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Eidos PR Politely Requests That Journalists Delay Poor UK Tomb Raider Review Scores

In a move highly reminicent of last December’s “Gerstmann-gate” fiasco, sources are reporting that publisher Eidos has yet again determined that an average Metacritic review score is simply unacceptable — and taken steps to ensure that such scores for Tomb Raider: Underworld fail to sway would-be buyers. Wednesday, GameSpot UK journalist Guy Cocker twittered the following [...]

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The Sincerest Form of Infringement: Scrabulous and Wordscraper

You can’t keep a good man with someone else’s great idea down. A while back, some enterprising young programmers created Scrabulous, a free online application which was later adapted for the wildly popular Facebook social network. As can be inferred from its name, Scrabulous was an adaptation of the long-celebrated word game Scrabble, allowing players to [...]

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