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Another Take On Tetris’ 25th
5:00AM Owen Good | Time magazine weighs in on Tetris’ birthday, implying that it is by far the most lasting success of the Soviet Union. More »
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Housers Named To Time’s ‘100 Most Influential’ List
4:30AM Owen Good | Time’s latest issue is its “Time 100″ in which they name the most influential people in the world, for this year anyway. Rockstar rockstars Dan and Sam Houser are in the “artists and entertainers” category. More »
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Internet Decides Miley Cyrus Slightly More Influential Than Shigeru Miyamoto
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | The results of Time’s online poll to determine the “World’s Most Influential People in 2009,” as decided by the mouth-breathing internet, has ranked Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto as the world’s 42nd most influential person. More »
Time Names PlayStation Home A Top Gadget Of 2008
3:40AM Mike Fahey | While Time Magazine did a fine job of picking out the 10 top games of 2008, they might have been a bit premature with their gadget list, with PlayStation Home securing the 10 spot. More »
TIME Take A Stab At 2008’s Ten Best Games
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | It’s the end of the year. Know what that means? Time for lists! End of year lists! And know who loves lists more than anyone else? TIME magazine. Those guys are crazy for lists. More »
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Time Announce Top 50 Inventions Of 2008, One Game Makes List
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Time magazine, masters of the high-brow “top XX” list, are back this week with their take on the top 50 inventions of 2008. The vast majority of them don’t apply. To us, at any rate. We don’t really cover the retail DNA testing industry, or the daily comings and goings surrounding the (awesome) global seed vault. No, we do games, so we’re interested in the one, single video game that managed to make the list. And that game was…wait for it…yes, Spore, which came in at #20. Dubbed “the everything game” by the magazine, calling it “blasphemy, brilliance or both”. More »
Time Readers: Kiefer Sutherland More Influential Than Miyamoto
11:20PM Brian Ashcraft | Shigeru Miyamoto? Geez, what has that guy done? Well, besides pretty much everything, not much. No wonder Time readers voted the following people in front of Miyamoto for the most influential people of the year: More »
Andrew Ryan Was Time’s Person Of The Year? Who Knew?
2:40PM Michael McWhertor | Poor old BioShock didn’t get GOTY love from those who call Kotaku Tower their home, but the game’s disembodied presence Andrew Ryan was Time’s Person of the Year in 1969. That is, according to Something Awful’s recent Photoshop Phriday that called for a suitable replacement following Vladimir Putin taking the 2007 “honour.” The real winner of Time’s POTY were “Middle Americans.” A handful of other video game characters also “won” in the contest’s other entries, the kind of folks who are generally associated with this year’s “best of” awards. The water damage on the cover is a nice touch, but an era appropriate Time cover would have been even better. Time Magazine’s Person of the Year [Something Awful] More »
