Remember Pac Man? the original cool yellow dude around before Homer Simpson? Well, he is one of those gaming characters which will be remembered for the ages. He will be around in history museums with big cool boards teaching 8 year olds about his rise to fame and how he was the big thing at time of the release. Now we have had Master Chief as a big icon but the fact is most of the games coming out now don’t have memorable characters. Even the most hardened gamer will find it difficult to remember all the character names of the player characters in the current big releases like BioShock for example.

Perhaps this will be a sign of future things to come with big action becoming more important than character development. The thought to be left with is, when the future comes around and people look back at the big gaming icons from the ’00s which big characters will be seen to represent us now? Let’s hope it’s something as positive as Pac Man.

As a fun easy quiz, what are the player character names in these games? (no prize, answers after the continue click)

1) Stranglehold

2) Halo

3) Half Life

4) Call of Duty 4 (x2)

Continue Reading

Sure, we’ve all heard countless stories of Apple’s iPhone. But there are some other companies out there coming out with new handsets too, like the one above, which Nokia unveiled today.

Continue Reading

The iPhone has been hailed as the ‘Jesus phone’ by many, while that may be taking things too far it seems to be doing pretty well because Rumors suggest around five million Apple-loving customers already have one. Apple hoped to sell 10 million units by the end of 2008 and it certainly looks like they will, maybe more. Christmas sales have been good to Apple too, and with a 3G version coming out in 2008 things are certainly looking up for Steve Jobs and co. Next step, world domination. Mwhahahaha, and so on.

If you love your phone and can’t get enough of StuffWeLike.com, then you’re now in luck! For the first time ever we’re now allowing anyone with a cell phone to read our RSS feed. By accessing this feed you’ll download the text version only without pictures. Meaning that load times will be faster.

The button to do this is located on the sidebar next to the Feedburner RSS feed button.

Don’t think we don’t upload videos everyday onto The Pipeline cause we do… Huh? Striking a long list in everyone who likes video, this week we’ve added the following stuff to our media player The Pipeline.

PC Game Videos:
World of Warcraft: Wrath Of The Lich King
Rage
Project Offset
Penny Arcade Adventure
Fury

Music - Lyrical:
Jailhouse Rock
White & Nerdy
Circle of Life
Potential Breakup Song
Amish Paradise
Underdog Raps
One Crowded Hour
Rock Your Body
Sexy Back

Cell Phone Game Videos:
Gravity Blast

Xbox 360:
Castle Crashers
Lego Indiana Jones: The Video Game
Guitar Hero III
Enemy Territories: Quake Wars
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Resident Evil 5

Developer Interviews:
Inside Lionhead (2)

Retro Game Classics:
Zork Nemesis

Movie Clips:
Superbad (2)

Movie Trailers:
Superbad

TV Shows:
The Muppet Show Season 2 (3)

Of course this list doesn’t even contain all the podcasts that were uploaded this week. Don’t even get me started…