simon Belmont or Bill from Contra. Each character has it’s own special moves and theme music. It’s the best thing I’ve seen all …

Violent Video Game Law To Get Tested in Supreme Court

The debate about how harmful the violence portrayed in some video games might be to children has raged since just about the earliest days of the medium. It’s responsible for the formation of the ESRB and the E/T/M ratings system that’s on most pieces of interactive entertainment software. Now, that debate’s moving to the Supreme …

Swag of the Day: Mystery Box of Video Games

Case of the Mondays? Well, we’ve got some free stuff to give away to cheer you up. We don’t have any particular swag lying around but we do have oodles and oodles of video games around the office. I’ll pull together a handsome collection of three Xbox 360, Wii or PS3 games depending on your console of choice. All you need to do is watch …

The Daily Dose

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Hey Techlanders! Here’s what’s going on in nerd news around the Web:

Happy Birthday, Episode V!: It’s been thirty years since what is renowned as the greatest film sequel of all-time, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, hit screens. In it’s honor George Lucus is releasing some never before seen …

Continue?: Games to Help You Stop Stressing

Because gaming moves at the speed of light, it’s easy to gloss over or outright miss the quirky, bizarre or just plain interesting elements that go into the games we obsess over. Continue? will be where we dig back into the used bins and back-catalogue stacks to talk about the trends, personalities and uniqueness that powers the video

Monster Madness: The Elite Eight

The fields have been narrowed. The battles have been tough. Only the most diabolical will advance. Who will win our Monster Madness tourney and claim the bragging rights to the most villainous foe of all-time? Stay tuned to see.

Click on the photo to enlarge the bracket or download a printable PDF version here.

See WHY these …

The Daily Dose

Friday, Mar. 12, 2010

Today in Techland: Free download: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, chapter l. Mark Millar interview, part ll. The Techland Show, Episode ??? Who knows?

Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:

Valuable nerdiness: The list of the Top 10 Most Valuable Books includes …

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