Is Conan’s Tonight Show backdrop a shout out to Mario?

If you’re a fan of late night television, and well-versed in classic video games, you may have noticed something interesting about Conan O’Brien’s new Tonight Show backdrop.

At first glance, the screen just seem like shades of blue and odd random shapes. A bit art nouveau. But a few eagle-eyed nerds (and I mean that with respect) realized that it is a darn close match to Super Mario Brothers.

Conan's backdrop in comparison to the video game

LOL. If this wasn’t an intentional shout-out, then the game was surely the inspiration for the set designer. Maybe Conan has a covert deal with Nintendo to subliminally coax his viewers into buying a Wii 😉

New Druid Skin Tone and Hair Color to Form Association

Blizzard Released the combo for the new Druid’s Color’s scheme. I’m not sure if that’s how one should say it but it’s good enough for me. The Dimensions of the pictures aren’t big enough for us to post here so we’ll just link to another site for their images.

Night Elves

Taurens

Tauren Male

* Black / Black with White Belly / Black Spots – Black Bear (top middle), Black Cat (top right)
* Dark Grey / Dark Grey with White Belly / Dark Grey Spots – Grey Bear (bottom left), Black Cat (top right)
* Red-Brown / Red-Brown with White Belly / Red-Brown Spots – Brown Bear (top right), Red Cat (top left)
* Yellow-Brown / Yellow-Brown with White Belly / Yellow-Brown Spots – Yellow Bear (top left), Yellow Cat (top middle)
* Steel Grey / Steel Grey with White Belly / Steel Grey Spots – Grey Bear (bottom left), White Cat (bottom right)
* Light Brown-Grey / Light Brown-Grey with White Belly / Light Brown-Grey Spots – Yellow Bear (top left), Brown Cat (bottom left)
* White – White Bear (bottom right), White Cat (bottom right)

Tauren Female

* Black / Black Spots – Black Bear (top middle), Black Cat (top right)
* Dark Grey / Dark Grey Spots – Grey Bear (bottom left), Black Cat (top right)
* Red-Brown / Red-Brown Spots – Brown Bear (top right), Red Cat (top left)
* Light Brown / Light Brown Spots – Yellow Bear (top left), Yellow Cat (top middle)
* Light Brown-Grey / Light Brown-Grey Spots – Yellow Bear (top left), Brown Cat (bottom left)
* White – White Bear (bottom right), White Cat (bottom right)

Night Elves (Male and Female)

* Greens: Yellow-Green / Green / Dark Green – Violet Bear with Green Mane (bottom left), Blue Cat with Dark Mane (top right)
* Light Blues: Teal / Light Blue – Blue Bear with Dark Mane (top left), Indigo Cat with Light Mane (far left)
* White – White Bear (top middle), White Cat (top left)
* Dark Blue – Black Bear (bottom right), Black Cat (bottom)
* Purple – Red bear with Blue Mane (top right), Purple Cat (middle)

Mass Effect 2 Gameplay

More News from the Mass Effect 2 camp. There is a video of game play out on the innerweb’s. One thing that stands out is the, literal standing and fireing that is still present in the game. We don’t know what “mode” it’s on, this is probably easy to be honest. And that is present in most shooter games on the Easy mode. The part where the player shoots off the Mech’s leg and it keeps coming for Shepard is AWESOME. It appears the menu’s are the same so we can probably expect more of the same but a polished style and gameplay for Mass Effect 2 ala Halo 2. Enough of the chit-chat. Here’s the video of the Mass effect 2 gameplay!

Project Natal Picture

Everyone knows about the announcement at E3 was Project Natal, that spread almost faster than the Keyboard Cat MeME. There is finally a picture up of that.
And it looks like Hal from Space Odyssey but with 3 eyes. Hello Dave.

15th Podcast!

We talk about all things E3, New Mario Bro’s, Mario Galaxy 2, God of War 3, Project Natal, The ask a rich section comes back, New Releases, Spore, and much more, join us for the 15th Podcast!