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Today’s Super-Addictive iPhone Game Might Be Tomorrow’s Disaster IPO
Zynga went public over the popularity of a few hit Facebook games, and is now in the process of collapsing into a mush pit. Now, the makers of Candy Crush Saga, the jellybean puzzle game gripping the brains of America, are plotting an IPO, the Wall Street Journal reports. First as tragedy, then as farce.
I Wish We Had Local Game Coverage Like This
I end up watching a lot of news in my line of work, and one thing that is frequently hammered home is this: the mainstream media doesn’t know what it’s doing with games.
Portal 2 Writer Ted Kosmatka Imagines A World Where Creationism Won
Ted Kosmatka’s Prophet of Bones takes place in a world where absolutely everybody knows that Darwin was wrong, and the world is only 5,800 years old. Until one researcher happens on an archeological miracle: an early hominid who used tools, and clearly diverged from humans longer ago. And then people start turning up dead.
Report: Police Say Sandy Hook Shooter Tried To Outscore Other Killers
Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza maintained a spreadsheet filled with information from mass killings from the past and further alleges that it’s a major sign of how video games influenced the mindset and planning of Lanza’s terrible act of lethal violence, according to a front page story in today’s New York Daily News.
Islamic Extremists Made This Video Game
You sometimes hear Western video games set in real-world geopolitical hotspots — like entries in the Call of Duty, Battlefield and Medal of Honor series — get decried as jingoistic, flag-waving propaganda. While the claim can be made that political mindsets and cultural biases seep into those video games, they’re not explicitly made to froth up ideological allegiances.
Terrible 19 Year-Old Threatens Suicide To Get Money For In-Game Equipment
Previously we’ve translated a report about a young woman in China threatening suicide after receiving a fake iPhone — well now, there’s a young Chinese man in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, threatening to commit suicide over video game equipment.
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