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the myth of outdoors

Bass Pro Shops Wants Your Video Games

Finally a way to get rid of all these damned Burger King Xbox 360 games I have laying around! The folks at Bass Pro Shops want your video games, and the trade-in value could be better than GameStop, depending on what you use it for.

Calling it their "Get Off The Couch & Go Outdoors" offer, from May 21st though the 26th you can trade in an old video game for 15% off Bass Pro Shops branded merchandise across several categories. I particularly like the generic, photoshopped Xbox game case, and the fact that they chose to portray a more active watersport than fishing, which is pretty much just sitting on your ass drinking beer in a different place than when you are gaming. The "Sit Somewhere Else" offer just wouldn't have had the same ring to it.

I'm not sure what they'll be doing with the games, but I'm getting a lovely mental image of the ape scene from 2001.

Update: Just got this from Bass Pro Shops PR: "The donated games will all be going to Get Well Gamers (http://getwellgamers.org/index.php) for redistribution among their network of hospitals. M rated games will find their way to troops overseas through GWG's partnership with Fun for Our Troops (http://www.funforourtroops.org/)." I'm going to go feel really, really bad now.

Bass Pro Shops Sales Circular [Bass Pro Shops - Thanks Ivan!]

10:20 AM on Mon May 19 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,644 views, 61 comments

Latest by RamV10: @Malevolentburrito: an Enfield maybe? On another note, I need a canoe and a shotgun (likely not to be used in conjunction...unless the groundhogs start swimming), and I'm pretty sure i've got a couple copies of Game! laying around the house. more »

clips

Ed Boon On MK Vs. DC Making Sense

Witness Mortal Kombat kreator Ed Boon trying to explain how the whole Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe things is supposed to make sense. Apparently it is all about magic! Every thing will make sense when you play the story mode! No. There is no way in hell you can make this pairing make sense. Maybe, just maybe if DC runs a mini-series before the game comes out they could make the concept slightly less than laughable. My hopes got up when Boon said the words shattering...I thought he was going to say jaws, but no. Shattering masks. Woot. I think he neatly sums things up at the end of the interview. It's all about the novelty.

8:00 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,990 views, 81 comments

Latest by n/a: they do this kind of storyline in comics all the time so it really isn't that ridiculous, storywise, but honestly aquaman alone could defeat all the MK roster by himself!!!! more »

clips

Hot Chicks In Stupid Game-Related Clips

If G4's old show Cheat - The Pringles Gamer Guide taught us anything, it was that cheat shows just don't work. The odds of someone looking for cheats and hints just happening to stumble upon a video for the exact game they are curious about before resorting to GameFaqs are just too high to even bother. They even tried replacing the host with a hot woman, and that didn't work out...but was it a scantily clad hot woman? SpikeTV combines cheat codes with attractive women in a way that slips right past sexy into a giant pile of stupid. "It takes more than one shot to take me out baby!" Don't waste your bullets.

Hot Chicks With Cheat Codes [Spike.com Via Fleshbot *NSFW*]

6:00 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Mike Fahey
9,286 views, 138 comments

Latest by pedantic_dandy: @Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: Ironic detachment gets old fast. Unless you have access to vast hordes of marijuana. more »

crime

CNET and GameFaqs Respond to Church Arson

GameFaqs and parent company CNET have responded to yesterday's story about the teen who burned down a church. After the incident, the teen went to the GameFaqs forums and bragged about his crime, leading to his eventual arrest. In a statement to TV news station WGEM, CNET and GameFaqs said:

"Our thoughts go out to those affected by the Mission Hill Baptist Church fire. GameSpot and GameFAQs message boards are for people to discuss gaming topics. We moderate the posts and pull down inappropriate messages. We are working with the proper authorities to assist in their investigation of this matter."

We'll be keeping an eye on this story and we'll be sure let you know of any updates.

Church Arson Suspect Brags Online [WGEM]

11:00 AM on Sun Feb 10 2008
By fdemarco
4,744 views, 63 comments

stupid

"Do Gamers Read?"

Once again, further proof that mainstream press shouldn't let just anyone cover games! National Public Radio's Chana Joffe-Walt has an interview with Halo: Contact Harvest author Joseph Staten. The book was a New York Times best seller, but Joffe-Walt couldn't care less. Not only is she ignorant about gaming, she's brings her own ill-informed prejudices to the the interview. There are exchanges like this:


Joffe-Walt: "Yes, my fellow non-gaming Luddites, there is a story to Halo. I know, I thought the same thing. Isn't gaming all just shoot'em up? Why do you need story?"
Staten: "I think to understand why stories are important in games, you need to actually play them."

But wait, there's more! That, after the jump.

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12:00 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
11,395 views, 254 comments

Latest by n/a: Of course I read i wouldn't be a gamer otherwisebecause you need to read sometimes in games just in case your deaf (which I am not) more »

just add water

Boy Fries Himself with Hot Hot Xbox 360

Dumb, dumb, dumb. Apparently, a 14 year-old North Carolina boy was almost killed trying to keep his Xbox 360 from overheating. According to local news, the boy's mother found her son unconscious after he attempted to submerge the console in a pan of water. "When I left to go next door he was playing a game but when I got back he was laying on his back on the floor and unconscious," she said. The console, wrapped in plastic and tape, was still plugged in. The kid has read online that he could keep his 360 from over heating by cooling its power supply. By the time the ambulance showed up, the boy had regained consciousness. Thankfully, when the ambulance arrived, the boy had regained his senses. He was rushed to a nearby hospital and suffered small burns on his hand and foot. Kids remember: No matter what the internet says, electricity and water are NOT friends. They're not even on speaking terms.
Boy Nearly Killed [Fun Tech Talk Game|Life]

9:00 PM on Tue Aug 21 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
51,257 views, 166 comments

Latest by KM91: I wonder who wrote that online... Remember kids, if you find something on the internet, use your common sense. more »

nintendo

Morons Weigh In On Why Wii Activity Is Bad For You

Normally, the mainstream media can't say enough nice things about the Wii. From giving old folks one more reason to crawl out of bed for the 30,000th time to fostering family gameplay to getting portly youth off their cellulite ridden asses, the media is all about Nintendo's Blue Ocean strategy. More »

6:20 PM on Tue Apr 17 2007
By Michael McWhertor
764 views, 68 comments

politics

Homeland Security Bemoans "PlayStation Generation"

Always popular fodder for society's ills, games are once again the scape goat. This time it's Jay Cohen (above), who heads up science and tech research at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Cohen's department has an US $850 million research budget, but he's worried about finding research talent in the future. Why? The "PlayStation Generation," he says, avoids math and science because they are too difficult. It's so bad that Cohen describes this dilemma as "a crisis in the country." I, on the other hand, would describe government officials who made blanket statements about things they don't know about nor truly understand to be the real "crisis in the country." That's just me, though. Brian Ashcraft More »

3:00 AM on Mon Mar 5 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
1,627 views, 46 comments

Latest by Jesse in Japan: Maybe if they put some of that money into the Department of Education, and then hired some competent people to work at the DoE, and then increased state and local grants so that schools can buy better equipment and hire more »

crime

Killing Homeless Is Like A "Violent Video Game"

CNN has a sad piece up on a teen attacks against the homeless. Nathan Moore and his friends Luis Oyola and Andrew Ihrcke savagely beat 49 year-old homeless man Rex Baum. They threw rocks and a barbecue grill at Baum and punched and kicked him. They then hit the man with a baseball bat and a pipe before smearing feces on Baum's face and cutting him to "see if he was alive." The teens then went to McDonald's and bragged about this murder before police picked them up. Quoting CNN: More »

10:00 PM on Tue Feb 20 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
6,564 views, 42 comments

Latest by ARVash: This is one of the few cases where I actually believe the person is demon possessed.. more »

ds

Can The DS Attract Child Molesters?

Short answer? No...unless they are child molesters into handheld gaming, but Fox News 6 out of Milwaukee seem to think otherwise. In a special report entitled "Playing Games With Your Kids Safety," Reporter Brad Hicks delves into the disturbing, implausible possibilities. It is pretty much one of those grab the viewer stories that they tease during prime time television. Things like, "Could those french fries give you testicular cancer? Find out at 11." The stories are generally use fear to entice people to help stations generate advertising dollars, and are generally ridiculous. Even more so in this instance. More »

8:20 AM on Thu Feb 8 2007
By Mike Fahey
6,184 views, 91 comments

Latest by oregonjade: And don't forget... most of the child molesters children are exposed to are family and friends. more »

blood elves

Blood Elves Declared Too Femme, Put on Steroids

Well, this is crap. Blizzard has decided, based on a bunch of hooting, red-assed baboons screaming "GIRLY MAN!" in their forums, to change the design of the male Blood Elves. More »

6:40 PM on Tue Oct 24 2006
By egauger
10,077 views, 75 comments

bo

Gizmondo Bo Says "No"

Car-lovin' sister site Jalopnik sends an update on the Gizmondo craziness. Former company honcho and Swedish gangster Fat Stefan Eriksson has rejected his plea deal. If Eriksson, whose real first name is "Bo," had accepted this deal and pleaded "no contest" to four counts, he would've been hit with a two year, four month sentence and a US $25,000 fine. There's more, including admitting previous felony conduct. More »

1:21 AM on Wed Oct 18 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
86 views, 15 comments

spellcheck

Twilight Pricess Embarrasses GameStop

Plaid-skirted Destructoidette Faith Naked and I apparently share more than hair color (although recently mine's been blue, at heart I am a redhead), as she displays while tearing into GameStop for once again failing to run their ad copy through even a basic spellcheck. More »

6:20 PM on Wed Oct 11 2006
By egauger
370 views, 12 comments

stupid

A Service for People Who Believe Gamerscore is Equivalent to Penis Size

The SmackTalk is bad. This is worse. More »
uk

Dumb, Dumb Brit Game Addiction Documentary

Thought all the stupid game-hating news programs were American? Nope. The fine folks of the United Kingdom get to watch scare drivel as well. How stupid is it? Resorting to mainstream journalism's game-are-drugs default setting, statements include: Kids' reactions change when they are "on a game" and " off a game," video games are more damaging than regular chemical addictions and video games are keeping kids out of school. As game site UK:Resistance points out, that's all within the show's first fifty seconds! And in the next fifty seconds, its noted that "children have become slaves to gaming." Old hat sure. Hit the jump for the sensationalism in full. Brian Ashcraft More »

4:22 AM on Mon Oct 2 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
1,445 views, 44 comments

Latest by wendyagog: ok, so i,am a bad mother, (robin) whom is part of this programme, is addicted to games, is because i took him out of school, due to him being bullied, i took him to palestine to let him gain a more »

hot or not

Hot or Not for Gamers is Not

Thanks to Destructoid for finding this deeply embarrassing evidence of the further jockifiation of the gamer culture. At right, the top-rated guy on GorgeousGamers.com holds an invisible basset hound against his groin. More »

7:40 PM on Thu Sep 21 2006
By egauger
672 views, 43 comments

james cameron

James Cameron Thinks He's Raph Koster

And from the stupid, clueless Hollywood celebrity quote department, Mr. James Cameron: More »
korea

"Nintendo" of Korea: Run By Thugs

Nintendo hasn't just dropped the ball in Korea. They've dropped it, stomped on it and then kicked it across the hall. Previously, we've covered how the game/console maker has left its goods in the hands of book publisher Daiwon, who have done a rotten job of handling Nintendo products. The demand is there, but the products and service are not. More »

5:22 AM on Thu Sep 7 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
234 views, 5 comments

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