Designer Nadine Jarvis has created a set of pencils made from the carbon of human bodies. Not just any bodies. Cremated human remains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash – a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind. From the website: “Each pencil is foil stamped with the name [...]

With Christmas coming up its always a pain in the ass for me to get gifts for those guys who seem to have everything and don’t care for small things. Well heres a couple of ideas for those who love little gadgets and are potentially into spying. The ipod tie: I guess this is one [...]

I wasn’t really too sure what to think when I saw the first pics from the Razer photoshoot with the mousesports ladies. My first reaction was “oh great, another exploitation of non-ugly girls in gaming”. But when I looked at some of the photos I have to say that a couple of the girls have [...]

Ever since the ESL took on Michal “Carmac” Blicharz as head of their Intel Extreme Masters events, we’ve seen a lot happening not only for Quake Live but also we’ve been lucky enough to see a very positive growth in online coverage for the tournaments. This weekend is the Intel Extreme Masters Edmonton event which [...]

WTF I can’t believe I didn’t hear about this before. For some reason, people think i’m a huge hello kitty fan so I always get lots of links to some of the craziest Hello Kitty branded stuff. Like the Hello Kitty Castle. I found out that in 2005, a Taiwan based airline called EVA Air [...]

A while ago (in 2007 before Stermy joined CGS) I was writing for a new professional eSports magazine called Pro Gam3r (yeah they really did use a 3 instead of an e). In the few issues of this magazine, I had done a lifestyle piece on Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone. The article covers Stermy more as [...]

Hah, I thought they would have updated it with a “bonus mistress” feature. Instead they took it the other way. Poor Elin.

Let the blonde jokes roll. Seriously, this chick didn’t even realize you could go inside a computer. I guess she thought they were talking about changing something in Windows but the way that she treats that guy who was trying to help was disgusting. Because he was a “geek” she couldn’t accept that she was [...]

It’s amazing what the community will do to help the growth of Quake Live! The folks over at Holyshi1t have actually made an unofficial commerical not only for Quake Live but for their website too. Check it out: Tweet your thoughts to @holysh1t

Eventually we’re all going to have to come to terms that twitter is the new facebook (and I remember making one of these posts for eSplat when facebook became the new Myspace) so for those of you who perhaps would like to enter the twitterverse but don’t know where to start, I hope this directory [...]