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Seeking the etymology of your highschool bully’s favorite insult
We all know the stereotype of that awkward kid: once the image of the nervous, skinny teenager with the pocket protector that got shoved into lockers and did everyone’s homework. Maybe you got shoved. Maybe you did the shoving. Now we know him (or her) as the nervous, awkward kid who knows his/her w
Cheat Sheet 9/1: Batman: Arkham City is more than a New Game, 3DS Ambassador Programme is go
Let’s start the new month right, with mainstream videogame news! –Batman: Arkham City to offer a New Game Plus. -Double Fine releases arcade soundtrack by Razbert. -Nintendo’s 3DS Ambassador Programme goes live. -Bethesda takes bug squishing more seriously. –Check out the newest Mass Effect 3 sc
Want To Play An Automatic RPG Generator?
Need to kill ten minutes? Head over to Boing Boing, where they’ve created a game that assigns you a random story, and then you take your brave pixel out into the world and try to snatch up other pixels and fight against even more pixels. Don’t like the storyline you’ve been given? Just press “refres
Can a virtual currency save our global economy from collapse?
In the wake of one economic disaster after the other, it makes sense that some might seek out an alternative way to buy and sell goods, one unaffected by inflation or the whims of Ben Bernanke. In the latest issue of Technology Review, James Surowiecki explores one such option, the Bitcoin, that is
Cheat Sheet 8/31: Gearbox expects more of Duke Nukem, Leaked THQ footage shows cancelled Avengers game
Have another helping of instant mainstream videogame news! –The Haunted: Hell’s Reach has been picked up by THQ. -Gearbox’s next Duke Nukem game to be better, if it happens. -Former THQ employees have leaked footage and art from a cancelled Avengers game. –Tim Schafer and Cookie Monster return fo
Looking for Yoshi in the Bronx Zoo? You’ll need this.
New York City has been called many things: The City That Never Sleeps, the Big Apple, Gotham. Jesse Eisemann thought it reminded him of another place altogether: The Mushroom Kingdom. Eisemann, writer and illustrator for CollegeHumor.com, has created an interactive map of the five boroughs in the in
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