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Roombas modded to play a real game of Pac-Man

Roombas! They clean sh*t off your floor so you don't have to you lazy bastards. Aside from cleaning, Roombas are very hackable and we've seen a lot of mods but nothing as good as this.* A team o...
Geek chic: Tetris and Final Fantasy want to keep you warm

Teextile has two new gaming shirts on sale this week. Monday's shirt is this Pac-Man themed one called "Runaway." They also have this construction Tetris T-shirt on sale for Friday. Bot...
Jordin Sparks puts Pac-Man on her fingernails

Nothing like a story that will get torn apart in the comments as soon as its posted to kick off the weekend, so here we go. Now, previous to this day I would have told you that I would never comp...
Pac-Man world record is broken

A perfect score in Pac-Man was obtained ten years ago by Billy Mitchell, meaning that no one can ever score higher. How then does a person break the world record in Pac-Man? By doing it faster of...
Jump n Run photo series shows off the real life of gaming

It seems as if there's no end to the influence that gaming has over art, from tiny craft projects to full scale re-enactments of the games we remember from our childhoods. In his newest series of...
Pac-Man Championship Edition comes to mobile, looks good

Earlier today, we recieved a press release mentioning that Pac-Man's 30th anniversary is next year. Thanks for the heads up, guys! And it also said something or other about Pac-Man Championship E...
Pac-Man REMIX brings bosses and power-ups to the iPhone

Last week, Topher let us know about Space Invaders: Infinity Gene, an update to the classic move-back-and-forth-while-shooting-those-aliens-that-are-also-moving-back-and-forth simulator that incl...
Mario goes on a sex-crazed rampage

This really awesome video you’re about to watch was originally created as the prologue for a documentary on addictions to MMORPGs. Not sure what’s going on with that documentary, but ...
Geek chic: Do you love prehistoric time-traveling babes?

Only a handful of shirts to talk about this week on Geek Chic. First up is this beautiful Chrono Trigger shirt from Fangamer. The design is just amazing and I love how the clock just seems to glo...
Namco Museum Essentials coming to PSN with updated Xevious

PlayStation 3 owners dying to get their hands on some classics are in for a treat. Namco Bandai has announced Namco Museum Essentials, a digital download title collection that will be released th...
Better than Ikea: The custom Pac-Man coffee table

Looking for the perfect accent to his game room, Ontario-based game collector Syd Bolton came up with a great idea – hire someone to design a Pac-Man coffee table!Bolton contacted artist Er...
Pac-Man enzyme hoping to gobble up Alzheimer's

As someone who values their brain, I am terrified of Alzheimer's disease. However, I'll be sleeping easier at night from now on, knowing that Pac-Man is on the case. A new enzyme is being develop...
Real life Pac-Man is a giant D-bag

Last time we saw Remi Gaillard, he was dressed up as Mario and was racing around the streets of France in a go-kart. Remi is back and he's traded in his go-kart for a Pac-Man suit. At first the v...
Amazon has got you covered on the cheap XBLA game front

As many of you know, Amazon recently began selling Xbox LIVE Arcade games, which allows for gifting codes and is a decent enough solution for that issue (for the time being). Nothing new, right?W...
Namco offers downloading PC titles via Facebook for $9.99 a pop

When I'm in the mood for Pac-Man, my favorite way to play it is to fire up the Championship Edition, but I can definately see the advantage of being able to fire it up on your computer anytime yo...
Happy holidays: Watch the 1982 Christmas Comes to Pacland holiday special

In honor of the holidays we present to you to 23 minutes of your life you'll never be able to get back -- Christmas Comes to Pacland.  This made-for-television cartoon special first aired on...
Android's killer app? Pac-Man

People were waiting with anticipation for Google's Android to finally launch on the G1 phone. After all of the wait, they're finally putting the phone to good use... with Namco's Pac-Man. I suppo...
BREAKING NEWS: overly thin model seen wearing Pac-Man dress

You know, I appreciate the concept of the beloved icons of my favorite hobby merging into the fashion world -- if done well. This rarely happens, and while the results can be humorous (see Pac-Ma...
Wow, I can't wait: Pac-Man movie is a go

I'm generally testy about the topic of videogames being made into movies, as they are rarely much better than spending the night gazing into the ass of a horse. I have to admit, however, I'm beyo...
Check out these a-maze-ing cupcakes

Just when you thought the internet was fed up with game-themed food... Here we are again at that funky time of the afternoon when you've already had lunch, but dinner is still a bit off. You...
French modular lighting system is an homage to dot-chomping

This makes all the modular lighting solutions I've seen before look kind of bland. French company Remake has gone above and beyond on this homage to Pac-Man. This would be cool enough if it was a...
This week's VC releases: Pac-Attack and Riot Zone!

For the second week in a row, Nintendo is delivering two -- not three -- games to the Wii Shop Channel. Not a huge deal, as Nintendo has done a great job of consistently offering new content each...
Introducing the Pac-Man tree: one tree to rule them all

Feast your eyes on the video above, marvel at its greatness, and join us in a virtual hand clapping for those creative lads and lassies in Madrid responsible for making this baby a reality. ...
Pac Gentleman: The 19th century sure had a lot of moustaches!

If there's anything Boing Boing likes better than liberalism bordering on anarchism, and futuristic, fictional stories that actually reveal deep truths about the current state of the human condit...
Pac-Man makes love to Zork, child is born

I don't know how old this is and frankly I don't care. This Pac-Txt, an idea so stupid it is actually genius. Described as Pac-Man meets Zork, Pac-Txt is, quite simply, an old school text-based a...
When does live action Pac-Man become cliche? Apparently not yet!

Face it, Labor Day Weekend is to gaming as the current century is to Axl Rose's career; if it were any more dead around here tumbleweeds would be rolling by, and an amorphous Mexican fellow wou...
Delicious BioShock easter egg (you must not eat it)

Image quality is poor because I snapped it with my cell phone, but I found this on the floor of Arcadia Winery (upper portion). One of those musty old cheese wheels and what looks like floor dirt...
Behold the miracle of the Pac-Man crisp!

Yes I said crisp, not chip, you empire-disrespecting, uncultured, slack-jawed, American peasants. Only kidding, Jimmy loves you and your charming, jeep-driving ways. But this is indeed a crisp, f...
Pac-Man World Championship: the final round!

Courtesy of our own cybernetic ninjas Dick McVengeance and Michael Yi comes this footage from the recent Pac-Man World Championships' final round. In this titanic clash of Pac-Man pros we bea...
Pac-Man World Championship: the quotes

There were a ton of people to talk to at the event, all with something to say. I managed to get a little bit of talking time with most of the people there, but not enough for full-length intervie...
Pac-Man World Championship: the tournament and the game

The tournament itself was...interesting. Basically, I got to wander around and watch people play Pac-Man. Nick Chester was just oozing with jealousy at that. Actually, the event was rather quiet ...
Pac-Man World Championship: the people

 So, with the Pac-Man World Championship now over, it's time for me to take a look back at what's gone on today. The event was host to all different sorts of people -- gamers represe...
Major Xbox announcement revealed: Pac-Man Championship Edition XBLA

To everyone who e-mailed us about the "major" Xbox 360 announcement: thanks. We know. It's not a price drop, it's not a new hardware SKU, and no, Halo 3 Mini-Tales is not comin...
NES & Pac-man business card holders

Nothing says you're a serious game journalist like a Pac-man business card holder.  Wait, I take that back.  Walking around with a sealed mint version of Chrono Trigger around your...
Paleontologist models Pac-Man's skull

Here's something you don't see every day! Today new photos surfaced of Pac-Man's skeletal structure, a 2002 art project by Le Gentil Garcon.  The result is certainly odd and fall...
Today's VC releases: we heart ninjas edition

This week's Virtual Console releases are surprisingly solid for a batch that contains zero first party Nintendo classics. By "surprisingly solid" I mean, of course, two of the three...
Bonobo vs. Ms. Pac-Man

I'll admit that, before seeing this video, I had no idea what a bonobo was. Had somebody dropped the word in casual conversation, I would have assumed that it was a philanthroping homeless p...
Peter Moore yells at Pac-Man

Can you blame Peter though? Pac-Man is using Mr. Moore's car to pick up on women. That's not cool Pac-Man, not cool at all. In all seriousness, you know you have an awesome boss when he w...
Fake game friday: Paction Man: The Curse of the Stringy Limbs

The format for these Fake Game Fridays is typically set in stone. Usually, a forumite posts a fake game idea, I go to Fronz, and Fronz makes a Photoshopped image of the game art. But in this inst...
Quiznos sponsors XBLA Pac-Man World Championship, Blinky tastes better toasted

Let's make some things clear, so that this doesn't come out later in the day and ruin my writing career. I like Quiznos and I like Pac-Man. The holy unity of Cravable Salads and power pel...
Pac-Man VS. coming to DS; deluge of touching/swallowing jokes coming to 'net

Remember Pac-Man VS.? It was that wacky, ingenious, 4-player GameCube version of Pac-Man, in which four people equipped with their own Gameboy Advances, would e-LARP the cat-and-mouse orgy of de...
ZOMG!!! Pacman's in legal trouble again!

Look I drink ...I understand what it is like going through this kind of pain. Of course, my exploits never happen with Nelly or Jermaine Dupri. Niero and Summa are equal replacements, though. I...
Tell the world how she broke your heart with this Ms. Pac-Man T-Shirt

If our unbelievably awesome Also Cocks shirt has put you in the mood for wardrobe expansion, here's something else to add to your list. Our buddy Dan Zuccarelli brought this sweet piece of ...
True Gaming Legends: Pac-Man

True Gaming Legends profiles another gaming icon, Pac-Man in a hard hitting documentary look at his life which closely mirrors that of the 80s heart throbs, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim. Also i...
Pac-Man legend: There is only one A.S.S.

Take this documentary of one of the world's most legendary Pac-Man players, Alexander Seymor Smith (best initials ever) as a cautionary tale: Let the world know that there is only one A.S.S. ...
Joysticks, the movie review

It's officially movie month here at Destructoid folks. First, Robert had the full Dead or Alive movie for your viewing displeasure. Then I gave you the preview of Game Box 1.0. DMV gave us a...
Pac-Man eats safety dots

Motorists and police were fascinated to see a large Pac-Man painted on a stretch of Highway 55 in Buffalo. The highway had already been painted with large, white ovals as part of a program to s...
Xevious minigame and warship-driving Pacman hidden in Ridge Racer 7

If you haven't recovered from the Ridge Racer 6 vs. 7 PS3 shock, here's the cure: Korean gaming site Ruliweb who have uncovered two very cool extras that won't cost you a penny of a m...
Pac-Man goes Waka Waka over his telephone

              Waka waka waka waka! Remember that sound? That's the sound of good ole PacMan chomping down on t...




 
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