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Divorce-Happy MMO Providing Help to Troubled Couples
About 10 days ago, Nexon, the publisher of MapleStory found three out of four marriages initiated in-game end in divorce. So MapleStory‘s next content update will include features that emphasize couples sticking together. Ascension, the next big update, will include special quests for couples. “Shower your partner with devotion in new quests to renew your…
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U.K. Culture Minister Wants a Games Room in Parliament
The Houses of the British Parliament are known to have bars. One MP, the minister for culture in fact, wishes to put in a video game room. Ed Vaizey thinks it would do some good in educating his fellow MPs on the industry that he has forcefully supported in the past. In an interview with…
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The Game That Created a Legion of Authors
MUDs and MUSHes, remember those? These were the first multiplayer online role-playing games, popular in the 1990s, largely text-based. In the case of a MUSH, playing involved writing thousands of words, a skill that’s proven useful later in life for some enthusiasts. One of them is Jim Butcher, mentioned (among other authors) today in The…
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UncategorizedPlastic Coathangers are Also Lethal in this Real-Life Dead Island Film
There are awesome ways to start your morning, but they probably aren’t jampacked into just three minutes, like this Dead Island re-enactment from Chris Cropper‘s Going Nowhere Show It gets everything right about the zombie survival game, from the HUD to quest-giving to—wait, can you really blow up an exploding barrel with a plastic coat…
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Get Some Beer and Some Cleaning Products
Hi, how are you. My name’s Elliot, and I’m with the Cub Scouts of America. We’re selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree. Hardware • Best value ever on the Kinect Sensor w/ Kinect Adventures bundle: $139.10 w/ a $25 bonus credit at Amazon. Previous best deal was $150 w/ $30 bonus, and the…
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UncategorizedEnormous Tetris Stop-Motion Animation Created in Minecraft
The merry band behind the Bomberman mod for Minecraft have struck again, creating a colossal in-game stop-motion animation of Tetris—complete with a Game Boy surround (and startup screen!). “I had to play bad or it would have take even more screenshots,” says the creator. Probably also why he ramped up the difficulty to level 9,…
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Dashboard Beta Testers Get Free Digital Halo: Reach to Replace Borked Disc
The recent title update to Halo: Reach has rendered unplayable the free disc version of the game given to Xbox Live dashboard beta participants earlier this year. Rather than say tough luck, Microsoft is giving all of them a free digital copy of the game. An email to dashboard beta participants today advised them of…
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At Last, a Twin Peaks Game for the Atari 2600
I’ll confess to knowing jack shit about Twin Peaks, David Lynch’s cult hilt surreal television mystery that lasted for a year but you’d think had a run twice as long as All in the Family the way people still talk about it. Anyway, someone has created an Atari 2600-style game based on the show, you…
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Wrongly Banned Xbox Live Users Welcomed Back with Gifts
A recent crackdown on modded consoles snared “a very small percentage” of Xbox Live users who had done nothing wrong, yet received comprehensive bans from Microsoft nonetheless. Xbox Live’s top cop today apologized for the mistake and said these gamers would be reinstated immediately. Stephen Toulouse, better known as Stepto to some, said the bans…
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Elk Strips: The $35 Snack That Made a Great Nation Great
Funyuns, Doritos, Chikin-on-a-Biskit. They conjure images of stoners and the unemployed, but no one consumes those snacks to affect said lifestyle. Jerky, well, c’mon. It’s like a meat Marlboro. If you’ve ever torn off hunks of dried flesh, wrung them out on your molars, and not once narrowed your eyes and internally complimented this great…
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UncategorizedCheck Out the Greatest Misses of Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012
This reminds me of the old Foster’s spots where Paul Hogan would mention the fact American beer ads can’t show anyone drinking beer. Similarly, Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012 can’t show any big game getting shot. Marketing staff don’t care, marketing staff will show you shooting and missing. It gives just as good a look…
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