Or at the very least they video taped it so they can add more context via cinematic scenes a few months from now.

Reader Ryan sends us this shot of a cake from the wedding of his friends Pete and Mary. Note that this was the bride's cake, and not the groom's. Good going, Pete!

Back in 1995 we gamers were still thrilled with the relatively-fresh concept that their video game characters could be voiced by big-name talent. Gex, Crystal Dynamics gecko with an attitude, quickly helped us get over it.

In the 90s video game characters had to have attitude. Gex's attitude manifested itself as an endless stream of one-liners from then-popular comedian Dana Gould. Written by Gould himself along with his frequent writing partner Rob Cohen, the dialogue was littered with pop culture references, commercial spoofs, and endless references to Gex's prehensile tongue, his weapon of choice. At the time, much of it was pretty hilarious.

The problem was it was too much of a good thing. A few one-liners here and there would have been perfect. As you can see in the video above, there are at least twelve minutes' worth of Gould clips in the game. By the time I finished playing Gex I never wanted to hear another word out of Dana Gould's mouth again.

Fortunately the rest of the game was rather excellent, spawning a pair of sequels, both filled with Dana Gould quips. I never played them.

Perhaps I need to go back and finish the trilogy I hear the UK version of Gex 3; Deep Cover Gecko features the voice of Red Dwarf star Danny John-Jules. I could listen to him for hours.

Sometimes Mario's just gotta vent a little. And sometimes just stomping on turtles isn't enough.

The newest Dorkly video, which debuted during the comedy site's hilarious panel at PAX East this past weekend, shows off just how violent Nintendo's iconic plumber can get. It's adorable.

For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the link to Dorkly.com.

During their adventures at PAX East this weekend, our intrepid crew stumbled upon none other than The Simpson's resident geek culture reviewer Comic Book Guy, who offered his impressions of the final chapter in the Mass Effect saga.

Damn, I was really hoping he had finally found something he wasn't disappointed with. Maybe we can check back with him after the ending clarification package is deployed.

What made Techno Soldier so angry? Was it an unfortunate round of Call of Duty? Did someone call his mother nasty names? Is he cosplaying the angriest bird?

The mainstream media might tell you that violent video games cause this kind of behavoir, but I believe I've discovered the true culprit: green and black backdrops.

I'll go ahead and say it: green and black backdrops (or black and green, in Europe) are the biggest threat to the innocence of our planet's youth. It's a controversial stance, and an unpopular one at that. Within an hour this article's comments will be filled with angry reactions from the pro-bleeners. I'm fine with that, as long as the discussion is kept civil. That having been said, I've a feeling the banhammer will get a workout today.

Where's the proof, you ask?

Here is a scientifically-taken photo of Techno Soldier before the application of a green and black backdrop.

He's holding a machine gun, yes, but he has not fired, despite the fact that his monitor is broken, someone tossed random video game and computer equipment on the floor, and he looks to possess the world's saddest teddy bear.

Now let's apply a green and black backdrop.

What more proof do you need?

Photo credit: (C) Andrey Armyagov / Stockfresh.

The founders of Penny Arcade pulled a fast one on one of their most notorious foes this weekend, hitting Paul "Ocean Marketing" Christoforo with a prank they say has been in the works for the past three weeks.

Christoforo, who set off an Internet firestorm several months ago when he sent a series of inflammatory e-mails to address a customer complaint, was apparently caught this weekend pretending he was at Penny Arcade's PAX East, a convention he was banned from. On Sunday, he tweeted photos from the show floor as if he was there. But he never took those photos. Penny Arcade co-founders Mike "Gabe" Krahulik and Jerry "Tycho" Holkins texted them to him.

On Twitter, Christoforo has admitted he did not take the photos but maintains he was at the convention.

As in previous incidents with Christoforo, there's a bit of a back-and-forth to this one.

There hadn't been much public animosity between Christoforo and the Penny Arcade crew since the incident in December, but the feud resurfaced in the days leading up to PAX East last week. Christoforo engaged with Penny Arcade business manager Robert Khoo on Twitter, at one point threatening to "fucking re arrange [Khoo's] teeth."

Christoforo also used racially-charged insults to describe Khoo, who is Asian American.

On Friday and Saturday, Christoforo went on to tweet that he was at PAX East, meeting with clients and walking around the show floor. In response to questions about how he got into the show, he told Twitter users that he was "in disguise."

Perhaps to prove that Christoforo had not actually made it to the show, Penny Arcade's team pranked the marketer by texting him four photographs from the show floor. Christoforo took the bait, tweeting out the photographs on Sunday and saying he was there.

Krahulik then pulled off the lampshade, linking to a Twitter account called @paulyoudummy and telling readers to check the timestamps to show that Penny Arcade had prepared all four photographs before Christoforo ever tweeted them.

"I can tell you that there was a carefully crafted plot over the course of three weeks that led up to the moment," Khoo told Kotaku in an e-mail, adding that Krahulik will write more about the prank on Penny Arcade's website in the near future.

"He accidentally tweeted with his location turned on while he was supposedly already at the show, which displayed his hometown," Khoo added. We have not verified this tweet, but it may have since been deleted. Khoo says he is "99% sure" Christoforo was not at PAX East.

Christoforo later admitted that he did not take those photographs, although he still says he was at PAX East on Friday and Saturday. He has also posted several other show-floor pictures on his Twitter account, some of which, as Twitter users have pointed out, appear to have been shot on multiple cameras. (Christoforo addressed this by saying he indeed took the pictures with different cameras.)

We've reached out to Christoforo to find out more details about this bizarre story, but he has not yet responded. We'll update if we hear more from the infamous marketer.

Update 1: Christoforo tells us he really was at PAX:

"No pics of me in them but I was there. Gabe and them tried to pull a prank on me Sunday but i was never there on Sunday I was trolling twitter they put some pics up and I was texted the same pics I don't know if it was from them or someone I had inside on Sunday but I did not go on Sunday but wanted to mess around," he said in an e-mail.

We've asked for a few more details on just how he got into the convention. We'll keep updating as we hear more.

Update 2: We asked Christoforo how he got into PAX East. Here's what he said:

"I just had on a hat glasses and hoodie the Altier in Assassins Creed. The Badge wasn't in my name and I can't give the individuals name on that. I was also rocking a full beard as well and have lost 25 lbs since spikes interview." [sic]

It certainly looks like there's going to be a Wasteland 2 game. The crowdfunding efforts by inXile Extertainment have way exceeded the announced goals, to the point where Chris Avellone and Obsidian Entertainment will be joining to flesh out the team building the eagerly-awaited RPG.

And now inXile CEO Brian Fargo has revealed the first glimpse of concept art in a recent update post. A grim tableau of Desert Rangers done by digital artist Andrée Wallin sets the visual tone for inXile's next game. If you've donated to the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter, this image gets you all tingly.

Jack Tramiel, a Holocaust survivor and the tech visionary who founded the company that created the legendary Commodore 64 computer, died on Sunday at the age of 83, Forbes reports. We'll have more on Tramiel's great legacy later.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 looked like it was dead in the water for a while, with reports that dev studio GSC Game World was going out of business. But then the Kiev-based collective resurfaced on Facebook this year and indicated that work was underway for the sequel to their acclaimed shooter. That was way back in January, though, and it's been relatively quiet since. Should fans be worried?

Not at all! The studio's official Twitter spat out a link to a video showing animation that's been built for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. All the shambling and shooting seen in the clip is the work of former GSC employee Sergey Zhukov and in a follow-up Tweet, GSC indicates that the "work done remains." So, keep on believing, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans, your post-nuclear apocalyptic shooting dreams are still alive.

[Thanks, tipster James]

If you went to the PAX East convention in Boston, this past weekend, you would have thought that Mass Effect was the biggest video game on the planet. Mass Effect cosplayers were everywhere, and so many of them were amazing.

For starters, there was the guy who shows up as the Krogan warrior Grunt. I shot a video of him. Go ahead and watch him do his thing in the video above. Cool, huh?

I found Grunt at the PAX East BioWare lounge on Saturday, where Mass Effect super-fans of all tastes showed up. (You'll see some Dragon Age devotees in the background, too.)

Click the images to expand them.

I found a Samara Liara T'Soni there.

Here's a Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, who didn't want to be photographed without her gun. (I love the feet!)

Thane Krios was a total badass. And see who that is in the background?

UPDATE: I just found an extra shot... here's Dr. Chakwas.

I had met this extraordinary Mordin Solus a day earlier at a BioWare panel. Stunning work.

Mordin was a few feet away from a female Commander Shepard, who was flanked by Dragon Age cosplayers.

There were so many great cosplayers at the BioWare panel, I thought it would be cool to get at least half of them in one big shot.

Before PAX East, I'd seen lots of Commander Shepards before. The aliens were new to me, a wonderful sight one and all.

I guess I should have expected PAX East to be a Mass Effect cosplay extravaganza considering who I met on day one, as soon as I walked through the door, the face model for Mass Effect's Samara and Morinth:

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The Official Model for Mass Effect's Samara, Dressed Up As Samara

Today at PAX East, Stephen Totilo ran into a familiar face-Rana McAnear, the actress who provides the official model for Mass Effect's Asari Justicar Samara and her unhinged sex-killer daughter Morinth. More »

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