Gamestop sent out notices about pre-ordering for the Nintendo 3DS today (January 20, 2011). The announcement showed two models (blue and black). Also listed are the release date and price.

The 3DS will be released on March 27, 2011. So all we really have to do is wait for two months and a week for the handheld to hit American shelves. Sure, there are other things we have to do, like hope they fixed the hardware issues that were brought up at one of the last events that the 3DS was given any time with the public eye, like the battery life for one thing.

How often has this happened? It’s Halloween time again and you spend days and days making the coolest Link costume ever and you show up to the party and EVERYONE else is dressed as Link!

The problem is that you picked a video game character that is very common and that everyone else wants to dress like. You need to come up with something, less common. Perhaps obscure even! You have to pick someone no one would ever think to dress as due to it’s obscurity.

So to help you out, I have listed 10 obscure video game related costume choices that it is practically guaranteed that no one will be dressed like at the cool, hip Halloween party. Heck you may even win the costume contest!

The Macintosh computer system has come along way in making a name for itself next to the more popular Windows-based PCs today.

Here’s a “quick” look back at Apple’s history focusing on Mac-based games.

“Byte into an Apple”

The first Apple computer was created by Steven Wozniak on April 1, 1976. Wozniak, a former Hewlett-Packard employee, and his high school friend Steven Jobs, who worked in the games engineering department as a basic circuit designer at Atari Inc. Although Wozniak was great at creating electronic gadgets Jobs was better at marketing ideas. The two would take Wozniak’s design and create the computer in Jobs’ bedroom, then later demonstrate it at The Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto where he would introduce his design for the Apple I. But no one would take him seriously, mostly because the Apple I was based on the MOStek 6502 chip and most computers at that time were built using the Intel 8080 chip.

Wozniak wrote in an article…