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GamesRadar's best of the internet in 2008

Highlights of 12 months of win for the webs

Words: Matt Cundy, GamesRadar UK

Man films girlfriend playing Wii
The spectacle of Wii Fit Girl spinning like a plate of sexy brought men-gamers of the internet together in revered celebration of video sharing. Silence fell on the usual snark and fanboy bickering as all were hypnotised by gyrating monochrome panties of lovely. The cynics cried 'VIRAL!'. Nintendo denied any involvement. The maker of the clip promised it was genuine. But when ass is making the men dizzy, no one could really care either way.

The YouTube video has now been viewed well over 7 million times. Let's watch it again.



Real-life Guitar Hero 'played' with a bike
As if Heidi Klum's orgasmic turn in her undercrackers on the TV ad wasn't good enough, Activision also rolled out this pedal-powered stroke of viral marketing genius for Guitar Hero World Tour. So good, that even the whiff of big corporate bucks bankrolling the project couldn't spoil it. We're waiting for next year's Segway remix. It's got to happen.




More viral:
Believa Pinata 


US political campaign explained via the medium of Pokemon
Apart from McCain not winning, the best thing to come out of this year's US presidential campaign was watching the webs craft some inspired pieces of political/gaming content combos. We don't know where this Pokemon-themed skit originated, but it's a masterstroke, breaking down the frankly stuffy, tedious business of politics into a format that even a five-year-old could understand. Months of campaigning condensed into a 60 second GIF. Only on the internets people.

A most apt use for a classic gaming phrase
Like the caption states, someone had to say it. And it's nice to see a gaming colloquialism being put to such effective use. Never has it sounded so utterly appropriate.

 

More politics:
Eight other videogames Obama should be advertising in
Sarah Palin in games


 
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DontPanic  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Nice, 2008 was good to us.
Samael  - 11 months 12 days ago 
World of WorkCraft was sublime...

"That's a 50 DKP minus!"
Xplosive59  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Wow this really is amazing it would of taken me like 1 year to find most of this stuff and also the research u did was amazing to find these

GR is getting better and better ( unlike the sonic franchise lol)
k1ng94  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Best artical ever.
lordkemo  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Great round up. I had to show everyone at work the one with the guy filming his girlfriends fine ace.
Metallica  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Let's hope 2009 will be even better ^_^
GamesRadarBrettElston  - 11 months 12 days ago 
I... I never noticed the clouds and bushes...
Slique  - 11 months 12 days ago 
No mention of Lit Fuse Film's 'Jill's Song' for machinima? Really?
NelosAngelos  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Welcome to the World of the World of Warcraft!!! The internet is a truly amazing place once you think about it.
radicle94  - 11 months 12 days ago 
I know this is a little off topic but in the new game informer it said that killzone 2 is going to be out for the 360 is this true?
gronfors  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Best Article Ever!!!

btw... Never knew about the clouds and the bushes on Mario...

and I had the same reaction...
*Pause..
*cry
RonnyLive19881  - 11 months 12 days ago 
The last one was pure gold! GO HUE!
DeadGirls  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Entertaining article.
Thanks guys.

For some reason I missed most of that stuff when it first came out (probably playing video games).
GoldenMe  - 11 months 12 days ago 
The....The clouds.....and the bushes.

The internet rules, and so does you GR.

You guys get Best Gaming Website Of The Year!!!
aromickred  - 11 months 12 days ago 
I loved the guitar hero bike.
AXELSTORM44  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Barack has evolved into... PRESIDENT!
Corsair89  - 11 months 12 days ago 
World of World of Warcraft and World of Workcraft. Brilliant.

The halo/pokemonsnap/starfox/pacman/ffvii/mario clip was excellent too.
Bronxx  - 11 months 12 days ago 
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
I practically fell out out my chair laughing when I saw that.

Great article, it's like an early Christmas present.
rowanredwood  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Let's hope 2009 will be even better
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doubt it. only 20 days into the new year will begin a 4 year long hell. and i hope you dont think that with obama in office video games will be allowed to do all the things they do now. once hes in office the use of the word crap in a game will probaly send it to a T rating, and a gun will probably send it up to an A rating. i definately forsee a lot of attacks on video games from DC in the upcoming years.
WiLdFiRe567  - 11 months 12 days ago 
that Mario death was funny the different games made in halo 3 were cool and i ve seen but before but Bikehero was the greatest thing this year
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