Cracked Archive - Video Games
6 Reasons Modern Gaming Doesn't Suck: An Anti-Rant
We have all of these amazing, fantastic, borderline magical creations in our hands that, in many ways, dwarf all the wildest predictions of yesteryear -- and we've got the balls to stand around and bitch that they're taking too long to load. So I thought we could all stop the hate-coaster for a moment, and take a minute to reflect on what modern ga
- By Robert Brockway
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- January 11, 2012
17 Video Games in Venn Diagram Form
Most forms of entertainment come down to combining and recombining the same old ideas. Video games are a breath of fresh air in that respect. The fact that they're constantly working with new limitations, combined with Japan's influence have made it the source of some pretty startling originality. That hasn't stopped them from using the
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- January 08, 2012
The 6 Stupidest Video Game School Commercials
You know that throwing in a random game term doesn't magically make sense out of the rest of your sentence, right? If it did, then Donkey Kong for into my ping pong banana.
- By Seanbaby
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- December 18, 2011
The 7 Dumbest Video Game Innovations That Actually Exist
Here are the ridiculous video game innovations nobody asked for, and yet somebody went ahead and made them real.
- By Steve Blair
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- December 07, 2011
6 Video Games That Just Didn't Get It (And 6 That Did)
These are games that used real effort to miss the points harder than SEGA, and they added furry romance to a game about a killing robots with spikes.
- By Luke McKinney
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- December 06, 2011
If Real Life Had Video Game Glitches and Cheats
What if glitches, cheats and hacks also occasionally broke the rules of reality the way they do in video games. Imagine how annoying it would be when other people used them against you, or how great it would be when they helped you get out of an annoying task.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- December 04, 2011
The 7 Most Elaborate Dick Moves in Online Gaming History
MMORGs are just like the rest of the internet -- no matter how big a dick you've seen, somewhere there's an even bigger one doing unspeakable things to people.
- By Luke McKinney
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- November 28, 2011
What 26 Video Game Characters Do With Their Down Time
Video game characters are like work friends. We only see them in their professional clothes, doing their job, trying not to let any dangerous hints of personality accidentally poke out. And like work friends, we'd imagine it would be a little jarring to encounter them at the Olive Garden.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- November 18, 2011
5 Personality Flaws Skyrim Forces You To Deal With
Skyrim is vast, complex and incredibly dense. It is less a game than it is a fantastical life simulator. And that is very bad news for those of us who might be terrible assholes and still kind of in denial about it.
- By Robert Brockway
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- November 17, 2011
The 10 Most Insulting Things Video Games Charged Money For
Downloadable content for games sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately, companies more or less extort your money for this subpar content.
- By Luke McKinney
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- November 14, 2011
The 8 Creepiest Glitches Hidden in Popular Video Games
Is it simply lines of code, or demonic possession? You be the judge.
- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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- October 25, 2011
5 Ways 'Arkham City' Proves I'm Under Qualified to be Batman
Look, I know it's highly unlikely that I would have ever been Batman, but I just didn't think the option would be completely off the table at this point in my life, you know? Yes, I'm poor, cowardly, out of shape, and the only thing I want to 'avenge' is that time somebody took one of my beers out of the company fridge without asking.
- By Robert Brockway
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- October 20, 2011
5 Real Skills Video Games Have Secretly Been Teaching Us
Video games have been teaching us all sorts of skills for years now, it's just that we don't always think to thank them for it.
- By Robert Brockway
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- October 12, 2011
6 Baffling Early Prototypes of Your Favorite Video Games
Imagine an alternate reality where Mario is packing heat, Link looks like Wolverine and Halo games are all about strategy instead of shooting aliens in the face.
- By Karl Smallwood, Steve Rosenburg, M. Asher Cantrell
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- October 06, 2011
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