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On Sunday I went on a badass safari and saw a bunch of crazy animals.

Click to see a bunch more pictures of all the crazy animals we saw.
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Half-Life, the greatest FPS of all time is 10 years old today. Planet Half-Life celebrates with two articles, a History of Valve, and Half-Life 10 Years Later

September 31, 2003 – But the subdued anxiety over Steam is nothing compared to the pure rage that unfolds as the last day of September comes and goes without so much as a peep from Valve on the status of Half-Life 2.

If you haven’t played the original Half-Life, pick up this classic for the celebratory price of $0.98 from Steam.

Fight or Flight? In almost every game on the market, the goal is to fight. Kill everything on the screen. That’s why it is so refreshing to see Mirror’s Edge, a fantastic new first person platformer. Mirror’s Edge isn’t about the fight, but flight. Instead of engaging your enemies, you defeat them with your superior agility, by running right by them, walljumping to the ceiling, and vaulting to the next building to safety. You can choose to fight, with martial artistry, weapon disarms which put your enemies gun in your hands, but that’s not the point of Mirror’s Edge.

So I just finished the story… in about 5 hours, damn that’s a short game. I played the demo a lot, mastered the time trial mode, also I was a huge fan of the Prince of Persia series, so I guess you could say I’m pretty good at platformers. The average player will probably take 7-8 hours to finish the campaign. After you’re done with the game you can go back looking for hidden objects and doing speed runs, but idunno, $60 for a 5 hours of story? Your money is better spent on Fallout 3, which offers 100 hours of gameplay.

Bottom Line: A short and sweet platforming jewel, best rented.

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So there is a town in Turkey, called Batman. Really! Actually it’s short for Batı Raman Mountains, but still that’s pretty cool. What’s not cool is the mayor of Batman is suing the director of the recent Batman movies, Christopher Nolan, for using the name Batman without his permission. He also blames the city’s increase in unsolved murders and female suicides on this identity infringement.

“There is only one Batman in the world,” Kalkan said. “The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.”

Hey shut up Mayor Kalkan, you make no sense. Batman has been serving Gotham city for 70 YEARS, why not take it up with DC Comics or creator Bob Kane. Oh that’s right, Batman is an abbreviation, not your city’s real name, your stupid, go home.

[Via MSNBC]

You know when you watch football on TV and the stadium is full of people waving shirts that are all the same color? Well I got to be one of those people, because when we got to the stadium they were giving everyone Redskin’s rags that I vigorously shook when the ’skins needed me. But they still lost, 14 to 10.

And I got to see these 2 dudes get their Hall of Fame Rings.

I just found this awesome website, catsthatlooklikehitler.com. Check out these cute little kitlers:

Hey speaking of websites with funny cat pictures, also check out MyCatHatesYou.com. They have a large gallery of cats that hate you, and each picture is accompanied by a caption which explains why/how much the cat hates you.

This cat hates you

Also if you have a desire to see tons of pictures of cats with Nintendo Wii stuff, look no further than WiiKitty.com.

Here is the coolest Mario Illustration ever. It is very tall, so zoom in on it and read it from the top down.

This guy draws a whole bunch of whacky stuff, some of which is video game related, like Game Mascots with Cat Faces.

This dude is awesome. He just changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.

Now he has the worlds longest and most awesome name.

Photographic evidence doesn’t lie.

This last one doesn’t make any sense actually because paintings can be faked.

[Via Something Awful]

Thank god Eidos went with Lara Croft instead of Tom Selleck.

[Via Kotaku]