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Super Mario Bros.' 25th: Miyamoto Reveals All |
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| Topic: Games |
11:22 pm EDT, Oct 28, 2010 |
It's the NES's silver anniversary this month, yes, but it also happens to be the 25th birthday of Super Mario Bros., the game that arguably did more than any other NES title to ensure that Nintendo's fledgling system would be a runaway success. Shigeru Miyamoto, designer of SMB and a couple dozen other Nintendo titles you might be familiar with, sat down with Famitsu magazine in this week's issue to share some behind-the-scenes development tales from the NES's flagship title.
Super Mario Bros.' 25th: Miyamoto Reveals All |
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World of Proteincraft : Discovery News |
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| Topic: Games |
11:59 am EDT, Aug 17, 2010 |
Compared to slaying dragons or building civilizations, figuring out the shape of a protein doesn’t sound particularly thrilling. But turn the task into an online game, replete with the competition and camaraderie of “World of Warcraft,” and the masses will come.
World of Proteincraft : Discovery News |
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Right Wing Watch: The Dangers of Auto-Replace |
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3:42 pm EDT, Jul 8, 2008 |
In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard, such as this article about sprinter Tyson Gay winning the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in which he is renamed “Tyson Homosexual”:
lol Right Wing Watch: The Dangers of Auto-Replace |
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Hedgehog Launch | Armor Games |
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12:17 pm EDT, Jul 1, 2008 |
fun.
I hope Hedgehogs really do spend their days this way. The game gets more fun as you progress. Hedgehog Launch | Armor Games |
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Takara Tomy's RPG Piggy Bank: level up by saving up - Engadget |
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12:43 pm EDT, Jun 21, 2008 |
Now here's a novel concept. Takara Tomy's BankQuest is half piggy bank, half old school RPG. Essentially, gamers / penny pinchers can purchase items to help them fend off pixelated ogres and the like by saving more money. The more coinage that gets deposited, the better the journey becomes. So, do you get some kind of prize when you cash it all out to buy your mum something nice, or what?
Takara Tomy's RPG Piggy Bank: level up by saving up - Engadget |
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Human Augmentation: Augmented Human May Compete in Beijing Olympics |
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| Topic: Games |
9:48 am EDT, May 28, 2008 |
Last year South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius blew people's minds when he came in second in a 400-meter footrace in Rome...without feet. Pistorius is missing the lower part of both his legs, and ran on two carbon-fiber "Cheetah" leg prostheses. A lawsuit followed (of course), and Pistorius was banned from international racing. But Pistorius appealed, enlisting the help of human augmentation guru Hugh Herr of MIT to dissect the argument that his Cheetah's gave him an unfair advantage in the race. Last week the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the appeal giving Pistorius the right to compete in this summer's Olympics in Beijing.
Yeah... an advantage, right... Human Augmentation: Augmented Human May Compete in Beijing Olympics |
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Boyfriend proposes in game. And she said ... - Games - MSNBC.com |
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5:18 pm EDT, Apr 17, 2008 |
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn't enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question. Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li's favorite video game, "Bejeweled," so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.
Boyfriend proposes in game. And she said ... - Games - MSNBC.com |
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