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Zynga Just Laid Off More Than 100 Game Developers During Apple’s Big iPad Event [Update]
Zynga has shut down their Boston office entirely and performed significant layoffs in their Austin office this afternoon, reports say. Boston-area game developers are reporting on Twitter that Zynga Boston has been completely shuttered today. The Boston studio, known as Conduit Labs before being acquired by Zynga in 2010, created the Indiana Jones Adventure World…
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That Borderlands iOS Game Is Real. You Can Play It On October 31, For $5
Surprising no one, that Borderlands Legends iOS game will officially be a reality on Halloween. You can buy it for your iPhone for $5 or your iPad for $7. Entertainment Weekly has the first look on the mobile Borderlands shooter game that lets you control the four original vault hunters simultaneously and from a top-down…
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The Strange Beauty of Killing Zombies In Horrible Ways
Halloween is on its way, and while ghosts and ghouls may have been the undead horrors of decades past, here in 2012 it’s all about the zombies and their ilk. What better way to get in the mood for spooky doom than with this weirdly lovely, thoroughly instructive image from Left 4 Dead 2? See…
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This Is What It Looks Like When a Pikachu Explodes
This exploding Pikachu is not actually the creepiest of photographer Alan Sailer‘s explosions series. (That would be the doll head.) But it’s still plenty off-putting. Sailer is a photographer who specializes in high-speed images—in particular, high speed images of things being shot or blowing up. As he describes it, the destruction of an innocent Pokémon…
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This is Role-Playing in Its Purest Form
Long before there was a Final Fantasy or an Ultima, role-playing was strictly something a group of friends did around a dining room table cluttered with pieces of paper, rulebooks and dice. Knights of Pen and Paper captures that experience beautifully. Countless games have boasted bringing the pen-and-paper role-playing experience to video games over the…
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A Powerful New Gaming PC That’s Only 3.6 Inches Wide
Digital Storm isn’t just a boutique PC shop — it’s a group of engineers striving to innovate in the PC space. Now those engineers have unleashed the Bolt, a 14 inch tall, 3.6 inches wide marvel of space economy and power, with one rather noisy downside. This is not an all-in-one PC box, with components…
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Yes, You Will Have To Use Origin To Play EA Games On The Wii U
Since 2011, all of EA’s games released on PC have been tied to Origin. PC gamers who wanted to play Battlefield 3 or Mass Effect 3 logged in through the orange-hued Steam competitor, and now it seems that Wii U owners will do the same. As IGN reports, recent changes to the EA privacy policy…
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This Week’s iPhone Charts: Can Felix Fix the Bad Piggies?
Last Tuesday we brought back our weekly iPhone charts, listing the best paid and free games available for the long phone and its ancestors. This week we get to see how those charting games like to move it, move it. Only one week out and already I’m beginning to see some trends forming. For instance,…
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Meet The Most Amazing Etch-A-Sketch Artist I’ve Ever Seen
Yes, Etch-A-Sketch artists are a thing, or at least they should be an official thing. Looking at this list of hand-picked, video game related selections from Jane Labowitch, aka pikajane, what else could you call her? My hands are tired just looking at these things. Etch A Sketch Art [pikajane via Geekologie]
By Tina Amini
