From Captain Richard Phillips, to Captain Fatbeard, pirates seem to have been in the news a lot lately. The pirates I’m thinking of though are not the dangerous and deadly ones prowling the Somalian coasts. No, I speak of course about e-pirates. While unlikely to kill or kidnap you, they do their fair share of financial plundering and are actually more likely to have a direct impact on you, the honest consumers.

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After viewing the opening cinematic for the highly-anticipated FPS Wolfenstein (a simple, but effective title), many questions began to come to mind concerning the gameplay elements of the title.

The video leaves plenty of dead Nazi scum in its wake but let’s take a deeper look and see what the meat and bones of this cinematic reveals.

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A pile of raggedy sheets that pass for a bed. A bookcase packed with more video games than works of literature. Half a dozen rodents writhing in a brackish mire of decaying Hot Pockets and T-shirts that have only dreamed of detergent.

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If one has idle time atop the toilet, the idea that it should be spent doing something entertaining (and well, taking care of business) is not new.

But reading some crappy publication on the pot is a waste of time — reading is work, not entertainment. Instead, consider some of the many golden nuggets that are bathroom compatible.

Here are five portables that make the art of pooping fun!
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In March, a pair of filmmakers approached me with the invitation to participate in a documentary film they’re producing. The film is titled Your Computer is Killing You: The Side-Effects of a Techy Lifestyle and explores the unforeseen side effects of the rapid integration of technology into our culture. They’d seen my article on video game addiction and asked me to elaborate on my experience as one of their sources.

This is a documentary of my experience from within a documentary…

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When I wrote The Free to Play, Microtransaction Model, I did not expect companies to be contacting me. Pleasantly surprising though, Perfect World Entertainment contacted me and I had a chat with two Product Managers about their titles (Perfect World International and Ether Saga Online) and the Free to Play model. With every person I talk to, this model appears to becoming more prevalent among developers.

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Perfect World Co., Ltd., a leading online game developer and operator in China, today announced that it has entered into a publishing agreement with Runic Games, Inc., a specialized developer of PC-based entertainment software in the United States, for the exclusive rights and license to publish Torchlight, an action-packed massively multiplayer online role-playing game that’s being developed, throughout the world.

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A lot of us dream of spending a day in the shoes of our favorite video game character. Here at GotGame, we’re constantly thinking of you, the consumer! That’s why we’re proud to present Gamer ShoezTM (patent and actual invention pending), giving you all the powers of popular gaming icons!

However, as much as we’d like to believe it, our products aren’t quite perfect. We’ve taken the liberty of meticulously listing the flaws in each item, because we’re so direly concerned with your safety.

(Lousy “truth in advertising” laws… I’ll show you fraudulent promotion!)
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