The people who brought you such fantastic headlines as “Burrito Eaten As If Someone In The Room Wasn’t Crying” and “Brief Reprieve From Mariah Carey’s Christmas Song Comes To Resounding End” have selected their Game of The Year, and it’s not ironic at all: Bethesda’s Skyrim has edged out the competition to take top honours.
Remember “Close Range”? The Onion’s violent video game satire got a web-based Flash game after its hilarious introduction in April, and soon the satirical publication began work on an iPhone app. Until Apple killed the fun, of course.
We’ve all thought about it, setting aside an entire weekend to recharge the recently rocky relationship with have with our console of choice… right? Or is that just me and this guy?
Once again, The Onion cuts to the chase: Lane Kiffin, the new football coach at Southern California is rumoured* to have been wooed away from the job by the chance of a lifetime: Working at a GameStop.
Modern Warfare 2 is nice and all, but The Onion has the scoop on Modern Warfare 3 — the most realistic military experience ever created.
In the Onion version of the universe, the Consumer Electronics Show is happening right now. The show’s most important development? The announcement of new technology that can “render average-sized breasts on female video game characters.”
The Onion, your news source, has a brand new clip up for the most inventive first-person-shooter we’ve ever seen. Ever. Called Close Range, the game has players shoot people in the face.
