When there’s a will for a hideous piece of skin art, there’s a way. A detainee at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in West Sussex, Britain was recently caught with one of the most inventive PlayStation hacks we’ve ever seen. After gutting the console, the prisoner attached the motor to a ballpoint pen with a sharpened tip. Et voilà! A DIY tattoo machine! Sadly, the prisoner’s gadget was confiscated during a routine check of the rooms at the detention facility.

Of course, prisoners have been inking themselves and others for ages. One of the first known tattoos appeared on Ötzi the Iceman, who lived approximately 5,400 years ago (as long as you’ve got ink and a sharp object, you too can tattoo). And, especially in Russian prison culture, tattoos are incredibly important to tell stories, boast of crimes and display general bad-assery. Apparently, Brook House allows the PlayStations 1 and 2 within its walls, but not the Playstation 3, due to its Internet connection.

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When there’s a will for a hideous piece of skin art, there’s a way. A detainee at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in West Sussex, Britain was recently caught with one of the most inventive PlayStation hacks we’ve ever seen. After gutting the console, the prisoner attached the motor to a ballpoint pen with a sharpened tip. Et voilà! A DIY tattoo machine! Sadly, the prisoner’s gadget was confiscated during a routine check of the rooms at the detention facility.

Of course, prisoners have been inking themselves and others for ages. One of the first known tattoos appeared on Ötzi the Iceman, who lived approximately 5,400 years ago (as long as you’ve got ink and a sharp object, you too can tattoo). And, especially in Russian prison culture, tattoos are incredibly important to tell stories, boast of crimes and display general bad-assery. Apparently, Brook House allows the PlayStations 1 and 2 within its walls, but not the Playstation 3, due to its Internet connection.

Continue reading DIY Prison Tattoo Gun Made From a Sony PlayStation

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DIY Prison Tattoo Gun Made From a Sony PlayStation originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 25 May 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I have a laptop,psp,ps2,ipod,camera….what else would you suggest?

Wow, someone has been tricked into making a Red Faction movie. That blows my mind. I base this on the first Red Faction for the PS2, which I don’t recall enjoying at all. Maybe it’ll be the first time we say the opposite of, “Eh, the book was better.”

THQ has developed something called a “trans-media strategy,” which is a fancy way of saying that THQ wants to branch outside of the video game business. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, making a couple of extra dollars by tricking some production company into turning Red Faction into a movie. Although now that I think of it, Metro 2033, a THQ-published game that I bought last week (and according to the new Steam UI I have played for a whopping three hours so far), could be a good movie, provided it was done correctly.

I mean, it won’t be done correctly, so it’s best to just enjoy the game as-is.

THQ has promised that it’s going to be more than merely selling the rights to its game to some pinhead Hollywood studio, saying it’s “going to be doing the most robust trans-media plays anybody’s ever seen in the games business.”

I’m only like 200 words into this post and I’m already sick of the phrase “trans-media.” It sound so cold, you know?

Then again, video games are “good” because they’re interactive. You yourself are part of the action, and that’s a completely different experience from sitting back and watching Magnolia on your fancy TV. (That movie’s use of music is right up there with The Thin Red Line and The New World.) You can’t just shoe-horn a video game into a movie script and call it a day, as we’ve seen time and time again.

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“>PS2’s 10th birthday today in Japan (where’s it’s already Friday). It was originally released on March 5, 2000. Bill Clinton was still the president, Triple H was the WWE Champion, and reality TV didn’t even exist yet. The iPod was still a year and change away, and Mac OS X wasn’t even in open beta yet. Windows XP was still months away. Twitter and Facebook didn’t exist!

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This constitutes as some serious planning but if you preorder Madden NFL 11 from Walmart.com, you’ll get a $20 gift card when the game ships on August 20th.

The $20 gift card is good for the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii versions. You can get a $10 gift card with the purchase of the PS2 or PSP versions. This offer is only good through Walmart.com’s website and the gift card must be used online as well.

The deal is good “for a limited time, while supplies last.”

Madden NFL 11 [Walmart.com]