Monthly Archives: November 2008

Left 4 Dead pre-orders miss out on Complete Pack

November 19th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming

If you’re anything like us, then the apparently never ending wait for Left 4 Dead will have whipped you into such a zombie crazed frenzy that you’ll have had no choice but to pre-order the game as soon as it became available on Steam, especially with early access to the demo thrown in to sweeten [...]

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San Francisco artist looks to replace lost eyeball with webcam

November 17th, 2008 | Posted in Art

Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, lost her eye in a car accident back in 2005, and now keeps a blog chronicling the “monocular life.” She has a prosthetic peeper, but Tanya is a self-described “sci-fi geek,” and, with the approval of her doctor, she’s put out a call for engineers to build her a [...]

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Over-Simplified Games

November 14th, 2008 | Posted in Featured, Gaming

Columns: Over-Simplified Games How old are you? If you’re a typical gamer, you are probably much older than the mainstream media thinks you are. PC games used to be amusing little things played by kids while the parents did grown up things. Not any more, as the many web forum debates on how to juggle [...]

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Um, Are You Missing Something?

November 13th, 2008 | Posted in Art, Offbeat News

Photoshoppers gone wild. You’ll laugh when you see it.

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Microsoft: We invented avatars

November 12th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Technology

Microsoft’s Don Mattrick is still adamant that he invented in-game avatars, not Nintendo. In a recent interview with Official Xbox Magazine, Mattrick reasserts his claim that he was the first person to invent controllable 3D human avatars. Personally, we’re not only skeptical but also kind of bored by the whole argument, but hey-ho. “I’m claiming [...]

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Hot-air balloons making chickens explode!

November 11th, 2008 | Posted in Offbeat News

Abbi Vincent-Lloyd said she lost 30 hens on days when balloons were flying low over her Herefordshire farm. She claimed the stress of seeing the enormous balloons overhead caused them to run for cover. It is as they desperately try to find shelter that they bump into each other or their surroundings, exploding the eggs [...]

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