Japan. Seriously. What is it about your culture that makes your people come up with the best advertisements and game shows? I love you, Japan. Keep doin’ what you’re doin’. For the full animated gif, go past the break.

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It’s another win for ThinkGeek.  Every year during April fools day, ThinkGeek comes up with some of the craziest, funniest, and most awesome items to sell. Sometimes the joke items are so awesome, that people want it to become a reality.  Just like the 8-bit tie (hey, that’s me!), the Star War Tauntaun sleeping bag has received an overwhelming response that ThinkGeek couldn’t let this joke item just “die”. (Hah. I did it again. I crack myself up.)

The exclusive and officially licensed Star Wars Tauntaun sleeping bag is now available for $99.99 only at ThinkGeek.com. Oh, and one more thing.  That zipper to open it is just a touch more of awesome.

TGIF everyone! Hopefully everyone has something to play this weekend.  If you don’t, our boy Aaron has a handful of Steam keys to giveaway.

The prize: Scarabor on Steam.
Quantity: Ten (10) Steam Keys.  One (1) per winner.

About the prize: Sacraboar is an RTS game in which players have to capture their opponent’s boar trophy. Featuring an intuitive and easy to use resource management system, the game offers fast-paced game play without lengthy and tedious construction phases.

During the game players can build towers, which either give them access to powerful spells or increase their budgets for producing units.

Get yourself some awards in league and cup competitions as well as bronze, silver, and gold medals in over 80 challenging missions and battle it out against human opponents via LAN or Internet.

• Multiplayer via LAN and Internet
• League in four difficulties (Bronze, Silver, Gold, All Star)
• Cup in four difficulties (Bronze, Silver, Gold, All Star)
• 89 Missions, each one in three difficulties (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
• 6 additional tutorial missions
• Replays (record your matches and share them with your friends)
• 18 difficulties in Skirmish mode (from very easy to ultra-hard)
• Lots of different game modes that can be combined
• Easy to use code system for sharing cool game settings
• Test Center for testing units and spells
• Encyclopedia with all information about units, spells, game modes etc.
• Trophy Room that lists all your achievements

Thanks to: Makivision Games

How to win: First ten (10) people tweet about why they love reading PixelatedGeek, gets a Steam key.  Don’t forget to put @pixelatedgeek so I can see the tweet. Thanks for being a fan! =D

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Genres: Action, Fantasy, Occult

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In a world much like our own, around the height of the 19th century, a rather peculiar event happens upon ones’ death. Every memory, every recorded moment of your life encodes to a stone “book”, representative of your soul. A facility was created to house these tomes: the Bantorra Library. There in, every possible “book” is cared for by the Armed Librarians. These librarians must guard the books from those that might abuse them, as well as from the creatures which inhabit the ancient halls below them.

The Armed Librarians enter the series in dramatic fashion, speeding toward a steam ship owned by the Shindeki Church. The church follows a rather brutal hierarchy with those known as the “True Men” on the top. Under them are the “Mock Men”, who serve unconditionally, and give up their lives for the True Men. The lowest rung are called the “Meats”, and have little to no free will left. They are brutally brainwashed and mistreated; frequently being turned into living bombs. It is these bombs that begin throwing themselves at the Librarian’s boat.

The librarians acting leader, Hamutz Meseta, sits on the shore monitoring the group’s progress on their mission to gather information on the church’s activities. She shows on of her psychic powers, that of extended senses, by mentally poking around the boat with invisible threads (the visual representation of her power is that they glow white to the viewers). One Librarian, not realizing the Meats are bombs, is killed trying to rescue a man from the water. The rest make their way on board, slaying the Mock Men left to defend the ship.

After finding a suitable number of clues about the church’s goals, the ship’s cache of gunpowder and bombs explodes and throws the Librarians and Meats into the ocean. One of the Librarians, named Volken McMarney, attempts to save the Meats, but notices they have no will of their own to live, allowing themselves to drown. The Librarians begin tracking down clues which leads one, Mattoalast Barori, into a direct confrontation with three Meats in a mining town. One detonates himself and kills Mattoalast, the other rebels against one of the True Men, Segal, and dies. The remaining Meat continues on his programmed mission, to kill Hamutz Meseta.

There is absolute volumes of information I have left out of this article (the function of the books and shards there of), you just have to watch the series to get the true impact of the events that transpire! Two deaths amongst the Librarians within the first two episodes give us a good feel for the serious nature of the series. There are many levels in the complex social environment that have yet to be unveiled… and I can’t wait to find out. The mix of generally old technology, psychic powers and cults plays out well in these first two episodes. The cool display of Hamutz’s power at the end of episode two leave this as one series to definitely watch.

Overall Hook Rating: A

Check out the stylish opening sequence after the break:
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Congratulations to Nintendo for getting their Game Boy inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame.  I remember the first time I saw one of these bad boys. I couldn’t believe my eyes while watching my next door neighbor play Super Mario Land. I kept thinking to myself. Wow. This is Nintendo! But this is Nintendo that you can walk around with. Amazing!

The Game Boy has laid down the ground work for every advanced mobile gaming device and deserves this place in history.

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Peter Cooper - Credits Ben Smith

After a bit of small talk, and an introduction as to what Operation Chastity is all about, we got down to learning more about the film. Past the break is a transcript of the interview or you can listen to it below. We learn from Peter how and when he started this film project to the latest news about it.  Oh and btw.  Yes, I sound like I just woke up in the beginning because, yes.  I did just wake up at 9am Sunday for this interview.

i7: How and when did you start this project?

PC: It was actually around June or July 2008. That was when I took out a medium sized loan to get some camera equipment. It was actually going to be a project based on the Doom comic. I’m not sure if you have ever seen that, but it’s absolutely hilarious. But then we ended up scrapping that project because it wasn’t going anywhere.

But for the past 3 years, I’ve been visiting Dragon Con to hang out with my buddies and over a quiet a few beers, I was sat there with lots and lots of napkins and started drawing out Halo Warthogs. I thought, how can I build one?

So, really this whole thing started as an excuse for a really, really cool car.

I came back from America still wanting this Warthog and contacted a few engineers to figure out how to get this made. Everyone at the special effects studio I was working at was wondering “why are you doing this?” and “what purpose is this going to serve?”

i7: Well it’s because you wanted you’re own warthog.

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The PSP is quite a interesting handheld device, it’s major draw for me was the more Mature themed content and the 3d Graphics. That’s not to say I don’t own a DS but there isn’t Kratos on the DS. This time around it’s a fresh new title from Tecmo called Undead Knights. I was lucky enough to get a review copy to give a spin. How does this game live up to it’s undead title? (more…)

“Womanizer” in LA Hands

Sliimy | MySpace Video

Even though you are not a Britney Spears fan or Sliimy fan you need to watch this video.

First question that comes to mind after 5 seconds of watching it. How? How did the hell did they do that?

It’s super creative and worth a watch.

In an unusual cross-promotion, Old Navy is giving away free copies of Lego Rock Band during Black Friday. The only catch is that you must spend at least $20 on clothes. Also, Old Navy will be selling Rock Band 2 with a free extra Rock Band guitar.  Hmm… a clothing store selling video games. Interesting…. More info and deals on BlackFriday.info

Two equally “hot” slave Leia’s sun bathing while between takes on Jabba’s Sail barge.  Jabba is such a pimp.

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