Daniel Whitehill

Jim, my man, c’mon.

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Atari was at Flame Con demoing their new game Pridefest, which is coming later this summer to iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. This was the game’s public debut, and they’re also going to be showing it off at the NYC Pride March. Which is fitting, since the game is about designing and launching your own personal pride parade!

The game isn’t quite ready for primetime, but there was enough to see that I was able to get an impression of it. As the assistant to the mayor, you’re tasked with bringing the city to life through the fabulosity of your parade. You buy new parts for your parade like a car with the mayor in it, motorcycles, a disco float, or my personal favorite, the Dia de los Muertos float which was an awesome giant skull. There is a lot of crazy variety, just like in real life pride marches!

Once you’ve gathered your parade sections together you steer it around your city and, as the procession passes by a building, it starts bringing it to life turning it slowly from gray to color over time. Once the building is fully restored to living fabulous color, you can decide what you want that building to be, like stores to earn you more money that you can use to upgrade your parade to new levels of fierceness. Also, you can decorate your city with balloons, banners, light up arches, and more. Successfully completing quests will earn you more money and points to expand your parade and thereby help light up your town.

Of course, the buildings will deteriorate over time, so you’ll have to keep running that parade around town to keep everything fabulous. This is where I can see myself getting frustrated, but we’ll have to wait and see how much upkeep you have to do. If it’s like Sim City, I don’t think I’ll last long. But hopefully it won’t be that much work. I just want to party!

You’ll also be able to connect with friends and check out their parades, and design your own avatar with all kinds of skins, hair, clothes and whatnot at your disposal. It looks like it’ll be pretty fun to bring your city to life through the power of pride, and I look forward to seeing what everyone else creates. The whole thing looks pretty gay, and I love that Atari is even creating something like this. There’s still no release information for Pridefest yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as Atari shares it!

The supreme court wasn’t just copying Fire Emblem when it ruled in favor of same-sex marriage today. Gay unions have been around for quite some time in video games. Let’s look back at marriage equality’s rich history in the virtual world.

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Same-sex couples have a Constitutional right to marry under the Fourteenth Amendment, the United States Supreme Court ruled in an historic 5-4 decision Thursday, with Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for the majority. The decision also overturns states’ existing marriage bans.

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Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long (or until an enormous saw blade physically prevents me from doing so). That is a terrifying actual thing that happened to a driver last week on the Chongqing expressway in central China: a large circular saw blade buried itself a foot and a half deep into the hood of his truck, forcing him to stop. The man was reportedly shaken, but unhurt.

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Once Game of Thrones came to an agreement with a Croatian church to lock down the filming location for Cersei Lannister’s naked walk of shame, and secured a body double for Lena Headey, there was only one thing missing from one of the most important scenes of the season 5 finale: a guy to flash his dick and shout “I’m a Lannister, suck me off!”

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Just look at it. Thanks, NeoGAF.

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Last week, the company that (literally) kickstarted the new virtual reality industry announced a groundbreaking new controller that lets you reach out and touch things in virtual worlds. I just gave it a spin. It’s good. Damn good.

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I don’t care that I supposedly understand how vinyl records work because I still totally think they’re the work of at least some low level sorcery. Trapping sound and music and voices? Come on! Anyways, my disbelief aside of analog technology aside, here’s a cool microscope view of vinyl records being played.

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 Another day, another robotic bartender that can make your favorite drinks using a pod-based system of flavors and booze. This time the robot is called Bartesian and it uses little K-Cup-like pods to squirt out Margaritas, Cosmopolitans, and Uptown Rocks. What of the booze, you ask? The Bartesian uses little glass bottles full of various liquors to add a little kick to your drink. You can fill… Read More

Michael, Trevor, Franklin, Lester. They’re one big family after all, just like the cast of Full House. Merfish and his friends recreated the classic show’s intro, and while I don’t remember anyone falling off a truck or getting hit by a cable car, they really did nail the whole thing.

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It sure appears ABC caught LeBron James making an adjustment just before tipoff of tonight’s Game 4:

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