Is the United States government really building Iron Man? Is the president trying to disarm us with one of those "jokes" he loves so much? If I were president of the United States, and I had a secret plan to build Iron Man, this is exactly what I'd do: joke about building Iron Man and then say things like "Ha ha ha. Not…
Yesterday, a bunch of America's leading tech sector executives met with US President Barack Obama. They were meant to be talking about the failure of Heathcare.gov, but things got really interesting when the conversation moved onto the fate of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Last night, an Australian TV commercial for the Wii U came on. My wife looked at it, then at me, then back at it, then at our Wii, before finally asking "wait, don't we have a Wii? What's this?"
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As Curiosity settles into its second day out in the wide world, players worldwide keep tapping away at the massive cube inside.
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Why was this small town of 30,000 people who could not vote in the U.S. presidential election so happy? Because…
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President Barack Obama basically annihilated Mitt Romney in a new poll in the key swing state of Ohio. Too bad for Obama that the vote only involved players of the online game Maple Story.
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Tonight, President Obama squared off against Governor Romney. Did either win one hundred percent of the debate? What about 47 percent? Oh, the suspense!
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It's been a long road to the presidential election, which is less than a month away at this point. In case you've forgotten how tense and occasionally absurd the talking points and the personas of this political cycle have been, news website Slate has been recapping 2012's highs and lows with a series of…
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It's that time of year again, here in the United States: the presidential election, and the seemingly interminable campaign for it, are everywhere. Of course, even though the election isn't until November, when you look back to the primary season, the campaign began well into last year. And Slate has taken to a video…
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Here's Rachel Maddow with one of the most ham-fisted video game references so far this election season. Hopefully we'll get more and more Atari references as we get closer to November. Something something Obama something something Commodore-64 something something health-care mandate.
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In Japan, people are saying President Obama's official Twitter account is following an anime girl. Make that, an anime girl …
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Or the Chicago Bulls. Or Golden State Warriors. Or any team in NBA 2K12's Association or My Player modes, as Reddit user soadfan09 discovered today.
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The line between gaming and reality blurs as the President and members of his security team watch the hunt for Osama reach its long-awaited conclusion.
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With the United States' budget projected to hit a $418 billion shortfall by 2015 and a $1.3 trillion shortfall by 2030, the New York Times knows something has to be done. So they made a game.
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Fresh from greeting the Super Bowl winners in Madden NFL 11, President Obama will make an appearance in NBA 2K11, hosting a White House reception for the NBA champs in a special cinematic included in the game's Association mode.
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US President Barack Obama has given his blessing to a challenge - open to both children and professional developers - aimed at getting kids designing educational video games.
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The winner of best overall infographic for First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign includes the release and successes of the Playstation in its timeline charting the growth of childhood obesity.
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