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  • Video Games vs. Reality (PICS)
    By on January 21, 2011 | Comments Off  Comments

    These were some of my all-time favorite games growing up. I would love more than anything if they were remade on a current console (looking at you Wii) and done in this manner.

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  • The Reality of MMORPG Addiction
    By on October 5, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Quite a few gamers will remember the nights and days where they spent 12, 15 or more hours on an MMORPG like World of Warcraft or EverQuest. But who of them would go as far as call that an addiction?

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  • Daily Fantasy Sports Becoming a Gambling Reality
    By on September 28, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Drawn by the possibility of quick cash payouts, instead of just end-of-season glory, fantasy sports fans ready for more-than-casual rivalries among friends or co-workers are building new nightly online betting into a hit for the $800 million fantasy sports industry.

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  • HDR Video a Reality
    By on September 9, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    akaru writes “Using common DSLR cameras, some creative individuals have created an example of true HDR video. Instead of pseudo-HDR, they actually used multiple cameras and a beam splitter to record simultaneous video streams, and composited them together in post. Looks very intriguing.”

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  • Seinfeld’s Good Samaritan Law Now Reality?
    By on January 29, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    e3m4n writes “The fictitious ‘good samaritan’ law from the final episode of Seinfeld (the one that landed them in jail for a year) appears to be headed toward reality for California residents after the house passed this bill. There are some differences, such as direct action is not required, but the concept of guilt by association for not doing the right thing is still on the face of the bill.”

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  • Mexican PS3 Ad Campaign Blurs Reality and the Virtual
    By on December 23, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Mexican PS3 Ad Campaign Blurs Reality and the Virtual and reminds that the PS3 is everything that you can imagine it to be.

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  • Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality
    By on October 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    holy_calamity writes “DARPA’s plans to create brain chips for insects so they can be steered like an RC plane are bearing fruit. Videos show that a team at Berkeley can use radio signals to tell palm-sized African beetles to take off and land, and to lose altitude and steer left or right when in flight. They had to use the less-than-inconspicuous giant beetles because other species are too weak to take off with the weight of the necessary antenna (more…)

  • Sony seeks participants for PSN reality show, ‘The Tester’
    By on September 11, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Sony has announced an open casting call for a new reality series, created specifically for PlayStation Network, dubbed “The Tester.”

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