posted by Qais on January 28, 2008 10:02 AM in Games
Listen to or read The Weekly Geek for a while and you'll gradually come to realize that we often don't take religion seriously. Which is a good thing considering taking religion too seriously at best leads to intolerance and small minded douchebaggery and at worst leads to all out war and horrific torture. That's right folks, we're just doing our part here.
Molle Industries is doing their part too. Their browser game Faith Fighter is a really fun 2D Flash fighter featuring all your favorite religious icons. God, Jesus, Buddha, Budai (the Chinese incarnation of Gautama Buddha, succeeding him in the cycle of reincarnation according to Chinese Buddhism), Ganesh, and Muhammed are all playable characters and each one has special attacks they can use during a fight along with punches and kicks.
Molle created a censored and uncensored version of the game, which only features a black dot over the face of Muhammed. The tenets of Islam stated that no images of God or his prophet should be made, and while Judaism has a similar stipulation, some (note the use of some, not all) Muslims can get a little upset about someone that doesn't even subscribe to their belief system violating its law.
As far as 2D flash fighters go this is a great one and would be well done even with a different set of characters and lacking the tongue-in-cheek cynicism we love at The Weekly Geek, but the addition of blasphemy is like the uncalled for (and thus hilarious) rudeness cherry on our offensive cake. And boy do we love cake.
[Via Our blaspheming brother in arms, Warped Savant]
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posted by Qais on January 11, 2008 10:26 AM in Games
When I was younger my cousins and I would have epic Tetris tournaments, nearly always resulting in a knock down, drag out fight over sour grapes based accusations of cheating. Unfortunately I never got to the frothing madness levels of the game, at which point your fingers become an unrecognizable blur as you crouch over your keyboard (the chair having long since been abandoned). As such, Tetrical is an exercise in frustration and battling flashbacks of defeat and the echoing cheers of my triumphant cousins. So hey, two games for the price of none. If Tetris in 3D is too hard (or you simply can't stop laughing at the name Tetrical) try Cubical, an easier version.
[via CoolHunting]
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posted by Chris on December 12, 2007 9:31 AM in Games
Over at Hey Genius's "low-brainwidth" site you can find a plethora (three) of fantastic (dumb) games to waste your time (about a minute) on.
First there's Mallot, which sounds like some sort of fancy French game, which it is in fact not (I keep reading the name in my head with a bad French accent). Marvel as your mallet hits a nail! Feel the rush of excitement as the metal hits metal! What will happen?! NO ONE KNOWS.
A game called Ping is also featured. Now, I created a very similar game also titled Ping back in high school. It was on my TI-85 graphic calculator, and basically you pressed start, and either it was Ping! you win, or Ping! you lose. There was a 50/50 chance! Those are pretty good chances. This version of Ping is similar in the fact that it is horribly stupid. Yet it is so lovable!
The final game is the jewel in the crown of Hey Genius. In Ball Game you have to use your stunning intellect to determine which cup the ball is under. Don't be fooled! It's not under the one you think it is!
Head over to Hey Genius and check it out. The site is hilarious and there's tons of fun stuff to explore besides the horribly stupid games.
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posted by Qais on November 28, 2007 8:36 PM in Games
Thursday greets
PS3 owners with the option to purchase
Pain on the PS3 network, a game that appears to be universally lampooned by game journos the tubes over.
Pain is a game in which you fling a character across a city full of hazards with the help of a giant slingshot.
Sound familiar? That's because it is. Those of us that regularly subject ourselves to the indignities of a corporate assfucking have already played this game, only it used to be called Kitten Cannon. The upside of Kitten Cannon is that you don't have to pay 10 dollars for it or buy an incredibly expensive, arguably useful, poorly deployed* system to play it on.
Jason Coker, associate producer for Pain, banks on his zany, wacky demeanor to inflict Pain on us all, by describing it thusly:
"I tell people that it's a crazy game in which you launch a character from a giant slingshot into a downtown area and smash him into stuff and blow stuff up and you snatch Mimes out of the air so you can slam them through plate glass windows and you blast monkeys out the side of a building in an attempt to stop another player's character from successfully crashing into bowling pins and you can play as a dude named Ed in a cow suit and so on and so on...
Boy, that Coker sure is zany. If you'll excuse me I'm going to go play more Kitten Cannon.
via BBPS
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posted by Chris on October 5, 2007 4:25 PM in Games
Like a badly drawn Spiderman on an acid trip, Double Wires is a browser game that sees you as a weird rag doll swinging from the ceiling using white tendril things attached to what appears to be your arms. The strange way your character shudders like a kid with Tourette's is equal parts amusing and disconcerting.
Play it and waste a couple minutes of your Friday! You click the mouse to do things.
Double Wires (link via StumbleUpon)
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posted by Chris on March 5, 2007 9:32 AM in Games
After posting a comment on a Joystiq article about how cool it would be to have You Don't Know Jack on the Wii, I was contacted by a Jellyvision intern who informed me that YDKJ is back! That's right, pretty much the best game of the CD-ROM golden age has brought back it's very own web version (still in beta, apparently). They inform me that the site is updated every weekday, and currently has 5 "Dis or Dat" questions every week. Also, today is the launch of the weekly 7-question game.
I love seeing this game come back. The Geek and I still talk about it to this day. What would be super uber rad would be to actually see them become successful again and create versions for the Wii and Xbox Live Arcade. The possibilities for episodic content are really expanded these days and I'd drop a cool 800 msft points on an XBLA version in less than a heartbeat.
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posted by Chris on January 11, 2007 9:56 AM in Games
Rockers Mastodon have recently released a very cool piece of self-promotion for their new album Blood Mountain, a Flash game called Quest for Blood Mountain. Dodge rabid dogs! Be a tough-looking viking thing! All set to some heavily rocking Mastodon metal. It's difficult and kinda fun! Apparently there are secret codes for the game hidden in flyers for the band being handed out "all over the country" so if you are a fan of needlessly difficult flash games, get to it.
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