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Half of All Netflix Users Watch Movies on a Games Console
In May, we learned that Netflix’s console traffic—just movies streaming to consoles now—accounted for 20 percent of Internet bandwidth usage in the United States. We have more data backing up the phenomenon: Half of all the service’s users watch movies on a games console, says Nielsen. What’s more, 42 percent of Netflix users watch directly…
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Expert Says Blaming Massacres on Video Games Smacks of Racism
When tragedies such as the recent massacre in Oslo, Norway occur, the first place many look to lay blame is in the video games the perpetrators played. According to clinical psychologist Christopher Ferguson, when white males kill and games are blamed, there may be racism at play. While there is concrete evidence that accused Oslo…
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It’s Lexicon Like Donkey Kong
Having nothing better to do, evidently, Denver’s Westword set out to chart the comprehensive history of “It’s On Like Donkey Kong,” and found that Ice Cube has much to do with the social currency of the phrase, whether a call to celebrate or a challenge to fight. It was copyrighted by Nintendo last year. The…
By Owen Good
