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Forget Putin: Gaming icons Photoshopped as Persons of the Year
As upset as we were by Time's flubbing of us this year – a blogger can get used to seeing a horribly disfigured reflection of his own face in the cover of one of the nation's most prestigous newsweeklies y'know – the selection of Russian president Vladimir Putin as the magazine's Person of the Year (POTY) left us a little underwhelmed. Lucky for us, the folks at Something Awful remedied our apathy with a tall serving of Photoshop phakery, planting all sorts of video game icons on the magazine's cover. Mario and Master Chief are great and all, but our favorite is BioShock's Andrew Ryan. It was not impossible to choose a video game character as Time's Person of the Year ... it was impossible to choose anyone else.
BioShock, Portal, and friends as grocery cart warnings
There are few things we appreciate more than funny Photoshopped images with video game references. The joy is immediate and, despite the brief nature of our interaction with them, they'll fill us with smiles for hours, days, and – in the rarest of cases – decades to come. Take this recent Something Awful Photoshop Phriday challenge wherein grocery cart safety warnings were 'shopped with all manner of things, including the above BioShock variant, two Portal variants, Super Mario Bros. (of course), and even some Tetris love. Now, each and every time we're lazily perusing the aisles of our local supermarket, we'll look down at the partially obscured safety warning and laugh a little too loud.[Via X3F]
SA's Photoshop Phriday: Grandma doesn't get video games
Most Grandmas don't get video games. One of mine watched, with vulgar curiosity, as I scaled skyscrapers and snatched civilians in the craptacular Rampage. The other wrapped her arthritic claws around a Gameboy and spent hours -- hours -- playing Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle. But the reality is that most Grandmas fall into the former camp, and so it is that Something Awful's latest Photoshop Phriday honors these geriatric non-gamers. My favorite: Make Sure It's Two Person: So Your Sister Can Play Too. That one's a classic.See also:SA's Photoshop Phriday: honest game titlesGallery of Photoshopped Mega Man powers
