Games & Humor

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Jameela Jamil arrived in Los Angeles, went on one audition, booked the job and became a star on the sit-com The Good Place — a totally typical, not at all out of the ordinary Hollywood story!

Bob the Drag Queen discusses his wig-filled basement drag closet and his HBO docuseries We're Here. Then, Bob takes on a quiz tailored specifically to his interests, from Kesha to Whoopi Goldberg.