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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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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