August 22, 2017 SSX Tricky Fan Paralyzed After Family Ski Trip SSX Tricky Fan Paralyzed After Family Ski Trip BOULDER, Colo. — Teenage gamer Tobias Aldrich severely injured himself after emulating moves he learned in the cult favorite snowboarding game SSX Tricky during his family’s…
August 21, 2017 Aging PlayStation 2 Hasn’t Been Touched Like That in Years Aging PlayStation 2 Hasn’t Been Touched Like That in Years KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A timeworn PlayStation 2 was turned on—so turned on—and played for the first time in nearly a decade, in a whirlwind night…
August 20, 2017 Man Ghosted by Dating Sim Man Ghosted by Dating Sim TOLEDO, Ohio — A lovelorn man was surprised to see that he had been “ghosted” by Love Bubble Yeah!—a dating sim he had been playing…
August 19, 2017 One Dead, One Missing in Game Boy Battery Compartment One Dead, One Missing in Game Boy Battery Compartment ATLANTA — Local college student Gina Morris came upon a terrible atrocity inside her Game Boy Color this morning, where an innocent AA battery was…
August 18, 2017 SEGA Refuses to Reveal Which Body Part Sonic Puts the Rings In SEGA Refuses to Reveal Which Body Part Sonic Puts the Rings In Despite decades of questioning, SEGA, the producers of the Sonic franchise, have reiterated that they will not answer one of gaming’s greatest questions: Where does…
August 17, 2017 Video Game Player with Infinite Possibilities Creates Character That Looks Like Self Video Game Player with Infinite Possibilities Creates Character That Looks Like Self TUCSON, Ariz. — Avid gamer Mark Spears utilized a video game character creation tool with millions of possibilities, including hundreds of different fantasy species, to…
August 16, 2017 Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game to Be Adapted into Film Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game to Be Adapted into Film LOS ANGELES — Paramount Pictures has announced the latest summer tentpole film to be based on a video game, 1995’s overlooked Street Fighter: The Movie:…
August 15, 2017 Bethesda Apologizes for Extremely Insensitive Wolfenstein ARG in Charlottesville Bethesda Apologizes for Extremely Insensitive Wolfenstein ARG in Charlottesville ROCKVILLE, Md. — Bethesda Softworks, makers of the alternate reality Nazi-fighting game series Wolfenstein, has apologized for a recent augmented reality game tie-in. “Holy shit,…
August 15, 2017 New America’s Army Drone Warfare Expansion Features Suspiciously Lifelike Graphics New America’s Army Drone Warfare Expansion Features Suspiciously Lifelike Graphics SAN DIEGO, Cali. — Aerial Domination, the new drone-themed expansion pack for the Army-sponsored military shooter America’s Army, has earned acclaim for its bleeding-edge graphics,…
