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Build Your Own Jurassic Park

Today, I received the best email I’ve ever seen. An advertisement from an animatronic dinosaur company. Rather than try to summarize the awesomeness, here it is for your own eyes: Hello, I am China dinosaur factory. Hope that you know our product more.  Also hope that we can establish long-term cooperative relation.

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Zombies and Pterodactyls 20XX: Big Fun in a Small Package

Last year, indie developer Ska Studies made big waves in the Xbox Live Indie Marketplace with I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1, and now they are back for more.  The formula was simple: make a top-down run-and-gun shooter, add some zombies, write an incredibly catchy so-bad-it’s-good background theme and sell it all for [...]

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T-Shirt Addict Vol. #19

Welcome back, addicts! It’s been a little while since our last column, but hopefully you are so tired of Christmas sweaters that some new t-shirts are just what the doctor ordered. Unfortunately, some of the best shirts lately have been from daily deals sites such as TeeFury or Ript Apparel, but if you really want [...]

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Super Meat Boy is Your Ticket to Classic 8-Bit Gaming

Every day, children are born who will never know the feeling of a Nintendo Entertainment System controller in their hands. Try your best not to get depressed over this thought and instead, realize that there is a way you can help.  You can buy them a copy of Super Meat Boy, a game that perfectly [...]

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App Duel: Angry Birds vs. Cut the Rope

After nearly a year atop the iOS App Store’s “Top 25 Paid Apps” list, it finally seems that Angry Birds has a worthy contender in Cut the Rope, but which one is the better game? For some, it may seem a bit silly to split hairs in today’s mobile game market, where the best titles [...]

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