'Crazy Taxi' Turns On Its Meter for Playstation Network and Xbox Live
Filed under: Entertainment, Games, News Anyone who spent time in arcades (before home consoles effectively killed them) should remember "Crazy Taxi." It handled the seemingly mundane premise of picking...
View Article'Editing the Dead' Lets You Choose Your Own Zombie Adventure
Filed under: Entertainment, Games, Video There are untold number of ways to kill the unnamed, unsatisfied undead. You can chop their skulls off with a razor-sharp machete. You can stick a wind-proof...
View ArticleMeet Historic Figures in 'Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood' -- and Kill Them
Filed under: Entertainment, Games "Call of Duty: Black Ops" isn't the only November video game release to feature historical figures involved in situations we're pretty sure didn't actually happen. The...
View Article'NBA Jam' Voice Man Tim Kitzrow on Being the 'Ambassador of Fun'
Filed under: Sports, Games, Celebrity Tim Kitzrow has one of the most unusual jobs in show business. The Chicago-based actor, writer and musician has been the colorful Greek chorus of sports metaphors...
View Article10 Facts About 'Gran Turismo' You Might Not Have Known
Filed under: Games, Cars, Weird Stuff, Asylum Exclusive "Gran Turismo 5" has been in development for over five years. Its moving target release date tortured fans eager to get a full-fledged new entry...
View Article'World of Warcraft' Celebrates Six Years of Slaughtering Murlocs
Filed under: Games, News It seems like only yesterday that gamers first logged into Blizzard's now-famous MMORPG, "World of Warcraft." If they had known then that six years later they'd still be...
View Article'Desert Bus for Hope' Gamers Play World's Most Boring Video Game for Charity
Filed under: Entertainment, Games, Asylum Exclusive In the 1990s, staunch critics of video game violence, like then-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, were abuzz with the idea that the games' reward...
View Article'Disney Epic Mickey' Brings Back the Mischievous Mouse
Filed under: Entertainment, Games It's been a while since Mickey Mouse had a huge, starring role in a video game or was featured in something the older, more jaded set (like us) could appreciate. The...
View ArticleLEGO Video Game Art Goes 8-Bit
Filed under: Gear, Games, Weird Stuff We at Asylum are kids at heart. We just so happen to write smarmy pop-culture critiques and posts about hot women. Our jaded hearts, however, have a soft spot for...
View ArticlePlay D&D Online With Dorksplosion's Raunchy YouTube Version
Filed under: Entertainment, Games "Choose Your Own Adventure" games have become so commonplace on YouTube that anyone with a camera and a head can whip one together. But, back in the old days, before...
View ArticleA Busted Tees Christmas Offer for Asylum Readers
Filed under: Gear, Games, Weird Science, Asylum Exclusive, Weird We know how tough it can be to find that perfect gift for the nerd in your life who wears ironic novelty T-shirts. Why? Because we are...
View ArticleDid 'GTA: San Andreas' Steal This Man's Life Story?
Filed under: Games, News The makers of "Grand Theft Auto," the sandbox video game that lets you bang hookers, commit drive-bys on bicycles and turn the world into the horrid, rotten place your drunk...
View ArticleWho's Your Favorite Female Video Game Assassin?
Filed under: Women, Games We're big fans of female assassins, as long as we aren't their targets. Video game developers love them, too. And whereas female killers may not be quite as popular as bald...
View ArticlePortland State University Students Turn Hallway Into 'Super Mario Brothers'...
Filed under: Entertainment, Games, Photos, Asylum Exclusive For most of us, the closest we've been able to come to realizing the shared dream of all global culture enthusiasts -- actually inhabiting a...
View ArticleBetter Fantasy Sport -- Football or Baseball?
Filed under: Sports, Games When the Pittsburgh Steelers play the Carolina Panthers on Thursday, it will officially mark the beginning of Week 16 of the NFL season. Or, to most of the approximately 30...
View ArticleMan's Marty McFly Impersonation Scores Him Video Game Role
Filed under: Entertainment, Games, Asylum Exclusive Actor and filmmaker A.J. LoCascio does a near flawless impression of Marty McFly, the almost squeaky, panicked voice of Michael J. Fox. Thanks to...
View ArticleVideo Games Make Kids Smarter
Filed under: Games, Happy Hour Hero, Weird Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Playing video games sharpens vision, as well as the mind. Daphne Bavelier, a professor of...
View ArticleWorld's Largest Remote-Controlled Claw Machine Dispenses Crossbows, Fruitcake
Filed under: Games, Weird News, Weird Stuff And here we thought remote-control technology had reached its pinnacle with the invention of a brain-tumor-removing robot arm. But my, how The Santa Claw has...
View Article'BoneTown' Developer Reveals Next Adult Game -- 'BoneCraft'
Filed under: Sex, Games, Below the Belt Last year, Asylum played and wrote about "BoneTown," a NSFW (and arguably anywhere else) adult video game that let players snort cocaine, punch hippies in the...
View ArticleNew 'Dead Space 2' Features Move Created by a Fan
Filed under: Entertainment, Games, News Technology hasn't reached the point yet where video game characters can mimic our every move from the hardest high kick our flabby bodies can muster to the swift...
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