April 12, 2011

Photography book features hot girls posing with gadgets

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At the Kinokuniya bookstore the other day, I started flipping through a slightly porny (and in later pages, very much more porny) photography book featuring hot Japanese girls posing amidst lots and lots of gadgets. There's one more after the jump, of a girl with a fuzzy hat in a room full of vintage game consoles.

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March 24, 2011

Yakuza 4 fan gets $9K tattoo that looks just like the one in the game

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46 year-old Australian Fari Salievski may be the biggest fan of Yakuza 4 ever. He got a back tattoo, which cost him $9K, that looks just like that of Kazuma, the main character in the game.

Link (Thanks, Joe Sabia!)

March 18, 2011

Super Mario Bros reimagined as a first person shooter

If Mario was a first person shooter...

via Boing Boing

December 15, 2010

New Sega video game makes peeing on target fun

Toirettsu is a new video game by Sega controlled by a sensor in the urinal. The better you are at peeing on target, the more points you get. Fun! If any of you men out there have tried this, please let me know how enjoyable it is.

via PopSci

October 01, 2010

Pikachu made of Lego

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Cute?

via Kotaku

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