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more about #videogames more comments → Botswana Meat Commission FC: I was gonna Rush out to buy this, but I heard it Styx. more » Bobby Big Wheel: Dammit, this was the idea that was gonna make Jim Anchower rich. more » drunkexpatwriter: If this doesn't push Ozimandias over the edge, nothing will. more » Smitros: They couldn't fight that feeling anymore. more » lobstr: I didn't know Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was getting voiceover gigs... more » rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: My real problem with the game isn't hte gay sex, but that the hetero sex option involves a secretly evil woman who wants to have your baby in order to... more » MincnglyWhrdL'mer: "... a new gay awaits us, or so the rumor goes" isn't that always the way? also, was this inspired by Leather Jacket Love Story more » BlinkyMcChuck: Where was their panic when the Left Behind video game came out? Where they got to kill homosexuals or convert them, in NYC, no less? Much as I suspect... more » electriklights: But what's with the music? Really. more » IpsoFacto: no no no no. They are in the uncanny valley!!!! more » LeeroySpitzer: Grey Warden? More like Gay Warden! Quick, somebody grab my staff, my magus is at max power. more » Steverino Begins: Seems like it's all just a joke for teenage boys, judging by the corny music especially. They accidentally stumble onto this, the Brokeback Mountain c... more » PaisleyPajamas: All the Pilgrims did was ruin the American Indian orgy of freedom. Okay, someone over at World Net Daily is cordially invited to join us next year f... more » jordos1: Hey! "I was born of a whore, and raised by an assassin," is my pick up line! So unrealistic though, he got some action, I usually get maced by some s... more » eleusiswalks: Dragon Age is totally making a big step here and I applaud it, it's just sad how completely tiny this big step is, and yet it's something worth gettin... more » -
#abouttime
The wait is over: REO Speedwagon is now a video game.
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#culturewars
Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season
Dragon Age: Origins has taken the terribly awkward genre of videogame dialog and melded it with gay romance and, also gay sex scenes. Who, in these United States, could possibly object to foisting this content on teenaged boys? More » -
#badideas
Mickey Mouse's 'Naughty' Makeover Promises to be Disturbing
Disney's beloved panda-rodent mascot is getting a video game makeover, and it'll give you more nightmares than the time he emptied all those buckets for that jerkface sorcerer. Because this time the nightmares might be, um, sexy? More » -
#crime
Video Game-Crazed Kids Reach New Levels of Violence
Kids these days sure know how to keep us horrified. Just when we think the little bastards can't get any more psychotic, five middle school boys have been arrested for setting a 15-year old classmate alight. Why?
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#lawsuits
Video Game "Crusader" Files Wacky Facebook Lawsuit
Disbarred Florida lawyer Jack Thompson gained some notoriety when, in 2006, he appeared on 60 Minutes to rail against violent video games. Nerds the world over took to Facebook to call him names. Now he's suing the website. More » -
#videogames
Video Games, A Traumatized Soldier's Virtual Therapist
Video games sure have come a long way since Atari. There's now a game called Virtual Iraq, which could help shell-shocked soldiers overcome post-traumatic stress disorder. Because nothing says "therapy" like "virtual reenactment of horrific proportions." [Crispy Gamer] -
#drugs
This is Your Brain on Coke. So What?
Ever had a good laugh over those "this is your brain on drugs" commercials? Well, stop. It's no laughing matter, buddy, because now scientists can prove that cocaine changes your brain forever. But that's nothing compared to video games. More » -
#grungeisdead
Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
Courtney Love and Dave Grohl love money more than their dead husband and bandmate, so Love let Activision include his image and Grohl let them use his music in Guitar Hero, where people make him sing Bon Jovi songs. More » -
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#videogames
Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
Remember the hidden sex scene in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? It was a terrible, amoral departure from the game's official content of endless murder rampages. And it's going to cost publisher Take-Two Interactive an astonishing $20 million. More » -
#rockstarresurrections
Kurt Cobain Brought Back To Life As Playable Video Game Character
Well, if Gus Van Sant's rockstar suicide porn Last Days wasn't vicarious enough for you, you can now play as a Kurt Cobain-like character in Guitar Hero 5, replete with the infamous Daniel Johnston shirt. Via Fimoculous, game trailer below. More » -
#videogames
Venezuela Launches Imprudent Assault on Video Games
Lawmakers in Venezuela's National Assembly have given the go-ahead to a law that would abolish violent video games and toys. That's remarkably short-sighted. More » -
#microtrends
Elites (Suckers) vs. Normals (Fat Poors)
Paltry idea-hustler Mark Penn's column today actually contains a single legitimately interesting fact(!). It also affords an easy joke opportunity at Mark Penn's expense! He is an Elite. More » -
#badvertising
Everything Wrong with the Internet in One Gaming Banner Ad Campaign
If you believe technology is rapidly turning us all into hedonistic degenerates, these advertisements for an online video game give you a perfect case study. The game, Evony, is about empire-building strategy. The ads, increasingly, are about boobage.
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#fromthearchives
Bill O'Reilly and Co. Investigate the Nintendo Craze
In 1988, a young Bill O'Reilly and his Inside Edition team tried to answer the question: "What the hey is this 'Mario Brothers' craze sweeping the nation?" They failed, of course. Entertainingly! More » -
#ivyleague
Yalie Demands $1 Million for Lost (Magic) Xbox
Yale junior Jesse Maiman is suing US Airways for $1 million because his Xbox came up missing from his checked baggage. Excessive? Not when you consider that Xbox saved his friend's very sanity. More » -
#videogames
'Resident Evil' Forces Reluctant Nation to Address Zombie Racism
"Is it racist for white people to shoot black zombies?" asks the prestigious Wall Street Journal. It's a touchy issue, and we all have our opinions. But are those opinions stupid? More » -
#theview
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Rails Against Demonic, Liberal Devil-Tool Known As 'Wii Fit'
Think the newly embiggened Jessica Simpson has it rough? That's nothing compared to the poor fat children victimized by the Nintendo cruelty machine Wii Fit, opines hysterical View hostess Elisabeth Hasselbeck. More »
