johnke.meIf the GAME makes me feel like the trailer, hail to the new kings! How amazing!If the GAME, great as it may be, is nothing like the trailer then here we freaking go again. And I’ll say it again:
If our medium isn’t capable of generating compelling enough content that trailers have to sell something totally different than the actual product they are advertising, then we have a very serious problem.
We engage in unnecessary, often criminal behaviour and justify it by calling it ’the craic'.
A collection of the abuse recorded by girls playing videogames. If you’ve ever spent any time on Xbox Live, you know how ridiculous it can be, but you’ve never seen anything like the stuff these girls put up with. E.g. “im going to stick an egg in ur vaginal canal and punch it-”
You have no idea what a big deal The Producers was in my house growing up. I didn’t get half the jokes, and I had no clue what the hell a Nazi was, but goddammit, I knew that Kenneth Mars guy was funny.
If you didn’t think Civilization IV had an embarrassment of riches, last night, Christopher Tin’s ‘Baba Yetu’ – the theme song for Civ IV – became the first ever piece of music written for a videogame to ever win a grammy.
Games like Bulletstorm cause violent behavior and, since rape is a violent crime … ergo, there is no question that [violent videogames] cause an increase in rape.
By the same logic: “I’m eating an apple. Apples are fruit. Bananas are also fruit. Ergo, I am eating a banana. Q.E.D. PEACE OUT, BITCHES.”
Rémi Gaillard takes Mario Kart cosplay onto the real streets.
The second part of Kirby Ferguson’s incredible Everything is a Remix series. Two things:
A trailer for Up created by splicing together bits of old movies. What an amazing piece of work.
Sources connected to the show tell us they will be scouting locations in Italy – similar to the way they did it in Miami – to find the right locale.
One source connected with the show says they’ve already lined up some of Vinny’s Italian relatives to host the “Jersey” crew for an authentic Guadagnino dinner.