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Colbert Invokes Katamari, Tetris, Mario While Mocking Japan's Election Coverage
Video games got a little face time on the Colbert report last night when the show’s namesake let loose on Japan and their grab-and-peel election coverage technology.
That’s the best you can do?
I happen to know that you have robots, slapping machines, human Tetris, Katamari and sex bots, you could have just written the candidates names on meat hats and let a lizard pick the winner.
Colbert got into such a froth he actually used Mario’s name in vain. I've moved the vid to the jump because it was hanging up our page for some reason.
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GTA IV: Jack Thompson Edition
I'm posting this video, from recently formed game comedy group Glitch the System, mostly because it helped me come to the realization that I can use the word Thompsons to define naught bits, as in: I just kicked some guy in the Thompsons. Make a note, I plan to use that a lot.
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E3 Floor Plan Revised To Match Your Inner Cynic
That E3 floor plan released a couple days back? Looked pretty! And yeah, I guess it's accurate, but what's accuracy compared to a tandem bike that's being propelled by cynicism in the front and comedy in back? It's nothing, that's what. Here, then, courtesy of the-minusworld is an alternative E3 floor plan for your perusal. And while the majority of it is going for laughs, I can assure you, I'm yet to see a Square Enix booth that's anything but a large, tightly-monitored sex-guessing hutch.
E3 2008's Rapidly Shrinking Floorplan Revealed! [the-minusworld]
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Colbert V Rain: DDR
Colbert is many things, but a graciously loser isn't one of them. After going off on Miyamoto for swiping the top spot in Time's 100 most influential people list (and calling Donkey Kong a game about hate crime), he settles on the person he's rally mad at. No, not himself: RAIN!!!
Hit up the jump to catch Colbert breaking it down, as the kids say, in a head-to-head dance-off with adorable Korean pop singer on Dance Dance Revolution.
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mmo
First Review Of Life, The MMO
Reviewing games has its place, but there's no cast-iron rule that says we always have to review games as though they were games. We could, for example, do more of what MetaFilter poster Razzle Bathbone has done, and look at life (like, real life) as an MMO. And review it.Players are encouraged to focus on social interaction, which can be engaged in in a variety of ways. In fact it's extraordinarily difficult to solo anything whatsoever in Outside, apart from basic skill and knowledge accumulation quests. One of the major forms of social interaction in the game is based largely around the addition of new players to Outside, and is both complex and, in comparison to the storyline-driven romance quests of, say, Baldur's Gate or Mass Effect, they are immensely difficult.Brilliant.
The Myth of the Media Myth: Games and Non-Gamers [MetaFilter, via Boing-Boing]
world of warcraft
Colbert Crew Shoots Down WoW Immortality
Funnyman, warrior-poet and host of The Colbert Report Stephen Colbert was this close to being immortalized in collectible trading card by artist Todd Lockwood. Unfortunately, it would appear that Colbert will have to settle for a television show and best-selling book, as the World of Warcraft card from Upper Deck featuring "Stefen Colbear" doesn't look like it will see commercial release, in spite of its brilliance. More »
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South Park Teases Guitar Hero
Many of you have probably already watched South Park's Guitar Hero episode that aired last night, but we enjoyed this very telling clip that compares playing real guitar to playing the hyperbolic air guitar that we know better as the GH controller. Because we understand where those kids are coming from. Back in our band days, we'd have loved some positive reinforcement for nailing our trombone solo. Alas, the real world is not garnished with the crack that is a high score.
Hit the jump for an entry from South Park's production blog about the experience of making the episode.
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Don't forget to tune into Comedy Central tonight if you want to catch the Guitar Queer-o episode of South Park, featuring a Guitar Hero obsessed Stan and Kyle. Worth tuning into just for a few seconds worth of Boston pumping through your media center. A very brief preview is available online.
not the news
G4 Launches The MMO Report
sad but true
Sarcastic Gamer Sings Shadowrun Hate
To commemorate Shadowrun somehow making it to into the top five in Xbox 360 game sales last week, Doc Adams and Lono over at Sarcastic Gamer lovingly crafted a song parody that sums up my feelings about the RPG-based FPS quite nicely. It's called "Bad Game""Bad Game turned out to be one of our favorite projects so far," said Sarcastic Gamer's Creative Director, Jeromy "Doc" Adams. "We got to use a cartoon voice for this song, because it seemed to fit the subject... Well, that and none of us could sing as high as Daniel Powter."Tell me about it. "Bad Day" kicks my ass in Singstar every freaking time, and I get awesome scores at "Skater Boi" and "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". Go figure. Sarcastic Gamer is also holding a contest for the best music video for the song, with the winner receiving either a copy of Shadowrun or a box of granola bars. "Given the nature of the game, our money's on Nature Valley." More »
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The Transformers saga in all of its different forms has always been a story of conflict, so it stands to reason that the Transformers movie video game developed by Travellers Tales would follow suit. I just hoped it be a conflict between Autobots and Decepticons on my television screen instead of the conflict between critical gamer and drooling TF fan inside of me. Unfortunately that is what it comes to. As I come down off of my initial "OMG is Optimus Prime," high I am left feeling strangely unfulfilled.
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Transformers 360 Impressions
The Transformers saga in all of its different forms has always been a story of conflict, so it stands to reason that the Transformers movie video game developed by Travellers Tales would follow suit. I just hoped it be a conflict between Autobots and Decepticons on my television screen instead of the conflict between critical gamer and drooling TF fan inside of me. Unfortunately that is what it comes to. As I come down off of my initial "OMG is Optimus Prime," high I am left feeling strangely unfulfilled.
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for the collection
Mega64 Greatest Hits DVD
Mega64, in all their comedic glory, are releasing a greatest hits DVD that includes all the mayhem they've caused including a one whole disc of skits, an extra disc of video game commercials, and of course never-before-seen footage from the past. The trailer includes some of the brighter moments the crew have shared, including the infamous cameo from Shigeru Miyamoto. There will be no more need for squinting at the pixelated clips after DVD comes out on July 26th. You can keep the movies and your eyesight in the comfort of your living room. More »
the daily show
Daily Show, Colbert Report Bring Fake News To Xbox Live Video Marketplace
WIth all good news must come some bad. I'll start with the former. The folks at Xbox 360-land have announced that they've partnered with Comedy Central to bring The Daily Show's semi-fake news reporting and The Colbert Report's brand of truthiness to the Xbox Live Video Marketplace. Episodes will show up some six hours after their original airing. Everything's still pretty good so far... More »
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Microsoft's $100,000 Xbox Live TV Contest
Are you tired of the comedy offerings available via Xbox Live? Think you can do better? Then Microsoft and the New York Television Festival want to hear from you. They've announced the Xbox Live Originals contest, which give aspiring television producers a chance at having their original comedy pilot made into a 6 episode series for Xbox Live, complete with a $100,000 budget, which in real television just about covers drugs and snacks for one episode. More »
reno 911
Comedy Central Launches Reno 911 Paintball
Comedy Central has been in the habit lately of creating online games for some of their shows. The newest member of this quickly growing clan of games is Reno 911 Paintball. Done in a mock FPS style, Reno 911 Paintball pits you against the Reno 911 deputies in a paintball battle/flag capture game. This free webgame will not work on Macs and PC users will need to have the latest version of Shockwave installed for the game to work properly. More »
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Clip: True Gaming Legends Confidential: Pac Man
Tabloid TV has yet to release it's stranglehold on America, especially on channels like E! which are dedicated to turning up the seedy underbelly of the entertainment industry. One of the great things out such outlets are that they are so cheaply done that they are easy to parody. And that's just what the makers of True Gaming Legends Confidential have done, taking the mick out of E!'s own muck raker "True Hollywood Story." This episode deals with the rise and fall of two of gamings most beloved characters, Pac Man and Dig Dug. Watch in amusement and terror as Pac Man's meteoric rise to fame gets him everything he ever wanted and leaves poor Dig Dug drunk and flailing in the gutter like McWhertor at game launch party. More »
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