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New Xbox 360 Warranty Stickers Better Guarantee Chastity?
1:36AM Mark Wilson | Apparently, Microsoft is slapping a new style of void-if-removed warranty stickers on Xbox 360s that are sent in for repair. Why? With no facts to back us up, we must call upon our favourite pastime: crazy-eyed speculation. More »
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Words Cannot Explain This Strange Japanese Video Mashup
3:20AM Mark Wilson | In the clip you’re about to see, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-il lock lips to the theme song of an erotic video game. That’s sort of the punchline. Here’s how we got there… More »
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Whole Baby Wiimote Confirms I’m Trapped In Bizarro World
12:40AM Mark Wilson | I’d suspected so for years, but this baby doll Wiimote add-on proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that something is just not right with this Earth. More »
Design
6:40PM Rosa Golijan | At first I thought that Gabriel Cañas was nuts for designing a chair that’s missing a corner, but then I realised the man is just preventing a full line from forming and the chair’s bottom disappearing in true Tetris fashion. More »
I Don’t Care If It Could Disappear, I Want This Tetris Chair
6:40PM Rosa Golijan | At first I thought that Gabriel Cañas was nuts for designing a chair that’s missing a corner, but then I realised the man is just preventing a full line from forming and the chair’s bottom disappearing in true Tetris fashion. More »
Gadgets
Sega Genesis/Saturn Lighters, Or Why Sonic No Longer Runs 5Ks
11:40PM Mark Wilson | It’s easy to think, hey, America and Japan aren’t so different! Then Sega licenses fantastic, official Genesis/Saturn lighters ($US114). And I can’t even begin to imagine the Truth campaign that would stem from the controversy here. [Net-you via Kotaku]
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This Week’s Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss
11:00AM Mark Wilson | Whoa whoa whoa. Wait a second. Since when does Batman dress up in a cookies and cream batsuit? Unless he’s chasing the Joker through a Nabisco factory, this ensemble simply cannot work. More »
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Oil-Cooled Xbox Hints At How Microsoft Should Have Made The 360
6:40AM Mark Wilson | Taking a cue from classic PC modding, one gamer dunked his original Xbox in a fishtank full of mineral oil (minus the DVD/hard drives). And it runs 10 degrees cooler than before! More »
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Microsoft Soft-Launching Xbox Live Rewards Program
1:48AM Mark Wilson | Kotaku reports that a number of their readers have received invites to an “exclusive pilot rewards program” for Xbox Live. More »
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Postal Service Mail Handler Steals 2,200 GameFly Rentals
5:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Both GameFly and Netflix package their by-mail rentals in bright, obvious envelopes, and a Philadelphia mail handler took advantage, stealing 2,200 GameFly games in just six months. When he was caught, he had 81 games on him. 81! More »
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