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• 4 Educational Games That Taught Us Nothing 6 months ago
  

  Oh no, corn flakes!

• 7 Attractive Qualities Of Gamer Girls 6 months ago
  

  Sometimes it can appear that there are no girls on the internet or on any video games. But 38% of the gaming populace is female and we'd like to take a moment to talk about why Gaming Girls rock.

• 7 Most Violent Weapons in Videogame History 6 months ago
  

  What weapon isn't violent?

• 6 Naively Idealistic Games 6 months ago
  

  Because a video game has the power to bring world peace...

• 6 Least Heroic Heroes 7 months ago
  

  Win if you can, but always cry.

• 6 Least Innovative Games You Love 7 months ago
  

  Didn't I already pay $60 for this?

• Top 6 Video Game Drinking Buddies 7 months ago
  

  The best characters to go out drinking with. When you're pretending you're not in for another night of playing video games and drinking alone.

• The 5 Least Artistic Games We Still Love 7 months ago
  

  There are games that are downright ugly and have plots less imaginative than any movie made by Eddie Murphy. But some of these ugly games are more addictive than a cocaine-laced heroin burger from Wendy's.

• The 7 Worst Spin-Offs to Classic Games 7 months ago
  

  Close the damn door!

• 6 Ways Real Life Is Better Than Video Games 7 months ago
  

  The majority of people in the world who are not monks will have sex, eventually. Hell, for less than the price of a wireless Rock Band guitar controller you can get a back alley blow job. Or so we've heard.

• Six Common MMORPG Terms No-One Should Be Proud Of Using 7 months ago
  

  In our day, we just "fragged" and "spawned." What's this gibberish?

• 6 Most Questionable Game-to-Game Adaptations 7 months ago
  

  Who is E. Hondo?

• 8 People In Your World of Warcraft Guild 7 months ago
  

  It doesn't matter what server you're on, or whether you're Horde or Alliance. These are the people in your guild, because they're the people in every guild.

• 6 Crappy Items Marketed Towards Gamers 7 months ago
  

  Trail mix? Oh fuck yes.

• 6 Most Terrifyingly Villainous Lairs 7 months ago
  

  Because whether you're on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, or MTV Cribs, you know that villainy can be judged by the place that you live.

• 5 Reasons the Video Game Industry is Recession Proof 7 months ago
  

  The threat of global economic collapse has the world wondering if they should keep their money buried in jars in their backyard or diversify their portfolio by keep some under their child's mattress and in the laundry room air conditioning vent.

• 8 Enemies That Have Fucked You Over 7 months ago
  

  What you can't kill will probably kill you.

• 7 Least Practical Controllers 7 months ago
  

  Needs more keypads.

• 8 Videogame Movies We Watched So You Could Ignore Them 7 months ago
  

  SPOILER ALERT: This article contains no spoilers.

• 6 Most Racist Video Games 7 months ago
  

  And not one mention of Custer's Revenge!

• 6 Games You Wasted Your Life On 7 months ago
  

  And the real world skills you could have been practicing instead.

• 6 Real World Skills You Learned From Videogames 7 months ago
  

  No, throwing a grenade is not a real world skill.

• 4 Games You Will (Thankfully) Never Get To Play 8 months ago
  

  Who doesn't love raisins?

• 7 Least Terrifying Horror Games 8 months ago
  

  Forget games, I'm scared of ending up homeless...

• 6 Reasons To Be Proud Of Being A Gamer 8 months ago
  

  This one's for you, jerks.

• Top 10 Disappointing Sequels, pt.2 8 months ago
  

  The sequel to the first part of an article about disappointing video game sequels. Ask yourself: How could this fail?

• Top 10 Disappointing Sequels 8 months ago
  

  Part one of a two-part series. And no, part two doesn't make the list, smart-ass.

• 5 Most Capable Old People in Video Games 8 months ago
  

  You whippersnappers! Get off my lawn! Old men are the true power in video games!

• 6 Classic Educational Games that Taught Hard Life Lessons 8 months ago
  

  Educational video games have done some amazing things in their time.

• The 4 Most Shameless Videogame Marketing Efforts 8 months ago
  

  Marketing can be a thankless job. This is why.

• 4 Gaming Innovations That Failed 8 months ago
  

  Ideas ahead of their time -- or at least, ahead of decent technology to translate said ideas into video game stuff that didn't suck.

• 4 Most Expensive Mistakes in The Gaming Industry 8 months ago
  

  Hey guys! Let's make 12,000,000 of these!

• 7 Reasons Why Video Games Are Better than Real Life 8 months ago
  

  Sadly, most of this is taken from my life...

• 5 Worst Nintendo Knock-Offs 8 months ago
  

  My God, it's full of Popeye!

• 4 Villains You Completely Misjudged 8 months ago
  

  Kidnapping is love!

• 6 Most Tasteless Game Concepts 8 months ago
  

  If it's racist, it usually sucks too.

• The 9 Levels of Cosplay Hell 8 months ago
  

  Shunning all natural instincts of self preservation, Gameist has seen fit to delve into the most horrifying of all places and document what is found inside Cosplay Hell.

• The 4 Pimpest Videogame Rides 8 months ago
  

  Yo dawg, we heard you like to carry birds around in a backpack!

• 7 Most Inappropriately Sexy Characters in Video Games Geared to Kids 8 months ago
  

  They're going to learn about sooner or later...

• The 4 Most Bizarre Religious Games 8 months ago
  

  Eat fruit, Satan!

• 4 Peripherals That Should Have Rocked (But Failed) 8 months ago
  

  I'm covered in ants! I'm covered in ants!

• 5 Disturbingly Violent Games from Your Childhood 8 months ago
  

  Violence in video games is nothing new. Only recently were we given the chance to beat zombies with two-by-fours in deathlike detail, but violence in gaming is as old as gaming itself, as evidenced by these standouts from the pre-Playstation era.

• 5 Most Awesome Videogame Melee Weapons 9 months ago
  

  Because anyone could kill someone with a gun...

• The 5 Unwritten Rules of Brawler Games 9 months ago
  

  Man, I fucking hate robot brains.

• The 6 Most Overwhelmingly Japanese Games 9 months ago
  

  Now with more American presidents!

• The 10 Most Insanely Gory Videogames 9 months ago
  

  These games have been rated "M" for "mature doesn't begin to describe them"

• The 10 Lamest Street Fighter Characters Ever Conceived 9 months ago
  

  What happens when you have to fill out character rosters for 25+ fighting games? Well stuff like…

• The Five Most Absurd Videogame Weapons 9 months ago
  

  Guns that shoot bullets are for pussies.

• The Five Worst Interior Design Jobs (By Videogame Villains) 9 months ago
  

  Lava pools are SO HOT this season.

• The 6 Crappiest Bosses in Mega Man 9 months ago
  

  Quick scenario: You just broke out of a federal prison. Now that you're a free man, what's the first thing you do? If you're Dr. Wily then the answer is “groom your bitching mustache.” Then you construct a series of eight robots, each with a unique theme and novelty but also with a specific weakness that another robot in said series could easily exploit. Why? Because fuck sensible logic, that's why.

• How To Win Gracelessly 9 months ago
  

  Because it isn't a victory until you make them cry.

• 5 Player Personalities That Cannot Handle Losing 9 months ago
  

  If you play any game long enough you are bound to lose every now and then. Most of us flex our hands, crack our knuckles and wait for the next match. But there are some people who cannot handle the strain of losing and end up going crazier than a glitched AI.

• 7 Most Absurd Perks and Power-Ups 9 months ago
  

  There are seemingly endless possibilities for fun and creative perks, and often times, they are just that. Other times, whether it’s a notable design flaw, limited usefulness or being just plain stupid, power-ups just seem to miss the mark.

• Top 5 Final Bosses 9 months ago
  

  The bad-asses you love to hate.

• The 5 Least Anticipted Games of 2009 9 months ago
  

  While it's true that a new year brings the promise of many new, exciting things it also ensures there will be just as many terrible experiences, and video games are no exception. With so many titles being released in a year it's generally accepted that the quality will range from "Rad" to "Somewhat Poisonous."

• 4 Games You Are Embarrassed to Love (And How to Make Them Manlier) 9 months ago
  

  Everyone has their guilty pleasures. Maybe you partake of a bit more peanut brittle than you should. Maybe you still actively listen to Dead or Alive records. Whatever man, I'm not here to judge you.

• 7 Absurdly Ineffective Sidekicks 9 months ago
  

  When you can't do it yourself — you're screwed.

• The 6 Most Painful Ways To Die In A Video Game 9 months ago
  

  Death is inevitable, especially in video games. Chances are that in one hour of gaming you'll die and rise again more times than Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And while the average time you get blasted away into little specks of blood and bone doesn't phase you, there are some game deaths that are truly painful to watch and experience.

• The 5 Most Absurd Evil Villain Schemes 9 months ago
  

  Brain theft, graffiti, and non-non-existent cake.

• 4 Games that Validate Jack Thompson 9 months ago
  

  Because no one ever claimed that video games lead to "copycat behavior and increased Koopa Troopas."

• Top 5 Video Game Bugs 9 months ago
  

  Ballet, Horses, and Masturbation. It's like a Degas nightmare.

• The 10 Stupidest PC Case Mods Ever Created 9 months ago
  

  To the modding community’s credit, there have been some truly amazing case mods created over the years, but, as anyone who’s ever watched the Oscars knows, celebrating excellence and genuine achievement tends to be very goddamn boring, so here’s a bunch of really retarded cases we found instead…

• Five Steps To Getting Your Girlfriend Into Gaming 9 months ago
  

  You all have girlfriends, right?

• The Four Biggest Let-Down Game Endings 10 months ago
  

  Man, fuck dragons.

• 5 Reasons WOTLK Sucks 11 months ago
  

  So the new World of Warcraft expansion WOTLK has been out for about a month. Here are 5 reasons why it sucks.

• Welcome to Gameist 11 months ago
  

  Ooho~! The first article on the site and a welcome to everyone.