GameSpy's long-defunct Daily Victim was a daily first-person essay and illustration (by Dave "Fargo" Kosak, now of Blizzard Entertainment, and Michael "Gabe" Krahulik, then and still of Penny Arcade) which paid humorous tribute to the various individuals one meets online. Users would vote 1-5 on each one, and on the weekend, the top-voted Victim would get an additional essay and a properly colored and shaded image, often feeding into an ever-growing continuity.
This website presents an archive of the complete series, along with some explanatory articles, all long gone from Gamespy's website, and in so doing provides a glimpse into the internet culture of a decade ago.
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posted by Pope Guilty
on Dec 13, 2012 -
11 comments
Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 is out! An expansion on the original game, which let you play as various NES characters transplanted into Super Mario Bros., but using the rules and abilities of those characters from their original games, version 2 offers more special abilities, more characters, and your choice of audiovisual "skins" based on four Mario games from the NES, SNES, and Gameboy, along with one based on
Demon Returns. There's even
instructions for playing with a gamepad!
For more information, see the
Super Mario Bros. Crossover Wiki or watch the exciting
Super Mario Bros. Crossover trailer! [
Previously]
posted by Pope Guilty
on Feb 12, 2012 -
15 comments
It's well-known at this point that Valve Software hired the team of Digipen students who made
Narbacular Drop to turn their student project into
Portal. But even people who drooled over the new mechanics in the
Portal 2 E3 videos may not be aware that Valve has hired another team out of Digipen for that. If you're looking for a preview, you should probably
download and play
Tag, the game the new mechanics are based on, in which you explore a grey, cell-shaded world by spraying paint on it.
posted by Pope Guilty
on Jun 17, 2010 -
28 comments
It's not Friday and it's not Flash.
Eric David Ruth makes downloadable PC games which generally ape the style of old-school console games. He's got quite a bit of attention recently for
Pixel Force Left 4 Dead, which attempts to recreate Left 4 Dead as it would have been on the NES.
posted by Pope Guilty
on Mar 1, 2010 -
18 comments
In the grand tradition of
Killer comes
Humans Vs. Zombies, a campus game that's growing in popularity. From its origins at
Goucher, it's spread to a reported two dozen colleges. An interview with the game's moderator is
here, and you can watch the 45-minute documentary from one of the games on
Google Video
posted by Pope Guilty
on Jul 12, 2007 -
18 comments
