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Watergate: The Game: What a Long, Strange National Nightmare It’s Been
I’m about as old as Watergate and it has had a constant and vaguely Oedipal influence on me. Dad was a newsman; I’m a newsman. Dad hates Nixon; I hate Nixon. Newsmen took down a president; my Dad’s badder than the president. So I came to Watergate: The Game confident I could win with solid…
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An Artist Fights His Creations–Literally
YouTuber and artist Jonny Lawrence put together this neat stop motion video featuring his hand battling what looks like Akuma from Street Fighter. It’s like Master Hand, but in Street Fighter. And less virtual, more epidermis. (via Laughing Squid) To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at…
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Minnesota Vikings Cut JRPG Fan
Chris Kluwe, the outspoken NFL punter, World of Warcraft and JRPG fan we’ve featured here frequently over the past season, was let go from his team, the Minnesota Vikings, today. Kluwe would frequently refer to his team’s upcoming game in the language of an MMO. His next objective, so to speak, is to find a…
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Children Slaughtering Zombies Is More Fun When They’re Animales
Do not ask why Little Mexico has a zoo containing hundreds of elephants. Do not ask why the only people fighting the animal victims of a zombie plague are a pair of small Mexican children. Do not ask how a Roman candle can take down a full-grown pachyderm brought back from the dead via evil…
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Hilarious FIFA Fails Fall Down—but They Don’t Flop
FIFA, we kid because we love. You are one of the Big Four—the best sports video games each year. But you know the risks of having a real-time physics engine: It means the occasional noggin’ knockin’ (and salad-tossin’) in this anthology of wild moments via Rooster Teeth‘s Achievement Hunter. (NSFW language.) To contact the author…
By Owen Good
