Nick’s Friday Round-Up

Let's start off this week with a few horrifying moments from children's video games. Hahaha, you're gonna have nightmares again. Sucks to be you. [cracked]

When you're done crying from being scared, I've got some good news. Turns out studies have shown that playing violent video games can increase pain tolerance. Now you have an excuse when your parents/wife/girlfriend walk in the room and see you blowing the guts out of some zombie or random person on the street. [geekosystem]

Continuing with the good news in video games, playing first person shooters actually rewires how your eyes and brain work together, and improve your vision. I suck at FPS's, no matter how much I play, so I guess I'm stuck wearing contacts. =/  [howtogeek]

There was a big announcement this past week, if you didn't hear. No, not the stupid iPhone 5, gimme a break. I'm talking about the Wii U. Here's everything you wanted to know about the release and prices and bundles and ALL THE THINGS! [gammasquad]

Want to look cool*, and pretend to be one of your favorite video game characters? You should buy this Mega-Man hoodie, complete with integrated arm cannon. (*You might not look as cool as you think you do.) [geekologie]

One of the most beloved (read: loud and obnoxious) games from our childhood was Hungry Hungry Hippos. For the geeky gamer in us, someone has redesigned said game into Hungry Hungry Koopas. [geekologie]

If you remember, over a month ago, we landed a rover on Mars. There was video released of the landing. Well someone decided that video wasn't good enough, so over the course of a month, he converted it into an Ultra HD 30FPS video, WITH SOUND, and turned it into the most amazing video you've ever seen, on another planet. [blastr]

Speaking of other planets, that brings me to, you guessed it, Doctor Who stuffs. Here's a TARDIS trash can you never knew you wanted. [geekologie]

Have a look at this amazing, hand-crafted, Doctor Who chess set. Mad props, dude. Mad props. [geekosystem]

If you have quite a bit of free time, and money oozing out of your pockets, you could make a room-sized marble maze, made completely out of K'Nex. I mean, why not? [geekosystem]

If you're like me, and I'm sure most of you are, because, well, I'm just that awesome, and why wouldn't you want to be just like me? Sorry, I got side-tracked. I get annoyed when the little foot on the keyboard breaks off. Here's a quick DIY on how you can fix it with binder clips. [howtogeek]

I'll leave you all with a fun little flash game. Dynamite Train. Basically, you try to destroy a bridge with dynamite so the train falls into the canyon below. DESTRUCTION RULES! [howtogeek]