In Real Life

Ousted Community Showrunner Heads Off To Play More ‘F***ing Great’ Prototype 2

Yesterday night, the world of TV comedy got a bit of a drama injection when news broke that Community showrunner Dan Harmon had been fired by Sony pictures Television.P


May 19, 2012
In Real Life

Community’s Abed Finds Love With An NPC

Do you love NBC’s comedy show, Community? I love Community. Though the show often pokes fun at film and television tropes — typically through the dorky, yet loveable character Abed — the characters sometimes toy around with video game jokes, too.


May 18, 2012
Retro

See That Retro Community Video Game In Action

The other day, we saw some images of a made-up video game based on the characters from NBC’s Community — now, we get to see the “game” in action, complete with vocal performances from the cast. (Though I wonder if at this point they just have a canned recording of Abed saying, “Cool. Cool cool cool.”)


May 16, 2012
In Real Life

The Cast Of Community, Immortalised As Video Game Characters

With the almost-final season of Community wrapped up, it can feel hard to come to terms with the fact that we won’t get to hang out with Annie, Troy, Abed and Dean Pelton much longer.


May 9, 2012
PC

Rockstar Games’ Social Club Just Got A Lot More Social

In preparation for next week’s release of Max Payne 3 and the launch of the Crews system, Rockstar Games has given its Social Club site a complete overhaul, complete with user profiles, a new friends system, and integration with Facebook and Twitter. In short, this time it’s social.


March 15, 2012
In Real Life

Dying Boy Gets Personal Virtual Wonderland Built By Game Community In 4 Days

Long-time Everquest II player Carri Hoover has a son not quite as old as the game is. Sadly, however, six-year-old John Hoover is terminally ill, with doctors estimating he has only weeks left to live.


March 1, 2012
PC

PCGamingWiki Wants To Address Intimidation And Confusion

Have you ever had a problem installing the latest and greatest PC game and were forced to scour semi-helpful forum posts for hours looking for a solution? Andrew Tsai certainly has, and he created PCGamingWiki so no one else ever has to.


February 7, 2012
In Real Life

The Cast Of Community Goes All Street Fighter

It seems like the character archetypes in every successful TV ensemble show are a bit interchangable — there’s the Rachel, the Ross, the Joey and the Chandler. Or the Samantha, the Carrie and the Miranda. Or, if you watch NBC’s Community, there’s the Troy, the Abed, the Pierce and the Britta.


February 2, 2012
In Real Life

Going To Miss BlizzCon In 2012? Not As Much As This World Of Warcraft Guild Will

Last month Blizzard announced that it’s annual fan convention would be skipping a year, returning in 2012 so the developer can focus on things like developing games. Some fans took this well. The Elysiam World of Warcraft guild on the US Shadowmoon server took to song.


January 12, 2012
In Real Life

Mapstalgia Explores The Strange And Wonderful Ways Memory Changes Video Game Maps

What you’re looking at is obviously not the official map of The Legend of Zelda; it’s what The Legend of Zelda’s map looks like to themadjuggler, one of the many contributors to Mapstalgia, a website dedicated to reproducing video game maps from memory.