Yao Guai: They're Real!

On the left, a picture of a hairless bear from a German zoo, taken earlier this month. On the right, Fallout 3's hairless bear, the fierce Yao Guai. I think we found the source of their hair loss, folks. Post apocalyptic radiation.

How To: Cheat At Video Games

If you've never visited BasicInstructions, then you really should. Like, now. Clear your schedule. It deserves an afternoon of your time.

Stuff I've Written Lately

So since I've been writing everywhere on the web except for here lately I thought I'd link you up to some of the news I've written in the past few whatever. While I love you guys dearly I don't love you enough to write these damn things twice:

Valve Really, Really Wants You To Know About Left 4 Dead 2 -- BBPS
Mo'saic Please: Stained Glass Style LEGO Link Portrait -- Tanooki
Zombies Invade Tate Modern For Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles -- BBPS
Fused Glass Pac-Man Pendant -- Sprite Stitch
College Humor Takes On The Sims -- Tanooki
$16.5 Million Awarded In "Hold Your Wee For A Wii" Wrongful Death Suit -- BBPS
MiniPlushies By MalonB -- Sprite Stitch
First Sims 3 Expansion, World Adventures, Due November 17 -- Tanooki
Amid DSi LL Hoopla, Wii 2 Details Leaked -- BBPS
100 Calorie Serving Kirby Cupcakes -- Sprite Stitch
C'mon Pac-Man Light My Fire -- Tanooki
5 Minutes To Kill Yourself Now Available On iPhone -- Tanooki
What's Your Alignment? -- BBPS
Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad Mario World -- Tanooki
This Dude Sucks, His High Score Is Only 420 -- BBPS
Accessorize Your Apocalypse: Vault 101 Jacket And More -- Tanooki
The Gamer Mentality -- BBPS
Minimal Work, Maximum Effect: Video Game Minimalism -- Tanooki

Oh Boy! Oh Castle Crashers Bento

I'm on a Castle Crashers kick as of late. I just can't help it. They're tiny, colorful, mean lookin'. Much like me.

[AnnaTheRed]

Teaser Trailer For American McGee's Alice Sequel!

EXCLAMATION POINTS!!! The love of my life, aka the American McGee's Alice, has a sequel "The Return of Alice" teaser trailer!

Its definitely got my interest, nay, desperate need for the game back into high gear, but I really hope they ditch the claymation.

Update: Word has it that this is not an official trailer. Joystiq has the details.

New 4.2" Nintendo DSi LL Launches In Japan

OK I know I've been absent lately but this is one of those stories where if I don't put it up on Gamer Grrlz, then I will surely fail at life. Basically, Japan decided that old people need the DSi. And also, they need big buttons, a stylus the size of a battering ram, and a selection of colors befitting your local morgue. And so we have the Nintendo DSi LL (which is Japan's version of XL, apparently). $220, no word on overseas releases quite yet.

Castle Crashers Pixel Sprites

I'll have a smaller, more Perler bead friendly version of this up soon.

My Take On Fallout 3 Game Of The Year Edition

It behooves me to simply repost my Fallout 3 review, as I wrote it for The BBPS and they prefer I keep my content there exclusive, but you can always hit up the link and tell me what you think here!

What NO FAIR I Want One! Chinatown Wars Nintendo DS Stylus!

This is from the Japanese launch party for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on DS. And what's this? Do my eyes deceive me? Chopstick-style styluses? Packaged like chopsticks? With the logo on the end? Folks, I'm not just jealous. I'm pissed. I want some. NOW. I'm about to throw a tantrum like an ADD kid on Red Dye #40 until I figure out how to get some.

Speaking of Chinatown Wars, the PSP version launches this week, and so naturally the comparisons have begun. Check out the video:

The PSP version looks better for the most part, but wtf, why is Huang Lee's hair brown in the PSP version? Yes, I know Asian hair is more often brown than it is black, but sheesh, most Asian hair doesn't also resemble a polyester wig on a used car salesman in Topeka, Kansas. FFS.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go kill kill kill set a "Chinatown Wars chopstick stylus" alert on Ebay.

[GoNintendo]

This "Don't Blog Me" Poster Can't Tell ME What To Do!

I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm still totally blogging you. $10.99 via ThePosterList.

[Geeksugar]

Two Girls One Up, Now In Cross Stitch

I'm so exhausted you guys. Seriously. All. This. Blogging. Its tiring to think so much.

I'm just going to stab my fingers at this keyboard in random fashion until something intelligible comes up.



Yeah, I got nothing.

From Sprite Stitch user mud comes this cute cross stitch version of the HaLOLz image "Two Girls One Up". If you stitch this pattern as a gift, be sure to record the recipient's reaction. I hear its what they're doing on YouTube these days.

[SpriteStitch]

Animal Crossing Jewelry Set

This Animal Crossing necklace and earring set is so cute it makes me wish I played Animal Crossing so I could justify wearing it. However, I'm having trouble justifying the micromanagement of yet another set of lives I'll surely destroy (don't even ask what happened to my Sims), so its either go without or look like a poseur.

$18 for the set, by artist YellaCracka.

[Etsy]

DSi Of Brotherly Hate

Hey you two, no fighting! Unless its in Brawl in which case... carry on.

[Technabob]

4 The Left 4 Dead

It has come to my attention that Left 4 Dead is popular. I can't wander through the video game section at StumbleUpon for even five seconds without seeing something L4D related. Let me put it this way. I haven't seen anyone humping their copy of L4D but I often get the feeling its just around the corner. In light of this, and the recent news that Left 4 Dead 2 is anticipated to be Valve's top selling game of all time, I figure its time to do something for the muthafuckin zombie killers.

via Sack Planet

via Etsy

via deviantART

SaberScorpion, via Technabob

via Etsy

Left 4 Dead Crossword Puzzle

What I Learned From Left 4 Dead

How's Your Saturday?

Sooo....as you can see, I'm rained in! A drainage sewer seems to be overflowing, while dumping all the water from the complex next door into our parking lot, too. Sadly, I'm still in Fallout 3 mode from playing oh, 24hoursaday, so I went out there and starting scouting like I expected to find Stimpacks and a bottle of Buffout. Even my Twitter page reads, as one friend put it, like "a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of Fallout 3 addiction." Truer words have never been spoken my friend.

Flooding in two spots! Yes two. They should redirect the overflow right into the pool.

So anyway, here are some more pics of Nuka. I've been inundated with requests from the masses:

My junk food litter now doubles as a sleeping bag. Who says I don't recycle.

Nuka puts his two cents in on the whole Mac VS PC debate.

Anyway, I know I haven't been around a lot lately and I also know I told you it was because of Fallout 3...which it totally is, but I'm also writing for three other sites now. THREE! And they require a lot of work out of me. When I'm all done, I don't always have the content that I did before, go fig. They want to bottle all my awesome and keep it to themselves. This past week or so I wondered if it was time to move on, not having enough content to go around. Then I realized only at Gamer Grrlz will I get to blurt out "aborted fetus of Satan's anus" (for some strange reason my editor felt it was too strongly worded...) and I can never give this place up. Maybe it'll help to remember that you guys are still out there, and if you hadn't been there in the first place, well, I might not have ever written the very posts here that served as my writing samples to get my foot in elsewhere. Its been too fun here.

OMG I Just PEWed My Pants: DIY AER9 Laser Rifle From Fallout 3

I know I'm a little late on the whole Fallout 3 thing, but you can blame (or alternately, thank) that game for my absence lately. I've barely had time to come up for air. Its been a long time since a game consumed so much of my attention span. Its damn near dethroning my love of Diablo II: LoD, and that game has been a second boyfriend to me for well near seven years now. Look, I even have a brand new kitten and not only did it take me over a week to tell you all, but I also named it Nuka. As in, Nuka Cola:

Luckily, he's unaffected by the sounds of roaring Super Mutants and constant gunfire, so we hang out a lot.

The above laser gun is made of wood, so unfortunately if you wanna kill someone, you're gonna have to throw this at their head and hope for a critical strike. However I'm fascinated that it looks so realistic...and suspicious that the "real" AER9 Laser Rifles are secretly just petrified wood.

DIY instructions here.

via Geekologie

TV Armor Makes Your Flat Screen Wii Remote-Proof

Worry about Wii Remote damage no more!

This new product, dubbed “TV Armor”, protects from a variety of random projectiles, from that Wii remote you “accidentally” threw to your kids’ explorations in the finer, missile-based techniques of finger painting.

The device is easy to install; you simply slip the durable 1/4″ acrylic cover on the front of your TV and secure in the back with Velcro straps. The shield does not degrade your picture quality, but does provide enough protection to keep your flat screen TV damage-free. Now you can get into those drunken Wii Bowling sessions with nary a second thought. Prices vary by screen size, but range from $69 to $289 USD. Small amount to pay in light of the thousands spent on the TV in the first place!

And now maybe, just maybe, they can come out with a realistic Wii Paintballing game, with working paint ball gun attachment. I'm so ready for it.

Check out more at TV Armor. Via Technabob.

Real Men Hate Vampires

Truth. $22, via Etsy

Twitter Is Serious Stuff Guys

I love these dramatic readings of celebrity Tweets. They almost makes me wish someone would do this to Kanye West's Myspace blog. But then, I don't need to hear the oral equivalent of a seizure. via Laughing Squid

I Give In, Time To Post Paper Craft: Perfect Dark MagSec 4

In the history of my blogging career *cough* I've never actually posted any paper craft. Just seems like a dangerous hobby to me. For instance, yesterday I very stupidly put a mini ceramic bong and a lighter on my heater. Let me say that again. Ceramic bong. Lighter. Heat source. In other words, I'm a flaming ball of accident waiting to happen and if I fill my apartment with paper craft, its goin' up like a tinder box.

But for those of you who don't smoke like a stack, I'm sure you'll find paper craft to be a fun and fulfilling hobby. Click on the photo above for a full set of instructions on how to make a life-sized MagSec 4 from Perfect Dark.