Edge magazine reached the 200 issues milestone this month. To celebrate they commissioned 200 different magazine covers. And then packaged every copy in black plastic. That’s the sort of thing you do when you have a production budget and are one of the world’s most respected videogame magazines.

Here are a few examples of the covers. You can pick up an import copy for about $16 from any decent newsagent.

This is Wolverine as illustrated by some guy called Skottie Young. It has nothing to do with Tim Burton – it just reminded us off something he might do. Anyway, we like it.

You can check out more of Scottie’s work here.

And here it is. Due to overwhelming public demand. A rice cooker with a face. Apparently it belongs to a lesbian…

Sorry about this, feel free to visit a proper website anytime.

Oh, we stole this from www.idiottoys.com

…So we wrote a novel.

Seriously though, we’ve looked. Nothing on the Internet today. It’s a frickin’ ghost town. The only thing halfway exciting was a rice cooker with a face on it. It was owned by a lesbian if that helps. Does that help?

So yeah, we wrote a novel. It’s awesome. Even says so on the cover.

(MF) DOOM’s new album is finally here. It’s called Born Like This. We went into a shop today and bought a physical copy. On CD. For actual money. Crazy…

This is the first time we’ve gone out and bought a hip hop album on release since, well, forever. Thankfully, it’s really good. Yessir! (feat Raekwon) and Gazzillion Ear are early favourites. You can listen to an abridged version of the album on DOOM’s MySpace, here.

We’re thinking about photocopying a million of these and plastering them all over Melbourne as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for this site.

It’s either that or hiring some hookers to drive around in a stretch limo with their breasts out, throwing flyers at people through the sun roof while Billy Idol’s Hot In the City blasts through the speakers… Thoughts? Suggestions? Hit the jump to leave a comment. Read the rest of this entry »

Following on from yesterday’s Kanye West / 88-Keys porno mash-up, this is a little something Brooklyn’s Ratatat put together for their track, Flynn. It’s fantastically ‘druggie’ and we’re definitely feeling the ‘Paul Simon smokes heroin laced with acid’ vibe.

Incidentally, Ratatat are touring out this way soon. We can’t be bothered checking tour dates but it’s sometime in April.

88-Keys & Kanye West – Stay Up! (Viagra)

This was supposed to be an update about the just released videoclip for the Kanye West / 88-keys collaboration – Stay Up! (Viagra). Unfortunately, the assholes at Youtube have blocked all the offical versions of the clip. That sucks because the video is actually really good and features the guys in old man outfits and stuff. Anyway, the song is also pretty win so here it is – complete with bootleg video featuring porn out-takes.

We don’t usually write about sneakers here because, frankly, there are enough sites already dedicated to that kind thing. Still, we had to give these a mention, simply because they’re the ugliest sneakers we’re seen in a damn long time. Whoever desigend the Nike Air Tech Challenge Hybrid doesn’t deserve eyes.

Okay, this probably won’t interest 99.9% of people, but we picked up a whole lot of retro videogame magazines from a Prahran market yesterday. They were discounted down to $14 from $70. As you can see above, the the 1993 Super Play Annual was one of the mags we picked up. If we want to know what people thought of obscure Super Nintendo games back in the last Millennium then we can totally find out.