GIFs are the ultimate weapon in this addictive browser game

If you've ever wanted to prove your superior knowledge of GIFs, there's a new game that's everything you've been waiting for.

GIF Battle, developed by New York-based app developers Postlight, lets two users battle each other using GIFs and smack talk. After one player accepts a challenge from the other over Twitter by clicking on the link, each player gets a two-minute chess clock. It counts down as you look for a GIF via the site's search engine, then pauses the moment you post it to the battle page, which instantly starts your opponent's clock.

As the battle wages on, GIFs continue to appear in the stream in succession until time runs out. The winner is whomever's GIFs get the most likes, as voted by the Internet (the initial declaration of battle goes out over Twitter, but the GIFs don't). It's a concept as silly and clever as it sounds. Read more...