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Making Bomb-Filled Video Game Maps Of Your School Is A Bad Idea
Just because video games give you the tools to recreate your school as a battlefield doesn’t mean you should use them. This morning five Louisville, Kentucky, middle school students learned this lesson the hard way. The five Stuart Middle School students will be disciplined and could face felony charges after a teacher discovered a map…
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Brain Making Too Much Noise? Reboot It
As many as 23 million adults in the United States suffer from tinnitus – a ringing sound in the ears that won’t go away. Scientists may have found a way to ease the currently cure-less affliction by rebooting the brain. Tinnitus is more common than you think. One in ten seniors and 40 percent of…
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A Video Game Pirate Trades Sails For Steam
Kotaku commenter Heyitsguy was once a video game pirate, downing PC games for free via the internet. Now he is not. He tells you why in today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku. 2011 will be the year that I stop illegally downloading games. It began just a few years ago when I discovered torrents. I…
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Super Mario Mushrooms Served 120 Ways
Super Mario Bros. has mushrooms that change your size, grant you extra lives, and even poison you. That’s not enough fungus for deviant artist MyBurningEyes, so he came up with 120 new types of Mario mushrooms. You may have seen some of these creative Mario mushrooms before. Hell, you may have seen all of them…
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UncategorizedGet A Taste Of Diablo III Arena Combat With Bloodline Champions
The Arena player-versus-player system coming in Diablo III blew fans away at BlizzCon 2010. Stunlock Studios’ newly-released free-to-play PC arena combat game Bloodline Champions feels a lot like Blizzard’s competitive multiplayer mode. I couldn’t get enough of Diablo III Arena combat at BlizzCon. Bringing the fast-paced, mouse-drive combat of Diablo into a competitive multiplayer game…
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Cooking Mama Barges Into Café World’s Kitchen
Every day thousands of players flock to Zynga’s Café World, clicking on food and serving it to the virtual masses for experience points and in-game coinage. That’s some sweet action right there, and Cooking Mama wants a piece of it. Majesco makes its Facebook debut today with Cooking Mama Friends’ Cafe, weighing Mama’s charm against…
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LittleBigPlanet 2 Gunning For World Records No Other Game Could Win
Guinness is handing out the video game world records left and right, and now it’s Sony’s turn. They’ve assembled a crack team of LittleBigPlanet 2 players to take down fabricated records next week, and you can watch. At this point we’ve resigned ourselves to the fact that the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition is nothing…
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