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ECA Form Letter Asks Obama To Stop Picking On Games

12:00PM Owen Good | If President Obama’s rhetorical flogging of video games has you in high dudgeon, the ECA’s built a form letter enabing you to point out to the White House how “video games can empower and educate.” More »
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President Of Russia In Erotic Game

3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | No, not Vladimir Putin, but Elena Vladimirovna Putin — think Putin if he was a girl with white hair, red eyes and a shapely figure. More »
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Peter Moore Challenges Obama To A Fitness-Off

4:30AM Owen Good | President Obama again referred to video games as a family-life negative in his Father’s Day message. But Peter Moore – grabbing for publicity – challenges him to drop the rhetoric and see what they offer. More »
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I Breathe Fire And I VOTE

4:00AM Owen Good | Bowser recently went into town to speak his mind about the dangers of unchecked power in the executive branch. Funny that a monarch would feel that way, but it’s a free country, brah. More pics on the jump. More »
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Obama, Kids Call Astronauts To Bug Them About Video Games

1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Imagine you’re a kid again. A kid who gets to not only meet the President of the United States, but in the same meeting, call an astronaut. While he’s in space. What would you say? More »
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Gossip Rag Says Obama is BrickBreaker Fiend

1:00AM Owen Good | President Obama famously battled it out with his staff over keeping his Blackberry. Now we know why – he gets his BrickBreaker on every night. More »

Barack Obama – The Game

7:20AM Stuart Houghton | As President Bush runs down the clock, the world is waiting to see how Barack Obama will handle the second-toughest job in the world. (the first being whoever has to playtest the Imagine Games) More »

Obama On All Your Base Are Belong To Us: ‘Bwah?’

1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Out of all the things one could talk with President-Elect Obama, someone apparently brought up this: “All your base are belong to us.” That’s right, the funny English phrase from Zero Wing turned internet meme. In a one-of-us-one-of-us thread over at Scifi site Tor.com in which Obama’s geekatude is being discussed, one commenter recounted a story from a friend who claims to have interned for the Obama presidential campaign: More »

Obama, McCain and a Headcrab

5:00AM Owen Good | A graduate student at the University of Southern California is working on a project that employs Half-Life 2 as a setting/context for political cartoons. Sounds a little out there, but MFA student John Brennan has turned out that video so far, which features Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama on a debate stage, and a headcrab just to show this is Half-Life 2 we’re dealing with. And I guess those are combine soldiers in the back beating up on something as these two talk, too. More »