The Los Angeles Convention Center in all its teal glory. Yesterday afternoon, I headed down to the Los Angeles Convention Center for the video game industry’s biggest trade event, the E3 electronics expo — where nerds and businessmen come together in unholy alliance to help each other. Many people may not realize that I love video …
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Here Comes E3!
Next week, the videogame industry holds its annual convention called E3, and after two years of attempting a low-key sort of affair, the organizers have returned to proper form by providing us with a giant, over-the-top experience full of pyrotechnics and flashing lights. I’ve gone three times in the past, and next week, I’ll be …
My Favorite Super Bowl Commercial (And The Game Hasn't Even Started Yet)
I know this may be premature, but this new Human Giant-flavored ad campaign by Pepsi may already be my favorite of Super Bowl Sunday. I mean, it’s Will Arnett and scallops. How could that not be funny? Turns out this spot is one of several Pepsi produced and put up on YouTube. I’m not sure …
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Kind of the Very Best Thing I've Seen All Week (And I Saw '30 Rock')
Fast Food? Videogames? Sign Me Up!
In case you haven’t seen the commercials, KFC and Guitar Hero are teaming up to help promote each other with a nifty box of Kentucky Fried goodness. I’m hazy about the details, but basically, if you buy KFC, you could be in the running for something awesome like a free Guitar Hero game or something. …
An Open Letter To The Candidates From Mario
In the wake of last night’s third and final Presidential debate, Joe the Plumber received quite the amount of attention from Barack Obama and John McCain. Many Americans were puzzled by this, and none more so than our most celebrated plumber, Mario. I have obtained this exclusive copy of a letter written by Mario to …
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Stalin, Osama Bin Laden Infiltrate Sherbet Land, Peach Beach, and the Rainbow Road
Lenny Stals takes a ride in the Mushroom Kingdom In one of the stranger investigative reports that surfaced this weekend, The Feed writes that Nintendo has banned the name “Hitler” from being used in its online Mario Kart Wii universe, noting that perhaps a ranting, anti-Semitic, fascist mass-murderer might not totally mix with the more …
Just As Fun As Regular Beer Pong, But Without The Fun!
And now a moment of inevitability: a video game version of beer pong, creatively titled Beer Pong, is coming to the Wii. I must say I’m quite intrigued, but equally doubtful. Look, if there are two things in this world that I love, it’s beer pong and Wii. But together? Seems kind of dubious. After …
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Super Obama Brothers?
Time to shill again. I’ve written yet another column for Dipdive, and this one centers on Barack Obama’s assertion that videogames shouldn’t be raising our children. To that I say PISH-POSH! Videogames can be fine parental substitutions. It’s all about finding the right titles. And what titles would those be? Funny you should ask. I …
This Gets Me Excited
I could go for less annoying music though.