Phil Villarreal
10 Most Realistic Football Movies
Maybe all the women's trampoline and beach volleyball wrought by the Olympics have distracted you from your one true love, but it's already football time.
With the NFL preseason well underway, you're probably looking for a football movie or two… or 10, to get you in the mood. The problem with
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‘Power Tools’ Mobile App Review
Unless you spend a bunch of time in a garage, it’s not always second nature to know which power tool to use for which ill-advised do-it-yourself project. It’s bad enough that our projects always end in injury and the shame of paying a handyman — or wilting as we beg our disapproving father-in-law to work for free — to fix up our failures.
The 10 Worst NES Games Ever
Although the NES had its highs, giving us some of our favorite gaming memories, it definitely wasn’t shy about drilling us with stinkers at regular intervals. Here are the 10 NES games that made us cry, starting with number 10:
Wrecking Crew — At least one of the crappy single-screen Mario games deserved a spot on this list, and we went back and forth between this and Mario Bros. for
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Grooming Advice From the Guy With the World’s Longest Mustache
You don’t grow a 14-foot-long mustache without picking up a tip or three along the way about the manliest of beauty secrets. You can’t just up and grow that type of lip tickler. You need a plan.
Listen to These Floppy Disk Drives Hum the ‘Game of Thrones’ Theme
We’ve heard disk drives make noise before, but never eight at the same time, in perfect harmony, singing the theme to HBO’s sex-and-swords drama, ‘Game of Thrones’.
‘Slingo Daily Challenge’ Mobile Game Review
Slingo has been around longer than your dad’s alcohol problem. Originally created in 1995, the bingo-slot machine combo was one of the earliest games we remember playing on our ancient computers. It took on new life when it hit the iPhone, letting you touch-spin and number-match your way through its addictive levels.
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Downloadable ‘Virtua Fighter’ Coming In June
We haven’t heard much from the Virtua Fighter series in the past half decade. After the last game in the series, Virtua Fighter 5, came out in 2007 we weren’t sure we’d ever see a sixth entry. Now word has hit that Sega’s fighter series will see new life, but in downloadable form and it’s not exactly Virtua Fighter 6, but just another Virtua Fighter 5.
‘Cool Guy’ Mobile App Review
Some guys are blessed with a natural sense of style. They choose the right look effortlessly, turn ladies’ heads and get other dudes to subconsciously copy their looks. These guys actually understand what matches what without having to pull out a color chart and a protractor.
Sea Lion Vehicle Makes All Your James Bond Fantasies Come True
Imagine tearing down the highway at 180 mph, then careening off a pier, having your ride transform into a watercraft and burning through the wet stuff at 60 mph. What used to be the stuff of James Bond fantasies is now reality, in the form of the Sea Lion, an amphibious beast created by inventor Marc Witt.
GameFly Fantasizes About Tearing GameStop Stores Apart
A little friendly rivalry keeps things spicy, but a seething, bitter grudge makes for real entertainment. GameFly steps things up a few notches in its game-trading grudge match with GameStop with a new commercial. Actors thrash an unnamed, extremely GameStop-like retail store, enraged over the fact that the clerk is only offering them $9 for their used game.
‘You Don’t Know Jack’ Mobile Game Review
Comedy goes about as well with games as it does with sex. Which is to say, not at all.
‘Silent Hill: Book of Memories’ Shelved Until October
Back in March, Konami planned on hitting us with a three-hit Silent Hill combo. But then things didn’t go quite according to plan, with the new release Silent Hill: Downpour and the remake anthology Silent Hill HD Collection both garnering mediocre reviews and likely disappointing sales.