‘Nintendo 64′ Kid gets a Web Redemption on Tosh.0

Tosh.0 is the funniest show on cable. Comedian Daniel Tosh pushes the FCC boundries while lampooning some of the funniest clips the Internet has to offer. Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Every week he gives the subject of a viral Web video a chance to redeem themselves on his show. In the past he has featured Ms. Teen South Carolina, Tron Guy and the worst best man. This week he featured this kid (now 20), who’s excited reaction to receiving a Nintendo 64 for Christmas has more than 10 million views on You Tube.

A Sims Story: Alice & Kev

Narrative in video games is a topic close to my heart. I want to believe that video games can tell compelling, dramatic stories. Most games that I do declare to have excellent stories end up needing the qualifier “for a video game.” UK game design student Robin Burkinshaw is conducting an experiment that turns stories in gaming on its head to explore the stories you make up yourself while playing. His tools are The Sims 3 and Wordpress. The beauty of the Sims is you can create characters with specific personality traits, dreams and goals and let them loose to watch how they interact together. He created a family, Alice and her father, Kev, and made them wander the world of The Sims homeless. Kev is a disparaging asshole lunatic who is constantly putting his daughter down and Alice is a miserable teen with no friends. The brilliance of Burkinshaw’s project is the stories he weaves on his blog about his two characters. Kev persecutes and insults his daughter with zeal while she’s around. When she is not, he tries to mack on ladies in his wife beater and underwear. Alice is constantly depressed whose friendship goals are thwarted when her targets are repulsed by her desire to sleep in their comfortable beds and take a shower when invited into their homes.

How you play video games reveals you character

I stumbled across this photo project by a photographer called Mr. Toledano. For this series of photos Toledano says: “I wanted to take portraits of people that would reveal a hidden ...

Game covers aint what they used to be

The Atari 2600 was a little bit before my time, but I remember some of the covers from old Intellivision games as if through the haze of a dream. In this ...