Nothing cures buyer’s remorse like a system-defining game on day one

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As of July, FarmVille was hosting the digital homesteads of 61 million users. But you probably know all that already. What we’re going to examine is why Zynga and FarmVille got that large, why they will continue to grow, and how they have changed the face of gaming.

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Can half a billion dedicated gamers battle poverty, war and disease, for an Epic win? An increasingly popular genre of online games are being designed to deal with real-world issues. Gamers’ skills could be applied to solving real-world challenges in these so called “serious games”.

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There may be only one tennis player in the world who wishes he had taken it a bit easier on Roger Federer.

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One Texas man found out the hard way that tampering with a fish he caught by inserting a lead weight into its belly, then entering it into a fishing competition, will result in jail time and five years probation.

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Yeah, apparently the recent 2010 Time 100 Poll, which ranks the most influential people on the planet, is actually a sign of the impending end of days.

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Today, people continue to use protest as a means of voicing dissent but in an age that is saturated by media, tactics have had to change to ensure widespread recognition of their efforts. The result is sometimes shocking, sometimes outrageous, but always attention-grabbing.

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Many video games focus on sexy characters to help keep the gamers interested. There is an allure in the fact that each time we power-up our consoles we get to escape into worlds filled with beautiful men and women.

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Thanks to the internet, the word “boycott” no longer conveys an element of gravitas. In fact, we’re pretty certain that this collection of 1080 (and counting) Sonic fans doesn’t actually understand the point of a boycott.

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The country’s defense minister has repeated a familiar prophecy but there is unlikely to be movement in the peace process unless the status quo changes.

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