Reader Parrish E. admitted to tooting his own horn by sending this tip to us, but we’ll allow it, because his life-size construction of Claptrap—with a functioning headlamp, mind you—is straight up awesome, an...

We’ve known for months now that MattyCollector would be offering a replica of Marty McFly’s hoverboard from Back to the Future II and III, and now the company is finally prepping to ship the (tragically non-function...

When you play Minecraft, it’s in your face, it’s blocky, and it’s all rather immediate. You rarely get the sense of scale, or even wonder, that an entire world can contain from any single vantage point. The ga...

“Professional microwaver” Kenny Irwin has performed a day-one (or close to it) nuking of of the Nintendo 3DS and the PlayStation Vita, as well as microwaving an Xbox 360 Elite (remember that model?) in the name of a...

The superficial appeal of cosplay is the quality of the still image. How good a costume looks, or how much like a character the particular cosplayer seems to appear. The real craft, though, comes behind the scenes. Anybody can ...

The more I look at the new model of the PS3, the more I hate it. It looks like a budget console, only without the budget price, and goes against Sony’s recent good run of making improvements to hardware with later revisio...

With some clever casting and selective image capturing/gif-making on the part of nerds, Osaka-based reporter and model Aya Shibata recently became a uniquely Japanese sex symbol for Nintendo. Now, it seems Western fans are doin...

The PlayStation brand is in an interesting period of flux right now. PlayStation Vita is failing to pick up significant momentum, but PlayStation 3 — led by a new, hard drive-heavy model — is slowly closing the worl...

You know, once was a time Nintendo were serious about releasing miniature versions of their consoles. The NES got one (the NES-101), the SNES got one (the SNES 2), but ever since, Nintendo’s been all “eh, the origin...