Tag: video games
DIY Video Game Controller Couch Pillow That Actually Works
We've featured a lot of homegrown video game controllers over the years, but this is the first time I've ever seen one disguised as a couch pillow. Or, maybe it's the other way around; maybe the couch pillow is disguised as a video game controller. Either way, you'll play the softest, coziest game e ...
Kentucky Route Zero: A Magical Realist Adventure Game Worth Playing
Kentucky Route Zero is an indie Windows, Mac and Linux game developed by the duo known as Cardboard Computer (Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy). As the developers describe it, Kentucky Route Zero is "a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the myster ...
Survive The Zombie Apocalypse With The Organ Trail: Director’s Cut
The Organ Trail: Director’s Cut is an indie game developed by The Men Who Wear Many Hats. The Organ Trail was initially released on their website for free. It was modeled after The Oregon Trail, an educational computer game released in the 1970s that taught schoolchildren about life on the Oregon Tr ...
Custom Zelda Wedding Rings: For Geeks Who Wanna Do It Right
When it comes to combining of the worlds of Zelda and jewelry, the closest we have gotten so far are the Blue and Red rings in the original Legend of Zelda game and the Ocarina of Time's Goron bracelet. But now, goldsmith Zsolt Székely took it upon himself to combine the two by designing and creatin ...
The Zelda Project: 7 Simply Stunning Photographs From Hyrule
Whether you have been a dedicated Zelda fan since the 1986 release of The Legend of Zelda, a fan of Ocarina of Time, or just jumping on the Hyrulian bandwagon with the most recent release of Skyward Sword, you are going to like this. I believe anyone who loops themselves in with the geek lifestyle c ...
I Wanna Eat That…Nintendo DS Lite Cases That Look Like Dessert
We already know that social media and food are a match made in heaven. I've written about it before. Now that we are all tweeting while we eat, posting pictures of everything we make in the kitchen, exchanging recipes on Pinterest, posting restaurant pictures on Facebook and visiting food websites l ...
Geek Girls Rule: 12 Complete Outfits Inspired By Video Games
We've touched on the masculinity of video game heroes many times before. There are a few powerful female video game heroines out there, but the majority of the strong characters are male. Why is that? Since I'm a girl who loves video games, and since even to this day I wear t-shirts with video game ...
Wreck-It Ralph Is A Gamer’s Trip Down Memory Lane
One of the most exciting things I saw at E3 didn't even have anything to do with gaming. Well, not directly, anyway. Turns out, Disney's got an awesome new animated film in the works. It's called Wreck-It Ralph, and it tells the story of an 8-bit, 1990s video game villain who's suffering an identity ...
![Find Out If You Share A Birthday With Batman [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/May-Character-Birthday-Calendar-optimized.jpg "Find Out If You Share A Birthday With Batman [Infographic]")
Find Out If You Share A Birthday With Batman [Infographic]
Everybody loves finding out facts about their favorite fictional characters, right? I can't be the only one who thinks it'd be interesting to know how The Doctor would feel about modern music, or what drink The Joker would order at a bar. It shouldn't be much of a surprise then that this series of i ...
Play Nintendo On A Nintendo Cartridge
Yo Dawg, I heard you like Nintendo games...
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Now, I'm sure there's more than one child of the nineties here who remembers the Nintendo console. I'll always hold a special place for it in my heart. The SNES might've been the first console I owned, but the NES was the fi ...
![Does Your Face Do This When You Play Video Games? [15 Pics]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Playstation-Faces-Gamers-Photography-1-optimized.jpg "Does Your Face Do This When You Play Video Games? [15 Pics]")
Does Your Face Do This When You Play Video Games? [15 Pics]
Over the years, there has been a lot of photography that shows just how immersed we all get when we play video games. It just never gets old. Last year I remember seeing a photography collection that featured little kid gamers, and it was fascinating to watch their faces as they played their favorit ...
Video Game Characters & Their Fake Facebook Photos
It seems real flesh and blood people aren't the only ones addicted to Facebook these days. Apparently video game characters are too, at least if you ask artist Andrew Golden. His collection of fake Facebook photos below is almost as clever as the comments he's added beneath them.
It's fun to see ...
The Gamer’s Dream Home
I want this house. I want to live there, I want to game there. I want to be able to invite my friends over and tell them "I live here. Pretty epic, isn't it?"
Let's back up a bit.
LAN parties are pretty awesome, aren't they? You get to gain bragging rights through victory, show off your gaming ...
Love Hulten’s R-Kaid-6 MAME Console
If you’re looking for the perfect combination of geeky and artsy, look no further than Love Hultén. Hultén, an artist and designer working out of Sweden, has been creating digital and physical art since somewhere around 2008, and he’s got some pretty awesome exhibits and concepts on his personal web ...
Video Games Then And Now: A Mind Twisting Comparison
What is retro to you? Is it the arcade halls of the '80s or just the 8-bit graphics that used to drive the games that you spent countless hours in front of just because you had to finish them? We all have a different idea about what retro is, yet it still all refers to yesterday's awesomeness. Howev ...