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We’ve always been a little skeptical about video game acting, since we’d really much rather play Pacman than have to sit through tiresome (pretty though they may be) interludes with tacky “drama” and trite dialog. Of course, we’re all for the increased interactivity of media, and we have to admit that there’s something appealing to [...]

One day in the hopefully not too distant future, we’ll be able to fold electronic paper in a certain way and it will spring to life with our favorite games animated in real, physical three-dimensional glory. It’ll look something like that recreation of Pacman with specially programmed roombas. Until that day, though, we’ll have to [...]

This is why Americans will never be the best at soccer: because they aren’t passionate enough to modify whatever technological craze they’re currently addicted to in order to combine it with their favorite sport. The British, on the other hand, seem to be doing just that with this project–and promotion for the rock group Kasabian–whereby [...]

On this date in 1962, the seminal Halloween hit “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. Because this was way back in the day before real music videos, however, no official visual accompaniment for the song exists. This has allowed innumerable artists to [...]

As you may have noticed, we’re big fans of nerdy costumes. And though we’d never thought of basing a costume on the likeness of an actual video game console, perusing Unreality’s listicle of 15 Video Game Console Costumes, well, we started to think that we’d have picked an Atari joystick or a Dreamcast controller for [...]

Call us huge video game snobs/product design nerds, but every time a new gaming system came out one of the things we were always most excited about was the controller design. After all, it tends to be the most iconic and creative-looking part of the system, and there’s something so seductive in the tactile object, [...]

Tetris, the game that gave us bloody blisters and we kept playing, was first released 25 years ago today, and the world’s gamers have been hopelessly addicted ever since. To celebrate, mental_floss looks at some wannabes and homages in their listicle of 10 Variations on Tetris, although we’re a little surprised by the absence of [...]

It’s a sad but nearly universal truth that video game cover art tends to be, well, not great. Still, with more and more designers padding out their portfolios by revising classic (and classically mediocre) pop culture artifacts, it’s no wonder that video games are the latest iteration of the cycle
After film-based illustrations and Modernist album [...]

Between wacky Japanese game shows and French performance artist pranks, there’s been something of a Pacman meme going around lately. And what web trend would be worthy of the name without its very own listicle? Unreality took care of that with their list of 10 Live Action Pacman Videos, our favorite of which (sort of [...]

Granted, the premise of The -Minus World’s listicle seems dubious, but pause a moment to consider how much sense it makes. The target audiences of video games (males 8-50) and pornography (males 13-60) have considerable overlap, and you’d be surprised how sexual some of the music in vintage video games can be. For instance, one [...]