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<![endif] Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. World Someone Photoshopped A Sikh Man To Look Like An Alleged Paris Attacker A photoshopped image of Veerender Jubbal, an outspoken critic of GamerGate, was distributed online as a photo of one of the Paris attackers. 1. An…
Fallout 4 isn’t just causing a wave of “sick” days across the planet. The excellent open-world role-playing game is also eating into the time people spend on … other habits. Pornhub, one of the world’s most popular adult video sites, told GamesBeat that it saw a 10 percent drop in traffic among gamers after…
Nintendo’s “free” crane game for the 3DS requires a dollar for every five tries with the crane. Some companies would just tell you to pay and leave it at that. Not Nintendo. They’ve got a cartoon rabbit ready to explain to you why Nintendo needs to do this. All screenshots here are from the game/app/3DS-decorating…
On the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, Senator Claire McCaskill dropped by to make an instructive video about all the subjects on which men should “shut the hell up.” We’re listening. We’re right here with you. McCaskill noted that “as one of just 20 women serving in the Senate,” it’s important to her…
Lauren Schuker Blum, the wife of producer Jason Blum, will co-write “Crash Override” with Rebecca Angelo Amy Pascal is set to produce a movie about Gamergate that screenwriters Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum will adapt from game designer Zoe Quinn’s memoir “Crash Override: How to Save the Internet From Itself,” an individual familiar with…
EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal’s Pascal Pictures has won a bidding battle for Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself, a memoir by game designer Zoe Quinn that sold to Touchstone/Simon & Schuster and will be published September, 2016. The property was bid on by several studios and TV outlets, and several actresses are circling, with…
Warcraft – Official Trailer In Theaters, June 10, 2016 www.warcraftmovie.com From Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures comes Warcraft, an epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based on Blizzard Entertainment’s global phenomenon. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying…
The cliché that comedy and torment go hand-in-hand gets another spin in the documentary Misery Loves Comedy, in which the actor Kevin Pollak interviews 50 comics, and comic actors, about their craving for the laughter and approval of strangers. Late in the day, the picture gets around to addressing the question of whether one needs…
This morning, SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest released a statement apologizing for canceling two controversial panels earlier this week, and announcing a March 12 “Online Harassment Summit” that would include members of the canceled sessions. SXSW’s statement said speakers from the two panels were set to be a part of the Summit, including the Gamergate-affiliated…
From getting news to playing games to reading a book, Americans now have a plethora of devices to choose from in order to meet their technology-based needs. For each type of device, the demographic makeup of owners can vary widely, so this section looks at these differences. Smartphone ownership continues to grow The rise of…