In Real Life

Fake Gamer Of The Week: Don’t Trust The Pretty Redhead, Mr. Orange

Being an orange is hard. You grow up on a tree, surrounded by friends, only to be plucked at your ripest, crated, and shipped off to a grocery store, destined to be devoured by health-conscious shoppers.


Retro

Great Moments In Gaming Humor? The Jaxter Factor

Humor is a subjective thing, and never has video game humour been more subjective than in the case of Naughty Dog’s contribution to PlayStation platforming sidekicks, the obnoxious ottsel, Daxter.


In Real Life

Your Favorite Video Game Characters, Only Now They’re Undead

People often complain that there’s an overabundance of zombie-based video games, or that zombies are the new bacon, overindulged in to the point of nausea. Judging by pieces like Deviant artist Dantemustdie00′s “Sonic Zombies”, perhaps we’re just injecting the undead into the wrong titles.


May 15, 2012
In Real Life

I’m Commander Shepard, And These Are My Favourite Drinks On The Citadel.

The Mass Effect trilogy features a galaxy’s worth of exotic, alien-inhabited locations… with a bar in nearly every port ready and waiting to serve the Commander and her intrepid crew the finest of the milky way’s brain-draining beverages.


In Real Life

Fake Gamer Of The Week: Grandpa Just Saw Aeris Die

Oh, no. Grandpa. That look in your eyes. That clenched grimace. That loose, delicate grip on your controller’s joysticks, as if you aren’t really playing anything at all.


In Real Life

Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battles: When Diablo Meets My Little Pony

Lar’zak looked on the tent with horror clawing it’s way into his brain. Pony’s corpses littered the grounds around the tent, and those who females who hadn’t been killed suffered a fate worse than death.


In Real Life

The Dorkly Weekly: The Pokémon Bug Catcher Who Waited

There are Pokémon players that take great pains to make sure they fight every NPC trailer that they cross paths with, but sometimes even the most dedicated fan can overlook the lowly Bug Catcher.


May 8, 2012
In Real Life

Fake Gamer Of The Week: I Wish I Were Dead


Nintendo

Great Moments In Gaming Humour: A Squirrel In A World Of S**t

The funniest thing about Conker’s Bad Fur Day isn’t the boozing, sexual situations, drug use or foul language. It’s not even the boss fight against a living mound of feces with teeth made of corn kernels. It’s the fact that this Nintendo 64 classic started out a kid’s game.


In Real Life

The Dorkly Weekly: Video Game Real Estate Agents Have It Rough

Filled with rusty meet hooks, jumping snakes, and the odd retractable bridge over a pit of bubbling lava, video game real estate isn’t exactly burning up the market. Well, in some cases it is, but only literally.