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# Sinking subs, two-player Tetris, and why Portal has a punchline-problem
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/cheat-sheet/
- Published: 2013-03-19T11:30:16.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:58:17.000Z
- Description: Two days of winter remain. Read these and go for one last sled ride while you can. Sure, GlaDOS made some quips. But can a game truly be a comedy? One enterprising lad sought an answer (and asked our co-founder for insight along the way). Speaking of laughs: Nothing gets my gut jiggling like a subma
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, cheat sheet, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

**Two days of winter remain. Read these and go for one last sled ride while you can.**

  
Sure, GlaDOS made some quips. [But can a game truly be a comedy?](http://splitsider.com/2013/03/can-a-video-game-ever-be-a-true-comedy/?ref=killscreen.com) One enterprising lad sought an answer (and asked our co-founder for insight along the way).

Speaking of laughs: Nothing gets my gut jiggling like a submarine-disaster simulation. [These guys built one!](http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-10/you-built-what-walk-through-submarine-disaster-simulation-game?ref=killscreen.com) What a crack-up.

If you ever wanted your *Super Mario Bros.* more like your *Spelunky,* give money to David Byers, whose [*Another Castle* is the classic side-scrolling roguelike](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/uncadedave/another-castle?ref=killscreen.com) you’ve never dreamed you wanted until now.

A small group of Russian hobby developers are [remaking the 16-bit cult classic *Rock ‘N Roll Racing*.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiFOhqPEI6g&ref=killscreen.com) ??????? ?? ????? ??????? ? HD ????????!

Forget GPS. [These imagingary maps](http://www.imaginaryatlas.com/?ref=killscreen.com) should help for all those times your phone loses reception in Mordor.

The inevitable has happened: Someone has merged [The Crane Game with a Lobster Tank.](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/consider-the-lobster-claw-why-a-twist-on-an-arcade-classic-delights-and-disturbs-us/273977/?ref=killscreen.com)

While you’re waiting for *Mother 2* (AKA *Earthbound)* to finally be re-released in the West (which may never happen), [read this interview between the series’ creator and Nintendo’s president](http://www.1101.com/nintendo/mother2%5Fwiiu/2013-03-18.html?ref=killscreen.com) (if you can read Japanese).

This is not your ordinary *Tetris* clone. [Play it with somone you love.](http://lincread.com/ggj13/index.html%20?ref=killscreen.com)

Creative Assembly, developers of the upcoming *Total War: Rome II*, [modeled an in-game character](http://killscreendaily.com/%20http:/www.willowfoundation.org.uk/News/LatestNews?newsid=392%20%20&ref=killscreen.com) after the likeness of a dying fan.

And a writer for the New York Times questions [bringing videogames into the school curriculum](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/sunday-review/reading-writing-and-video-games.html?smid=tw-nytimes&%5Fr=0%20%20&ref=killscreen.com). Leave them where they belong, I say: Hidden under the student’s desk.

Stay warm out there.