In Real Life
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I Buy My Mum Video Games Every Mother’s Day. It Helped Heal Her
19Mother’s Day is this weekend, and so the commercials for flowers and jewellery and Hallmark cards are incessant and overwhelming. But this year, for a gift, I did exactly what I did last May: I went to Amazon and I ordered my mum a new video game.
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Neon Genesis: Evangelion Is Awesome
Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the most famous — and polarising — anime ever created. And it always seems to fall into one of three categories: Anime fans love it, hate it, or love it but hate the ending.
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This Week In The Business: Epic Vs. Valve
“In our analysis, stores charging 30 per cent are marking up their costs by 300 per cent to 400 per cent. But with developers receiving 88 per cent of revenue and Epic receiving 12 per cent, this store will be a profitable business for us.” — Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney explains the thinking behind the…
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Magic: The Gathering Is Getting A Pro League
Briefly: 32 top players will get the change to win a combined $US10 ($14) million in prizes, publisher Wizards of the Coast announced yesterday. Their contracts will be for $US75,000 ($103,766), directly addressing concerns Magic pros had about earning sub-par money. Some top players might even come out of retirement, like streamer Janne “Savjz” Mikkonen.