A Watchmen Videogame You Don’t Have to Feel Nauseous About
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So there must be several thousand people working on the Watchmen viral advertising campaign. That’s the only reason I can think of for there being so many crazy videos and sneaks peeks, and now, we can add this old-school, Streets of Rage-style online beat-’em-up game to the mix. They say it’s 8-bit (it’s not; it’s totally 16-bit) but basically, you play as either Nite Owl I or Silk Spectre I and punch and kick the hell out of Molloch’s utterly identical thugs. It’s just as repetitive as the old games were, but still, it’s a little awesome. Definitely check it out. Screenshot via Collider, and thank to everyone who sent in the tip.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.