CollegeHumor cut together every clip of someone playing a fake video game in The Simpsons. I mean, they probably missed one or two, what with there being 500 episodes of the show to sift through, so take it easy on me, commenters.
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin show, Jeff talks to Eric Zimmerman, who is an NYU professor at the NYU Gamecenter teaching game design.
Eric tells the story of how he got the job, how you teach game design, and how much of the homework that the students get is just playing video games. They also talk about the state of gaming, which of the recently released games that have really good game design and if Microsoft Flight Simulator can be categorized as a game or only as a simulation.
“There really weren't books about designing video games, altough there were interesting books anthropology, folklore and [...]
This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff is joined by Zelda Symphony Producer Jason Michael Paul.
They talk about how he got into producing classical videogame concerts, what a classical videogame concert actually is, and if an occarina is actually used to play the music. It's all very interesting, but if you're still not completely sold, here are some quotes to help convince you:
We already knew that John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Sarah Silverman, and Jane Lynch were lending their voices to Disney's video games movie Wreck-it Ralph but now more names are coming out. Mindy Kaling will be voicing Taffyta Muttonfudge (haha, of course), Sarah Silverman's nemsis in Sugar Rush, the racing game they're in. Steve the Pirate aka Alan Tudyk will play King Candy, one of the rulers in Sugar Rush. Horatio Sanz and Adam Corolla (whose character probably thinks both Sarah and Mindy's characters are bad drivers) will play Sugar Rush security guards. Also, Rachel Harris, Ed O'Neil, and Dennis Haysbert will be there to add their [...]
On this live episode: Thomas Edison gets up to mischief with his new invention, Darrel Dactyl goes on a job interview, Baldanzi is assigned a new partner, getting into an apartment bulding turns into an adventure, hats and root beer, Summer & Eve performs, Blendy's Healthy Start Menu, Wendell the Coked-up Life Coach, Michael Googlé, and an orange juice party.
This month's show was written and performed by Adam Bozarth, Dan Chamberlain, Matt Little, Taylor Moore, and Anna Rubanova with special guests George Kareman, Laura Willcox, Ryan Williams, and Summer & Eve.
Thanks to George Kareman and George Anagnostakos, Pat Baer in the booth, [...]
Dark humor runs through Portal 2, the massively successful 2011 offering from Valve Software. The game's antagonist, GLaDOS (short for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System), goads the player, pushing and prodding him or her along with an ever-present narcissistic, sarcastic, sinister wit voiced by Ellen McLain reading a script written by the legendary Erik Wolpaw. Wheatley, the enthusiastic sidekick in single-player mode, offers a light-hearted alternative to GlaDOS's dour musings. The pair combine to create a game that is exceptionally funny at times.
Portal 2, however, is not a comedy. The plot is dark and melodramatic, occasionally interspersed with moments of levity. But the video game, [...]
Here's Conan O'Brien playing Halo 4 for his web series "Clueless Gamer." He voiced a character for the game, but don't expect him to stay awake while playing it.
In the regular segment "Clueless Gamer," Conan O'Brien is forced to review a video game against his will, and this time around, he's been assigned the game Hitman: Absolution. If you've always wanted to see Conan play Xbox, you're not gonna want to miss out on this one.
I think that female Jedi is totes into Conan. Who can blame her: he's bad at videos games, he's great at punching his friend, he made that amazingly terrible "chose zeh bra" joke, and he's into how controlling she is. I hope they get married and have babies with little red-haired buns.
This trailer is hot out of the E3 oven. South Park: The Stick of Truth is actually the sixth South Park video game; however, it's the first to be creatively spearheaded by Matt Stone and Trey Parker and the first that is supposed to be good, which is something I wish I knew before I wasted my youth on that one game that was basically a crappy version of Mario Kart. Don't worry about video game playing rust because SP:TSOT doesn't come out until March 2013. This gives you plenty of time to practice video gaming and to refamiliarize yourself with the South Park video game canon. First [...]
Here's the latest installment in the web series Clueless Gamer, in which non-video game player Conan O'Brien plays video games and does bits. It's basically eight minutes of Conan ogling Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, which will probably result in him being the first person ever to receive a restraining order from a video game character.
Splitsider pal Mike Drucker has put together his list of the funniest video games of the year, and it's great. Games are generally not a genre known for their subtle senses of humor — unless you count the unintentional comedy of the plots of most Call of Duty games — but Drucker has pinpointed a selection of games across multiple platforms that manage to actually be, you know, funny.
Here's Kyle Kinane appearing on the first episode of L.A.-based standup Matt Ingebretson's funny new web series "Matt's Game Chamber." Ingebretson interviews Kinane while the two play a Batman video game, and Kinane slowly destroys Ingebretson's basement, piece by piece. Clearly, interviewing people while they're distracted by video games is a smart move, and it'll probably become the norm for all TV interviews once those late night hosts get a load of this web show.
This video is part of a new web series by Team Coco called "Clueless Gamer." Don't get too excited, it's not a series where Conan just plays the Clueless PC game over and over. Instead Conan is the clueless one (as if!) as he tries out games and rates them by the most convoluted scale imaginable. Watch to see what Push The Limit gets on the 44 star system – where 35=great, 11=not so good, 2=really good, 1=horrible – or to see Conan swing his arms awkwardly.
