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Video Gaming On ESPN3 Is Like The Early Days Of ESPN2
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Hacking Still Sucks: On <em>Watch Dogs</em> And Next-Gen-Console Malaise
The promise of Watch Dogs was simple, and explained much of the anticipation leading up to the wantonly hyped prestige video game's May release: Finally—finally! (finally?)—someone was going to make hacking cool. In this case, it was the developer Ubisoft, whose ambition to make coding as engrossi...
<em>MLB The Show</em> Easter Egg: Umpire Shows Yasiel Puig How To Pimp A Homer
Here's a hidden gem from this year's edition of MLB The Show—spotted by our old buddy Owen Good—that players can unlock by holding onto the ball on the mound and leaving the game unpaused for more than 30 seconds. ...
Are MLB No-Hitters Really Getting More Common?
Tim Lincecum's no-hitter yesterday was the 22nd since 2010 and a walk away from becoming the sixth perfect game in that same time. This makes no-hitters and perfect games sound abnormally common today. So just how much has the frequency of no-hitters and perfect games changed?...
<em>Jeopardy!</em> Vs. <em>Wheel of Fortune</em>: Which One Makes You Feel Dumber?
I am a Thought Leader of Television, and so I've been asked to ruminate on the Big News that Jeopardy!—yeah! the exclamation point! is officially part of the title!—beat Wheel of Fortune in the ratings a coupla weeks ago, the first time in over a decade, and is this perhaps an indicator that maybe A...
Insane Car Crash Slowed Down For Maximum Viewer Discomfort
"When I woke up the morning of jump day, I called my wife and told her that I had a bad feeling," said James Kirkam, the 4 Wheel Motor Sports Creative Team Leader for the GoPro video above. ...
A Grown-Ass Man's Guide To Super-Hard Old Nintendo Games
This is a thing about playing old NES games that I couldn't beat as a kid to see if I could beat them now as an adult, but let me tell you this first: I had sex while wearing a Power Glove not that long ago. It's maybe the most impressive thing that I've ever accomplished in my whole entire life. Th...
This Guy Will Be Representing England In The Marathon
If you've ever been fat, lazy, addicted to cigs and junk food or old, or if you have a job, you might find Steve Way's story inspiring. ...
Johnny Manziel Drinking On An Inflatable Swan
There are some things that are inherently believable. Like, when someone tweets "not the greatest of pics, but here's Manziel enjoying some X games after party festivities in Austin at Rio" and it's a dude floating on an inflatable swan chugging a bottle of liquor, you just believe it because, well,...
Actual, Correct <em>Family Feud</em> Answer: "My Willing Wiener"
"Name something that might be fully loaded." ...
Hell Is Other People: <em>Titanfall</em>'s Story-Free, Multiplayer-Only Dystopia
Loyal readers of Deadspin might be interested to know that this site's esteemed editor, Mr. Tommy Craggs, is a preternaturally gifted Halo player, or at least used to be. This would have been almost 10 years ago, in San Francisco, in the House of Debauchery, where most of us lived. We were a small b...
Yasiel Puig Hits Grand Slam With Self In Video Game, Reacts Accordingly
Does Yasiel Puig play as himself when he plays video games? Of course he does! Does he flip the hell out when he hits a grand slam with the digital version of himself in that video game? I think you already know the answer to that question....
Yu Darvish Loses Perfect Game On Error, Sparks Argument On MLB Network
Yu Darvish's perfect game bid tonight against the Red Sox was spoiled by a seventh-inning blunder by his fielders that, in any other ballpark, would have been ruled a hit. ...
<em>Borderlands 2</em> Is The Best Video Game Ever
So a new Borderlands game is coming in the fall. Now, a guy like me gets all kinds of news throughout the course of the average day—Facebook ate a baby, girlfriend has a rash on her foot, another A's pitcher's getting Tommy John surgery—but this cut through the clatter like a broadsword through Ned ...
<em>Family Feud</em> Contestant Spotted 182 Points In Fast Money Still Loses
We've seen some hilariously bad game show contestants lately, but nothing on par with yesterday's failure of a Family Feud competitor who let her entire family down with an embarrassing final round....
NBA Feuds Played Out In <em>NHL 14</em> Fights
It's not quite Melo/KG, Westbrook/Beverley, or Cuban/Stern, but it's probably the closest we're going to get....
At 18 minutes and nine seconds long, the Tennessee-Michigan game took longer to finish the last 60 seconds than the combined final minutes of three different overtime games, and was easily the longest single final minute—a whopping 14% of the entire game, including halftime. Our post tracking the le...
Here Are Some People Playing Jenga Who Don't Know How To Play Jenga
Everybody knows how to play Jenga, right? The word "Jenga" is Swahili for "build," and the purpose of the game is to pull a brick from the base of the structure and add it to the top without making the whole thing topple over....
If <em>NBA 2K14</em> Is Any Guide, Kevin Durant Better Watch Out For Lil B
As far as we know, Kevin "The Servant" Durant hasn't yet taken up Lil B's invitation to get served in 1-on-1, so the real and Based World alike are left to speculate. Luckily, Pitchfork has taken things one step further by creating the Based God in NBA 2K14 and pitting him against Durant....
Race Abandoned After Cyclist's Horrifying Crash Into Starting Gate
Earlier this week in the South American Games, Chile faced Brazil in the bronze medal women's team sprint race. The starting horn sounded and both teams of cyclists exploded out of their respective starting gates, only for the officials to call a false start. That's when disaster happened. ...