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Of course, someone created a Gameboy chiptune version of Lana Del Rey's Video Games. Just because it's obvious doesn't make it any less delightful. More »
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You know what's boring? Peeing standing up! We ladies wouldn't know this, but it's the worst— nothing to do but stare at the wall in front of you for the 10-30 seconds that it takes to urinate. Luckily, Sega has developed a solution for this pervasive problem and that solution, no duh, is video games for urinals. These games, which cost a mere two grand, use the accuracy of a man's pee stream for all sorts of fun stuff like shooting virtual "snot" at an opponent and controlling the amount that a woman's skirt flies up. It's number one in fun! More »
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Opponents of violent imagery in video games have been stymied for years by the fact that no actual evidence existed to support their theory that in-game behavior led to in-life behavior. After all, Grand Theft Auto didn't lead to a suburban car theft and prostitute rape epidemic. Bioshock didn't lead to the mass murder of libertarians. LA Noire didn't cause police to be any more crooked than they already were. But now, new research has linked violent video games to a change in thought patterns that could lead to violent behavior in men. More »
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Studies showing that video games improve cognitive abilities appear to "suffer from a host of methodological flaws." But on the bright side, for psychologically healthy kids, they may not be harmful. More »
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Dirty Dancing has one of the most popular Facebook fan pages, and now Lionsgate is capitalizing on this by launching an online game based on the film. We were hoping for a virtual Johnny who could repeatedly perform lifts, pummel Robbie, and pull Baby from corners, but the studio is going with an interactive experience set in the Catskills. The Wrap reports: More »
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The video game art by Aled Lewis creates a whole new storyline and dialogue to different Nintendo characters. Among them, this rendering of the tanooki/racoon suit that gives Mario the power of flight and the problem it poses for his girlfriend, Peach. More »
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Beth, the Canadian art student behind Rolling Rabbit Productions, accepted a design challenge to swap the genders of Mario, Luigi, Peach, and other familiar faces from the Super Mario video game franchise. It. Is. Awesome. More »
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A survey by Doritos (the official chip of people who are baked out of their gourds) asked a little over 2,000 people what activities they enjoy. Some of the results were refreshing, if not surprising- 49% of women who responded claim to play online video games compared to 50% of men, contradicting the stereotype that gamers are pimply teenage boys. Other results were more surprising. Of those women who reported playing online video games, 84% reported enjoying them, compared to only 70% who say they enjoy sex. More »
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She tells Elle magazine: "I got to level 42, and I wasn't doing anything else anymore, so I had to stop." Unrelated: She sucked her thumb until she was 11. More »
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Mothers, beware: there's a new way your children are being exposed to online pornography — and they don't even have to seek it out themselves! My Fox DC brings us a story of a mother who was doing the responsible thing by monitoring her kids' computer usage, and found a vile suprise in the place she least expected, The Sims 3. Fox interviewed a rep from internet safety group "Enough Is Enough," who suggested pornographers are actively looking for innocent sites to hack into to expose your children to naughty photos at at a young age. First The Sims, what's next — Farmville? More »
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The last page of Marie Claire's May issue features Beth Ditto talking about what's inside her handbag. The contents are refreshingly down-to-earth: "101" straggler earrings; a maxi pad; a Burger King receipt; a screwdriver. But Ditto also has an iPhone. On which she plays Fruit Ninja. She says: More »
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An upcoming video game will allow users to "capture" and slap a woman as part of gameplay. And the game's manufacturer is totally unapologetic about the simulated abuse. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5785846&view=rss&microfeed=true "…we shouldn't be having to hide online, and this is unfair. I should be able to tell people I'm female and not expect crazy to come out of it." [Kotaku] More »
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Women are a growing force in MMA fighting — and now they're fighting onscreen too, in the new video game Supremacy. According to the game's developers, this could help counteract the "princess in need of rescuing" stereotype that dominates portrayals of women in games. More »
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First there was storytelling around the fire. Then books. Then plays, then screenplays, then TV scripts. Nowadays a writer can spin a tale through a video game. Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse books — which spawned HBO's vampire soap, True Blood — has done just that. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5769401&view=rss&microfeed=true The Great Gatsby-the "NES" version, that is-started its strange life as a single screen shot, a pixelated recreation of Francis Cugat's iconic cover art for F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel. [Kotaku] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5767206&view=rss&microfeed=true We sit here stunned, amazed and just a little bit skeptical that artist Hye Yeon Nam has found a way for people to control a bowling video game by French kissing. [Kotaku] More »
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On the heels of the commercial for Dead Space 2 — which sells you the video game by showing how much it horrifies and shocks the average mom — comes this gory yet beautifully done trailer for Dead Island. The blood-drenched clip isn't a noisy, frenzied attack of the senses like some video game ads. Instead, it follows the demise of a young girl — in reverse chronological order — and shows what evil, terrible zombies can do to perfectly nice people. Who knew it was so emotional? More »
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Well, with caveats: they're good for them if they play with their parents. More »
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Fruit Ninja is not just a video game. It is an educational experience, full of zen wisdom. More »
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This chart details the complex process video game designers use to determine if the villain should be a Russian or a demon. As for the female characters, it's a one, or rather, two-step process. More »
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The new commercial for Call of Duty: Black Ops is very unusual for a video game; It features several female gamers, and not just token Lara Croft look-alikes. So why has it been dubbed the most "disappointing game-related ad"? More »
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This cool bracelet features shapes of famous video game controllers. (Not represented: The oh-so-crappy Intellivision we had when we were kids.) More »
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Researchers say that in the past five years, 92 people wound up in the emergency room with Nintendo Wii-related injuries, including cuts, bruises, and sprains in feet, shoulders and ankles. In response, Nintendo urged players not to "overdo it." More »
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Microsoft suspended a gamer from Xbox Live for listing "Fort Gay" as his location. But that's a real town, and the whole episode makes Microsoft look pretty bad. More »
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I must be inside the bubble, because the idea of playing as the Taliban in Medal of Honor multiplayer didn't hit me as particularly controversial. Fox News noticed. Though it did treat the subject reasonably, the woman they interviewed didn't. More »
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The 24-Carat Campbell video game — in which you throw pebbles and diamonds at a cartoon version of Naomi — is not especially fun to play, but that's not the point. More »
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When a blogger contacted Xbox Support about her account, she got a form letter with tips — for her son. But if Xbox assumes that all gamers are boys, it may be missing out on a growing market. More »
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• In a recent interview with Ladies Home Journal, Michelle Obama says she would "never talk about weight with my girls." She adds, "I try not to even talk about my weight. Because you're right, it is a sensitive issue."

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Sadly not coming soon to a theater near you: A film based on the educational video game The Oregon Trail, which captures the drama of hunting pixelated deer and dying of dysentary. But oh, if only this trailer were real. More »
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A new study purports to find that college kids "are about 40 percent lower in empathy" than students 20-30 years ago. The study press release blames all the usual suspects (technology, "information"), but what's really destroying the youth? More »
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the designer of Pac-Man, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary. Iwatani also says when the game was launched, arcades were filled "with games where you shoot aliens. It seemed very dark. It was for men." [ONTD via Wired] More »
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"You're going to have to start off with fat girls, and work your way up to us hot chicks." It's not just that the video game BoneTown is morally bad (although it is). It's also just flat out bad-bad. More »
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Says Latoya: "Oh great - you can play inside of a vagina, but you can't actually have one on screen." [LazyGamer] More »
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Last week, CNN reported on the continuing availability of Rapelay, a Japanese-made rape simulation video game, online. Over the weekend, animator Nogami Takeshi submitted an open letter in defense of hentai and, by extension, Rapelay. More »
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Paying $8.25 to talk to a live (perhaps semi-nude) girl over the internet seems like a porn site pop-up ad, but it's actually the business plan for GameCrush - a company aiming to link male gamers and willing PlayDates. More »
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"Design" an ensemble (i.e., "scroll through preselected clothing items") in the new PR game and hear Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia say things like "Where was the glamour? Where was the vision?" [WWD] More »
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"The new face of online gaming is feisty, foxy and female." The fact that women play World of Warcraft isn't exactly a secret. So why did the Times of London present the game as some new form of online dating? More »
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Does a "sexualized" avatar invite disrespectful behavior online? While conducting an experiment to measure human empathy toward human actors compared with digital representations, researchers discovered a strange quirk: men judged the avatar pleading for sympathy more harshly than the actress. More »
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Computer Engineer Barbie debuted to much fanfare, but most girls voted for Mattel's flagship doll to be a news anchor. Eve Tahmincioglu, writing for MSNBC, uses the Barbie vote disparity to explore why there aren't more women in tech careers. More »
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