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Green Gaming To Save Your Conscience, If Not The Planet

Care about the environment? Course you do. Post-apocalyptic words are fun to roleplay in, not so fun to actually live in. So how can you, as a gamer, cut down on your impact on this precious little planet of ours? 1UP's Lara Crigger has some suggestions, and while some are a little fiddly (like upgrading to "green" components), others you should be able to manage, including setting your PC to sleep mode more often and actually turning your console and TV off, instead of leaving them on standby.
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2:30 AM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Luke Plunkett
1,327 views, 59 comments

Latest by questworld: I'm baffled as to why so many people here would rather sit on their hands just waiting to be 100% convinced (as if they were actually listening) about even the possibility of global warming being a condition being worsened by more »

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Glupod - A Game About Saving Real Lives

We've seen plenty of flash games and indie games that address the issue of world hunger and the environment, but Ioannis Tsiokos of Athens Greece and Something, Inc. are launching a game that lets you do something about it. Glupod, which launches May 30th worldwide, is a casual online game where players choose a birdlike creature called a glupod, choose a child or cause to sponsor, and then compete against players from around the world for a currency called glucs, which can be recycled into real money and support for your sponsored cause. It sounds sort of like NeoPets, only with a purpose.
"A Glupod gamer has a real purpose and a human mission," says Ioannis, managing director and co-founder of Something Inc. "Glupod is more than a game. It's a simple, fun way to do good that anyone with a computer and access to the Internet can participate in."
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11:20 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,370 views, 31 comments

Latest by cuneus: Two thumbs up! I like it. more »

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Nintendo Responds to Greenpeace, Greenpeace Not Satisfied

Not so long ago, Nintendo was singled out by Greenpeace's sixth annual Guide to Greener Electronics. Sure, they were amongst friends like Microsoft and Sony on the graph, but Nintendo was the only company to score a whopping 0 out of 100. Greenpeace felt justified giving Nintendo the lowest score in history by pointing out that Nintendo fails to publish their environmental standards.

Now Nintendo has finally responded to Greenpeace's accusations that Miyamoto dines only on the finest baby eyes. Here's the letter they sent to various media outlets in response to the rating:

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1:21 PM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By Mark Wilson
12,313 views, 180 comments

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EA & BP Add Global Warming Threat To SimCity

Here's a fun new addition to the upcoming SimCity Societies game. EA and BP have teamed up to include climate education in the game...effectively adding the looming threat of global warming to the title. Hooray! While the game doesn't force you to power your city in any specific way, using cheaper, carbon dioxide producing sources of energy will raise the town's carbon ratings, causing disasters like droughts, heat waves, and the like. Alternatively, choosing from a variety of BP Alternative Energy low-carbon power options like hydrogen, natural gas, wind farms and solar power, players keep their cities safe from harm and feel all warm and fuzzy about themselves while learning about some of the causes and consequences of global warming, which may or may not exist depending on your viewpoint. BP was one of the first major energy companies to publicly acknowledge the need to reduce carbon emissions and begin taking precautionary measures, as well as being the world's number one source for food cooked on rollers. More »

9:40 AM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By Mike Fahey
11,162 views, 76 comments

Latest by EnigmaNemesis: @sxp151: You do realize the CO2 levels were double than they are now back in the ice age right? You do realize the number one contributor of green house gas is the Ocean right? What is number 2? The Rain Forest. Oh but more »

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Chibi Robo Shows His True Colors (and They're Green)

I bet you thought Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol was just a fun adaptation of a carefree Gamecube franchise: WRONG! In fact the DS game that hit Wal-Mart stores today is the "one of the first games based on the growing environmental movement."

In the game players use the mini, fruit-fucker-esque robot to plant flowers, build park equipment and defeat toxic enemies... sadly he doesn't deflower any fruit. To celebrate the green game's release Nintendo is going to give away 500 tree seedlings to a random selection of people who register on the FruitFuckerChibi-Robo site by Nov. 9

Nintendo also points out that as a company they currently recycle paper company-wide, limit the use of colored paper and purchase recycled paper towels, report covers, message pads and writing pads. They also recycle more than 70 percent of the "waste" generated at its headquarters... hmm, I wonder if that includes all of those copies of Pokemon Dash.

5:00 PM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By Brian Crecente
1,169 views, 15 comments