Posts tagged BoingBoing

A trip to Mario World, without the GameBoy

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (Jun 26th 2006 12:55PM)

Some kid, or more likely, a 30 year old man, has had his room elaborately decorated in the style of Mario World. The conversion comes complete with ceiling pipes and blocks that stick out of the wall although, as far as I can tell, they held back from placing random bottomless pits around the room. ...

Read Joystiq from within Second Life

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (Jun 1st 2006 6:55PM)

A recent update to Second Life that allows players to view the game's online help pages using a custom Mozilla browser has been hacked so that you can view any webpage. Although there's no way to type web addresses without some basic hacking knowledge, it's quite simple to change the homepage to ...

For sale: oil paintings inspired by games

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (May 25th 2006 6:25PM)

Jeremiah Palacek is a painter living in Prague in the Czech Republic. Over the last year he's created 154 paintings, many of which are inspired by, as he calls it "imagery from digital mediums" (read: games). You can see three examples of his work in the image above: from left to right you have an 8 ...