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Computerspielemuseum: Berlin’s Computer Game Museum Is As Cool As It Sounds

by Eric Limer | 5:05 pm, August 30th

The Video Game Museum of Berin is undergoing a beautiful, video game history renaissance. Opened in the late 1990′s, it went through a rough patch and had to be closed by by 2000. Lucky for you, for us, and especially for everyone in Berlin, the museum reopened in a new location early this year and is doing better than ever.

Its exhibits, which include a wide breadth of video game related topics, include the world’s very first home video game console, 50 portable and handheld consoles as well as exhibits devoted to the social aspects of gaming as well as its darker sides, violence and addiction. The museum is very smartly designed and pops with a certain retro-flair, the kind you can only get when you’re staring a Pong cabinet in the face.

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Improbably Connected Things of the Day

People Are Playing Video Games With Paramecia

by Jamie Frevele | 3:01 pm, January 15th

This is a paramecium. You probably haven’t thought about it since 7th-grade biology, but as a refresher, it is a one-celled organism akin to the amoeba. And now scientists have started playing with them. Like pets. But while inserting them into old school video games like Pong and Pac-Man. How exactly have they made this happen, pitting microscopic creatures against each other in Atari games? Click through for the explanation and the video:

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Elsewhere on the Internet

Flash vs. HTML5 Pong

by James Plafke | 11:41 am, November 3rd

Ever since Apple began taking over the world, Adobe’s Flash has been under a lot more scrutiny, considering Apple overlord Steve Jobs has openly decried it in favor of HTML5. There’s been a lot of buzz surrounding the Flash vs. HTML5 debate, so the team over at Code Computerlove decided to put it to a more practical test: Flash vs HTML5 in the form of Pong, with the left side being Flash and the right side being HTML5.

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Video Games Attack New York (in French Short Film)!

by Jon Bershad | 2:22 pm, April 8th

A cool new video has shown up on the web today showing impressive CG renditions of popular 8-bit characters running amok in New York City. The movie, entitled Pixels and directed by the French director Patrick Jean, depicts a world where video game creations attack the city turning everything into mere pixels like them.

It was first posted on the French site Nightfall this morning and we ran around trying to find a French speaking employee to translate the site hoping for some behind the scenes details. Turns out it was just a plot summary. Guess we should have paid more attention in French class in school.

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Mondrian Pong

by Robert Quigley | 12:14 pm, March 22nd

British imageboard dervishes B3ta have finally discovered the meaning of Piet Mondrian’s famous, gridlike De Stijl paintings: really, they were all about classic gaming.

Fully-sized and animated after the jump:

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14 of the Best Geekiest Beers

Given beer's pervasive place in human history, it's not surprising that the geeky pastimes of drinkers would eventually rub off on the beers themselves. The result is a veritable cornucopia of nerdy beers, 14 of which are right here.

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James Plafke I am jealous Elmo got to make out with Kristin Chenoweth.
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Eric Limer I swear under my breath A LOT. This must make people near by me very uncomfortable. That being said, I have no intentions of stopping.
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Max Court is now in session at the Burp Castle.
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Eric Limer I don't look at my finances as often as I should which is the main reason why I don't often want to look at my finances.
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Max Desert PolyBus: The game where you drive to Reno and then die.
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Eric Limer If I wrote a webcomic, every strip would be titled "Get it? GET IT?!"
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Max Got chili oil on my hands and face. It hurts. A lot.
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Eric Limer Suddenly I remember what I hate about PC gaming. Mainly never having a computer that can actually do it.
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James Plafke The halftime show taught me that football-watching men drinking beer who love seeing muscular men beat each other up really like to vogue.
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Max Pestering your friends at 8am is how you show you care, right? #hopeso
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Eric Limer Twitter is like RiffTrax for EVERYTHING.
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James Plafke I know global warming is scary, but not having a winter was pretty cool. I didn't have to spend money on shoes for the snow.
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Eric Limer I hereby apologize to all persons --past, present and future-- who have the misfortune of hearing me "sing" dubstep songs.
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Max Even Facebook's Timeline thinks I could have done more with my life.
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Max I did that thing where Facebook turns your Timeline into a movie. Mine had pictures of ducks and foliage set to really dramatic music.
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Max "But I don't wanna go to the dog show!"
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James Plafke People can't stop talking about Downtown Abbey. Is it actually good, or is the rest of TV so bad that comparatively, it isn't the worst?
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Eric Limer Awful is a funny lookin' word.
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James Plafke Remember when soda cans didn't have the wide-mouth openings standard?
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Max Hopefully backsliding on my resolutions for self improvement will shame me into success!
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