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Crappy Demo No One Wanted May Be Worth a Ton Now [Update]
At the 1998 NBA All-Star Game, fans received discs with the demo for a PlayStation game called NBA 2-Ball. The game was pretty bad – possibly defective – but it’s extremely rare. So a surviving copy may be extremely valuable. A New Jersey man provided pictures of the disc to a blog that a while…
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Brother Stabs Brother Over Video Game Argument
From Chile comes another tragic tale of a sibling murdered over a video game console. The BBC reports on an incident involving two brothers, aged 16 and 18, a PlayStation of undetermined number, and a kitchen knife. According to the report, the younger brother became angry when his older sibling turned on the PlayStation without…
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Italian Teen Stabs Father Over FIFA 2009
An Italian man giving video game advice to his son Sunday evening was repaid with a 15-inch kitchen knife to the neck. A 46-year-old storekeeper identified as Fabrizio R. was watching his 16-year-old son, Mario, play EA’s FIFA 2009 on the PlayStation Sunday evening. According to reports, the father began giving his son advice on…
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Iraqi Kidnap Victim Subjected To PlayStation
British hostage Peter Moore will soon be returning to the UK from Iraq, after spending the last six months of his two-and-a-half year period of captivity with only satellite television, a laptop, and a PlayStation to keep him occupied. Peter Moore and his four bodyguards were kidnapped in May of 2007 by what is understood…
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A Holiday Message From The Society Against PlayStation
The recent batch of PlayStation 3 ads hearkens back to a simpler time, when all you needed to market your console was a little song, some puppets, and a stick. Ah yes, the 90’s. The console wars were so much better back then, when companies weren’t afraid to create obviously fake protest groups in order…
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Nike Thanks the PlayStation with 24 Pairs of Shoes
Nike sent a size 10 love note to Sony for past collaborations on console-themed kicks, but this series, based on the face buttons of a PlayStation controller, might be a little hard to find. Only 24 pairs will be made. They also won’t be sold to the general public. Ron Eagle, the director of product…
By Owen Good
