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Papercraft R.O.B.

Download the R.O.B. paper toy here.

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Link roundup

1. Something Awful reviews the Nintendo 3DS:

Pilotwings Resort - Take the Wii Sports location, add elements from the classic SNES title, and you've got a minimal effort title that will sell like hotcakes among newcomer Wii gamers and nostalgic nerds alike.

2. Camel racing is popular in Dubai, and nowadays camel jockeys are typically robots (instead of children). Dubai police have uncovered a gang that was selling stun guns, which were then placed inside the jockeys to use against the camels. Via.

3. It's Boing Boing's 11th birthday.

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Link roundup

1. Mark Millar: "my combined income for having the top ten downloads of 2010 is projected to be less I got for one issue of Superman Adventures twelve years ago." Via.

2. Do NOT look at these photos of Al Davis.

3. Nintendo's eye-destroying 3DS is going to be a ludicrous $250. (Plus another $40+ for a slightly reworked version of Ocarina of Time.)

*Buy the iPod Touch at Amazon.

Super Mario Galaxy painting

Super Mario Galaxy painting by Nicole Gustaffson, who has prints and ornaments on sale at Etsy.

*Buy Super Mario toys at eBay.

Super Smash Bros. figurines

Rust This World turned Marvel Super Hero Squd figurines into an entire line of Super Smash Bros. toys.

*Buy Metroid toys at eBay.

I'd actually be kind of interested in Starfox if it looked like this

Starfox and friends by Martijn van Dam, who posted several desktop wallpapers here.

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Link roundup

1. Fascinating article on Full Fathom Five, James Frey's effort to generate books that can be turned into movies aimed at tweens. The article is written by Suzanne Mozes, and I'm a lot more interested in reading more by her than by anything that comes out from Frey and his ghost writers.

2. Nintendo sold half the number of copies of Metroid: Other M that it had expected to sell.

3. Fight Club soap on sale at Etsy.

*Buy Metroid toys at eBay.

Clever redesign of Donkey Kong

Shane Parker imagines a more King Kong-like version of Donkey Kong.

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Link roundup

1. Cigar Guy has been found and was wearing a costume in the Tiger Woods photograph (a costume that made no sense at all). Via these sites.

2. Super Mario's ready to meet Charon.

3. "A US State Department clerk has been indicted for using her government computer to gather personal information on more than a hundred celebrities and their families." Relatedly, "Pennsylvania Director of Homeland Security James F. Powers resigned in response to the public outcry over the news that his agency had not only been monitoring the activities of law-abiding citizens who oppose natural gas drilling in the state, but passing the information it gathered on to the companies involved in the drilling."

4. "BASKETBALL'S world governing body is considering sexing up the women's game by introducing more revealing uniforms to cash in on the players' athletic bodies."

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Link roundup

1. William Gibson wrote the X-Files episodes Kill Switch and First Person Shooter.

2. How to improve home wifi coverage.

3. The new Nintendo game Kirby's Epic Yarn was supposed to star a new character until the creators were forced to replace the star with Kirby.

*Buy X-Files DVDs at Amazon.

If Link had an iPhone

Not So Lost Woods by Shane Parker.

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NES Boy

Self-portrait by Mike Mitchell, who has various prints on sale at Etsy.

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Watch a suped-up Samus fight a giant tentacled-space monster (spoilers)

Here's the last 10 minutes of Metroid: Other M - - Samus, at the height of her powers, fights a giant tentacled-space monster, and then, for no apparent reason, strips down to her Zero Suit to flee a self-destructing spaceship. (The writing in this game was embarrassingly bad.)

*Buy Metroid toys at eBay.

Metroid: Other M playthrough

Opening cinema and first boss fight from Metroid: Other M. When I last checked, the Youtube user had uploaded the first two and a half hours or so of the game. (Samus and her new finishing moves look great, but otherwise the game gets stale fast. It's more or less the exact same Metroid scenes and enemies you've seen many, many, many times before.)

*Buy Metroid: Other M at Amazon.

Metroid: Other M launch trailer, lackluster reviews, desktop wallpapers, and cosplay

There are a few new Metroid desktop wallpapers at the official site. Kotaku gave it a fairly strong review (while criticizing the "annoying" controls). Destructoid gave it only a 6.5 out of 10. But the launch trailer is pretty cool.

The game comes with a $20 credit if you buy it at Amazon.

And here's a new Samus cosplay photo by Yuki LeFay. Her Samus gallery is great