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An ‘Honest’ Take on Your Candy Crush Addiction

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Candy Crush addicts, consider this an intervention. If your Candy Crush Saga addiction has led you to some dark places in life (perhaps depleting your bank account for extra lives), you may find that this honest trailer by YouTube channel Smosh Games rings true. Nope? Not you? Well, maybe you’ll find at least some entertainment in this video’s Kardashian references; it calls Candy Crush “the Kardashian of video games.” Yikes. Colors. Music. Soothing sound effects. The honest trailer is here to boil your Candy Crush obsession down to its fundamental parts and make you feel like a doofus for finding enjoyment in it. BONUS: 7 Mobile Trivia Games to Challenge Your Brain Mobile Trivia Games 1. QuizUp QuizUp is the new kid on the block for mobile trivia, but that freshness also comes with some perks. The app has a lovely, colorful interface. QuizUp also lets you match wits on any topic with your in-game friends or with strangers, so you can compete to top the leaderboards in your area of expertise. The team is actively adding new material, including timely information in both the current events and pop culture categories. Price: Free on iOS and Android Image: Plain Vanilla 2. Sporcle It was an online phenomenon first, and now you can take the Sporcle quizzes anywhere. The trivia categories go beyond the typical subjects to test your knowledge of more unusual pockets of trivia. Do you know which nations have the highest cost of living this year? How good are you on celebrities’ ages or popular baby names? The apps don’t have all the content from the web version, but there’s still a serious number of quizzes to keep you entertained. Price: $2.99 for iOS, $1.99 for Android Image: Sporcle 3. MovieCat and MovieCat 2 How do you make a standard movie trivia game even better? Present all the questions with adorable cartoon cats. MovieCat tests your cinema savvy in a range of ways, from the classic to the contemporary. Anything in the movie realm is fair game — including posters, costumes and award winners — and the faster you answer, the more points you’ll get. The sequel has all new questions and Cat Scenes, but for now it’s only available on iOS. Price: $1.99 on Android and iPhone, $2.99 on iPad Image: OtherWise Games 4. Jeopardy! The popular game show has long been the standard for TV trivia, and now you can get the experience on your mobile devices. The setup is a little different, with clues given as multiple choice questions rather than the iconic “Answer in the form of a question.” Despite that, you’re still getting an authentic Jeopardy! experience since the clues were collected from the show’s writers. You have the chance to win solo or compete with friends in the Pass and Play mode. Price: $1.99 on iOS and Android Image: Sony Pictures Television 5. Trivial Pursuit This one’s a classic of the board game universe, but it’s just as fun in the mobile […]

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Barack Obama Sings One Direction

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Fadi Saleh of baracksdubs has already mixed videos of President Barack Obama singing Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen, so it was only a matter of time before Obama crooned One Direction. Saleh, a biochemistry major who makes these videos in his spare time, has taken viewer requests for Obama’s next dubs since LMFAO’s Sexy and I Know It. Now he’s back with One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful — with a little help from Steve Shane and Matty Trump on instrumentals. Some of the artists covered have tweeted out Saleh’s videos, but he’s more excited to see what viewers on YouTube have to say about them. “I plan to keep doing this until people aren’t entertained by it,” he told the Daily Dot. Which leaves us wondering, how long until the inevitable Gotye cover? Tempo Storm expand into Heroes of the Storm, pick up Symbiote Gaming D’Angelo gets politically righteous with ‘SNL’ performance The most embarrassing questions we’re Googling before the Super Bowl Justin Timberlake confirms baby news in the cutest way possible This article originally published at The Daily Dot here Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/07/23/barack-obama-one-direction/

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What’s It Like to Become a Minecraft Celebrity?

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“Minecraft is a platform as much as it is a game,” writes Seth Porges in his recent story on Mashable about TeamCrafted, a supergroup of YouTube stars who have made names for themselves simply by playing the game. That platform has turned these guys into Internet celebrities with hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers and millions of YouTube subscribers. And as TeamCrafted grows, so too do the business opportunities. Today at 4 p.m. ET, Mashable will be joined by TeamCrafted members Jerome, Ryan and group manager Matt Michelsen in a live Hangout on Air to talk all things Minecraft, becoming YouTube stars and what the future holds for the group. Do you have questions for TeamCrafted? Share them in the comments below or tweet them using the hashtag #TeamCraftedChat. Read more: http://mashable.com/2014/03/07/minecraft-youtube-teamcrafted-hangout/

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