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.

She speaks it well enough, and you get to see plenty of new clips from the game. Also, Jet Packs. Enough said.

Check it out.

[Via: Ars Technica]

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]

So we’re going to try something new, and that something new is Cool-O-Rama.  Cool-O-Rama is, in many ways, a lot like Wandering Goblin.  For one, it’s run by the same editors, Acea, Deirdre, Kristoff, and myself.  Just like we do now, we’ll continue to hunt down the geekiest stories we can find, and bring them to you, our readers.  However, Cool-O-Rama is a much more grandiose idea.  With Cool-O-Rama, we’re forming partnerships with other very cool blogs; it’s all  in an attempt for us to be heard above the din of all the well financed, very prominent, very vapid big media sites that now dominate the web.  The benefit for out partner blogs is that they get a lot more exposure than they could ever get on their own.  The benefit for you, the reader, is that Cool-O-Rama gathers content from all over the internet, and brings it all together in one convenient, fun to read place.

In about a week, we’re going to shut Wandering Goblin down, and anyone visiting WG will be redirected to Cool-O-Rama.  We hope you, the 2500 of you faithful readers that visit us each day, will stay with us during the change-over.

Also, if you have any feedback on the new site, please let us know what you think.  We can be reached at staff[at]coolorama[dot]com.  Thanks to all of you!

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]

What’s cooler then Megaman fighting Ryu? Not much… The teaser trailer is below, check it out! We’re looking at a Spring 2011 release date, commence the anticipation.