Mario and Fafa decided to tackle some super old NES games on their Wii and discover just how far gaming has come.
Get a heaping helping of nostalgia and humor after the jump.
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With all the talk of speedruns through Diablo 3, four players decided to join forces and plow through the the game in 5 hrs 35 min. Best of all, they captured the whole thing on video for the world to enjoy – but obviously there are some major spoilers here.
Check it out after the break.
If you’re a fan of Super Mario, then this is the mouse for you. It’s a Koopa Shell, available in either red or blue, and it comes with a matching mouse pad. This is an actual working USB mechanical ball mouse with scroll wheel and it’s compatible with PCs or Macs. It doesn’t even require any special mouse drivers. I triple dog dare you to get one of these and use it at the office. I bet your boss will never take you seriously again.
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In an interesting marketing move, Microsoft recently sent emails to fans at the Halo Waypoint forums entitled “Your piece of the Halo 4 puzzle.” In all, 32 pieces were collected and assembled to reveal what will likely become the box art for the November 6th release.
Needless to say, this is going to be a long, long summer for Halo fans.
(Waypoint forums via Coming Soon via Geekosystem)
Korean gamer Yoshichan has elevated his status in the gaming world after he beat Diablo 3 in a mind-blowing 12 hours and 29 minutes with “368 Lifetime Kills, 412 Elite Kills and 168,481 gold as a Barbarian on normal difficulty”.
Obviously, this has opened the doors for new competition, and according to reports, a group of Korean and Chinese gamers have already conquered the game in 7 hours on normal difficulty.
(via Geekologie)
You really have no idea just how many dominoes 30,000 is until you watch a three minute video of them all being knocked over. This one is the Nintendo special and features dominoes lined up in all kinds of images and designs from the video games you love. You’ll be amazed at the set-up and seemingly never-ending cascade of plastic dominoes on display. Wow.
Check out the impressive video after the break.
You gotta love that moment when you kill off the enemy in the most gratuitous, unrealistic and perfectly awesome way possible in your favorite video game. This video imagines that moment, to infinity, by pitting the heroes of games like Mass Effect, Halo and Battlefield against each other in the real world. They even tweak the music to each franchise. Can you name all the games referenced?
See the video after the jump…
After starting life as a Kickstarter campaign, these Mathematician’s Dice have landed on ThinkGeek, where they are being offered as exciting substitutes for conventional dice. Instead of merely displaying the numbers 1-6, the math dice are emblazoned with the the additive identity, the multiplicative identity, the golden ratio, Euler’s number e, the imaginary number i, and the circular constant pi.
If these look like hieroglyphics to you, prepare for your board game / gambling jaunts to become infinitely more confusing and time consuming.
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Voice actor J.K. Simmons has recorded a series of new Cave Johnson lines for the Portal 2 level-maker DLC, which players will hear randomly as they begin levels. YouTuber “ac1th” thoughtfully combined this audio into a 25 minute video that will serve as a soothing fix for gaming addicts.
Check it out after the break.
Nerd Approved reader Zack King (of FinalCutKing) sent us his new video about his hunt for a real life Pikachu. Yes, the Pikachu from Pokemon. He finds one, and it’s adorable and looks suspiciously like a kitten. Things are going well, but the ending has an unexpected twist.
Watch the video after the break.
