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Drew Dernavich noticed that some of the tools and techniques in Adobe Photoshop are borderline violent – warp, flatten, slice – so he wasn’t that surprised with what he saw when he got his hands on an advance copy of Photoshop 6. Especially considering the version he got:…

Ideally, unboxing videos are great ways of sharing the excitement of inspecting a new gadget, tool or toy, but some people tend to focus on the act of unboxing and on the little details instead of the object itself. Cool Gear Reviews has had enough of unboxing videos, so he…

Flickr member bortwein75 started off with a simple mash-up of Angry Birds and Banksy’s famous Flower Chucker…. Thus was Angry Birdsky born:

Despite its huge roster, damage that racks up to millions and the inclusion of Deadpool, Marvel vs. Capcom 3… still has standards. There are levels of absurdity that they would never descend, like including joke characters. Dorkly imagines a handful of characters that are too ridiculous, even for MvC3.

I only played one Pokémon game, and I didn’t even finish it, so I don’t know if somewhere in its lore there’s a justification as to why the trainers don’t go to school. But if they did, this is probably how their weeknights would be spent:

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Well, actually, there was no 1982 TRON Christmas show, but the guys at Funny or Die perfectly captured the feel of those horrible early Eighties holiday specials in this hilarious parody clip.…

Apple’s hyperbolic marketing strategy works most of the time, but I’m sure even Apple fanatics will admit that the Beatles’ iTunes release pre-announcement was too much. Remember that claim? “Today is just another day. That you’ll never forget.”… And we didn’t, because it’s the day Apple made it clear that

Everyone’s favorite block-stacking puzzler makes its big-screen debut in Tetris: le Film.
Yeah, the only French I know is “Je voudrais une omelette au fromage“… but retro games are the universal language, no? non?

Video games have really come a long way, especially when it comes to marketing. For those too young to remember, CollegeHumor made a totally radical fake commercial for Grand Theft Auto… on the NES.

As ridiculous as the fake GTA was, the commercial freaked me out. It’s unbelievably dumb, but

It must be insanely hard to be a Pokémon fan. For someone who’s been trained to “catch ‘em all”, it’s bad enough that there are a hundred and one Pokémon games out there, there’s also the awesome merchandise to collect. CollegeHumor sheds some light on the situation with a more honest…