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Facebook tests paid video subscriptions, starting with CollegeHumor
Facebook is testing a new video subscription service in Watch. You'd be forgiven for confusing this news with the announcement of "fan subscriptions," which Facebook made last month, but no, video subscriptions is an entirely separate thing.
Breaking Bad RPG concocted in video
Fans of Breaking Bad will find loads to love about this faux-game video created by College Humor: accurate character dialog, comical asides that break the fourth wall and perhaps the greatest Duck Hunt clone known to man. Chemistry!
Kinect Hack: The sensor goes self-aware
Don't worry, guys -- the video after the jump is from the jokesters at CollegeHumor, so we're pretty sure that it's a fake. Since it's portraying the very terrifying, very possible future of self-aware consumer entertainment devices, we pray to all powers holy that it's a fake.
Video game bosses go undercover in the workplace
It's important for bosses to mingle, undetected, among ordinary video game enemies from time to time. It's also hilarious.
WoW Moviewatch: Run This Raid
You can always tell a super-mega-hit WoW movie pretty quickly after its release by how many times it lands in the mailbox of your intrepid WoW.com journalist team. To help put this in perspective, Run This Raid by CollegeHumor has hit my box more than any other video except BLIND. Nothing about Run This Raid is machinima or fan-created, although it's pretty obvious at this point that CollegeHumor has at least a few folks who have played the game. But, still, when something like this hits the community, your intrepid team will cover it. Run This Raid is a song-length parody of Run This Town. However, instead of Jay-Z, we get some WoW players and a night elf. I have to say, I found the whole thing pretty fun. The video was put together with an eye for fun. And like many such parody videos, Run This Raid seems to have an underlying fondness for the game that keeps the joshing all in good fun. Interested in the wide world of machinima? We have new movies every weekday here on WoW Moviewatch! Have suggestions for machinima we ought to feature? Toss us an e-mail at machinima AT wow DOT com.
'Koopa Hell' may change our Super Mario Bros. strategy forever
We were pretty sure that, after 25 years of practice, our tried-and-true strategy for the original Super Mario Bros. would be fairly set in stone. Little did we know that CollegeHumor (of all websites!) would be the one to show us the cruelty of one of our most basic in-game maneuvers: the Koopa Bounce Pipe Trap. What happens to that poor creature after you've left him bouncing between two pipes? Thanks to the Mushroom Kingdom's lack of inertial dissipation, he stays that way for all eternity. Watch the video after the break to see how your thoughtless actions might have sent countless Koopas spiraling into a nightmarish realm of Lovecraftian horrors. You monster.
College Humor reveals the 'Video Game Bosses' Lament'
We have to give it to College Humor, they know how to hold up a satirical mirror to video game conventions and culture. Whether to show the horror inflicted upon The Sims or the pervasive nature of l33t speak. What's interesting about College Humor's latest video, "The Video Game Bosses' Lament," is that the site created a retort for the problems management had with the help two years ago. In "Bowser's Minions," from mid-2008, it's the hired help who have the last laugh. Anyway, if you want to hear management's issues, check it out after the break. But we side with the lackeys on this one.
Pen tapping along with the Super Mario song
"Clicking out beats to the Mario tunes with disposable pens" sounds a lot less impressive and awesome than this video actually is, so you might as well go ahead and check the video after the break to watch for yourself. We can't help think that Shane has better things to do, but this is what the kids are up to nowadays, we guess. No more useless than pogs were back in the nineties, and a lot cheaper to boot. A better question might be: Where can we get that T-shirt? Our extensive Google-searching turned up lots of great Mario shirts, but we couldn't find that one for sale. If you see it online, let us know in the comments below. [Via GoNintendo]
"Cell Phone Reunion" shows what happens when handsets stop being polite
Ever wonder what some think your choice of cell phone (or cell phone accessory) says about you? You could ask your friends, or you could just check out this video called "Cell Phone Reunion" that anthropomophizes today's (and yesterday's) most popular cellies, giving them all distinctive -- and some abrasive -- personalities. We'll let you guess which one plays the role of smug braggart.
CollegeHumor reveals Bowser minion coup d'etat
It was bound to happen. One day, the minions of Bowser would stand up and ask, "Why won't you let us kill The Mario?" That day has come, my friends. The minions of Bowser have revolted against their king and are ready to take the issue of killing The Mario into their own hands, paws, mouths and assorted tools, once and for all. Witness CollegeHumor's astounding footage after the break. There will be blood!
Today's most commented video: Message board sketch
In this NSFW (for language) video short, CollegeHumor applies the message-board mechanics to a business setting for amusing results. Quality writing offsets the week-and-a-half age. (And we're sure you'll be inspired to tell us off in the comments after viewing.)Watch the video after the break, and leave your own hilarious message.[Image credit]
Street Fighter's Blanka: an electrical oompa loompa
This and other gems are what you get out of the third installment of Street Fighter: The Later Years. It's a brilliant ongoing series at CollegeHumor.com that follows the lives of everyone's favorite Street Fighter characters, years after the game has come and gone. This is the sort of thing we'd like to see on G4, or any sort of video gaming channel. Toss in this, some Red vs. Blue, some in-game feed, game guides, This Spartan Life, a World of Warcraft show, and some Major League Gaming, and you've got yourself something people will watch.Of course, we need to cram a Joystiq show in there somewhere. Video is after the jump. Give it a whirl, and brace yourself for Christmas. Note, if the video isn't embedded for some reason, like CollegeHumor.com's code not being up to snuff, then click the image above or here for the vid.
Street Fighters mop and drive taxis, in the later years
CollegeHumor is hosting a short film, with surprisingly high production values, detailing the whereabouts of two of Street Fighter II's eight World Warriors: Zangief and Dhalsim. We wonder if their sorry state is proportional to their lasting popularity in the game; like ancient gods who thrive on belief, do these has-been street fighters have a need for success? We can't imagine pretty boys like Ken or Ryu mopping floors or driving a cab ... maybe E. Honda.Part one (of what appears to be an ongoing series) is embedded after the break. We'll keep our eyes peeled for future installments.[Via GayGamer.net]
