CrossOver Mac: When Two Worlds Collide

Macs and PCs and their software progeny have been mingling these days, and it's as weird as cats and dogs playing together ever since Boot Camp came on the scene. Now Codeweavers take this odd concept a step further with CrossOver Mac, software that lets you run Windows applications on Mac OS X without ...

Secret New SMB Challenge Mode Unveiled

Eric Caoili unveils a cool new mode for those gamers out there who have beaten New Super Mario Bros, which is likely anyone who owns it. Adter beating the game you just have to hit Start in the world map and enter the following code: LRLRXXYY The challenge mode puts a forced scroll on all of the ...

Self-Watering IV Plant Pot

Feeling guilty because you're leaving your plants home all alone while you go out gallavanting around? Put them in intensive care with the Self-Watering IV Plant Pot ($275), a home for that special-needs plant that looks like an Apollo spacecraft with an IV drip hanging on it. This is not just any ...

Barretta Extrema2: In the Hands of a Master

If you're a trap or skeet shooter, you know how your shoulder feels after firing off a few cases of shotgun shells at those defenseless clay pigeons. Beretta comes to the rescue with its Xtrema2 Recoiless Shotgun, a gas-operated shooter with a hydraulic recoil damper which keeps that sucker from knocking ...

Wiishlist Watches Wii Preorder Status For You

Via Flicker Gaming, we were pointed in the direction of Wiishlist, a site that keeps updating itself to let you know when all the major sites will be taking Wii preorders. It also covers preorders for Wii games. The sites Wiishlist are watching include Eb Games, eBay, Wal-Mart, various flavors of Amazon ...

Summer Mix Series

In case you hadn't noticed, the Summer Mix Series is now underway. If you aren't familiar with the process it is pretty simple. Make a mix, create a detail page and then submit that link via the Mix Series form. Once I've seen the tracklisting conforms to my 'one CD running-time' length I will activate ...

WII On Sale Even Earlier Than October?

News: the Wii is now in production. In fact, it's been in production since at least June 21st. Considering the fact that the PS3 hasn't even begun production and the 360 only started production 69 days before the sale date, that bodes well for gamers: it means that an October or even possibly September ...

Superman needs no health bar

Filed under: Culture, RetroThe Superman franchise has some bad luck on the gaming market, and not just Superman 64, considered by many to be one of the worst games ever made. After taking a look at 1UP's feature chronicling the worst Superman video games, one thing was made abundantly clear: developers ...

Wii set to drop on November 6th?

Filed under: Gaming You may remember us passing along a rumor last month from Cubed3 which claimed that Nintendo would be launching the Wii on November 6th; as usual, we took the info with no small amount of skepticism, but now that date actually seems to have been confirmed, and in the most unlikely ...

Magnetic Floating Bed: Oh. Your. God.

Every so often, we like to take a look at things whose functionality isn't measured in gigabytes or megabangs, but instead just look amazing. This magnetic floating bed, I submit, may be among the coolest things we've ever covered. Designed by Dutchman Janjaap Ruijssenaars, it's got enough magnets to ...

The top 10 most important games

Filed under: CultureYet another top 10 games list has surfaced in under a week; this time the 10 games that helped make gaming so popular according to GameFAQs. Read up. List down. Start the conversation.#10: Super Mario 64 (N64)#9: Space Invaders (ARC)#8: Star Wars (ARC)#7: Donkey Kong (ARC)#6: Breakout ...

PC Gamer Duck-Taped to Ceiling

Either this guy is: A). Worried about Carpel tunnel syndrome. B). In trouble for cheating. C). H4rdcor3. D). Photoshopped in. What do y'all think? Brian Ashcraft More Here [ETTF.NET]  Comment on this post Related: Warren Spector Gets Passionate and DeepRelated: China Turns Internet Cafes Into ...

PSP Game Has You Roam Neighborhood In Search of Points

Graduate student Jonas Hielscher put together a pretty amazing little interactive media game for the Playstation Portable as part of his project for masters program in Media Technology at Leiden University. ColleTic has you running around outside trying to collect WLAN access points with your portable. ...

Tetris Freeway Crate Art

Milk crates meet gaming art in this Melbourne, Australia installment on what looks to be a sound proofing wall alongside some unknown freeway of sorts. Brian Crecente  Comment on this post Related: What Is The Best Year in Gaming History?Related: Watch Her Sing or Watch Her Win, Your ChoiceRelated: ...

Torrent downloads now faster and while your PC is turned off!

Tired of waiting hours or even days for a large & slow torrent file? Don't want to leave your PC on all the time? I found something real cool: It's a PHP based Torrent client that runs on a server. You can manage your torrents through a web interface.

Senator Ted Stevens Downloads the Entire Internet and Complains It's Slow!

Regarding a recent vote, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment (basic net neutrality) and gave an amazing primer on how the Internet works: "It's a series of tubes." and "...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it ...

Wright Demos Spore, Brian Eno Slams America

Earlier this week, Sims creator Brian Eno and music pioneer Brian Eno held an open seminar in San Francisco's Herbst Theater. Wright let quotable aphorisms fly: "Science is all about compressing reality to minimal rule sets, but generative creation goes the opposite direction. You look for a combination ...

rm -r *

I was waiting for a friend in the lobby of the Hilton down at Union Square. Near me was a middle-aged woman speaking loudly into a pay phone. "Yes, yes, that's right. You've got it. Now, here's what I want you to type. 'are em' .. yes. The letter 'r' & the letter 'm', together...

16,000 firecrackers set off

I don't know much about firecrackers, but I do know this is the only way they should be set off.

Andrea Offermann

$ 30 Title: Battle of the MindsSite: Andrea Offermann Just stumbled across Andrea Offermann's site and she has a bunch of prints up for sale, including the wonderful Pink Elephants print that I posted back in Feburary.