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Tag: humor

humor
Video Games

Best Legitimately Funny Video Games

Humor and games have a fickle relationship, perhaps it’s due to some incompatibility of the timing necessary for joke delivery and the basic ...
By The Escapist Staff Legacy AuthorMay 2, 2014
Reviews

Deadpool Review – Hit-or-Miss Humor, Solid Action

Just in case you’ve never heard of the “Merc with a Mouth” before, here’s a quick primer: Deadpool is a former mercenary turned ...
By Paul Goodman Legacy AuthorJune 28, 2013
Extra Punctuation

Humor and Realism Don’t Mix

Gaming humor? Pff. Easiest thing in the world. Probably why there’re so many bloody webcomics on the subject. All you have to do ...
By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorDecember 11, 2012
Pie in the Face

Katamari Absurdity

There’s funny-funny, there’s funny-weird and then there’s Katamari Damacy, a psychedelic swirl of the two. Lots of games can make me chuckle for ...
By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorSeptember 22, 2009
Power of Laughter

How to Cheer Yourself Up

You know what’s hilarious? All the sad buggers. People who live in the richest countries in the history of the world; with cheap ...
By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorApril 29, 2008
Good to be Bad, Again

No Humor in Heaven

Being good is so boring! Wouldn’t you rather be smashing things? – Fable In Margaret Atwood’s apocalyptic novel Oryx and Crake, a mad ...
By Laura Bromling Legacy AuthorAugust 28, 2007
Op-Ed

Editors of Steel

We get a lot of email. Sometimes it’s from potential writers, sometimes from bill collectors and occasionally from our mothers. But most of ...
By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorJuly 19, 2006
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