Tag: WORST

December is the month that marks Christmas, Boxing Day and Emily Dickinson's birthday. It's also the time of year that we face endless Year In Review lists, posted across every form of media. Most of these lists focus on The Best, The Greatest, The Most Memorable. Well, isn't that cheery? But, you see, 2010 was a horrible year, and it doesn't deserve self-congratulatory pats on the back. Sure, ...

We saw plenty of cool gadgets at this year's CES. But for every 3-D screen that needed no glasses, and for every hybrid laptop, there was at least one piece (but, more likely, two or three or ten pieces) of utter crap. There were digital photo frames, iPhone cases, video game controller trees -- so many useless and poorly conceived products, in fact, that it was tough to narrow it down to just ...

For every hit to be found at CES, there are at least a half dozen failures. But there is perhaps no greater miss than the lowly, pathetic Cell-Mate. This headgear-looking contraption is really just a piece of metal and velcro that keeps your cell phone near your ear for as long as you want. Designed to compete with Bluetooth and other hands-free options in terms of cost and reception ...

Licensing TV and movie properties to make video games is one the great and tragic pastimes of game studios desperate to make a quick buck. Games based on movies and TV are notoriously bad, but some reach levels of awfulness that must be seen to be believed. Games such as the one based on "Jackass" are so terrible that playing them for more than two minutes at a time is considered dangerous by ...

Recapping some of the worst moments in interactive entertainment, Wired has rounded together a feature on the worst movie-licensed games in the medium's history. The lowest of many lowlights include Namco's 1987 version of Star Wars ("a mundane side-scrolling game in which Luke hacks away at enemies with his lightsaber and dies a lot"), to the epically named and shoddily designed Street ...