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Argentine TV Warns World Of Monkey Island’s Grog Recipe

8:30AM Owen Good | Scepticism takes a holiday in Argentina, where three TV personalities—one of them a doctor—break the news that kids are mixing an alcoholic drink recipe that includes kerosene and axle grease, aka Grog from Monkey Island. More »
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Tomorrow Is Your Last Day To Not Get BlizzCon Tickets

6:00AM Mike Fahey | In case you missed out on the first round of BlizzCon 2009 tickets, make sure you make it to the BlizzCon website tomorrow morning to miss out on that batch as well. More »

Wii Music? Total Sales Bust

12:20PM Luke Plunkett | While it never exactly resonated with the more discerning end of the video game buying public, the average man on the street would still have put a fiver on Wii Music doing well in its first month of sale (the game was released in the US on October 20). After all, it’s for the Wii, it’s made by Nintendo and it’s got “Wii” in the title. Not to mention the fact it was the beneficiary of a fairly hefty marketing push from Nintendo. So heads were no doubt being scratched at Nintendo HQ when the game wasn’t among the top ten sellers for October. And scratched further when it wasn’t among the top twenty. More »

Suicide Bombing Game Too Dull To Be Truly Offensive

8:20AM Stuart Houghton | Aw, bless. This one really tried to be offensive but it comes across like a three year old trying to get a rise out of his grandparents by shouting “POO!” in public. More »