Well hello there, Fun Vampire! My name is Murray, I’m 42 years young and I’m a happily married man to a demon who is ruining my life. I’ve been a fan of your blog for a long time! (though I must admit, the first time I tried to go here I accidentally typed “unfunvampires.com” […]

Who knew that lunch could be this awesome? After the jump, more incredibly nerdy bento boxes.

USC’s Gamepipe brings us Lockdown, which they describe as “a serious game for incident response to school shootings.” Obviously, this game, or simulator, or training application, however you want to bill it, isn’t about graphics, but I can’t stop thinking of Playmobil as I look at the video.
It’s supposed to be used to teach SWAT […]

As more and more details about the upcoming Treyarch game, CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR, emerge, a number of fans are left wondering what those crazy devs are thinking. Since the Great War that gave us the Greatest Generation keeps trying again and again to give us a Great Game AND to […]

Age of Conan went live last week, and I couldn’t help but see how it compared to Funcom’s last MMORPG offering: Anarchy Online. I just got it yesterday; follow the jump to read my impressions.

If I had a lot of money to kill I would probably turn into Donna Hutchings and buy 2342398 rad X-Files collectibles. Apparently this picture shows 50% of her collection.
Even crazier nerd collections after the jump.

Hey, so there’s this awesome thing called Rockbox. It’s open-source firmware for your mp3 player. They support Apple, Archos, Cowon, iriver, Olympus, SanDisk, and Toshiba mp3 players. And they are AWESOME. I bought an iAudio x5 a while back and while I was really happy with the hardware, I wasn’t happy with the firmware. I […]

There’s a ton of graffiti by my office (I work in industrial north Williamsburg, Brooklyn), but this is the coolest piece I have seen. I did some googling and it turns out, there’s more!

Do all of you know about etsy.com? It’s a rad website where you can buy handmade stuff straight from the seller and not bother with auction madness. I hereby pledge to wade through the billions of wares sold on etsy to periodically bring you the best in nerdy arts and crafts. After the jump: cthulhu, […]

Now that the ultra secret, exclusive nerd board is busting at the seams i decided i would post some of the stuff people are writing wether they like it or not. “Myspace” Tom wrote a shitload of reviews of the XNA games that were announced at the GDC last week and put up for […]

“Friends, now is the time to calm the waves we have stirred.” said Marc Whitten, GM of Xbox Live, to his colleagues after weeks of his service being plagued by outages and inoperability. He continued, “We’re going to give them a free game, we’re going to give them Undertow.”

This is kind of last weeks news but any n00bz out there might have missed it. The Official Charles Barkley: Shut up and Jam game trailer. I’m just going to let them explain it to you…
“The Great B-Ball Purge of 2041, a day so painful to some that it is referred to only as the […]

Check out this awesome Big Daddy / Little Sister Halloween get up. So cute i want to puke. If you don’t know what this is referencing you are not nerdy enough. RAPTURE.

This is part of a new series i’m going to do because i read, see, buy, and listen to a lot of shit every week / month but i’m too lazy and too distracted to sit and write something about each thing cohesively. Now i will give you only the info you need to […]

Sent in by Christiaan Rule, aka GA7CA.
It was just after 5 pm and the hype train had been running through my head all day. In less then an hour I would be at Microsoft’s New York offices playing halo3 with countless other gaming nerds. I had scored this rare and prized opportunity through a friend […]

As requested: awful and nerdy videogame tattoos. This is the first of what I am sure will be many installments: console and controller tattoos.
Please keep in mind that these are in the category “good execution, bad idea” — the artist did a good job (although those stars up top look really squished and weird and, […]

Unlike us there are some bloggers out there that actually try to put something out there daily and engage the reader, and gasp even inform them. One of those dudes is Gamerdad. He runs a blog about well being a gamer and a dad and gaming with children. Gamerpops recently suffered a heart attack and […]

So as we wrote last week, we here at the FV Fun Palace got our bloody hands on a couple copies of Bioshock a full week before release thanks to the screw ups at Toys R Us. I’ve been playing the crap out of this game and i’m going to tell you a bit about […]

Above is a sample of the gameplay in the soon-to-be-released Guitar Hero III. My hands hurt just from watching this. I think Joel Zumaya has already scheduled a trip to the DL for the ‘08 season.

Well kids, i was going to write a review of the Bioshock demo today but turns out i just got Bioshock a full week before it comes out. Turns out the internet rumors were true. So look forward to a real review in the next couple days. For now be jealous of the picture. Also […]