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Watch clueless gamer Conan O’Brien play Skyrim in this funny video

Watch clueless gamer Conan O’Brien play Skyrim in this funny video

Comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien is very bad at video games — even he’ll admit it. In fact, he doesn’t like them very much. But since his audience of young viewers likes them a lot, he’s taken to reviewing them on his late night TV show. This time, he’s tackling epic role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The amusing [...]

Video: Conan O’Brien plays Minecraft, is hilariously unimpressed

Video: Conan O’Brien plays Minecraft, is hilariously unimpressed

Talk show host Conan O’Brien is not a gamer — he makes that clear at the outset — but he’s willing to brave the one game his fans almost unanimously demanded he try: Minecraft. The segment aired on TV last night, and his staff uploaded the hilariously inept video of his blocky, pixelated adventures to the web earlier today. A [...]

Video: Halo 4′s release date is November 6, Conan O’Brien is involved

Video: Halo 4′s release date is November 6, Conan O’Brien is involved

Last night, Microsoft-owned 343 Industries announced that Halo 4 will be released on the Xbox 360 on November 6. We don’t know if it will be available as a digital download yet (probably not at first) but the buzz is already stirring. The first step in an online marketing onslaught is a 10-minute long segment on last night’s episode of [...]

Video: Star Wars Kinect for Xbox 360 includes a funny dancing game

Video: Star Wars Kinect for Xbox 360 includes a funny dancing game

It’s sadly not available as a digital download, and it hasn’t exactly impressed video game critics, but Star Wars Kinect for Xbox 360 has nevertheless had its 15 minutes of viral video fame thanks to a completely unexpected dancing minigame. The dance mode is a direct copy of Dance Central, but it features Star Wars characters dancing in the galaxy [...]

The history of viral videos according to Minecraft

The history of viral videos according to Minecraft

Minecraft is sort of the LEGO of video games: It’s less about the rules or the challenge, and more about building whatever you want. People have used it to build everything from scale models of the Earth to working computer circuitboards, but now their creativity has been applied to the internet’s myriad viral videos. The author of this YouTube video [...]