Choking hazard, 25 cents

Even as a kid I can't see of a situation where you would want one or the other interchangeably. [epicponyz] continue

Latest crappy solution for game piracy: buy half a game, pay for second half later

F1 2010 maker Codemasters has had it up to here with people pirating its games. What can it do to combat it? Company CEO Rod Cousens has an idea! And it's terrible!: release only half a game, ... continue

[VIDEO] Confirmed: Mario Kart would suck as a board game

Mario Kart as a videogame is brilliant. But the board game? Ehhh ... Yes, there's a Mario Kart board game. Or rather there will be. Japanese company Epoch showed off two new board games at the Tokyo Toy ... continue

Ugh: Kmart introducing user-submitted game reviews in stores

User-submitted reviews: they've been on the Internet for years, and now bricks-and-mortar retailers are finally catching up. Kmart has announced plans to position snippets of videogame reviews posted on the MyKmart community site on store shelves, right in ... continue

Unvarnished astroturfs blog comments after pretty much everyone hates on it

The new professional networking site Unvarnished was a pretty big topic of discussion yesterday after people balked at its strange marriage of concepts- kind of like LinkedIn meets /b/ on 4chan. When the site comes out of beta, ... continue

Unvarnished: bad networking idea or the worst networking idea ever?

You've probably heard some of the steadily increasing buzz about the new professional networking site Unvarnished, a site Gawker says aims to "cross the anonymous pompous idiocy of Yelp with the overserious 'professional'ism of LinkedIn." People are freaking ... continue

$16 million award in CA “Wee for Wii” water intoxication death

The family of Jennifer Strange, the Rancho Cardova, CA woman who died after consuming massive quantities of water in an ill-conceived radio station contest, has been awarded $$16,577,118 in damages. Strange, 27, attempted to win a Wii gaming ... continue

Long Island mom uses Craigslist to retaliate against 9-year-old

A 40-year-old Long Island social worker is accused of using Craigslist's adult section to mete out vengeance in a dispute between 4th graders. Hauppauge mother Margery Tannenbaum is facing charges of aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child after ... continue

Just say no to lady garden mints

Vagina mints- why has no one thought of this before? Because it's a horrifying, off-putting and misogynist idea, that's why. The new "novelty" feminine mints (feminine being a euphemism for the part of the female anatomy that dare ... continue

David Spade sells out dead buddy Chris Farley shilling DirecTV

I thought perhaps I was the only one who found this commercial to be in horrendous taste, but apparently Gawker did, too. David Spade, whose buddy films and general camaraderie with SNL castmate Chris Farley arguably carried the show through ... continue

Everyone, blow kisses and say goodnight to free Hulu!

News Corp Deputy Chairman Chase Carey told press that the service won't be free anymore starting as soon as 2010. (That's in two months, people!) Carey told reporters that Hulu was likely to become a subscription service, although ... continue

Good news everyone! They’re trying to ruin Futurama.

Were you getting excited about the new episodes of Futurama we're finally getting? Not so fast. 20th Century Fox thinks all the fangirls and fanboys can interface with their asses by biting them and they're looking to recast ... continue