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She Tried To Make Good Video Games For Girls, Whatever That Meant 
The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks QWOP, the notorious, accursed and “most realistic simulation” of the 100m dash ever made, has a sequel. 2QWOP now delivers two-player split-screen multiplayer, good for settling stupid bets and drunken taunts among friends.
This is true. Another way to handle it is the roommate going apeshit at an innocent response to a procedural question. [5 Second Films, thanks Carlos L.]
Here’s “Generic Geoff,” taking us through a free-for-all victory (on combat training) in just under three minutes. If it sounds like you’ve heard all of this shit before, that’s the point. It’s a sendup of just about every YouTube walkthrough video ever made, especially for the shooters.
Rooster Teeth makes like Letterman from The Electric Company, swapping an M for an N to give us this comedy short. Hang around for the end – who doesn’t like it when mimes pantomime … that …?
SB Nation had a good thing going, picking winners of the first round of the NBA Playoffs using awful games like Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball and IN THE ZONE ’98. But then the Miami-Philadelphia series was simulated using Streets of Rage. Streets of Rage is not a crappy video game.
Having done only one unboxing – and it was of fried chicken – I feel I may post this video without it being an overt display of my hypocrisy.
Meme Generator now has “Optimistic Indie Dev” on its menu of choices, and it’s become quite active. Some suck, but a lot provide biting commentary on independent games development, in a can’t-live-with-em-can’t-live-without-em way. For an all-star selection of the best, go here.
When Rooster Teeth swivels its main guns onto a particular topic, you can count on that sucker being blasted off the map. And here is a comprehensively excellent faux trailer that reframes Angry Birds as an action drama about secret wars fought with advanced technology. Or a slingshot and birds.
Jeff Koons Must Die!!! The Video Game from Hunter Jonakin on Vimeo.
Jeff Koons, if you know anything about modern art (you don’t? Doesn’t everyone?) is quite the polarizing figure. His specialty is the grandiose reproduction of a kitschy object – balloon animals, for example. He’s sold one such piece for $US25 million. That pisses off people, some so much they want blow up his work with a rocket launcher.
