Here's 11 minutes of your time that you won't mind losing.

Just... wow.

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The 11 Most Scorching-Hot Female Gaming Cosplayers

These are without a doubt, some of the finest looking girls dressed up as video game characters. From Tifa to Chun-Li, the SlobsofGaming are paying tribute to the most beautiful cosplay girls in history.

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Pac-Man movie in development. No, seriously.

Producer Steven Paul announced that his production company, Crystal Sky Pictures, has managed to bring in $200 million to help fund five films. These include Castlevania, an unnamed sequel to Hard Boiled (which inspired John Woo's Stranglehold), and a celluloid version of Pac Man.

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3 Coolest Unlocked Characters in Gaming History

Old-school game tricks to help you get your retro on

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From Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of "Exergaming"

After hugely successful launches in Japan and Europe, Nintendo's Wii Fit exercise game is coming to the United States May on 19th, where it is sure to find sales success. But Wii Fit is hardly the first example of an attempt to meld videogaming and exercise — it's not even the first fitness offering from Nintendo.

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Realistic-Looking Sonic the Hedgehog to Give You Nightmares

You might remember an image that showed up awhile back depicting how Bowser might look if he were real. Well, that same guy decided to give the same treatment to another beloved video game character with this realistic picture of Sonic the Hedgehog.

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The 10 Most Terrifying Video Game Enemies of All Time

Since the Golden Age of Atari, there have been video game enemies who are so unpleasant that they made us question the existence of a higher power. We at Cracked pay tribute to the rogues' galleries of yesteryear with this list of the 10 most trouser-soiling bad guys in gaming history.

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Super Mario World Custom Music

...uses the sound effects from those switch-hits and Koopa Troopa stomps to make beautiful music. My untrained ears can pick out but a few recognizable tunes—Mega Man 2 and Super Mario World..

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Shrink Wrapped: A History of PC Game Packaging Trends

In the early days of PC gaming, trendsetters like Infocom and Sierra On-Line took game packaging from minimalist to majestic; in recent years, however, we've witnessed a decline in quality when it comes to common packaging practices. In This article, we examine a few of the most memorable (and notorious) PC game-packaging trends.

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Pac-Man, explained (PIC)

Freakin' awesome. That actually does explain it all.

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