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Evony Ads Go From Bad To Worse To Awesome

6:00PM Luke Plunkett | You live on the internet, so we know you’ve seen them: ads for Evony, pathetic attempts at enticing people to play an online game run by shady types by using boobs. Least, they were pathetic. Now, they’re hilarious. More »
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Where Assassin’s Creed II Meets Shitscared

4:00PM David Wildgoose | Parkour is incredibly dangerous. Yet in both Assassin’s Creed games, Altair and now Ezio make it look so easy. But how easy is it, really? The lads at IGN AU endeavour to find out in what is surely a tribute to the late Late Show’s Shitscared skit. More »
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Activision Customer Support, Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto You

9:00AM Owen Good | Bernard, a customer support rep for Activision, proclaimed that if he got more Twitter followers than his colleague, Randolph by Friday, he’d pie Randy in the face. Bernard came up short but carried out the attack anyway. That’s customer service. More »
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Gold-Dipped PS3 Does Not Include 250GB Hard Drive

2:40PM Owen Good | I’m convinced that, if you plotted it out, wealth approaches a tackiness asymptote to infinity. This gold-dipped PS3 Slim proves they might actually touch. More »
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Frogger: Mad As Hell, Not Taking It Anymore

2:00PM Owen Good | Give firearms to one pissed-off amphibian and watch roadkill turn into road rage. Oh, so I’m gonna die if I hit the edge of this screen, MFer? Yeah, well, Frogger’s goin’ home, bitch — through the front goddamn door. More »
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REO Speedwagon: The Game: No This Is Not A Joke

10:30PM Luke Plunkett | An REO Speedwagon game. Mull that sentence over for a while, and your mind darts between reactions. Namely, from amused, to confused, to bewildered, then back to amused, via a short stop-over utter disbelief. More »
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Fifty Bucks And A Meal Spins Your Wedding Reception, DJ Hero-Style

1:40PM Owen Good | It’s hilarious this dude’s in North Carolina, because every Baptist wedding reception I ever attended in my home state involved “Electric Slide”, which is not included in DJ Hero. Nor, for that matter, is the small dish of butter mints. More »
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Nintendo’s Hairbrained DS Marketing Campaign

10:00AM David Wildgoose | So, honey, you’ve already got that dahhhling handbag, but what about your hair? Fortunately Nintendo Australia is on hand to help you out. More »
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No Mercy In Left 4 Dead Hospital “Reviews”

12:30PM Owen Good | Mercy. The hospital in Left 4 Dead’s “No Mercy” campaign, and the name of a real one in Pittsburgh. And Louis, Zoey, Francis and Bill are sowing panic about its conditions, the access to medication, and patients you’ll find there. More »
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Sega’s Office Prank Doesn’t Think Too Much Of Game Informer

3:30PM Owen Good | Jen Groeling went off on a two-week vacation and came back to find her cube at Sega cordoned with plastic wrap and filled with about a zillion pages from Game Informer magazines. See for yourself in this video. More »