Super Mario Kart: The Movie

A few months ago, in my spare time, I threw this movie “trailer” together for Super Mario Kart: The Movie.  I showed it to Bird and JPark over the Christmas break and they both wanted me to share it here, so here you go: It looks much better in “high quality.” Enjoy!

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Wii Causing More Problems

Quick funny story to get this wonderful December 30th off to a bang, check out BarStool Sports with a pretty funny story from the Boston Herald about a woman who clocks her boyfriend for bitching about getting a Wii for Christmas. This is what I’ve been saying! The Wii just causes problems, and frankly, I [...]

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Finally! A Bargain!

If you’re like me, then you’re a somewhat casual hardcore player.  A “ha-sual.” Or a “Card-core.”  I’m still working on it. In any case, if you are indeed like me, then you can’t always afford that fabulous game at launch, especially with rather steep $60 pricetags!  But behold: a bargain! Target is selling off games [...]

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5 Reasons Why You Suck at the Halo Series

After some positive reviews I’ve decided to give this another go.  Many of these tips can be applied to any first person shooter for those of you who view Halo as a dinosaur.  For me, this is a classic game that always gives me a sense of nostalgia. Without further ado, here are the top [...]

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PS3′s aren’t selling, Wii Sucks despite massive sales

Happy Monday afternoon gamers and gamettes. After playing around with the theme and layout all day (still a work in progress, evidenced by the ugly and out of place legacy banner,) I figured it was time for a word or two of actual content. My roomate forwarded me this Wall Street Journal article about the [...]

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Look and feel changed, what do you think?

So as you can see, we’ve cleaned up the look of the nest (twice!!!) and changed the name. The site is officially known as The Bird Nest now, and I think it’s for the best. Also we obviously changed the theme, yet I’m not in love with the new one. Highlights do include easier to [...]

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The Craft of War is EPIC.

So perusing the interwebs this morning I stumbled across a video that is simply fantastic.  This is a really well done animation using World of Warcraft.  To be honest I have no idea how Percula (handle in vimeo) made this video but this is well worth a watch.  We are getting a lot of traffic [...]

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Top Ten Dreamcast games of my youth

I was perusing Loot-Ninja earlier today and they had an interesting review up there about Jet Grind Radio for Sega Dreamcast. This got my brain stems firing and I started reaching back to the good old Dreamcast days. Before Xbox, better than N64, and an acceptable alternative to Playstation, the Sega Dreamcast was the system [...]

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Didn’t you hear? We’re in a recession!

Forgive me for the academic subject for this mornings post, but my colleague MJ clued me in on this from the Economist about the durability of the gaming industry. There are some interesting points in here, including their assessment of the cyclical trending of the industry. Every few years a new crop of consoles is [...]

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EA does something smart with DRM and Steam

Thanks to Jpark for bringing this to my attention, but EA makes some legitatmately smart decisions here by annoucing a new partnership with Valve’s game distributor, Steam. I can’t even begin to tell you how much I hate EA’s download manager, and how much easier Steam is to use. I used the former for Red [...]

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