I like to pretend that the Mos Eisley Cantina had a dart board. Muftak, Ponda Baba, and Momaw Nadon probably played and wagered on more than a round or two. The cantina never would have had a dart board this classy though. Gentle Giant has made this Star Wars dart board featuring Leia in her slave outfit (shocking) available for pre-order. You know you need one.
See two more views of this galactic bar game after the break.
In order to celebrate the the start of the multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic, over 100 fans gathered in Times Square to participate in a lightsaber freeze mob duel – which consisted of both plainclothes and movie-quality Old Republic warriors.
Check it out after the break.
This bearded dragon was recently pitted against an ant-eating mobile phone game called “Ant Crusher”.
As you’ll see in the video after the break, he was persistant, and although he didn’t get to eat any real ants, he did rack up a high score.
Only a geek could design a card game that pits computer processors against each other.
CPU Wars, created by Harry Mylonadis, is a simple card game that lists the specifications for processors from the past 40 years—the card with the best specs trumps the competing card. You can help make this game a reality by donating to the Kickstarter fund.
Watch a video explaining how the game works after the break.
Fueled by a fascination with the books appearing in Skyrim, the author of capane.us began to conduct late night break-ins of houses in the game just to read them. After being chided by the local guards and paying bounties, he decided to find a way to obtain the narratives for perusal outside of the virtual world.
After discovering that Skyrim stored the books in plain text, he pasted the stories text into separate documents, complete with headings, a table of contents and a cover, and offered them online for Kindle and Nook devices. Click here to visit the download page.
(via The Verge)
Those who view chairs as a creation of the devil have probably never fully enjoyed the pleasures of a board game… until now. For $300, standing aficionados can become the proud owners of this vertical chess set, which mounts like a framed picture and features hand turned and stained rosewood chess pieces and eight transparent acrylic shelves. The cherry veneer board measures 34″ H x 22″ W with 3 1/4″ H x 2″ W.
Product Page: ($300 via Laughing Squid)
Apparently, Risk is vying to have as many special editions as Monopoly. The latest version incorporates the video game Metal Gear Solid. It’s an interesting selection to say the least.
You can pre-order Metal Gear Solid Risk on October 3rd. If you’re drooling over this edition with its 290 customer game pieces, get your order in on that day. Only 2,014 sets will be available, and it’s limited to two per customer.
(via Unreality Magazine)
First unveiled back in June, this R2-D2 version of Operation is now shipping. It’s your job to remove lightsabers, Leia holograms, and tiny Darth Vader helmets from him before he’s relegated to the scrap yard. Remember, that’s not Jar Jar Binks on the table, so you’ll want to be as precise and steady-handed as possible.
Product Page: ($29.99)
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This ingenious side-scrolling Super Mario in a Box game was created using a Teagueduino and a few inputs and outputs. It pits Mario against Goombas, portal tubes and other obstructions that must be avoided, lest you end up making that universal annoyed sound that always accompanies defeat.
A knob is provided on the side for control, and as you advance, the movement increases in speed. Check out a video of the game in action, as well as a breakdown of its construction after the break.
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Just days after that live-action Mortal Kombat short film emerged, the game trailer has made its debut. And unlike the film, the game is official.
Looks like fans can expect all of the stuff that made the original series so great—straight up fighting and totally insane brutality (might be the most gruesome ever). The game is expected to arrive sometime in 2011.
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