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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Bejeweled 3 is an excellent video game. Normal people play it on computers. But special people — people who work at PopCap, the studio behind the Bejeweled series — get to play it on a massive touch-sensitive TV right in the lobby of their headquarters.
Tanks and Hovercrafts rage against the evil purple Flamions. Shots are fired on both sides as the player attempts to subdue the oncoming hoard of enemies. Sounds like a fun game, if not a little common in it’s setting. But Allied Star Police, and how it came into being, is anything but typical.
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Plants Vs Zombies songstress Laura Shigihara was so impressed by Jonathan Coulton’s ending theme “Want You Gone” that she recorded what might be the most adorable version of the song committed to YouTube video.
