This weirdly engrossing three-minute video delivers 20 stylised worlds evocative of some very familiar video gaming franchises. Like trivia night at a bar, they slowly reveal themselves, with the final clue basically giving everything away. Can you name all 20 on sight before the last tipoff?
At the end of a nearly 13 minute interview, Peter Travers, the eminent film critic from Rolling Stone asks Josh Hutcherson, who plays Peeta in current box office smash The Hunger Games to sing the song currently on his mind. OK, Hutcherson says, just one problem: The song has no lyrics.
Ridiculously easy for us of course. I’m sure when some neckbeard gets to $US100,000 on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and goes deer-in-the-headlights when asked “Which Pope commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling”, every snark on the art history blogs is all lolwut and SMFH and such.
The names on this image represent potential playable characters in Sega’s Project Needlemouse 2D Sonic the Hedgehog revival, and only your knowledge of Sonic trivia can help narrow down the list!
The only thing more ridiculous than a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab is an iPhone game simulating a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab.
In about half an hour’s time, I’ll be playing trivia. Not just any old trivia, gaming trivia. And by that I don’t mean Buzz or Scene It?, I mean proper pub trivia where all the questions are about video games.
At first, I thought the announcer from the Buzz games looked a lot like a co-worker of mine at GamesRadar. Now I think he looks like Kermit the Frog post cosmetic surgery.
