For a gamer, battle injuries are pretty minor–blistered fingers, numb butt, sore neck–but victories are still a cause for celebration. And now, those victories can be commended with a Console Wars Veteran medal. These limited edition enameled metal badges from Supermandolini are just the thing to commemorate level clearage and high scorage. They’re only about 18 bucks USD and would make a great gift for a gamer with skillz.

[via RetrotoGo.com]

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Don’t you just love those dreams where you end up flying through a foreign landscape? Wouldn’t it make a cool video game? That’s what Thatgamecompany–the same people who brought us the lovely, abstract protozoic flOw game–thought. Cloud is their action flight game that allows you to realize your lifelong dreams of imaginative flight, at the same time you can manipulate clouds to create weather. “A childhood dream simulator” is how many of its fans describe it. It is a unique game; a relaxing, non-stressful, meditative experience that is familiar to players of flOw

The game is completed as a USC game innovation lab research project. It contains four major tutorial levels, representing four different dreams from the child’s point of view, which help players understand how to play the game. There are also ten extra mini-levels for players to enjoy the game features introduced in the training levels.

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Friday, August 24, 7pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Cassidy Theater
78 E. Washington Street
Free

Hear Brooklyn-based musician Mark DeNardo (of the Gamma Bros) perform music on laptop, Game Boy and guitar accompanied by pixilated images provided by fellow Gamma Bros visual artist Pixeljam. Noted local electronic music performers, Liz Revision and Emulsion (of Ramp Chicago), DJ and play live throughout the evening. Full-screen imagery of video games and game culture provided by visual artists Baseshot Scenario and 3pHaze.

The ongoing Ohm Multimedia Series incorporates new media in electronic music, performance and visual art. Ohm invites professionals from the art and music scenes, including DJs and visual artists, to create live multimedia artworks in front of an audience.

This special four-part Ohm Multimedia Series is part of Art of Play, the citywide summer celebration of toys, games and the spirit of play through September 30.

For information about other Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs events, visit the Department of Cultural Affairs website.

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Here’s a perfect tie for any guy who loves gaming, especially retro-gaming. Behold, the Space Invaders tie, which, at first glance appears to simply have a geometric repeating pattern in red. A closer look reveals that the little houndstooth-esque checks are actual bitmap aliens–it’s subtle but very cool.

Did you know that the feature that made Space Invaders so challenging–the creatures speed up as more of them get destroyed–was originally an accident? Since there were less aliens to render on screen, the program would animate their speeds as it had more resources.

[VIA]

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Team Boom Tape is a team that not only makes things out of duct tape in competitions, they’ve created a server with a duct tape case!

They’ve even lit it from the inside, creating windows courtesy of the translucency that 3M clear duct tape provides.

[The] Duct Tape Server was build entirely from four rolls of gray Nashua duct tape, a quarter roll of translucent 3M duct tape, and these computer components:

• Pentium P4 2.4 GHz
• Intel SFF Motherboard
• 1GB twinned DDR RAM
• 80GB SATA HDD
• 350W PSU
• CDROM
• 2 80mm LED fans

However, you’d think with the heat generated that the case might have some structural issues, since duct tape is not meant to withstand high temperatures. Here’s a report on why duct tape is actually not recommended for long-term use.

Check out the duct tape server video:

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via liz revision by Liz on Feb 02, 2007

The scene above is a capture of my (messy) desktop with a Game Boy Advance emulator running to play Yuan Su Da Zhan. I’m using Visual Boy Advance–a great little program that lets you play Game Boy Roms on your PC (yeah, it’s Windows only, sorry).

Visual Boy Advance 1.8.0 [Download - Windows]

* Button A - Z
* Button B - X
* Button L - A
* Button R - S
* Movement - Cursor keys
* Start - Enter (Return)
* Select - Backspace
* Toggle menu - ESC

Recommended Gameboy Advance ROMs:
(With Visualboy Advance there’s no need to extract the zips–the program does it for you)

29 NES Games,
61 Great NES games
The first ROM is a collection of games like Ghost and Goblins, The Legend of Zelda and Kung Fu and the second has more, including Super Mario Brothers 1 - 3–although I had to choose “Speed up toggle” under Emulator to get it to run correctly. Also all the games are listed on the side of the screen and choosing one changes the background to the start screen for that game–it looks a bit confusing at first.

Air Hockey
I’m a huge nerd for the real version of this game, and although this one lacks most of the appealing factors a real air hockey game, it’s still mildly entertaining.

Yuan Su Da Zhan
This game, despite the dialogue being in Japanese, is totally engaging and has great graphics. Esentially you’re a middle-ages magical character who can turn into four separate versions of yourself (fire, water, ice, and “coconut”?) in order to most efficiently fight bad guys along the way. It’s quite fun, once you can navigate past all the intro screens filled with katakana.

Othello
Another IRL favorite of mine, this is 1-player only

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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Yep, there are free novels available, and I’m a fan of Sherlock Holmes (deductive logic rulez) and sci-fi, so here’s a few good ones to start with.

These are from this archive. Although almost all of them are demos and not playable, there are a few gems in there.

Leave some comments with your recommendations and I’ll update the post with a “best of” list!

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The scene above is a capture of my (messy) desktop with a Game Boy Advance emulator running to play Yuan Su Da Zhan. I’m using Visual Boy Advance–a great little program that lets you play Game Boy Roms on your PC (yeah, it’s Windows only, sorry).

Visual Boy Advance 1.8.0 [Download - Windows]

* Button A - Z
* Button B - X
* Button L - A
* Button R - S
* Movement - Cursor keys
* Start - Enter (Return)
* Select - Backspace
* Toggle menu - ESC

Recommended Gameboy Advance ROMs:
(With Visualboy Advance there’s no need to extract the zips–the program does it for you)

29 NES Games,
61 Great NES games
The first ROM is a collection of games like Ghost and Goblins, The Legend of Zelda and Kung Fu and the second has more, including Super Mario Brothers 1 - 3–although I had to choose “Speed up toggle” under Emulator to get it to run correctly. Also all the games are listed on the side of the screen and choosing one changes the background to the start screen for that game–it looks a bit confusing at first.

Air Hockey
I’m a huge nerd for the real version of this game, and although this one lacks most of the appealing factors a real air hockey game, it’s still mildly entertaining.

Yuan Su Da Zhan
This game, despite the dialogue being in Japanese, is totally engaging and has great graphics. Esentially you’re a middle-ages magical character who can turn into four separate versions of yourself (fire, water, ice, and “coconut”?) in order to most efficiently fight bad guys along the way. It’s quite fun, once you can navigate past all the intro screens filled with katakana.

Othello
Another IRL favorite of mine, this is 1-player only

Tetanus on Drugs
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AsteroidsGBA
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Adventure of the Cardboard Box by Arthur Conan Doyle
2001: A Space Odysseyby Arthur C. Clark
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Yep, there are free novels available, and I’m a fan of Sherlock Holmes (deductive logic rulez) and sci-fi, so here’s a few good ones to start with.

These are from this archive. Although almost all of them are demos and not playable, there are a few gems in there.

Leave some comments with your recommendations and I’ll update the post with a “best of” list!

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via liz revision by Liz on Jan 25, 2007

The people at totallynerdcore.com have created a calendar filled not with nerdy white MCs–they’ve captured images of ladies who clearly enjoy video games to the point where they have to take off all of their clothes. A �hardcore gamer�s fantasy,� it features girls posing with a PowerGlove, involved with their Game Boys, playing the coin-ops, and so on.

And in addition to the regular holidays, they�ve noted such events as International San Diego Comic-Con, Anime Expo, Game Developers Conference, and Talk Like a Pirate Day.

For a mere $25 you can have a year’s worth of girls who pretend to be into video games while you’re around. Or maybe you could invest that cash towards some new fashion gear [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] for a chance at a real geek girl noticing you.

A few more samples are here [NSFW].

[via]

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