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UncategorizedAngry Birds Join the Fight Against Wall Street’s Pigs
The Occupy Wall Street movement has gone global, and Taiwan is as upset about the division of power and wealth as the demonstrators in New York. To underline their anger, well, what better universal symbol than the Angry Birds, seen in posters throughout this Taiwanese news broadcast. Just watch where you wave the blackbird sign.…
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Madden Veterans Trade Hard-Hitting Action for Facebook Strategy
As a 10-year veteran of the Madden NFL series, Ian Cummings has plenty of experience building video games with bears in them. It’s the raccoons and beavers that are a bit of a departure this time. “It’s awesome to work on a sports game, and it was great to work on Madden, and to meet…
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Holiday Ads Bootstrap Microsoft’s Unsexy Products to Xbox and Kinect
This Sunday, Microsoft will launch an ad campaign that tout its “family” of consumer products together, rather than individual campaigns for each. What that really means is the company is ramping up the sex appeal for products like Microsoft Office by including the Xbox 360 and Kinect in the picture. The company’s chief marketing strategist…
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UncategorizedMarvel Pinball Brings the X-Men and Magneto to Its Newest Table
Today Zen Studios revealed that X-Men will be the latest entry in its Vengeance & Virtue series of Marvel-themed tables for Pinball FX2, joining Ghost Rider Pinball wizards will be tasked with assembling the X-Men, teaching them their powers, and overcoming the threat posed by Magneto—who tears up the floor of the machine, destroys ramps…
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Death Cannot Stop This Outstanding Princess Bride Reunion
Entertainment Weekly brought back the cast of The Princess Bride, which turns 25 next year, for a gaze-worthy image that—just like the film— is equal parts charming, funny, and touching. That’s Wallace Shawn (Vizzini), Billy Crystal (Miracle Max), Carol Kane (Valerie), Chris Sarandon (Prince Humperdinck), Cary Elwes (Westley), Robin Wright (Buttercup), Mandy Patinkin (the immortal…
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You Didn’t Think Battlefield 3 Wouldn’t Require the Online Pass, Did You?
DICE confirmed, via designer Alan Kertz on Twitter, that Battlefield 3 on Xbox 360 and PS3 would require the one-use “Online Pass” code included free in retail copies, but costs $10 for those who have a copy of the game without a code—i.e. those who buy it used. Multiplayer for all EA Sports games have…
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FIFA-Loving Hackers Strike Xbox Live Accounts
Xbox Live users should keep an eye on their accounts, and any credit card associated with that account, and especially take notice of any strange activity involving FIFA 11 or 12. Several users have complained, through multiple gaming publications, of hackers recovering their accounts to a different machine and using them for purchases associated with…
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Aw, Dammit Man, The Doobie Brothers Broke Up …
Look, bullethead. If they’re hiking through the jungle there’s nothing I can do about it. I have a car. I am not Tarzan. I have been through every one-horse shithole for a two-hundred mile radius. You should have seen the river I had to traverse this morning. So don’t give me any of your crap,…
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