Hasta La Gadget!

Working on your parkour skills?  Going over to the local playground and kangaroo kicking kids off of the monkey bars?  Flying down the slide face first into a diving roll faceplant?

If so, you and me aren’t so different after all.  The thing is, these failed stunt attempts feel much more awesome when you’re sporting a jacket that looks like the one himself Ezio would wear!  Check this out – there’s no way you can resist putting this on your Christmas list!  And this year, we’re finding Santa and giving it to him.  Personally.

The Asssassin’s Creed Jacket is modeled after the one that Connor Kenway’s going to wear in the newest Assassin’s Creed title.  It was designed by Volante Designs, and you can buy it for $320.  Well, actually, he’s had a gigantic influx of orders due to the media attention, and you have three options.  One: whip out the sewing machine and make one yourself.  Two: pay extra and get one of the first jackets.  Three:  fill out an order form and wait an un-specified period of time while he hires more employees to increase production speeds.

You can get this jacket in any color combination you want, but I would probably just go with the classic red and white.  Scratch that – neon green is my favorite.

This is undoubtedly the most awesome jacket I have ever seen, and it is a must have for any serious Assassin’s Creed fan!  Let’s be honest – dressing up like an assassin may be a way to get the whole subdivision to think you’re a freak, but it’s a great way to get in shape and show off your geeky tastes at the same time!  And that’s rare, since my geeky tastes usually just involve bacon.

If you’re not willing to fork out the cash and pick up one of these, then you should take a look at some other awesome Assassin’s Creed stuff!  Take this Hidden Blade Gauntlet Replica, for example, or this Assassin’s Creed Tomahawk Replica!  Both of which are dangerous, but we all know that it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt – then it’s run from the police and blame Todd.  “Seriously, bro?  Pinning it on me?”

[via Geekologie]

You can do some amazing things with 3D printers. You can make toys and all sorts of cool things. Look what Joaquin Baldwin created with one. This is a Möbius strip showing the first level of Super Mario Bros.

Mario can run his little legs off as fast as he can in order to save the Princess, but he will still be trapped in a never-ending hell level for all eternity. Well, unless Doctor Who comes to his rescue or something.

What’s most impressive is the level of detail. Every mushroom, turtle, cloud and star are there, all carved at different heights, which makes it look amazing. Best of all, you can order one for yourself over on Shapeways for $24 (USD). Great job Joaquin.

[Reddit via Nerdcore via Neatorama]

Mac gamers are grateful for Blizzard, because it’s one of the few major companies that release Mac versions of their games alongside the more popular Windows version. ArenaNet says better late than never by announcing that they will be releasing a Mac version of their new MMORPG Guild Wars 2. You can even play the beta of said Mac version right now… as long as you buy or already bought the Windows version of the game. Weird, but it’s better than nothing.

So what do we Mac owners have to do to play the beta? Buy the PC version – the only version that’s out now. This will allow you to make a Guild Wars 2 account, which in turn will grant you the privilege of downloading the Mac beta client online. And don’t worry about having to pay twice. Similar to what Blizzard does with their games, your purchase of Guild Wars 2 nets you both the PC and Mac version when the latter finally comes out.

If you think of it as a pre-order that grants you beta access, then it’s not so bad. If you then think harder and wonder why ArenaNet didn’t just have an open or even closed beta for Mac users without requiring a purchase, then it becomes weird again. Head to the Guild Wars 2 website for more details on the announcement.

This week Japan’s capital city welcomes gamers from around the globe for some show and tell with the country’s finest at TGS. As for us, we’re particularly anxious to see what Sony may have in store. Will we see another PS3 redesign? Perhaps some buzz about it’s next-gen console? Will we see some energized color options for the PS Vita? We’re eager to find out. Worried you’re too far away to be in the loop with the happenings here? Fret not! We’ve got you covered on all of the proceedings at Makuhari Messe, so keep your peepers locked here for all of the latest news over the next few days.

Sean Buckley contributed to this report.

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As far as competitive videogames go, you can’t get any simpler than Pong. But times have changed, and so have our tastes and need for mayhem. We can’t just have birds, they need to be angry birds. So if Pong is to be played by today’s gamers – bored adults and foul-mouthed adolescents alike – it can’t just have two paddles and a ball. There needs to be chaos.

Invented by Stacy Dudley and Brad Slattery, the RetroBall is a bat-and-ball game system – let’s just call a Pong a Pong and call it Pong. It has a 32×32 pixel LED screen, an acrylic enclosure and 1-bit sound effects. It’s clearly more powerful than the Wii U. The RetroBall has four paddle controllers so you can engage in four-player Pong deathmatches, and you can even increase the number of balls onscreen to five. It’s actually kind of reminiscent of Atari’s arcade classic Warlords.

But don’t let the cutting edge graphics and complicated gameplay fool you: you can’t just button mash your way to victory here like in your other modern games, primarily because there’s no button to mash, but also because skilled RetroBall players – probably named Stacy and Brad – are aware that you can change the spin and speed of a ball depending on how you hit it.

Pledge at least $149 (USD) on Kickstarter to reserve a RetroBall game system. Launch titles include 2-player Pong with 1 ball, 3-player Pong with 1 ball, 4-player Pong with 1 ball, 2-player Pong with 2 balls…

[via Ubergizmo]