What's In Your Gamer Closet?

I'd wear the Halo suit over Donkey Kong's. Mario wouldn't stand a chance. (Gamer's Closet from 604republic, who look like they may have raided Glen Brogan's closet.)

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The Ultimate Video Game Party

The Many Faces Of A Space Invader

Choose Your (Video Game) Weapon

Hello Pop Culture Kitties

Illustrator Joseph Senior (aka yodaflicker) is creating 101 pop culture Hello Kitty figures (he's got 68 so far). Above, eight of my favourites: Hello RoboKitty; Hello KISSy Gene; Hello Clockwork Orange; Hello DarthKitty; HALO Kitty; Hello Kill Bill; Hello Jason; Hello Rorschach. (Link via Geek-Art)

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Hello Anatomy Kitty

Hello Starry Night

You Didn't Think It Would Be That Easy, Did You, Hello Kitty?

Darth Vader Blackhawks Vs. Master Chief Blues

Darth Vader playing hockey against Master Chief? Yeah, I could watch that game. Let me tell you, it's tough being Canadian and not caring about hockey. (Vader vs Masterchief by Tyler Edlin; Link via Geek Art)

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No Goooooooals!

The Dude Invitational

Art Grand Slam

Spartan VS Spartan

A Spy vs. Spy - HALO mashup? That should absolutely be a playable mode! And just imagine the hilarious explosions. (Spartan VS Spartan by Kevin of Form & Fuction, available at RIPT apparel. I may have been too late posting this one. My bad.)

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Choose Your (Video Game) Weapon

Let Your Video Game Freak Flag Fly

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Choose Your (Video Game) Weapon

Now that's an arsenal to be proud of! I've always been partial to Halo's energy sword, mostly because it looks so damn cool. (TeeFury via pop artist Ian Leino)

Weapon list from Sinner on the comments board — From top to bottom:
1. Fire Flower from Super Mario
2. Paddle from Arkanoid
3. BFG from Doom
4. Gravity Gun from Half Life 2
5. Golden Gun from Goldeneye 007
6. Ball of Death from Katamari (or half life 2 mines)
7. Illidan's Warglaive from World of Warcraft
8. Cursed Blue Shell from Mario Kart Wii
9. Energy Sword from Halo series
10. Railgun from Quake 4
11. Lancer from Gears of War
12. 1x4 Block from Tetris
13. Blades of Exile from God of War
14. Cloud Strife's sword from Final Fantasy
15. Lightsaber from Dancin Stars
16. Xianghua's Soul Calibur Sword from Soul Calibur
17. Portal Gun from Portal
18. Magic Sword from Legend of Zelda
19. Thunder Fury from World of Warcraft

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Geek Army Knife
Guns. Lots Of Guns
In The '80s Junkyard

Let Your Video Game Freak Flag Fly

When I saw this pixel-tribute to the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph (Epics, from Teextile), I just figured it was the usual piece of pop culture parody, with the artist's favourite games represented. But the comments at Topless Robot revealed a deeper meaning:

Brett said:
Manny Calaveras FTW! Seriously, Grim Fandango is a classic character from adventure gaming. Does anyone not recognize the trend?
Master Chief: First-Person Shooter
Link: action-RPG
Mario: Side-scroller
Lara Croft: 3d adventure/platformer
Scorpion: Fighting
Pikachu: Handheld
Manny Calaveras: Graphic Adventure
Pac-Man: Arcade

And here I was just amused at the Pac-Man sun.

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Retro Lost
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My Little Pony Madness

In the 1980s my sister was obsessed with My Little Pony. They were candy-coloured, sparkly and everything a teenage boy wanted nothing to do with. Some people have decided to do something about this. Tiffany, this is for you...

My Little Alien: I knew there was something wrong with My Little Pony, I just didn't know it would come bursting through my chest cavity. This, and several more are from Mari Kasurinen, who has a Flickr page, a Deviant Art site and a website devoted to her custom toy creations.

My Little Edward Scissorhands: A misunderstood My Little Pony with razor-sharp blades for hooves. Marvelous! It even looks like Johnny Depp!


My Little Buckbeak: Nothing really horrifying about this custom My Little Pony, in fact the Buckbeak was a friendly to Harry Potter. I just loved the look.

My Little Han Solo: Had carbonite freezing been available in my teen years, this is how all of my sisters Ponies would have ended up.

My Little Boba Fett: If you have My Little Han Solo, you naturally have to have My Little Boba Fett. Now no more of this before George Lucas gets any ideas.

My Little Borg: If the Borg were to assimilate everything then it follows that they would assimilate My Little Pony as well. But it would be there undoing...

My Little Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft's embodiment of extreme horror, terror and evil, Cthulhu is a perfect candidate for a My Little Pony mod.


My Little Worf: Comes with his own bat'leth. I think Klingons would secretly love My Little Pony, just like they love prune juice — because they are both so terrible.


My Little Master Chief: The Chief isn't quite as imposing as a pony, but I'd happily stick a few plasma grenades on him, just to see what happens.


My Little Trojan Horse: Ah, the Classical Studies education pays off once more. How could the Trojan's resist bringing in something so cute? Which makes me wonder about Trojan condoms — oh sure, it's clever, there's something hidden inside! But when it gets out (and it does) it will slaughter you and burn everything you have to the ground. Hmm, guess that's why I'm not in advertising.

And for good measure, Robot Chicken's Apocalypse Ponies: Pestilence Pony, War Pony, Famine Pony, and Death Pony.

Little Boxes

And none of them look the same. I've been slumming around the house sick for the past three days and took it upon myself to get craft, but in a pop culture way of course.

Cubeecraft has a fabulous collection of cutouts of animation and video game characters that you can print out at home and stick together with tabs (no glue or anything). I'm working on the Dr. Zoidberg but have realized I need to print it on thicker paper stock. I'll post a pic if I ever complete it.

So bookmark Cubeecraft, there's a new character every week.