Video Games

With the Super Bowl coming up, we wanted to see if we could get a sneak preview of the winner, but how? Do research on each of the players? Call Miss Cleo? We’ll do research the best way we know how — by pitting the Giants and Patriots against each other on Tecmo Super Bowl on the original Nintendo Entertainment System.

Angry Birds and pizza — two of modern life’s most addictive things — come together in this nifty photo, which was posted on Deviant Art user Ilovetohavfun’s account.

A young boy excitedly shows off his bedroom and bathroom based on the mind-bending video game ‘Portal.’ If only we had a room this cool when we were kids.

If you’ve ever wanted to own one of the cars in the video game Mario Kart, now’s your chance. Nintendo and auto body shop West Coast Customs, known for its work in the MTV series ‘Pimp My Ride,’ collaborated to build two of the vehicles in Mario Kart 7, which launches on December 4 for the Nintendo 3DS game system.

Every story your grandfather told you about how many miles he walked in the snow to get to school has been obliterated by what students in the Chinese village of Pili have to go through to get their learning on.

It isn’t easy being Pac-Man. Having to live with a perpetual hunger for floating yellow dots while being chased by color changing apparitions is the kind of thing that we take for granted NOT having to deal with everyday. The guys at Respect The Pact created the short film below, giving us a tiny glimpse into what it might be like to live like Pac-Man in real life.

In an effort to increase ad revenues, Google-owned video site YouTube said Friday that it’s launching more than 100 new video channels containing original content.

A new study by the San Francisco-based non-profit group Common Sense Media found that affluent parents download apps specifically for their young children more than parents of lesser financial means do. Deemed the “app gap,” researchers found almost half of families with incomes above $75,000 had downloaded such apps, compared with only one in eight families earning less than $30,000. Lower-income

This wee kitty seems pretty intrigued by a Sony Playstation controller, but would probably need a smaller joystick if it wanted to play. Perhaps kitty is as obsessed with ‘Batman: Arkham City’ as we are.

Get your crops ready, hayseeds — there might be a FarmVille movie coming. As one of the most popular video games probably ever, the scourge of Facebook is about to hit the silver screen thanks to screenwriters Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen.

Justin Bieber‘s upcoming Christmas album ‘Under the Mistletoe’ already features duet partners like Usher, Boyz II Men and Busta Rhymes. But the revelation of the Biebs’ latest collaboration seemed to get fans really excited. After teasing his 13 million Twitter followers with questions like, “Who is the living legend that I got on the album????,” Bieber finally linked to a video of pop diva Mariah

The best part about winning computer solitaire is the flurry of cards that fills the screen after making the final move. Lars Marcus Vedeler and Theo Tveteras of experimental design team skrekkogle have now translated this iconic moment into a physical 3D sculpture of the jumping cards.