Timewasters

PC

New Video Game Delivers The Immersive Realism Of Waiting 5 Hours In Line At A Museum

1:00AM September 18, 2011 | Owen Good

A year ago, the contemporary artist Marina Abramovic held a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, at which patrons waited in line for a very, very long time just to meet her. The excitement of that encounter is now chronicled in a recently launched free-to-play online game. More »


PC

Run A Katamari All Over This (and Any) Site

3:00AM March 13, 2011 | Owen Good

Are you browsing this page on Google Chrome right now? Well, you’re going to want to. Some saint of a coder has developed an utterly delightful hack that rolls up all of a Web page’s text and pictures, Katamari-style. More »


In Real Life

Shoot Up Any Web Page, Asteroids Style

5:00AM December 20, 2010 | Owen Good

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/fXjQn4O5T7s&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":332.5,"ratio":0.615,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); This nifty timewaster’s been around since early October; someone just brought it to my attention, so now I’ll bring it to yours. By bookmarking this link, you can play Asteroids on any page. Watch me shoot up Crecente’s bio! More »


In Real Life

Do You Hate Yourself? Play "Vuvu Hero"

8:30AM August 8, 2010 | Owen Good

Oh, you thought we were done with vuvuzelas? Hell no, now you can play the bitches in the inevitable “Vuvu Hero” flash game spoof. More »


News

Rescue Iron Maiden’s Crap From Space In This Game

9:20AM August 7, 2010 | Owen Good

Oh, dammit. Iron Maiden was flying to its first ever intergalactic gig when space pirates ambushed them, blew up their gear ship and sent everything flying into space. Now they expect you, space roadie, to get it back. More »


In Real Life

It’s All Headshots In Halo 2600

6:00AM August 2, 2010 | Owen Good

Sort of a cross between Adventure and Berzerk is “Halo 2600″ by Ed Fries, a clever little timewaster that riffs on the tropes of Atari 2600 game design, especially the snicker-inducing bleep-bloop Halo Theme in the intro. More »


News

Google’s Pac-Man Front Sapped 4.8 Million Hours Of Productivity

11:30AM May 25, 2010 | Owen Good

The nearly universal reaction to seeing Google’s playable 30th anniversary Pac-Man doodle was, “Well, there goes Friday.” Indeed. A productivity firm has calculated the time spent playing Google’s Pac-Man front at more than 4.8 million hours. More »


News

Play Smarter, Not Harder

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7:15PM March 17, 2010 | Junglist

It was bound to happen eventually.

Someone, somewhere, was always going to design a game you could play in the office with the boss a few steps away. It took four cheeky developers from Amsterdam to do it, and their current tally of timewasters is three. Before you ask – no, this has nothing to do with Evony Online’s boobalicious “play discretely” ad campaign. More »


Holiday Timewaster: Santa Fu

9:00AM December 24, 2009 | Owen Good

Mrs Claus has been abducted, and Santa’s out to deck the walls with gingerbread men and nutcracker guts. It’s a Christmas mashup of Kung Fu for the NES and it’s (wait for it) ho-ho-holarious. More »


Weekend Timewaster: Elevator Fart, The Game

11:00AM November 15, 2009 | Owen Good

The great thing about working weekends is I can blast gas with impunity in the Kotaku Tower elevator, and then on Monday when the car smells like Donkey Kong’s taint, Fahey gets blamed for it once Crecente comes in. More »