Power Sink

Is your console destroying the country's power grid? Yes. The answer is yes.

Vital Statistics

Date: April 23, 2012

Written and Performed By: Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere and Paul Saunders

Story Graphics: Paul Saunders

CheckPoint Graphics: Graham Stark

Boom! Kate Stark

Music: Bradley Rains

Produced By: Graham Stark and Paul Saunders

Stories

• Bethesda wins game marketing award
• Tony Hawk personally responsible for pitching HD remake of Pro Skater
• Ocarina of Time beaten in under 23 minutes
• Zynga worth over 1.8 billion dollars
• WiiPop capable of judging dance skill with array of attached wiimotes

Feature Story

Game consoles in the US use 16 terawatt-hours of energy each year, due in part to the surprising amount of power used by idle systems. Perhaps we should turn the XBox off every couple weeks.

Trivia

The Ocarina of Time speedrun record is credited to "Cosmo, aka ZeldaFreakGlitcha". In fact, ZFG and Cosmo Wright are two different people, and the latter was responsible for the speedrun. A retraction was posted to the LRR twitter account.