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Claire Hummel described and illustrated fake video games such as "Pro Poker Amateur" and "It's Probably Fine".
posted by brainwane on Sep 24, 2022 - 14 comments

A short video history of developments in the speedrunning strategies for that very famous video game, the intro sequence to American Dad.
posted by cortex on Dec 3, 2019 - 13 comments

From the makers of Honest Movie Trailers, Honest Game Trailers. [more inside]
posted by clorox on May 8, 2016 - 20 comments

Penny Arcade and the Slow Murder of Satire. Also: Why I’m Never Going Back to Penny Arcade Expo.
posted by Artw on Sep 5, 2013 - 308 comments

Pokémon, Paradigmatically
posted by naju on Oct 11, 2012 - 26 comments

Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It's partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today's social games, and partly an earnest example of that genre. [more inside]
posted by Joe Beese on Jul 22, 2010 - 22 comments

"Hostages Rescued By Courageous Racist" and other news from the First-Person Observer.
posted by empath on Apr 17, 2010 - 38 comments

Magic: The Election. Part 2. [more inside]
posted by casarkos on Sep 15, 2008 - 47 comments

Katrina: The Gathering is the latest great new collectible card game!

I almost don't know how to describe it. A brilliant, concise, very complete, and quite hilarious¹ summary of the the political fallout. It just keeps going and going and going. I think I want to play a game of it.
1 - My options are laugh or cry, so.
posted by blacklite on Sep 14, 2005 - 37 comments