August 2012
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Volcano on Gaming: Improving the Spectating... →
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One of the largest obstacles preventing Counter-Strike from being as active in the tournament circuit as League of Legends and Starcraft II is the lack of interest in spectating tournaments. I believe a large cause of this dwindling interest is due to the…
Interesting comments from Salvatore Garozzo (the artist formerly known as Volcano of Team 3D) on how to improve an...
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Clever spin from Chick-Fil-A
Business Insider is running a piece on Chick-Fil-A denying a fake user account on Facebook. It features this statement:
“I can confirm that Chick-fil-A has not created a false Facebook page of any kind. Our official corporate Facebook page continues to be our only one.”
Thing is, that is a non-statement in this matter. This isn’t about a fake page, it is about a fake account....
Medical bills of a Colorado shooting victim →
Evil came to them through a man that opened fire in that theater. Many people were killed, even more were injured. Katie and Baby Hugo made it uninjured, but Caleb was struck in the face by the gun fire.
Now Caleb is in the hospital. He has lost his right eye, has some brain damage and doctors have put him in a medically induced coma.
If all the people who bought new guns in the wake of that...
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Leisure Suit Larry drama?
From an update to the Leisure Suit Larry kickstarter page:
Speaking of drama, let’s address the elephant in the room: our switch from Adventure Mob to N-Fusion. I won’t revisit the details, nor address arguments that’ve been made in forums and message boards around the gaming community, but I want to mention that the decisions not to go with Adventure Mob and to go, instead, with N-Fusion were...
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Kim Dotcom is in the air
The self-proclaimed King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimpire is using a new webpage to create awareness and gather support for his fight against the system. I think this is the first time I have seen a defendant using tactics like these, this could be very interesting to follow.
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RoboCop, 25 years
I completely missed the 25th birthday of RoboCop! Bad nerd, bad nerd. Old nerd.
RoboCop marked a decade of badass movies from Paul Verhoeven: RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers. Yes, badass.
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(@IJasonAlexander)
Jason Alexander on the tragic Colorado massacre:
So, sorry those of you who tell me I’m an actor, or a has-been or an idiot or a commie or a liberal and that I should shut up. You can not watch my stuff, you can unfollow and you can call me all the names you like. I may even share some of them with my global audience so everyone can get a little taste of who you are.
But this is not the...
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Video Game Blame Game: A Rare Opportunity
A stepmother in a letter to Penny Arcade:
I can’t stand hearing about the so-called correlation between games and real-life violence. Video games DID NOT make this kid who he was, and it’s unfortunate that the correlation is there.
The thing that really gets me with this whole thing is that the kid knows full well that by equating what he’s done to a video game, that he will generate...
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EA against the Defense of Marriage Act
Electronic Arts has joined with dozens of leading US employers in signing an amicus brief that opposes the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and urges the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to find portions of the Act unconstitutional.
Awesome.
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The Video Game Blame Game Continues
CNN Guest Rushes To Blame Video Games For CO Shooting: ‘Teenaged Psychopaths Get Inspired’
As not much information was readily available, Brown was forced to theorize, guessing that, for Holmes, last night was the best night of his life and one that he had planned extensively for. She also guessed that this planning may have involved repeatedly playing violent video games.
I wish these...
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Mike Morhaime: "..can’t claim to have ever shipped...
Mike Morhaime, Blizzard co-founder and CEO, to the Diablo III community:
As always, we appreciate your candor and passion. Your constructive feedback and thoughts are valuable — they will continue to help us be a better company. I just want to reiterate that while we can’t claim to have ever shipped a perfect game, we are committed to supporting our games relentlessly and making...
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“iD was so pleased with all the slaving away we did that they cordially asked us...”
– Chris Schetter commenting on this kickstarter project from CSN.
I spent 2 hours the other day talking with Chris on Skype, which was a very pleasant experience. I really wish eSports had more commentary and blogs like his, even when I don’t agree with his viewpoints I find them intelligent...
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NASA logo
Huff Tech is running a non-story about Base Now who decided to re-design the NASA logo, without NASA requesting this or in any way expressing any desire to change their logo. The story even contains quotes from random people on twitter, thats how amazing it is.
I wonder if anyone at Base Now plays games?
Or just helps save the galaxy from time to time..
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Rich Vogel leaves BioWare amid layoffs
Kotaku writes:
Rumors have also been swirling on Twitter and message boards that other staff at BioWare Austin, the studio behind The Old Republic, have been laid off as well.
This could be part of a layoff plan that BioWare announced two months ago. Membership has struggled for the sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game, which lost 400,000 subscribers earlier this year.
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