Sometimes realism isn’t exactly what we want in our video games. We want to escape, not be hassled by the reality of… reality. Cracked.com hosted an awesome Photoshop contest, encouraging their users to come up with ways to make video games just a tad more realistic, hence somewhat less playable. Some of the results were absolutely genius.
Here are a few of our favorites, but their are a whopping 27 of these photos over at Cracked.
And it’s in good company. Also being inducted to the Strong National Museum of Play’s Toy Hall of Fame this year is the ball. That’s right, the ball.
I always felt the Game Boy never got its true dues. The Game Boy was it. Still is “it” as far as I’m concerned. What other handheld console can you honestly say had more influence on the handheld gaming market than the Game Boy? I rest my case.
So many viable options, so little time! For the low, low price of $30 you too can get a head start on your completely non-stereotypical career choice. Who doesn’t want to grow up to be a cheerleader?
A team of researches conducted the first ever video game census, analyzing the characters of 150 of the top selling video games. The results were totally unsurprising if you’re an avid gamer. 89.5% of the characters are male, 85% are white.
The most under-represented demographic was Hispanics, appearing in 2.7% of the games, only a fraction of their actual world population percentage. Males, whites and Asians were over-represented, likely because of the games’ origins. Hedgehogs and orcs, I’m guessing, were over-represented.
The Arkham Asylum Batman video game is on its way to the market, but isn’t here quite yet. If the anticipation is too much to bare, and your Batman Robe just isn’t cutting it, here is a way to at least have some sort of contact with the game before its official release.
The Batman Arkham Asylum Poker Set, much like the Joker Poker Set was for The Dark Knight, is an awesome piece of advertising merch that is actually completely usable by the buyer. Complete with its own own metal carrying case, the set features two different decks of cards as well as Arkham-themed chips. The poker set will set you back around $200.
We’ve already witnessed a few examples of ultra-realistic video game creations, but nothing that mixes the gaming aesthetic with reality quite as well as this Jump ‘n’ Run photography series by Patrick Runte.
The series features classic gaming characters in real-life scenarios, illustrating what exactly the games would look like if they were live-action rather than bit-tastic. Check out a bunch more after the jump.
What’s surely to provide hours of lolz and orgasms, the Accidental Video Game Porn Archive collects the best of sexually suggestive video game model posing in one place.
Don’t worry kids, there’s plenty of zombie on zombie action. Check out a few more favorites after the jump.
According to sources and this video proof, some guy has accomplished what many deem impossible. The above video shows the game Portal running on the iPhone. Whether this is just a lite version or a full port of the game is unknown at this point, but either version would be pretty cool in my book.
Of course, there are plenty of people who are already calling this cake a lie as well. Until it’s proven either way, I’m just going to take it based on the evidence we have. And that evidence points to awesome.
Everybody already knows that Chuck Norris is likely the most powerful man in the universe. The Chuck Norris facts illustrate that quite well. Even superheroes like Mario sometimes stand aside to let Chuck Norris do their dirty work.
Watch Chuck blast through an army of Goombas. They never had a chance.
Within those hours upon hours of playing around with Super Mario Bros. we figured there must have been some sort of life lesson. We convinced our parents that the game was teaching us indispensable hand-eye coordination skills. But there was another hidden message that, unbeknown to us, would teach us all we needed to know for our adult years.
The Money, Power, Woman Mario shirt illustrates just how the progress of life works. Much like the wise-woman Lil’ Kim once said “First you get the muthafuckin’ money, then you get the mothafuckin’ powah.” Now, third, she said you get respect. But screw respect. We want some poon-tang.
