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Coulton, Paul and Storm Are Not, in Fact, Still Alive
Posted on 04.07.08 by Widge @ 3:17 am
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...at least when it comes to Rock Band. I feel their pain.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

Found via The Mighty Paul and Storm.

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Zombie Munchkin: Gnaw Your Buddy's Face Off
Posted on 04.04.08 by Widge @ 7:43 am
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Zombie Munchkin

Like to play Steve Jackson and John Kovalic's Munchkin? Thought so. We wrote up a set of rules for adding zombies to the mix. Read it here or download a PDF here.

Zombified Font by Sinister Fonts.

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It's a Family Game
Posted on 03.31.08 by Widge @ 11:11 pm
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I'd heard this sampled on UNKLE's album, but hadn't seen the original. It's even better.

I'd just like to point out that this game actually belongs on this list. Remember, May will be here sooner than you think.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

Found via Digg.

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EA to Take-Two: No More Mr. Nice-Megacorp
Posted on 03.13.08 by Doc @ 10:14 am
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Electronic Arts logo

EA's buyout offer to Take-Two has gone hostile. The software titans, having been rebuffed on a more congenial buyout offer, has gone with a straight offer to shareholders at $26/share...they're attempting to just buy controlling interest out via the open market. Despite the timing, this deal isn't just (or even mostly) about Take-Two/Rockstar's marquee Grand Theft Auto franchise, whose fourth (or sixth or eighth, depending on how you count 'em) installment is just around the corner. I suspect, as do others, that GTA is a smokescreen and a nice bonus from EA's perspective in this deal. The real juicy acquisition is T2's competing sports franchises. If EA sews up this deal, they will be the sole licensed purveyor of video games based on any and all professional and collegiate sports. So now all you basketball and hockey fans can come to know the agony that the football side of the house has struggled with since EA got cozy with the NFL. Further analysis after the jump.

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Remembering Gygax, Creator of Our "Demented and Sad, But Social" World
Posted on 03.10.08 by Widge @ 12:55 pm
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Gary Gygax

As everyone knows, Gygax passed away last week. We gave our own remembrance in the last Weekend Justice. Adam Rogers, senior editor from Wired, published a piece in the New York Times that makes the following argument:

Mr. Gygax co-created the game Dungeons & Dragons, and on that foundation of role-playing and polyhedral dice he constructed the social and intellectual structure of our world.

And I think he makes an excellent case. Read the whole thing here. Thanks to Zac for the headsup.

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