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World of Warcraft is far and away the most successful of the lucrative — yet sometimes highly addicting — MMORPG video game genre. Photo: Associated Press/Blizzard Entertainment/File Alternate life: Online role-playing games mimic real life, often in dangerous ways
An alarm clock sounds, announcing the beginning of a new day. It’s quickly met with an unhappy fist. The clock flies off the dresser and into a pyramid of Sunkist cans, the sound of which wa...
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Pushing Buttons: Solo is way to go with Mario Bros.
When last I took a look at Super Mario Bros. Wii, it was through the disappointing multi-player action. After I got the game for Christmas, I’ve been playing it solo a bit more, and it’...
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Pushing Buttons: Super Mario for Wii lacks in co-op play
My biggest gripe with most video games I see is the lack of cooperative play in titles. For whatever reason, I have actual friends, but I’m not terribly competitive with them. Enter my love ...
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Pushing Buttons: The great purge of 2009
How well do you know your hundreds of Facebook friends? I mean, really know them? Would you let them look after your child? Your dog? Would you trust them with your secrets? Would you recognize th...
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Pushing Buttons: Bat Can Do — 'Arkham Asylum' gets it right
by Dan Whisenhunt
Staff Writer
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Load up the Batarangs, kids. We're going to the best Bat-themed amusement park in town. "Batman: Arkham Asylum" may be the greatest game of any genre I've played this year. It succeeds where so man...
Pushing Buttons: NCAA 10 game surprisingly accurate
by Dan Whisenhunt
Staff Writer
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We know a few things after the start of football season. Not the least of which is that "NCAA Football 10" is surprisingly accurate. How accurate? Prior to the Alabama-Virginia Tech game Saturday, ...
Pushing Buttons: 'Repo! The Genetic Opera' needs some love
by Dan Whisenhunt
Staff Writer
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I'm a little disappointed. With all the wackiness currently surrounding our health care debate, why has no one invoked the grim specter of Repo! The Genetic Opera? The movie came out in 2008, well ...
Pushing Buttons: I gotz me a fancy laptop
by Dan Whisenhunt
Staff Writer
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Tax-free weekend — is there anything sweeter? Once a year, a public saddled with sales taxes can throw off their shackles of self-imposed tyranny and spend like the credit card bill isn't com...
Pushing Buttons: 'Futurama' — A second chance at its rightly title
by John Dietrich
Sports Writer
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When Fox agreed to bring back the original cast for the second revival of Futurama, it gave the show a chance to lay claim to a title it rightly deserves: Best animated sitcom of the 2000s.
Pushing Buttons: New 'Futurama' will alienate fans if deal isn't done
by Dan Whisenhunt
Staff Writer
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Imagine if all the voices of The Simpsons were recast with different actors. If you're a fan, you'd be pretty ticked off, right? What is the show without all of those talented voices behind them? W...
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