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The best cosplay of PAX East 2012

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The best cosplay of PAX East 2012

Last weekend, about 60,000 gamer dorks all gathered in Boston for the Penny Arcade Expo: East Coast Edition, aka PAX East 2012. And a decent chunk came in costume.

The 15 best gaming commercials of the ’90s

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The 15 best gaming commercials of the ’90s

The 1990s were an awesome decade for video games. Especially video game advertising; sure gaming had firmly established itself as big business up to that point, but it was in the ’90s in which things truly went to the next level.

‘Zelda vs. Jesus’ isn’t a fighting game, but a Kickstarter project

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‘Zelda vs. Jesus’ isn’t a fighting game, but a Kickstarter project

Since the very beginning of Link's adventures, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit has been by his side. No, not that annoying fairy-thing... that's something entirely different. Anyway, Zelda vs. Jesus will gladly explain it all, but it needs some help getting made first.

Time to celebrate horrible voice acting in a classy way

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Time to celebrate horrible voice acting in a classy way

The Onion’s AV Club has decided to honor a little known TurboGrafx-16 game from 1989 called Last Alert. Why? Because it has, without a doubt, one of the worse voice acting jobs in the history of games, and that’s saying a lot.

Can you guess the video game locales?

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Can you guess the video game locales?

A quiz in the form of a YouTube vid, a very nifty one might I add, recently popped up. It challenges, you the viewer, to guess the 20 games that are being references via the environments that are dished up.

It’s not too late to learn how to use a Power Glove

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It’s not too late to learn how to use a Power Glove

Given how much of a icon of the 80s that the Power Glove has become, it’s funny how most of us have no idea how the damn thing actually works. At long last comes a video that breaks it all down.