In Real Life

What Video Games Teach Us About Marriage

Roughly two million couples in the United States get married each year, give or take a hundred thousand. Every pair does it for their own reasons, from the idea of a fairy tale happily-ever-after to the decidedly more prosaic need to share health insurance costs.


April 4, 2012
In Real Life

There’s No Wedding Proposal Like A Final Fantasy Wedding Proposal

When Seth Hay arrived at the “Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy” concert last weekend in Toronto, he was met with a lovely surprise. His girlfriend, Cheryl Murray, had bought him tickets to a meet-and-greet with legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu and conductor Arnie Roth. After the show, they would get to hang out with the duo, a prospect that Hay said had him “very geeked out”.


February 9, 2012
In Real Life

The Romance And Enchantment Of Rift’s In-Game Marriage System Makes Me A Little Queasy

I was going to title this post “The Romance and Enchantment of Rift‘s In-Game Marriage System Makes Me Throw Up a Little in My Mouth”, but that’s far too long, and while spoil the cake?


November 20, 2011
In Real Life

A Live Action Minecraft Wedding Proposal

Reader Matt writes in to tell us how he proposed to his girlfriend up on the big stage at MineCon, getting the wonderful folks at Mojang to play along in getting his future wife up on stage to pop the question.


September 25, 2011
PC

Divorce-Happy MMO Providing Help To Troubled Couples

About 10 days ago, Nexon, the publisher of MapleStory found three out of four marriages initiated in-game end in divorce. So MapleStory‘s next content update will include features that emphasise couples sticking together.


August 23, 2011
In Real Life

When GLaDOS Asks You To Marry Someone, You Say Yes

Gary Hudston commissioned three spectacular custom-built Portal 2 levels complete with fresh dialogue from the voice of GLaDOS, Ellen Mclain, just to ask his girlfriend to marry him. After watching the glorious spectacle unfold, I’m ready to marry the guy.


April 25, 2011
In Real Life

When Your Favorite Game Is Proposing Marriage, The Answer Is ‘Yes’

She said yes. You’re dying to know, and Kotaku can confirm that for you now. Even though her marriage proposal came from a smart-aleck robot and contained references to herpes and, well, the big A, last night Tora told Ben yes, she will marry him,


April 24, 2011
In Real Life

Claptrap Has A Proposal For You, Tora

Hello, traveller! We have nuptials for you on the Fyrestone Bounty Board! This is a video Borderlands studio Gearbox made for superfan Ben, to help him propose to his Borderlands-superfan girlfriend Tora, and it is outstanding.


April 12, 2011
In Real Life

The Pokemon Marriage Proposal

How do you get a Pokemon fan to marry you? Catch her with a Pokeball, of course. [Buzzfeed]

See, it’s Super Effective!


December 30, 2010
News

Virtual Assets Are Not Community Property

A marriage based on a shared love of online gaming is just as valid as a normal one, but as one Chinese woman found out, virtual assets accrued during marital bliss aren’t divvied up in the divorce.