Tag: Video Games

‘Arrived at Met Gala’ is the latest hilarious meme that gamers have run wild with

Solid Snake and Toad together again on the red carpet.

You don’t need an eye for fashion to appreciate how amusing all of the memes surrounding The Met Gala are, yet no crowd has had fun with it like gamers. From simple, snarky quips about how many of the Gala’s guests look like a certain Kingdom Hearts protagonist to full-blown edits of Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, and Animal Crossing characters appearing on the red carpet — folks are having fun with this meme. 

It wasn’t long before all of this went viral, and soon hundreds of Photoshop savants began, well, adding their favorite characters to the event! From obvious choices like Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII to more obscure name-drops like Yakuza’s Kazuma Kiryu. 

So, why don’t we look at some of the more hilarious, and dare I say, outrageous edits made for The Met Gala: Video Game Edition. If you happen to be unfamiliar with any of the characters below, worry not: each section lists which series they’re from!

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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50 Cent’s ‘Blood On The Sand’ video game was originally a Tom Clancy title

One of the strangest video games ever used to be much different.

50 Cent: Blood On The Sand might be the strangest video game tie-in ever, but what’s even more bizarre is it began as a Tom Clancy game, NME  reported Friday. 

Back in the good old days of 2009, when the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 were still wildly popular, a little game called 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand came out. Its story involved 50 Cent and his fellow G-Unit members perform a concert in an unspecified Middle Eastern country. And afterward, they’re paid in a diamond-encrusted skull because, of course. Then they get in shootouts with soldiers for some reason? How do you even begin to parse how ridiculous this plot is.

Darren Yeomans, a former Swordfish Studios developer that worked on 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand, claims it began as something much, much different — a Tom Clancy game. For over a year, that’s what the team worked on before everything changed. 

Publisher Vivendi “threw in a massive curve-ball,” Yeomans said to NME. “After throwing away several levels, months of work, and re-writing the script.” That’s how the project became 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand.

Check out this unintentionally hilarious trailer for 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand for yourself below.

Talk about a change in creative vision.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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The 10 worst video game movie adaptations of all time

One does not simply adapt a video game into a movie.

We’ve all heard of at least one video game flick that plummeted like your firing accuracy in Fortnite when you don’t aim properly and just shoot at random. Not good, right?

This is exactly how a lot of us feel about having watched any of the worst video game movies we’re listing here.

Games and movies both take us into worlds of fantasy and transport our minds into what is then and there. While each medium has its own storytelling techniques, they both have the shared purpose to entertain. But video game movie adaptations seem particularly tricky to pull off. That’s why we’ve seen quite a few really horrendous, comic, or just cringy flicks that used video games as their source material. Here are the worst of the worst.

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Twitch is taking legal action against users allegedly responsible for hate raids

Two users allegedly behind some of the raids are being sued by Twitch.

Hate raids are an enormous ongoing problem on Twitch, and the streaming platform is suing some of the people allegedly behind it, Wired  reported Thursday. Specifically for “targeting black and LGBTQIA+ streamers with racist, homophobic, sexist and other harassing content.” 

“We hope this Complaint will shed light on the identity of the individuals behind these attacks and the tools that they exploit, and dissuade them from taking similar behaviors to other services, and help put an end to these vile attacks against members of our community,” Twitch said via Wired. 

Twitch filed a suit with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that targets two users. The actual identities of these individuals are unknown, but both apparently live in Europe. The suit states, “They evaded Twitch’s bans by creating new, alternate Twitch accounts, and continually altering their self-described ‘hate raid code’ to avoid detection and suspension by Twitch.”

While this doesn’t mean hate raids are a thing of the past just yet, several content creators on the platform think it’s a step in the right direction. Keep in mind that some of the tweets below contain NSFW language, so be careful when reading ahead.

“I feel hopeful,” RekitRaven, a streamer that helped organize the #ADayOffTwitch movement, said via Wired. “The people who are behind this need to be held accountable for their actions. They’ve terrorized hundreds if not thousands of people. If this were to happen in a physical location we’d expect the same. It shouldn’t be any different online.”

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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NBA 2K22 player ratings: How do the league’s biggest stars rank now?

New season, new game… LeBron and Steph still top?

Basketball, they say, is a strong link sport. Soccer, by contrast, is a weak link sport. In other words, results are often determined by momentary lapses and defensive breakdowns, so great teams with no weak links tend to win, rather than individual superstars accompanied by ten journeymen. 

Cut to LeBron picking up rings for Miami, Cleveland, and the Lakers by sheer force of will. The superstars aren’t just the most exciting part of the sport; they are the strong links who decide the outcomes. They are the NBA. No shade intended, Jordan Clarkson. 

Getting their stats right in NBA 2K matters, then. *Puts on best Al Pacino voice* Waddya got, 2K22?

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10 unintentionally hilarious glitches that actually made a video game better

Some priceless glitches here. You can’t make this stuff up.

When you stop to think about it, it’s a genuine wonder that all games don’t look and behave like the marvelously broken virtual circus exhibits below.

Video games aren’t reality. The walk-in universes we inhabit are all precariously held together with the code equivalent of popsicle sticks and rubber bands, and we go bounding through them like boisterous puppies, pressing ‘use’ on every conceivable surface and doing unspeakable things to NPCs. It’s honestly amazing they don’t break more often. 

What we have below, then, are delightful reminders of how close every game comes to an absurd, surrealist deconstruction of reality. These are the all-timers whose unintentional slapstick and nightmarish imagery are forged into the collective consciousness forever, but they’re not so different from the ones that work.

But for the grace of Gaben and a few patches, Half-Life might have a giant face for a sky. Deus Ex might feature one inexplicably tiny major character. Skyrim might… actually, let’s leave Skyrim out of this. Raise the curtain on the glitches!

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‘Final Fantasy 15’ collaboration event with ‘Final Fantasy 14’ returns next week

You get a car! And you get a car! And even you get a car!

A couple of years back, Final Fantasy 14 did a limited-time crossover event with Final Fantasy 15, and it’s coming back soon. A Nocturne for Heroes, as it’s so appropriately named, will be available once again from Sept. 13 through Oct. 18.

If you’re not familiar with Final Fantasy, you might be wondering why A Nocturne for Heroes is considered a crossover event and not a follow-up to both games. Well, every entry in the series deals with an entirely different storyline and world. Not to mention Final Fantasy 15 is a single-player RPG, while Final Fantasy 14 is a massively multiplayer online RPG. 

So, A Nocturne for Heroes lets Final Fantasy 14 players partake in a short questline to earn all sorts of in-game clothing and magical items from Final Fantasy 15. Including the Regalia, a ridiculous-looking car that you can drive around after completing the event. 

Check out the original A Nocturne for Heroes event trailer for yourself below.

Limited-time events are common in Final Fantasy 14, and they often come with unique rewards that are easy to miss out on if you’re only just getting into the game. Since Final Fantasy 15 is popular, developer Square Enix chose to bring A Nocturne for Heroes back for anyone who missed it the first time.

Final Fantasy might be the only series that can have a crossover with itself.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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‘Cookie Clicker’ developer creates ridiculously long Steam achievement name for fun

Bake ungodly amounts of cookies to earn a history lesson, ok?

The absurdly simplistic yet wildly entertaining Cookie Clicker recently made its way onto Steam, and its developers added a hilariously long achievement name just for laughs. 

Cookie Clicker is all about, well, clicking cookies! The more you click, the higher your score goes up. The game has been popular since the free browser version came out ages ago, but its Steam port only landed last week. The developers decided to take full advantage of Steam’s character limits for this new release, adding a hilariously long achievement title that reads:

“There’s really no hard limit to how long these achievement names can be and to be quite honest I’m rather curious to see how far we can go. Adolphus W. Green (1844–1917) started as the Principal of the Groton School in 1864. By 1865, he became second assistant librarian at the New York Mercantile Library; from 1867 to 1869, he was promoted to full librarian. From 1869 to 1873, he worked for Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, a law firm co-founded by William M. Evarts, Charles Ferdinand Southmayd and Joseph Hodges Choate. He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1873. Anyway, how’s your day been?”

Yup, that’s the actual title! A reward for baking ten sextillion cookies per second, it seems. That title is a brief summary for Adolphus W. Green, the founder of Nabisco PC Gamer reported Monday. It seems the developers wanted to shout out the grandfather of tasty snacks for some reason. 

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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‘Final Fantasy 14’ — what is it, and why has it suddenly become so huge?

What’s all the fuss about Final Fantasy 14?

Welcome to FTW Explains: a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Here’s a special edition concerning Final Fantasy 14, which will hopefully answer any questions you might have about the game.

If you orbit the world of video games, you may have heard people talking about Final Fantasy lately. Square Enix’s role-playing series has been one of the most popular video game franchises since its inception in 1987, but Final Fantasy 14, in particular, has seen a massive uptick in interest in recent months, with scores of players signing up to join its sprawling, always-online world.

If you’re curious about why there’s been a surge in popularity, here’s everything you need to know about the wildly popular Final Fantasy MMORPG.

Current season of ‘Fortnite’ will end its alien invasion storyline

Operation: Sky Fire will put an end to the invader’s nefarious deeds.

Chapter 2 season 7 of Fortnite is about to conclude with an all-out final battle against a fleet of alien invaders. The appropriately titled Operation: Sky Fire will serve as this season’s finale and is a one-time event happening on September 12 at 1 p.m. PT / 4 p.m. ET for anyone eager to welcome the aliens to earth, Will Smith-style. 

“With the Mothership’s sights set on the Imagined Order’s secret base at Corny Complex, Slone has hatched a plan to end the Invasion once and for all,” Epic Games said on the official Fortnite website. “You’ve answered her calls, worked as an undercover agent for the IO – now it’s time to infiltrate The Last Reality and put a stop to the Alien’s occupation.”

Epic Games also encourages players to hop into Fortnite at least 30 minutes before Operation: Sky Fire begins to participate. It makes sense because this event will have no replays. 

With Operation: Sky Fire marking the end of the current season, anyone looking to max out their battle pass should complete any remaining quests they might have as soon as possible. 

“Any unclaimed Battle Stars or Alien Artifacts at the end of Chapter 2 Season 7 will be automatically redeemed for rewards and styles starting with the earliest available unlocks,” Epic Games said later in the same post. “So if you want to snag a particular option, exchange them now.”

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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