February 17, 2012 Rick Santorum’s video game secret
While 
Mitt Romney might be giving Rick Santorum a bruising fight in the race for the Republican party’s bid for the White House, there’s one platform where Santorum is sure he tops his opponent: gaming.
The former Pennsylvania senator, it seems, has a passion for the iPhone game Temple Run, a title that has players endlessly fleeing a band of screaming, angry simians after defiling their temple.
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February 17, 2012 As U.S. launch looms, Vita sales plunge in Japan
Sony’s 
hoping for a big splash when the PlayStation Vita goes on sale in the U.S. next week, but the news from the company’s homeland is pretty discouraging.
Sales of the handheld gaming system in Japan for the week ending Feb. 12 hit an all-time low, with less than 14,000 Vitas being sold. That’s a drop of more than 3,000 from the previous week.
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February 16, 2012 Sony and Valve: A tale of two hacking responses
When Sony 
announced that customer data from its PlayStation Network was accessed by hackers, gamers and the media were furious. So why did Valve seem to get a pass under similar circumstances?
Like a lot of people in the gaming world, I got an interesting email from Gabe Newell last week.
The Steam hacking incident of last November, he said, was worse than they initially thought it was. And while there still was no direct evidence that credit card information had been accessed, a backup file containing that information (albeit encrypted) was obtained by the person or persons who had broken into the system.
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February 16, 2012 Pioneering video game ‘Spacewar!’ turns 50
Right 
around this time 50 years ago, the world of gaming was forever changed.
Spacewar! was launched in mid-February 1962 (the exact date is a matter of debate, though most people agree it was between the 13th and the 15th). And while it wasn’t the first video game ever created, it was the first to strike a chord with people, effectively kicking off the era of video games.
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February 16, 2012 Wii U: What Nintendo Should and Shouldn’t Do
It might 
seem that there aren’t a lot of mysteries remaining about the Wii U, Nintendo’s first step into the high definition marketplace and the kickoff of the next generation console wars. But initial appearances can be deceiving.
While we’ll likely learn everything there is to know at E3, there’s still time for the company to tweak its new system to get the most out of it when it comes to retail. Just as we did with the next generation Xbox and the PlayStation 4, we’ve got a few humble suggestions about what Nintendo should – and shouldn’t – do with its next console.
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February 15, 2012 Finding romance through video games
Sometimes, 
Cupid shoots an arrow through the knee instead of the heart.
Video games might not seem the most romantic of hobbies, but for some, they’ve been the path to true love — and in many cases, marriage.
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February 14, 2012 Survey: ‘Words With Friends’ spells L-O-V-E
Forget 
singles bars — if you want to find love on Valentine’s Day, you might have better luck on your iPhone.
A study of over 118,000 Words With Friends players found that scoring isn’t necessarily limited to the game. One in 10 players, in fact, said the title has directly led to a hookup at some point.
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February 14, 2012 Warcraft and Starcraft invade classic board games
Go 
directly to Azeroth. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200 gold.
Blizzard Entertainment, having conquered the PC, is now setting its sites on the living room by announcing a partnership Monday with USAopoly to release a World of Warcraft-themed Monopoly game and a Starcraft-focused version of Risk.
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February 10, 2012 Virtual marriages outlast real-world ones
With Valentine’s 
Day hitting next week, there’s plenty of love in the air — but if you want that love to last, your odds are better in cyberspace.
A study of virtual marriages in MapleStory, a massively multiplayer online game from Nexon, finds that people who vow to stay together forever in-game tend to be more successful at it than those of us in the real world.
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February 10, 2012 Skyrim’s run of Game of the Year awards continues
Chalk up 
another big win for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Bethesda’s much-loved dragon-slaying role-playing-game has taken home another Game of the Year award, this time from one of the most widely respected bodies in the video game industry.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences held its annual Interactive Achievement Awards Thursday night at the DICE summit, with Skyrim taking top honors — as well as four other awards. Uncharted 3 and Portal 2 each took home a trio of trophies.
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