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Retro Video Game Textiles & Cross Stitching Home Goods

We were perusing some of the fabric options over at an Etsy shop when we noticed they were selling an assortment of Space Invaders inspired printed textiles, perfect to craft together an Invaders th...

10 Best Weight Loss Games for the Wii
Roundup

After recently covering the Cyberbike title for the Wii, we were thinking it was time to look at the other weight loss games for the Wii and roundup the top ten. In some of our picks the fitness goa...

PS3 Slim Converted Into Laptop Form

What looks like a chunky laptop at first glance is actually a mod masterpiece of sorts: Ben Heck transformed a PS3 Slim combined with a 17" Gateway 1775W screen into an on-the-go gaming laptop. Video ...

The Atari Laptop
Old School Computer Becomes Portable

With the new video gaming systems on the market, a lot of us still remember fondly where it all started. By this, we don't mean the NES, but actually Atari and Commodore computers. These were the firs...

Final Frame NES Controller Coffee Table

The NES Controller Coffee Table...

NES Cartridge External HD: An Homage to Old School Games

Just like a lot of people, we had Nintendo Entertainment Systems at home. It was the first console that started it all for a lot of game players. The others just followed this 8-bit wonder. Well, as a...

Geek Out a Table Setting with Fire Flowers

You can't beat the look and smell of fresh flowers at the center of the table. What we can do without is having to replace them ($$) when they get old and wilted. Many are taking up fake scented flowe...

Neat and Tidy Video Game Controller Storage

Los Angeles crafter and self-proclaimed nerd Anjali's gaming control storage solution is a smile-inviting setup comprised of an IKEA CD shelf which has been dubbed "The Hutch", making it a perfect spo...

Final Frame: Video Games

Video Games from MUSCLEBEAVER on Vimeo. A Film directed and animated by MUSCLEBEAVER that takes us way back to some fond memories laying across the couch, getting our SNES on. Impressively, every game...

Final Frame: videocrab's Wall-E

Now that's a serious gaming selection. But the real kicker is the Virtual Boy at the top of the stack makes videocrab's collection look strikingly similar to Pixar's creation, Wall-E....

All-Black Wii Console Gets A Japanese Release Date

Remember when we asked if you have a go-to color for gadgets? Well if your go-to color was black (as many of you said it was), you've probably had your reservations about adding the super-popular Nint...

What's The Appropriate TV for a Kid's Room?

Let's be honest, kids destroy stuff often. It's nice to give Bobby the Nintendo paradise he's always wanted in his room, but chances are that 19" LCD will see it's demise at the hands of a game of Wii...

How To: Make a Lego NES Gift

Flickr user Arkov was kind enough to let us share his smile inducing instructions for making your own NES system out of Legos, making this a great surprise gift for the gamer in your life (and a grea...

Multimedia Seat: Perfect Complement For Your Home Theater

When you are getting ready to watch your favorite movie or playing your favorite game, it's usually great to have a specific seat in which you can get really comfortable. It's important that these tec...

Digital Soaps: Handmade Gaming Control-shaped Soaps

click for more pics Years ago when we worked in the field of video game publications we used to half-jokingly mention some of our coworkers regularly exuded a "ripe" bouquet thanks to their aversion t...

Tetris Planters Make Gardening a Puzzle

What a techie way to go green! It's so lame to pot your plants into the average square and circular geometric planters, the real geeks get growing with planters shaped like Tetris cubes....

Look! Namco's WiiWare Muscle March

We're posting this under the pretense that a home aerobic workout could be attained while playing this upcoming Japan-only Nintendo Wii game. The truth is we just wanted to post this because it's so ...

Good Questions: Suggestions for Basement Man-Cave

Dear Unplggd, I am moving into my first house with my wife at the end of this month. I was looking for suggestions on the man-cave which I will be using the finished basement for. I want to try to set...

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...

Nintendo NES Mouse: Brings Back Some Memories

This is one sweet looking mouse. It reminds me of playing hours and hours on the NES at home, back when it was the best video game system in the world. Now, it just brings back some cool memories for ...

Periodic Table of Video Games

We've played a lot of games in our day, and yet we still don't know how 80% of the games referenced in this periodic table. Maybe you can help us? Btw, we love that the periodic table has become th...

Geeks Who Love Toys Can Wear Their Heart on Their Sleeve

We've always done a lot of talk about geeks at Unplggd, from yesterday's post about the complications that arise when geeks mary non-geeks to the post more than a year ago about how to woo your geek v...

The Tetris Machine: Finally Tetris in Real Life

I can't remember the amount of hours that I played Tetris on the Gameboy, the original green-lit one. I could never really get past level 13 or 14. At one point, it was just raining Tetris blocks. I t...

How Many Hours Have Been Spent Playing Halo?

On February 28th, the billionth match of Halo 3 was played. A milestone for the four gamers who played it to be very proud of. But to really hammer it down and make live-in girlfriends everywhere crin...

Video Game Titles Fashioned Into Book Covers

We stumbled upon this collection of popular video game titles re-imagined as if they were books and art made of their cover illustrations. We think a bunch of these would make great pieces to hang on ...