video games

The long-awaited prequel to the Red Dead series was released a couple weeks ago to critical acclaim. Significant others and family members are not quite as enthusiastic about the release, as it has proven to be an absolutely addictive game. While many of the game's activities (such as brushing horses) may seem silly to outsiders, these memes can be appreciated by haters and lovers alike.

While Chuck E. Cheese has gotten attention for filing bankruptcy and for their sneaky Pasqually's Pizza debacle, we think this Twitter thread involving the chain is far more interesting. Twitter user @Professor_Palmer took to the social media site to announce that for the past few weeks he's been conducting secret behavioral studies on unsuspecting Chuck E. Cheese game players. The experiments are rather simple, and involve adjusting the use of lights and sound in an attempt to better understand what draws people to - or away from - arcade games. The results? Human beings are really, really, easily manipulated. While this isn't the most shocking insight on our kind, seeing Cary Palmer spell it out in such a fun (and thorough) way has been incredibly informative. And very entertaining. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about various video games that had all the promise in the world, and ended up bombing completely. Sometimes video games just flop, and the hype ends up being just that - hype. 

This meme stems from Cuphead, an old-timey video game released in 2017. In the level entitled "Floral Fury," Cuphead tries to defeat Cagney Carnation, whom memers have been using to replace the Drakepost. Honestly, anytime Drake gets replaced, we're on board with it.

We love The Sims for its total absurdity and the weird sh*t you can make your characters do. Lord knows we spent hours killing our Sims and relentlessly making them "Woohoo." Even if you don't play The Sims and have no interest in ever playing, you can definitely find humor in these memes - they'll make you wonder what the eff is going on in this bizarre game...

A new year means new games.

Here are some of the most anticipated games we might see this year.
2017 please be good to us.

Remember those Christmas mornings where, with baited breath, you tore into the packages under the tree. Hoping that inside one of those shiny gifts lie that gaming console you'd been waiting all year for. The console you'd pestered your parents every time you went to the store, that you'd read about obsessively in every gaming magazine you could get your hands on.

The finals of the League of Legends World Championship are here, and Samsung aims to take down the reigning world champs: SKT. Although we agree with most that SKT is the heavy favorite, we'd love to see Samsung take down the LoL Goliath.

In less than a month Pokémon GO! has taken this planet by storm. Look around you, and you're apt to see someone with a fixed gaze on their phones, swiping upwards aggressively, scowling at their screens, trying to catch 'em all.

It's insane how big this game is. Pokémon GO! is more popular than Tinder right now, and was more popular than porn for a brief bit of time as well. Plus Pokémon GO! is tracking more than 21 million daily active users, so that's pretty damn chill...