It's no secret that Xbox Live Arcade games without the buoyancy of a licence or well-known series often sink without trace. The first Geometry Wars may have sold and sold, but it was a novelty that ...

The old tagline for the Madballs collectible toys of the 1980s was “Obnoxious And Gross!” which should tell you a lot about both the 80s and what to expect from squishy balls with disgusting faces.

It's time for a showdown between two of the most beloved childhood toy lines of the 1980s: the Madballs and the Garbage Pail Kids! The Madballs and the Garbage Pail Kids are at it again in this new ...

When art school dropout Ralph Shaffer was hired by American Greetings to illustrate greeting cards in 1964, the 23-year-old was tasked with depicting delicate flower petals and hopping bunny rabbits.

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Children who grew up in the ’80s–back when kids still played with ...

I'm a bit ashamed to say that I owned a few Madballs in my youth. Composed of nothing more than spongy plastic molded into the shape of ugly faces, they never achieved the cool cult status of ...

Gross and disgusting was one of the hallmark toy trends of the ‘80s, and because almost everything from that decade is cool once more, Madballs are ready to make an appearance again. Except now ...

First things first: this is not a Madballs game. It's really an expansion of an online arena shooter called BaboViolent 2 that happened to put players in control of balls with guns. Some marketing ...