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I Sold My Video Games To Pay For My Wedding And Said Goodbye To Part Of Myself

Stacks of games sit around my living room, as I organise photographs from my phone. I log onto ebay and check prices. I list a few games. I sell one almost immediately. That one doesn’t surprise me. Tales of Symphonia. It’s one of the rarer in my collection, and I had expected to make quite a bit, quite quickly. Ebay User #1 meets my expectations.


In Fire Emblem, Marriage Can Be A Fate Worse Than Death

If you’re interested in the new 3DS strategy game Fire Emblem: Awakening, you’ve probably heard two things about it: First, that if a character dies in battle, they’re gone for good. Second, that characters can fall in love and marry one another.


You Could Use The Wii U To Play Games, Or You Could Use It To Find Love

The Wii U sure has seen some creative usage. First there’s the Miiverse, which some people have experimented with to make awesome communities and artwork showcases. Others have found a way to use the Wii U to make movies.


With A Mario Marriage Proposal This Super, How Could He Say No?

“Will you be my player two?” More beautiful words between two gamers have never been spoken. Offbeat Bride tribesmaid Kaharaminttu raised the phrase to new levels of sweetness with this creative coin box proposal to her husband-to-be.


EA, Zynga, Microsoft Support Challenge To Defense Of Marriage Act

Three companies with major involvement in video games — EA, Zynga and Microsoft — have joined some 40 other companies, including the Gap, Google and Starbucks, along with several US cities in filing briefs to support a legal challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act.


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.


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”.


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?


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.


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.


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