If you’re anything like us, then the apparently never ending wait for Left 4 Dead will have whipped you into such a zombie crazed frenzy that you’ll have had no choice but to pre-order the game as soon as it became available on Steam, especially with early access to the demo thrown in to sweeten [...]
Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, lost her eye in a car accident back in 2005, and now keeps a blog chronicling the “monocular life.” She has a prosthetic peeper, but Tanya is a self-described “sci-fi geek,” and, with the approval of her doctor, she’s put out a call for engineers to build her a [...]
Columns: Over-Simplified Games How old are you? If you’re a typical gamer, you are probably much older than the mainstream media thinks you are. PC games used to be amusing little things played by kids while the parents did grown up things. Not any more, as the many web forum debates on how to juggle [...]
Photoshoppers gone wild. You’ll laugh when you see it.
Microsoft’s Don Mattrick is still adamant that he invented in-game avatars, not Nintendo. In a recent interview with Official Xbox Magazine, Mattrick reasserts his claim that he was the first person to invent controllable 3D human avatars. Personally, we’re not only skeptical but also kind of bored by the whole argument, but hey-ho. “I’m claiming [...]
Abbi Vincent-Lloyd said she lost 30 hens on days when balloons were flying low over her Herefordshire farm. She claimed the stress of seeing the enormous balloons overhead caused them to run for cover. It is as they desperately try to find shelter that they bump into each other or their surroundings, exploding the eggs [...]
Last Friday a historic meeting took place between Bao Xishun, the world’s tallest man who is 7’9” (2.36 meters) and He Pingping, the world’s shortest man who is 2’4” (73 centimeters). The two met in Baotou in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.