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Game Rag Makes With The Funny

Posted by Zonk on from the bring-in-the-noise-bring-in-the-funny dept.

Via GameSetWatch, a new Onion-style gaming satire site called The Game Rag. The blog has daily posts of fictional and humorous news stories, with a sidebar offering title-only one-liners. Some selections from that list: "PS3 Outsells Xbox 360 In Japan - Nintendo Unveils New 'Power Sock' - Capcom To Release Exclusive For PS3, Xbox 360, Revolution - Treasure Wins Corporate Softball Championship 2,346,789-11 - Penny Arcade Writer Eats Own Words, Chokes On 'Saponification'"

12 comments

  1. This stuff's pretty funny by Kazzahdrane · · Score: 1

    From TFA: "Don't Wake Daddy is actually one of my favorite board games," says Kojima. "It was one of my inspirations for creating Metal Gear." and "I will say this, the main character really is some kid," says Kojima. "He is not Raiden in a 'some kid' mask." *bookmarks site for a new laugh every day*

  2. I liked it the first time by dsparil · · Score: 4, Informative

    when it was called The Mushroom.

    Archive.org link:
    http://web.archive.org/web/20010605231349/http://w ww.themushroom.com/index.html

  3. Possible headline by MBraynard · · Score: 1
    New Onion-like Video Game Blog Funny as "Game Over"

    Writing comedy is hard.

  4. Note to Writers by Rydia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Note to Writers: Just parroting whatever obvious of popular joke is going around the internet will not make you funny, even if you write it like it's real news. The Onion's schtick is that it is both absurd and satirically insightful. This doesn't seem to be either.

    1. Re:Note to Writers by Kingrames · · Score: 1

      There's no reason not to encourage humor.

      Some of those lines are really funny. I especially liked the way they snuck "abuse-themed" into the description of "Don't Wake Daddy." But that's because I can still remember how the song in the commercial went.

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    2. Re:Note to Writers by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yes, there is a reason not to encourage humour. It's when it's not funny.

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  5. Shameless plug: gamesuck.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://www.gamesuck.com/ isn't updated due to the fact that the current industry is doing a good enough job of lampooning itself, but there's still some entertaining content there. (I know the folks who put it together)

  6. When they said 'blog', they weren't kidding by amrust · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have a rule on evaluating websites. Any professional site, regardless of content, should be more interesting to read, as well as generally look better than my own crappy blog. This 'Game Rag' barely manages the former, and is borderline on the latter. It looks like they stole the "orange and black" look from GameSpot, and threw a basic Blogger template at it, and sent an email to Slashdot saying "we're ready for prime time, baby!"

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  7. I remember that! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Damn I loved that site, they didn't update for a while, I stopped paying attention, and I forgot what it was called.

    Heh, so far the new one doesn't seem so bad to me...

  8. About as funny as a root canal by Pluvius · · Score: 1

    Though that Capcom one made me laugh.

    Rob

  9. Yes, "funny" by Maury+Markowitz · · Score: 1

    A fine example of the lowest common denominator.