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Why Farmville Turns Humans Into Lab Rats

Do you like playing Zynga’s Facebook games? There’s something wrong with you. Not because you enjoy them, what you do in your spare time is your business. Your problem comes in thinking they’re games. They are not games. They are specifically-engineered programs designed to take your money and compel you to advertise the product to…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012

Will Make Games For Food… Or Funding

Republished from Kotaku Australia You want to make a game. You don’t have a publisher. The government won’t help and your bank account is full of tumbleweed. It might be time to look beyond traditional funding options… it might be time to look to the crowd. The game Battle Command is in a position that…

Tracey Lien Published January 25, 2012

The Return of the Neo-Geo

SNK Playmore is once again in the hardware business. The Osaka-based game company is licensing a new (well, sort of) portable Neo-Geo gaming system. This is it. The handheld sports a 4.3 inch LCD screen, 2GB of onboard memory, and an SD card slot. There are twenty pre-loaded games, all of them old Neo-Geo classics.…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2012

These Real PokéBalls Will Set Your Hands On Fire

Aussie artist Barry Wazzy, who floored us with his photoshopped PokéBalls earlier in the month, is flooring us again this week with another helping. This time many of the balls are themed, so for instance we’ve got a PokéBall based on The Dark Knight, one on Harry Potter and another on Dragonball Z! wazzy88 [DeviantArt,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012

Dr. Mario is now Performing Black Market Liver Transplants

Cute puzzle games, even those starring Nintendo icons, just don’t make the money they used to. So when a man’s gotta eat, he has to turn to his training… Black Market Liver Transplants [neatorama]

By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012

This Xbox 360 Controller Dispenses Hot Pockets

It’s…it’s like a dream come true. Master craftsman Ben Heck has built this custom Xbox 360 controller which contains a rather useful add-on: a hot pocket dispenser. Which I guess would work just as well for kebabs, sausage rolls, etc, depending on where you live! You’ll never have to take your hands of the controller…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012

The Coolest Gaming Station I’ve Ever Seen

The MWE Emperor 200 may be labelled a “workstation”, but don’t let that fool you. It’s being demoed using video games for a reason: this is not for work. It’s for playing video games. In the future. Note I did not say it was practical. Where you can put a desk and a chair you…