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Yes, the jokes about the weird deconstructed gameplay in Heavy Rain get laughs, even from people in the audience who may not have played it. But, the best thing about Kumail Nanjiani's stand-up bit on the PS3 psychological thriller is how he notes the changes in the gaming medium and the difference in the kinds of experience that are available now. He's acknowledging maturation while getting some yuks in. Nanjiani's one of the hosts of Nerdist's The Indoor Kids podcast so check him out there, too. More »
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Having been thwarted in their efforts to loot Gregethor's Convenience Store in Whiterun, (and taken a detour into Battlefield 3 by way of Dead Island) the Grosjean Bros. have returned to Gregethor's home to take his most treasured possessions, including his cat, in this sequel to last week's live-action Skyrim video. More »
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[EXT—ROOFTOP—DAY] More »
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This four-star send-up by The Game Station is clever any day of the week, and especially timely given whatever the hell it was that just took place in the past 24 hours. More »
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The premise to Mega64's latest knee-slapper is rather obvious: Neckbeard beats Catherine-wait, that doesn't sound right. Neckbeard finishes Catherine? Whatever. And he figures that his prowess in that game has some real world application. More »
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Yeah, this is how big StarCraft is in Korea. They can break out the Protoss v Terran gags on national TV. More »
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The latest in Rooster Teeth's Immersion series of web videos is here, this time seeing if two dudes in a video game could really survive against a horde of 400 zombies. More »
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This is true. Another way to handle it is the roommate going apeshit at an innocent response to a procedural question. [5 Second Films, thanks Carlos L.] More »
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Mario does not approve. Sketch comedy group 20 Second Power-Up created this clip as a sort of "bizarre Marvel Comics 'What If?' scenario" celebrating the impending unveiling of the next Nintendo console. Here's hoping they're way off the mark. More »
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I could tell there was a sex scene brewing in The Witcher 2 when Geralt of Rivia and his comely redheaded sorceress companion Triss stumbled upon this ancient Elven bathhouse, and I wasn't planning on sharing the resulting NSFW video. Then Triss tapped into the vast mystical forces of the universe to remove her clothing. More »
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After Stephen Colbert joked this week that Master Chief must have been one of the members of SEAL Team Six, which took out Osama bin Laden, Bungie dusted off that image, which it had whipped up a while back in an attempt to get a mention on the show. More »
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This clip from The Game Station is pretty great. Once it's wearing out its welcome taking the piss out of secret game gender reveals, it turns into a never-ending shampoo commercial and gets funny all over again. More »
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FPS Russia had his fifth Xbox 360 die on him and he's not going to take it anymore. To vent, he decided to vent the 360 with an assortment of firearms including two handguns, a shotgun and one fairly large explosion. More »
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How come the one Mario villain that comes with his own sports equipment never makes it into the Mario sports titles? More »
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Worlds collide once more in a festival of cheesy special effects and hilarious video game references next month, when Press Start 2: Continue (Press Start 4 in Japan) hits DVD. More »
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Jay Mohr took to the stage last night to host the 14th annual Interactive Achievement Awards and, as he has five times before, warmed up the audience with some biting comedy. More »
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Despite Nintendo's various warnings, I very much doubt the 3DS will cause spontaneous bleeding from the player's eye sockets. Impassioned Nintendo loyalty speeches, on the other hand, are a sure thing. More »
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Fruit Ninja, the bestselling fruit slicing game for the iPhone, iPad and Android, is better played on a touchscreen than with a razor sharp knife in each hand. For video proof, we present two attempts at real life fruit ninjutsu. More »
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Little Charo is a Japanese cartoon aimed at helping kids learn English. It's also now a DS game being published by, of all companies, Nintendo. Wouldn't it be amazing if this was the old handheld's last big game? More »
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This uproarious short - a finalist in Empire Magazine's "Done In Sixty Seconds" competition - reduces all the key dramatic scenes and dialogue of "There Will Be Blood" to 8-bit presentation. Pick up that milkshake! More »
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Is the solution to children playing violent video games bundling Family Game Night with a machine gun, a nine-person shooter, or replacing Niko Bellic with American public radio personality Ira Glass? Watch out: He'll shoot your penis off. More »
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Actor and comedian Jay Mohr returned to BlizzCon this year to host the costume and dance contest. We captured a few of his words of wisdom and share them with you. More »
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"Come on, jump on my shell! I dare you! I just waxed this s**t!" The funny folks at Dorkly ponder the impossible in this hilarious clip. More »
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Newgrounds user Tenacious T imagines a bleak future when Activision's worst people create Limbo II: The Bar's Been Lowered, the sequel to the beloved indie hit Limbo. It has celebrities! Predator missiles! And ... color. More »
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You thought Xbox Live was bad? "ChoZo" would like an F-word with you. Here's 10 minutes of hilarious rage that makes the Mel Gibson phone calls sound like Bob Ross on The Joy of Painting. Warning: Very strong, loud language. More »
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Costume Quest, a game with a dull name and a colorful pedigree is not just a trick-or-treating role-playing game coming to the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 this fall. I saw it in action. It has modern smarts. More »
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This trailer, allegedly for a movie based on everyone's favorite edutainment game Oregon Trail, is so well done I honestly triple-checked to make sure the movie wasn't really being filmed. More »
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We've chortled at many video game's one-liners and sight gags. But did you ever press a button and laugh? Writer Michael Abbott poses a quandary: How do you make gameplay funny? More »
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If you like laughing and you like loot, if you can catch a Monkey Island reference and know why purple text is a positive thing, then DeathSpank is your game. Plus, it is gorgeous. More »
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Dan Hibiki applies chapstick as "Goodbye Horses" begins to play, asking the camera, "Would you fight me? I'd fight me." That's really all you need to know about this trailer for the fan-made musical follow-up to Street Fighter High. More »
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Attack of the Show host Olivia Munn, who recently played a reporter in Iron Man 2, is appearing as a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart over the next couple of weeks. More »
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In the next game from the studio behind the episodic adventure games Sam & Max, Strongbad, and the Tales of Monkey Island, the fictional town of Scoggins, Minnesota is a cold play and also a bit weird. More »
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In 2007, Adolf Hitler and Xbox Live helped start an internet meme that started the whole world laughing. Three years on, the distributors of the film the clip is based on have yanked it from YouTube. More »
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College Humor is definitely onto something here in their Tetris God video. "There is no place for a square, milord!" More »
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Tiger Woods status as EA Sports' top golf pitchman is probably safe. In fact, his "personal failings' might be grist for a new direction in his namesake video game, as Conan O'Brien (or his writers) shows. More »
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Mike Tyson got in trouble this week for, as he is wont to do, smacking someone upside the head. Jimmy Kimmel's writers jumped on the case and produced this new game. More »
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It's been nearly a year since the last episode of internet gaming comedy Pure Pwnage went live, and now the reason behind the hiatus becomes clear - real television fame, in Canada no less. More »
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Video games have been generating laughter since the days of text-based adventures. Can today's more complicated titles keep up with the comedy of their beloved point-and-click ancestors? More »
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There has been speculation that the "leaked" Team Fortress 2 video from the weekend was not leaked at all. Speculation that, in light of events at Valve HQ today, seems entirely without merit. More »
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"Wiimbledon Champion" looks great on a resume, especially if whomever's reading it thinks it's just a typo. An improv troupe is putting the title up for grabs in a tournament next month in Seattle. More »
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