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Arkeg: The Kegerator Meets Gaming System

We love things that multi-task. Seriously, we do, it could be energy generating toilet paper, or dishwashers doubling as storage. But we're not so sure about this gaming meets kegerator combo. W...

Final Frame: Lego Arcade

Learn How To Build Your Own Standup Arcade Machine

Here's a last second addition to our Friday post via LAMetblogs for tech/DIY minded Angelenos. The folks over at Machine Project are offering a workshop showing how to make your own stand-up video gam...

Close-Up: A Homemade Media Cabinet to Fit Every Pastime

click for more pics Brian Watkins installs home cabinetry in San Bernardino, California so when his son thought it would be a good idea to have a place that could hold on the newest and greatest video...

Super-Difficult Zero-Gravity Pac Man

So we can try to redecorate our offices and shift things around for ourselves, but one thing is for sure: Up will always be up and down will stay down. Even in Space (Invaders), we're used to the miss...

Arcade Buttons to Remember The Old Stand-Up Days

If I mention the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and all you think of is a pixelated Michelangelo beating up on some yellow-and-black ninja dudes on a street in a stand-up arcade cabinet, then congratula...

Look! Joysticks Repurposed as Coat Hangers

If there's anything cooler than a Nintendo Game cartridge turned into a console or Space Invader decals on your walls, it's retro arcade hardware recycled into practical houseware items. A fine exampl...

Roundup: Arcade Cabinets Takes Us Back to the Future

Like very boy growing up in the 80's, one of our most vivid dreams was to own our very own home arcade like that spoiled brat Ricky Stratton on Silver Spoons. Although arcade gaming has faded away wit...

A Pinball Machine for Small, Cool Spaces

Classic arcade console games are the perfect addition to a basement playroom or bachelor pad. But what about those of us who love a round of pinball but don't have the space for a full-on pinball mach...

Turn Car Trips Into Your Own Custom Arcade Game

Carcade is a concept created by three students at Berlin University of the Arts for an in-car videogame which captures the passing landscape, like trees and buildings, and creates a game stage based o...

Rumor Mill: Xbox 360 Getting Wii-Like Motion Control?

This one comes from Xbox 360 Fanboy: We've heard about the price cuts that are supposed to be coming out around the holidays concerning the Xbox 360. Specifically, that Microsoft is going to be relea...

Broken Powerbook Powers Up to Arcade Console

This gaming hack reminds us of Gerald's PS3 DIY cabinet, but you know...a paired down version the rest of us can get our heads around. Rather than dumping his broken Powerbook as e-trash, Frédéric ...

80's Ghost Lamp

Brazilian designer Belo Horizonte's 80's Ghost Lamp should come with additional string pac-dots lights and a roll of quarters. Maybe he can design some Donkey Kong bookshelves to go alongside with the...