Duke Nukem Forever has been one hell of a long time coming. We asked GameStop if it would honor pre-orders placed back when the game was first announced.

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We reported earlier that Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has its own security problem stemming from the attacks on the PSN.

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A mammoth relief mission is swinging into action in north-east Japan, a day after it was struck by a devastating tsunami, claiming hundreds of lives.

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Another year, another nonsensical rant from a supposed expert on Fox News. This time, the target of their ire was Bulletstorm, claiming it could turn young children into rapists, and no…

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DaveNJ1987 writes “The Chinese Government has blocked the websites of the BBC, CNN and Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK, less than 24 hours before dissident Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo is due to be awarded the Nobel peace prize. China has been vocally critical of the plans to award the jailed writer the prize and has even gone as far as setting up its own ‘Confucius peace prize’ to rival the awards being held in Oslo tomorrow.”

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Forbes magazine puts Bill Gates in the ranks of 40 people most influential in the world. While in the IT field, Gates held in…

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eldavojohn writes “The proposed rules shielding journalists harbored in Iceland are now official. It appears that sites like Wikileaks and Cryptome could have a friendlier home base. For those familiar with the Icelandic tongue, the voting results and legalese. Some of the details can be found at www.immi.is.”

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Is Digg defining a new direction for the curation economy? And could the new site help us cope with information overload?

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daedae writes “It seems Facebook has been granted a patent for the news feed, as a method of monitoring activities, storing them in a database, and displaying an appropriate set of activities to an appropriate set of users. ‘That sounds pretty broad, and the social-networking world was all atwitter at the possible ramifications. Writing for ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick proclaimed, “This could be very big. … MySpace, Flickr, Yahoo, Twitter (more…)

Well, we know one up-and-coming reporter who’s well on her way to Pulitzer City. This could be one of the most sensationalized, irrational, unresearched, and absolutely hilarious news reports on the dangers of online gaming we’ve seen in years.

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