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In Real Life

Get A Load Of These Awesome Painted Miniatures

6:00PM November 15, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Over the weekend, the Monte San Savino show went down in Italy, bringing together some of the world’s best miniature painters for a competition. More »


News

The World’s Economy Needs Rescuing. Super Mario Is On The Case.

10:15PM November 14, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Europe is in a mess right now, so much so that it threatens to drag the whole world down into another global financial crisis. Sounds like a job for… Super Mario? [News]


In Real Life

Deus Ex Hackers Hit With Lawsuit (and Here’s How They Got The Game)

3:00PM July 6, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

A preview build of Deus Ex Human Revolution, containing a rough version of the early sections of the upcoming game, was leaked onto torrent sites in late May. More »


In Real Life

Tetris Tampons

11:30AM May 6, 2011 | Owen Good

Feminine hygiene display in an Italian drugstore. The box reads: “It takes more to say than to do,” which idiomatically means, “It’s more trouble to do it than to talk about it.” Maybe the T-piece is pitching condoms and the squiggle’s flacking laxatives. More »


In Real Life

Distracted 10-Year-Old Games Himself Off A Railway Platform

7:20AM February 4, 2011 | Mike Fahey

A 10-year-old boy in Italy is saved from possible death by a heroic off-duty policeman after walking off a railway platform while playing his PSP. This is why we do not walk and game at the same time. More »


In Real Life

Mordor Is Real, And It’s In Sicily

5:09AM January 14, 2011 | Brian Barrett

It’s been nearly 350 years since Mt Etna blew its top in a major way. Until yesterday, when Europe’s largest active volcano spewed hot lava for two hours – within shouting distance of these people’s houses. Location, location, location. More »


News

European Lawmaker Gives Free Publicity To Mafia II

6:00AM December 20, 2010 | Owen Good

Italian-Americans wanted Mafia II banned because they said it portrayed offensive ethnic stereotypes. A European Parliament member wants it banned because it trivializes mob murders. I have a better strategy: STFU about banning bad games, and they’ll eventually fade away. More »


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Games: They Belong In A Museum!

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1:45PM November 2, 2010 | Mark Serrels

I’m sure that if Indiana Jones were alive today, and not a fictional character portrayed by Harrison Ford, he would look at video games and say “they belong in a museum.”

We agree, and now they do belong in a museum. Well, some of them at least. More »


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Roman Politicians Allowed To Game During Meetings

11:30AM October 1, 2010 | Owen Good

Rome. The Eternal City. Its elected leaders are the inheritors of a millennia-old tradition forming the basis of modern municipal and state government. Yet where senators once debated inside the august walls of the Curia, now city councillors play video games. More »


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Gran Turismo 5 Designer Responds To Italian Controversy

5:00PM August 25, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Officials from the Italian city of Siena are ticked that the city’s Piazza del Campo is a track in Gran Turismo 5. There have been legal threats with Siena saying it’ll seize the game. More »