This is just a reminder that Wandering Goblin will be officially going offline this weekend.  This paves the way for our new project, Cool-O-Rama.  While Wandering Goblin has been a fun ride, we’re hoping Cool-O-Rama will be  just as much fun, and will simultaneously allow us to actually pay the bills.  (Hey, we can dream, can’t we?)

In a few days, WG will be redirecting to Cool-O-Rama.  If you’d like to know more, hit this.  If you’d like to get a head start on things, drop on over and check out Cool-o-Rama for yourselves right now.  It’s chock full of awesome, so we’re sure you’ll love it.

There’s a golden gun, familiar characters, levels, map settings, and game flaws. It’s good for some laughs, especially if you’ve ever played the N64 classic. Take a peek.

Mike Leyde, an independent contractor from California, decided he was going to be bored for the next few years, and decided he would start playing the same Bejeweled 2 game, consecutively. Overall he stacked up 2,205 hours and 51 minutes of game play over the 3 years he had been playing. Epic.

He collected 4,872,229 gems and earned the game’s highest calculable score of 2,147,483,647. At that point, he got what arcade gamers would call a ‘kill screen’.

Why does Mike love bejeweled? Well this is what he said…

“Bejeweled and many of the other PopCap games are like never-ending puzzles, a great challenge for the mind and a great source of satisfaction for a challenge overcome.”

Seems like a man of few words.

Here’s a video with screen shots of his geeky accomplishments. I want to compliment Mr. Leyde while at the same time, I’m not sure if I should. Good job Mike!

[Via: Joystiq / Source 2]

Mega Man has been fused with a lot of different things lately, heck, we’ve already seen a Mega Man 1st person shooter.

Well, here’s Team Fortress 2 – Mega Man style.

[Via: Kokugamer]

Don’t try to push a horse.  Just don’t.

You don’t want to meet this kid in a dark alley.  The video does not contain the kid in this photo, although I would have preferred that.

How do you attain such a badge?

Explain why it is important to have a rating system for video games. Check your video games to be sure they are right for your age.

With an adult, create a schedule for you to do things that includes your chores, homework, and video gaming. Do your best to follow this schedule.

Learn to play a new video game that is approved by your parent, guardian, or teacher.

Erhm, Oh. So THAT’S how you get it. Doesn’t sound as fun as I thought originally, but still very responsible and I’m much more likely to qualify for that then the Automotive Maintenance badge.

[Via: engadget]

The trailer is pretty sweet, and features some of the classics looking badass as usual. You’ll see what I mean.

[Via: Gamingbolt]

The creators are a costume and production company based out of Atlanta called Outland Armor. Nice Work!

[Via: laweekly]

Why do you assume that he knew the answer to that question, Trebek?

Star Trek Online is continuing their release of new content, now tackling one of the more geeky niche franchises of the Star Trek Universe in their newest content patch; Deep Space Nine.

The new content ‘episode’ as they call them, will start with a massive invasion of the usually peaceful Deep Space Nine area. What else is coming? Well, a new space ship to blow your enemies away of course. You can check out the trailer below.

[Via: TotalGaming, Source 2]