2 February
Tuesday

Want To Say “Go To Hell” In A Super Bowl Ad? You Can Go To Hell.

Remember when we all saw Janet Jackson’s boob during the Super Bowl that one year and toddlers nationwide all instantly got boners and were like “Mommy where do babies come from? I’m gonna do drugs now” and parents were like “OH GOD NO!!!” and society came apart at the seams?

Well, because of that, now you can’t say “Go To Hell” in your Super Bowl commercial for a video game in which you literally do go to Hell:

The company [EA], which is making its Super Bowl debut, had to soften the tagline in order to get clearance from CBS. The network determined the “Go to hell” tag was too controversial for the broadcast. “It was deemed too provocative,” said Paulo Ribeiro, account director at Wieden, Portland, Ore. “The final verdict has yet to be rendered, but it is unlikely that we will get [it on the game.]“

That’s pretty damn provocative — when I saw the words “Go To Hell” on the screen, I was like, “Man that is provoking me! I have to go do that now! There’s no way they can air this during a thing where guys constantly slam into one another and frequently get severely injured and they show the replays over and over again! They need to restrict their commercials to nice ones about babies who want to f*ck supermodels.”

After the jump, watch the SUPER CONTROVERSIAL Super Bowl commercial for the game Dante’s Inferno if you dare (NSFW if you work at the Super Bowl):

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11 December
Friday

Iowa Hawkeyes Rappers: Exactly As Funnybad As You’d Expect

I know what you’re thinking — “Another terrible white-dude rap on the internet? Why do I need to see this?”

The answer is, you don’t! At all! So here it is.

Behold, a $50 bill and some 20s fanned out! Go Iowa Hawkeyes!!!

Iowa Money

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2 September
Wednesday

Guitar Hero Animates Kurt Cobain Rolling Around In His Animated Grave

I’m a huge fan of both Rock Band and Guitar Hero, and have thusfar been amazed at how the games’ general likability have largely prevented people on the internet from lamely criticizing the bands for “selling out” or whatever (I thought it was always about the MUSIC, Mountain!)

The following video of a digitized Kurt Cobain character spitting out rhymes and Bon Jovi lyrics, well…it’s a little… not…normal…stuff…things.

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22 July
Wednesday

Studio Realizes “Holy Crap, We Haven’t Done World Of Warcraft Yet??”, Grabs Sam Raimi

Warcraft Troll“Alright, we got The A-Team. We got T.J. Hooker. We even got the View-Finder toy. Gentlemen, I need you to think — is there any other thing that has ever existed that we can pillage for a feature film remake?”

“I think we hit ‘em all, sir.”

“Are you sure? There has to be something. Anything! I don’t care how big or small or…”

“Wait — has anyone made a World of Warcraft m–”

[Executive breaks both legs jumping to his feet, can't feel the pain because of the excitement-induced adrenaline, immediately calls up Sam Raimi]:

According to a statement released today by Blizzard Entertainment, popular horror/superhero movie director Sam Raimi will be taking the reins on a live-action film based on the MMORPG World Of Warcraft. Casting, scripting and release date info are all still up in the air, but Raimi is quoted as saying, “At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic, action-packed story. I am thrilled to work with such a dynamite production team to bring this project to the big screen.”

“How did we miss this one for so long??? Dammit, men, we were seconds away from having to actually come up with sh*t.”

“You know, I don’t think anyone’s ever made a Sims movie, right?”

[Everyone explodes]

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21 July
Tuesday

If There’s Ever An Obama Game For Wii, This Should Be The Cover

Use your Wiimote to shake Barry B. Bearinson’s hand!

Obama Wii Game

Wii-ized Obama cover, after the jump:

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23 June
Tuesday

M. Night Shyamalan Unveils New Website — The Twist? It’s Terrible.

M. Night Shyamalan has channeled his passion for increasingly underwhelming films into the digital realm, unveiling the new MNightShyamalan.com, your one-stop shop for two pieces of information about Shyamalan’s movies and a whole bunch of really slow-loading flash crap that literally is nothing.

Here’s the homepage, ripped right from EdgarAllenPoe.biz:

M Night Shyamalan Website

The rest of the site plays like a crappy early-90s CD-ROM PC game, like Alone In The Dark if nothing in the game worked or did anything.

Some of the highlights after the jump:

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17 June
Wednesday

The Grey’s Anatomy Video Game Is Shockingly Less Watchable Than The Actual Show

The folks at CollegeHumor recently asked me to stop by to play the new Grey’s Anatomy video game for Wii, knowing that if there’s one thing I love in this world more than the show Grey’s Anatomy, it’s mind-bogglingly godawful video games based on the show Grey’s Anatomy. I subjected myself to hundreds and hundreds of unplayable Nintendo games in my college NES-emulator days, and I have still never seen a game quite this uniquely bewildering, ever:

Thanks to Jeff Rubin and Pat Cassels at CH, and fellow guest Sara Benincasa, for seeking my worthless opinions about stuff. I dare say, this may be the finest Hopper/Rubin collaboration since the universe-altering Sk8boardin’ 2K6.

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2 June
Tuesday

Beatles Rock Band Trailer A Much Better Movie Than Across The Universe

The game trailer for The Beatles: Rock Band was unveiled at the E3 convention yesterday, and while the video features no actual footage of the game itself, the trippy “If Terry Gilliam animated Hard Day’s Night” sequences were more than enough to win me over, even if “Paperback Writer” isn’t one of the first 1,000 songs I’d choose for a Beatles video game – was “Revolution #9″ unavailable?

 

 

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12 March
Thursday

WILLED INTO EXISTENCE: Super Smashing Pumpkins Bros.

From the same people who brought us the amazing 8-Bit Dark Knight (and by “people” I mean “the internet magically willing things to exist”) comes this even more bizarre yet no less ridiculous Nintendo-ized re-imagining of the Smashing Pumpkins inside the Mario Bros. trilogy (Ed. Note – Fiiiiiiiinally!)

The video’s cool and all, but it’s painful to remember back when Mario, Luigi and the Princess all defeated Bowser then went their separate ways cause Mario became so intolerable, then he released a solo album that was generally untinteresting, then they sort of re-united but kept playing these long-ass Pink Floyd covers in concert and it was never the same, and…

(Buzzfeed)

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11 March
Wednesday

3-D Baseball Card Technology Stays On The Cutting Edge Of 1996

Gentlemen, times are tough for Topps. With the rise of video games, the internet, and actually-interesting things, kids just don’t care about baseball cards anymore. So how can we make baseball cards — what’s that word the kids use — cooling again?

Boss – what if instead of competing with video games and computers, we made the cards interactive with computers, allowing collectors to play a really slow, horrendously animated video game that’s less fun and more dated than decade-old calculator programs?

BEAUTIFUL, Charlie! I’m promoting you to “Chief Randy Johnson Special Edition Card Flame-Designer!”

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