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Angry Birds Space Will Have You Squashing Pigs ‘Star Trek’ Style
Last week Angry Birds invaded Facebook, and next month the sling-shot strategy game will be headed to the final frontier. Yup, it's Angry Birds Space.
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Kids Ecstatic That Tongue Compressor ‘Fish Bone Bomb’ Really Works
These kids make a really cool domino-like "fish bone bomb" out of wooden tongue compressors, and then celebrate enthusiastically when it works... Then again in slow motion.
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Ready Steady Bang Offers 30 Ways to Kill a Cowboy [VIDEO]
The popular iPhone app Ready Steady Bang puts the fun back in shooting people.
In the game, two cowboys (one of them being you) engage in a low-tech animated shoot out... but it's funner than it sounds. Just like the creatively-kill-yourself-with-office-supplies game from Adult Swim, you must use your imagination and find the best (and most fun) way to blast your opponent.
Which one of the 30 different ways to shoot this cowboy is your favorite?
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Children’s Game Musical Chairs Is Being Made Into a Reality Show
The CW is currently developing a reality show based on musical chairs.
They're calling it 'Extreme Musical Chairs' and, according to Variety, it "would transform the popular children’s game into a physically demanding competition with multiple rounds of elimination set in an indoor obstacle course."
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Crossfire Board Game Theme Song From the ’90s Covered By Steel Panther [VIDEO]
If you were a kid in the early '90s, you surely remember the commercial for the Milton Bradley board game Crossfire, which combined 'Beyond Thunderdome'-like visuals with a hard-charging, fist-pumping, arena-anthem of a theme song.
In this video, glam rock pseudo-band Steel Panther cover the once-ubiquitous Crossfire tune, and Freddie Wong, who also directed the video, tries to avoid being taken out by a life-sized Crossfire game.
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Sculpture Pays Tribute to Iconic Jumping Cards in Computer Solitaire
The best part about winning computer solitaire is the flurry of cards that fills the screen after making the final move. Lars Marcus Vedeler and Theo Tveteras of experimental design team skrekkogle have now translated this iconic moment into a physical 3D sculpture of the jumping cards.
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Who Needs an Arcade? People Play Life-Sized ‘Human Pinball’ on City Streets [VIDEO]
Sure, human pinball may not be as fast paced as human foosball but it's still really fun to watch.
The below short, a stop-motion animation clip put together by the people behind NYC's Animation Block Party Film Festival, imagines what it would look like if people were the bumpers and balls in a massive game played out on city streets.
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Alarm Clock Forces You to Play Tetris to Prove You’re Awake [VIDEO]
The problem with alarm clocks, as night owls will tell you, is that they can too easily be turned off or snooze-buttoned into ineffectiveness.
Not so with the Tetris alarm clock: The only way to get this baby to stop sounding is for the owner to prove they're awake and alert by completing four lines of Tetris. If a sleepyhead hasn't begun the game within 30 seconds of attempting to silence the alarm, the grating sound will return in full force.
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Watch This Amazing Arcade Basketball Dunk
Atlanta-based rocker Aaron Keyes ended an epic game of H-O-R-S-E when he dunked on an arcade basketball game. Lucky for us, YouTube comedy duo Tripp and Tyler caught it all on film.
Take a good look at that form. Look at that extension, that poise. This is the last man you'd want to come up against if you were down to your final letter (well, one of the last).