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How To Make A Great Video Game Without Guns Or Sports

I don’t play games anymore because they’re too violent, or involve sports. Sly Cooper is here to save the day.

Atari Teenage Riot: The Inside Story Of Pong And The Video Game Industry’s Big Bang

On Nov. 29, 1972, a crude table-tennis arcade game in a garish orange cabinet was delivered to bars and pizza parlors around California, and a multi-billion-dollar industry was born. Here’s how that happened, direct from the freaks and geeks who invented a culture and paved the way for today’s tech moguls.

Chris Stokel-Walker 5 months ago 93 responses

21 Mouthwatering Video Game Foods In Real Life

Watching your characters eat food is the best part of video games. Now Gourmet Gaming lets you experience the virtual glory FOR REAL.

Angela Meiquan Wang 4 months ago 197 responses

Sadly This "Star Wars" Megaman Game Isn’t Real

Yet. If any indie developers wanted to turn Ty Letteu’s art into a game, no one would complain.

Donna Dickens 4 months ago 42 responses

Check Out This Adorable Super Mario Wedding Proposal

“Will you be my player two?

Ryan Broderick 4 months ago 195 responses

NRA Blames Ten-Year-Old Flash Game For School Violence

How a terrible, deliberately provocative Flash game from 2002 became part of the conversation about gun violence.

John Herrman 5 months ago 42 responses

Cat Hates Mario’s Jumping Noise

Or perhaps it is just pretending to be Mario.

Donna Dickens 5 months ago 172 responses

This Might As Well Be A Live Action "Fruit Ninja" Trailer

You know it’s only a matter of time.

Donna Dickens 5 months ago 2 responses

Link Has A Pot Addiction

The protagonist from the Legend of Zelda series needs an intervention. He isn’t even taking the rupees anymore.

Donna Dickens 5 months ago respond

Video Games Were Insanely Expensive In 1996

Our parents really loved us. This explains why November was Hamburger Helper Month.

Donna Dickens 5 months ago 21 responses

"Street Fighter Vs. Mega Man" Is Real And Free

Capcom is set to release a fan-made video game that wraps up the 25th anniversary of “Street Fighter”, while commencing the silver anniversary of “Mega Man.” Oh, and did we say that it will be free?

Kris Andres 5 months ago 36 responses

24 Things That Prove Video Games Are All Grown Up

Video games are getting older, and so are you.

Hunter Schwarz 5 months ago 229 responses

If “Arrested Development” Was A Series Of 8-Bit Nintendo Games

Artist Jesse Eisemann created these Bluth-family tributes using old NES cartridges as his canvas. Now someone needs to make these actual games, stat. H/T: The Daily Dot.

Summer Anne Burton 5 months ago 96 responses

Top 10 Awesome Lesser-Known Facts About Nintendo

Mario wasn’t always a plumber and he wasn’t always called Mario.

Alltime10s 5 months ago 26 responses

Geek Girls Internal Performance Panic

Oh God, the pressure is too much! It’s like artist Sailor Swayze is inside my mind.

Donna Dickens 5 months ago 16 responses

21 Things We Learned From Mario Kart 64

Besides the fact that it’s the greatest game ever.

Lauren Yapalater 6 months ago 374 responses

50 Cringe-Inducing Attempts At Human Speech In Games

SE-GA. Video game voices in the 90s sounded more like robots learning to mimic human speech patterns.

Donna Dickens 7 months ago 26 responses

"Wreck-It Ralph" Releases Hero’s Duty Commercial

The biggest duty of all. Honestly, who wouldn’t play a FPS voiced by Jane Lynch?

Donna Dickens 7 months ago 11 responses

Murder Vicariously With "Choose Your Own Revenge"

Word to the wise, don’t steal Naomi’s pizza. The only downside to this interactive YouTube video is you only get to make one choice.

Donna Dickens 7 months ago respond

Does World Of Warcraft Disqualify This Woman From Maine’s State Senate?

Colleen Lachowicz is a State Senate candidate by day, “orc assassination rogue” by night. Or does facing off with troglodytes and balancing a life and a raid schedule make her MORE qualified?

Rosie Gray 7 months ago 72 responses

22 Handheld Games We Wouldn’t Mind Playing Again

Remember when you could buy a single, self-contained game for practically any subject you wanted?

Whitney Jefferson 7 months ago 75 responses

Extremely Detailed Gamer Aprons

I need these because of reasons. But not to cook in because they are too magnificent to stain.

Donna Dickens 7 months ago 110 responses

"Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2" Zombie Trailer Drops

Zombies and Call Of Duty are about as inevitable as death and taxes. Anyone else getting a serious Left 4 Dead vibe from this trailer?

Donna Dickens 7 months ago 3 responses

Pokémon Is Based On The Real World

Pokémon Black and White was inspired by New York City.

Hunter Schwarz 8 months ago 71 responses

Hungry Hungry Koopas

This Super Mario Brothers tribute board game is a work of sheer genius, turning Hungry Hungry Hippos into an amazing Koopa battle where you eat everything that you can. Game on!

TxBlackLabel 8 months ago 86 responses