The Watercooler is a daily Ripten feature that basically gives people something to talk about. “Hey, did you see that video on The Watercooler today?” Of course you did.

Today’s Watercooler is all about the Marky Mark SNL skit and The Wahlberg’s subsequent response to it. It’s today’s video (videos, actually) because I thought it was funny and this is my thing, so whatever.

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Mark Wahlberg was spotted with his hand wrapped from a recent injury. Did he bust himself up during one of his diving slo-motion gun battles on the set of Max Payne, or perhaps from punching someone in the face with extreme Funky Bunchedness? Nope, turns out he took a crack on the wrist doing something far more dangerous: playing Wii Sports. Read more…

After being nominated as some of the people in videogaming that need to “shut the fuck up“, Cliff Bleszinski and Mark Rein take it to the ring to decide which of the two of them wins the right to shut up more. Using the photo upload tools in EA’s new game Facebreaker, I was able to poorly reconstruct these two mammoths of mutilating machismo and let them do their thing. Video follows. Read more…

The cast and director of the upcoming game-to-film adaptation of Max Payne gave a little Q&A at the San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend.  Marky Mark discussed how he was really looking to kick ass again, and the director, John Moore, expressed how he intended to break the mold of videogame movies and make sure Max Payne doesn’t suck. Read more…

I just watched the trailer for the upcoming movie adaptation of Max Payne, and it was shockingly good.  I had a certain expectation considering it was a videogame movie (that being that it would suck hard), but this film may have a shot at breaking the stereotype.  Read on to see the YouTube-ified trailer. Read more…