Watch Albert Einstein Jumpkick Isaac Newton in Science Kombat

Enough with the hyper-steroidal competitors in most video games.

The growing importance of knowledge, particularly in the science and engineering category, has helped drive the growth of new games featuring fighters from other realms.

With tongues planted firmly in cheeks, fighters like Stephen Hawking and Marie Curie take on imposing combatants like  Pythagoras or Einstein - each with his or her own set of deft moves based (very loosely) on their real-world interests. Assuming this trend extends to tech avatars - if it hasn't already - one can only wonder whether the on-screen tussles between, say, Bill, Steve, Sergei and Zuck will be any more amazing than those that actually happened. JL

Chris Plante reports in The Verge:

Browser game Science Kombat stars eight scientific geniuses: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Pythagoras, Marie Curie, and Alan Turing. Each great mind has their own special moves with which to brutalize the rest. Einstein bolts through space and time, while Alan Turing calls in artificially intelligent allies.
Remember that time you ate glue in seventh grade, and wondered what it would be like if Mortal Kombat featured the characters from your science textbook instead of ninjas? I do! And now I can relive that fantasy without poisoning myself. Browser game Science Kombat stars eight scientific geniuses: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Pythagoras, Marie Curie, and Alan Turing. Each great mind has their own special moves with which to brutalize the rest. Einstein bolts through space and time, for example, while Alan Turing calls in artificially intelligent allies.
Created by a team of developers within Superinteressante Magazine, Science Kombat fits into a catalog of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter parodies. A personal favorite is Faith Fighter, created by Molleindustria. That game pits God, Jesus, Ganesha, Budai, Buddha, and Muhammad against one another in a battle of supremacy.

Superinterrestante's games aren't quite so controversial. The company previously created Filosofighters, in which Descartes and Plato can trade blows with Nietzsche and Marx. Science Kombat is a more balanced fighting game than its predecessor, so I recommend that you stick with the latest and greatest.
Give the game some time to load on your browser. If it takes too long, here's a collection of Science Kombat GIFs. And you know what, here are some more fresh GIFs. GIFs for everybody! Learning is fun! Step away from the glue!