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Zynga Sues Former CityVille Director For Stealing Trade Secrets When He Left
Zynga filed a lawsuit Friday against Alan Patmore, former general manager of CityVille, alleging that Patmore stole trade secrets and confidential information when he left the company. As VentureBeat and others report, Patmore left Zynga on August 16 of this year. Court documents filed in the California Superior Court in San Francisco claim that immediately…
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The My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Video Game Screenshots are Here!
It’s is absolutely ridiculous how excited I got when I saw an email in my inbox from Gameloft with the subject line “New My Little Pony screens”. I’ve built villages on my iPhone. I’ve played character-driven mini-games on my Android tablet. These are not new things. I have not, however, built my own Ponyville, nor…
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ReviewsPop-Tarts: The Snacktaku Review
The Pop-Tart was originally created as a way to capitalize on fancy new dog food foil freshness technology. True story. In the early 1960s, Post created a method of wrapping dog food in foil, preserving its freshness without the need for refrigeration and effectively ending hilarious primitive sitcom dog food eating gags. Looking to expand…
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There May Not Be a Haystack Big Enough To Break a 24-Mile Leap of Faith
Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting leap from the very edge of space, on Sunday, was dazzling. But as one post at 9gag points out, Baumgartner is far from the first man to take a leap of faith with an uncertain landing. Personally, the image makes me envision a whole team of haystack-carriers swarming over New Mexico, running…
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The Dorkly Weekly: An Incredibly NSFW Interpretation of Mortal Kombat‘s “Finish Him”
Oh come on, you’ve thought it too. In case you missed it in the headline, this video might be a little bit unsafe for most workplaces. “Come on, boss! It’s not like he actually puts the metal penis in his mouth!” is not an argument anyone wants to have to put forth in an exit…
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The GameCube Controller Lives On in the Hands of Fake Gamers
Next month’s release of the Wii U marks the end of the GameCube’s distinctive controller as a method for manipulating Nintendo games, but the color-coded buttons and sticks will always remain a method for making well-dressed attractive people look as if they are playing video games and not just smiling vacantly into a camera. It’s…
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Say Hello to Your Little Friends — Scarface Mobile Goes Multiplayer
What good is a drug-fueled murderous rampage if there’s no one to share it with? Fuse Powered and Hothead Games’ single-player mobile Tony Montana adventure game goes multiplayer today, giving players a chance to make friends, recruit friends, and rob friends. Scarface for iOS was sort of a graphical Mafia Wars, only without the social…
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UncategorizedModern Combat 4 Probably Doesn’t Employ CRAP Technology
I am relatively sure lead artist Vince Coupal doesn’t say “technology called CRAP” in this first developer diary for Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour, but part of me wishes he had. Gameloft’s latest first-person shooter, coming this fall to iOS and Android, looks fine. Heck, it looks more than fine; that’s pretty gorgeous. It would…
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UncategorizedWatch Borderlands 2‘s Mechromancer In Action
The first official trailer for Borderlands 2‘s newest playable class—the Mechromancer—shows off how versatile her three skill trees are. You can get a sense of the kind of play style you can mold Gaige towards, as well as how she looks in action. I already told you she feels great, but here she is backing…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
Drawing Pokémon Based On Their Physical Descriptions Alone Is Harder Than It Sounds
Artist Noelle Stevenson has never played a Pokémon game first-hand. She has, however, accepted the challenge of drawing several of the combative pocket monsters, based solely on physical descriptions provided to her by friends and blog readers. It turns out, accurately describing a creature that looks a lot, but not quite, like a duck wearing…
By Kate Cox
