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Welcome to Pyongyang: North Korea’s first video game is awful
You know how much fun you have driving around and finding places to fill up your car with fuel? Now you don’t even have to leave your house. North Korea’s come up with a fascinatingly awful simulation...
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Apple settles suit over in-game iTunes purchases by kids
Apple has settled a lawsuit filed by parents who say their kids downloaded free games from the mobile App Store and then proceeded to rack up hefty bills buying in-game extras. Under the proposed...
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Why do we blame games for real-world violence?
commentary There’s little evidence that fantasy violence leads to real-world violence. Yet we continue to make that connection, as a new Harris Poll survey indicates. The headline on stories regarding...
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Why Game Creators Prefer iPhone to Android
There is no great game on Android that is not also on the iPhone. This has been true since the inception of the Android marketplace: Nearly every best-selling Android game, from Where’s My Water? to...
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Game for students aims to make Congress serious fun
These days, both violent video games and Congress have come under fire in the media and the court of public opinion, albeit for different reasons. Now, McGraw Hill Education hopes to change the...
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Gamers confront EA: ‘SimCity’ plays fine offline
The launch of the latest “SimCity” game from EA and Maxis was disastrous in several ways, but its always-online requirement was worst of all — especially since EA’s servers couldn’t handle the load....
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Nintendo: No plans to bring minigames to smartphones
Despite an earlier report that the company might offer free minigames on smartphones to promote console titles, Nintendo says it has no plans to make its software available on smart devices. Nintendo...
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Flappy Bird Windows Phone version appears on website
Flappy Bird, the popular screen-tap game for mobile devices, has appeared on the Windows Phone website, despite the developer saying he has not built a version for the platform. The official version,...
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A great game console for early adopters
The good: The PlayStation 4 serves up dazzling graphics, runs on a simplified and logical interface, and boasts a fantastic controller. It’s $100 cheaper than rival Xbox One and has the upper hand on...
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Bye Bye Flappy Bird — popular game grounded by its creator
Game maker Dong Nguyen warned that he was going to remove the ad-based tapping game from app stores on Saturday. Attempts to download Flappy Bird at Apple’s App Store result in a message that the game...
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