Games & Humor

View of Seltun geothermal field in Krysuvik on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland on July 5, 2014.

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App Lets You Destress By Screaming Into Icelandic Wilderness

3:21pm July 17, 2020

2020 has been a stressful year. Iceland wants to help. A group developed an app that will let you record and broadcast a scream, pent up by the pandemic, into the Icelandic wilderness.

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Ghost of Tsushima gives players a gorgeous world to explore, but the game's story is dragged down by flat characters.

Arts

Saving The World — But First, A Haiku — In 'Ghost Of Tsushima'

2:00pm July 17, 2020

by Kaity Kline

Sucker Punch's new samurai combat game gives players a gorgeous open world to explore, haikus to write and enemies to defeat — but the characters can be flat, leading to moments of dull gameplay.

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Cat, Sheep, Or Human?

12:43pm July 17, 2020

In a special audio version of "This, That, or The Other," Late Night with Seth Meyers writers Jenny Hagel and Amber Ruffin guess if a noise is coming from a cat, a sheep, or a human baby.

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The Longest Quiz

12:43pm July 17, 2020

Jenny Hagel and Amber Ruffin work together in a short game about some of the world's longest things.

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We Started Turning Other Billy Joel Songs Into We Didn't Start The Fire

12:43pm July 17, 2020

Country singer-songwriter Margo Price and Jeremy Ivey, her guitarist husband join house musician Jonathan Coulton in a game where other Billy Joel songs are rewritten to be about 20th century events.

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Padma Lakshmi: Taste the Nation, From Your Couch

12:43pm July 17, 2020

Padma Lakshmi, host of Top Chef discusses the evolution of the American palate. Then, she plays a game where she helps Ophira and Jonathan figure out what to do with the weird foods in their pantries.

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Michigan Jeweler Buries His Products, Holds Real Life Treasure Hunt

5:41am July 17, 2020

Johnny Perri inherited a jewelry shop from his dad. When the COVID-19 pandemic hurt his business, he decided he'd bury his jewelry and sell tickets for the ultimate scavenger hunt.

Dozens of fans turned out to watch the Red Sox amateur baseball team tangle with the Yankees at Regions Field in Birmingham, Ala. The teams are part of an over-35 league showcasing their skills at a ballpark normally used by the Birmingham Barons minor le

Baseball-Starved Fans Turn Out To Watch Middle-Aged Men Play

7:31am July 16, 2020

by Melanie Peeples

With Major League Baseball games to be played in empty stadiums, and the minor league season cancelled, fans are showing up at amateur leagues.

Anonymous Auction Bidder Breaks Record For Price Of Video Game

6:29am July 13, 2020

The video game sold at the Dallas auction for $114,000 was for an unopened copy from 1985 of Super Mario Bros. It is the most expensive video game ever sold.

World News

Worshippers Get Surprise Visit From Dean's Cats During Virtual Prayer

7:58am July 12, 2020

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Robert Willis, Dean of the Canterbury Cathedral, about his cats' appearances during live-streamed prayers.