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News Articles: Games & Humor

<strong>G.I. Woe:</strong> Mattel's Flushin' Frenzy sends a brown plastic poop flying into the air. It's pictured above at Toy Fair in New York in February 2018.

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  • Games & Humor

Who Cares About The No. 1 Toy When You Could Have No. 2?

The market remains flush with toys that poop: Gotta Go Flamingo, Poopsie Slime Surprise, Doggie Doo, Fishin' For Floaters. "It's a very light taboo," says Mary Higbe of Goliath Games.

November 29, 2020
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
<em>Genshin Impact</em> has a huge world to explore, and a surprising amount of content for a free-to-play game.

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  • Games

'Genshin Impact' Is Free-To-Play Fun — If You Can Resist Opening Your Wallet

The exploration and combat game Genshin Impact has earned some favorable comparisons to Nintendo's Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but like many free-to-play games, it's good at getting you to spend money.

November 26, 2020
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By:
  • Kaity Kline

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  • Games & Humor

Not My Job: We Quiz Sarah Paulson Of 'American Horror' On Canadian Horror

Paulson starred in both American Horror Story and American Crime Story. We're going to ask her three questions about terrible things that have happened in Canada.

November 21, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Check-In: Video Games

Jonathan Coulton's been playing The Last Of Us Part II, which puts players in a post-apocalyptic world of isolation and disease. It must be nice to be able to escape reality like that.

November 20, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Dolly's Dolls

Jonathan Coulton plays songs by Dolly Parton re-written to be about actual dolls. Orange is the New Black's Alysia Reiner and Beth Dover prove they know their dolls and Dollys.

November 20, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom joins to talk about her new book <em>I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are. </em>

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  • Arts & Life

Rachel Bloom: I Want To Be Where The Normal People Are

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom joins to talk about her new book I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are, and plays a game where Ray Bradbury stories are turned into amusement park rides!

November 20, 2020
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Foreign Cartoon Characters

Orange is the New Black's Alysia Reiner and Beth Dover listen to clips of cartoons dubbed over with non-English dialogue. ¡Ay, caramba!

November 20, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Hooked On Lyrics II

Late Night with Seth Meyers' Karen Chee returns to Ask Me Another with illustrator Jonny Sun to identify songs lyrics read by kids born after the songs were released.

November 20, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
Anya Taylor-Joy plays a swaggering chess prodigy in the new Netflix hit, <em>The Queen's Gambit.</em> It's success may lead to a shortage of chess sets this holiday season.

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  • Arts & Life

Can't Find A Chess Set? You Can Thank 'The Queen's Gambit' For That

Who'd have guessed that a centuries-old game would become 2020's hard-to-find, must-have toy? Sales spiked after the release of the hit Netflix show, and now toy analysts are warning of a shortage.

November 20, 2020
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Nintendo's Switch console is less powerful than competing consoles, but offers a more interesting gameplay experience.

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  • Games

It's Not Easy Porting Games To The Nintendo Switch — But Developers Do It Anyhow

Nintendo has long prioritized interesting gaming experiences over graphical firepower, but the popularity of its consoles means developers are willing to make the effort to rework games for them.

November 19, 2020
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By:
  • Keller Gordon
In <em>Hades</em>, you play as the son of the titular deity, battling to escape the underworld.

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  • Games

Life Is Hellish Enough — That's Why I Had To Stop Playing 'Hades'

The hit video game about escaping the underworld is immensely popular and irresistibly well-crafted — but despite its promise of infinite content, the replay value begins to fade eventually.

November 15, 2020
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By:
  • Lewis Gordon

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  • Games & Humor

Not My Job: We Quiz Comic Chelsea Peretti On The Chelsea Football Club

You may know Peretti as self-involved administrator Gina Linetti from Brooklyn 99. Her latest film is called Friendsgiving.

November 14, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Sarah Paulson: Ratched & Run

Sarah Paulson talks about her many roles in American Horror Story, her Netflix series Ratched and her Hulu movie, Run (out 11/20). Then she plays an R&B music parody game celebrating ampersands.

November 13, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Sarah Silverman: Forty-Hour Waking-Week

Sarah Silverman talks with Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton about playing video games during quarantine. Then, she takes a quiz on the long-running TV series Law & Order.

November 13, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
<em></em>The Microsoft Xbox Series X and the Playstation 5.

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  • Games

Playstation 5, Xbox Series X Bring Sony-Microsoft Rivalry To A New Generation

New video game consoles from Microsoft and Sony are out this week — the latest installment in a long-running battle between two companies competing for dominance in the video game market.

November 13, 2020
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  • Vincent Acovino
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