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Noby Noby Boy Makes It To Jupiter

1:00PM Owen Good | Hooray! Noby Noby Girl, apparently abetted by another Lucky Week adding a multiplier to reported scores, has managed to encircle Jupiter, and deliver new worlds for Noby Noby Boy (and you) to explore. More »
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NFL Head Of Refs Runs Replay With 360 Controller

10:30AM Owen Good | Every week Mike Pereira, the NFL’s chief of officiating goes over some of the league’s more controversial calls and, as hawkeyed reader Matt M. spotted, he does so with the aid of an Xbox 360 controller. More »
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The One About The Guy Who Married A Video Game

8:00AM Owen Good | This week a church in Guam pronounced a man and his copy of dating sim Love Plus husband and, well, wife, and the happy couple will be hosting a reception in Japan that you are cordially invited to view tomorrow. More »
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Morale Booster Connects Troops With NFLers On Xbox Live

7:00AM Owen Good | Members of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers engaged US soldiers stationed in Iraq in a Guitar Hero battle, which would have been a heart-warming story if brickheaded quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hadn’t called the game “Rock Band” on the teevee. More »
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Cooperative Multiplayer With The Devil You Don’t Know

6:00AM Owen Good | New Super Mario Bros. Wii released a week ago, and even its light-hearted cartoon environment and four-player cooperative mode still manage to bring out the worst in multiplayer behaviour – if you don’t know your partner, that is. More »
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The Life And Times Of Luigi

4:00PM AJ Glasser | If you ever wanted to know why Luigi is thinner than Mario or how he bears living in the show of his older brother, this exhaustively researched article over on GamesRadar’s got you covered. More »
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Child’s Play Drivers Pile Back On The Bus

1:00PM Owen Good | Take a seat and don’t stand forward of the yellow line – Desert Bus for Hope kicked off its third marathon o’ masochism, and looks to top the $US70,000 it raised last year for the Child’s Play charity. More »
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Left 4 Dead 2’s Midnight Riders, Ellis Take To YouTube, Facebook

10:40AM Michael McWhertor | Gamers looking for more story in their Left 4 Dead 2 experience may want to refocus their efforts on the web. Ellis, one of the game’s new Survivors, and his favourite fictional band, the Midnight Riders have YouTube accounts. More »
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King Of Games Go Spelunking

12:00AM Luke Plunkett | Japan’s King of Games — our second favourite outfitter of gaming shirts — will this week be adding some more good stuff to their line of Irem clothing. And where there’s Irem, there’s R-Type and there’s Spelunker. More »
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Danish Group Asks You To “Hit The Bitch”

9:00PM Luke Plunkett | Denmark’s Children Exposed to Violence at Home is a group dedicated towards the prevention of domestic violence. It’s a noble cause! Pity their latest “ad” — a flash game involving woman-slapping — lacks the same nobility. More »