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The fine folks at Zen Studios are holding a tournament for fabulous prize packs going to the top 3 scorers on the new Mars table for Pinball FX2. There will also be random entrants for prizes like Mars candy bars, DVDs, and game codes. Take a look at the full press release below and go check out the new table. Be sure to let us know what you think of the table in the forums. Also, be on the lookout for our forthcoming reviews of Zen Studios games. Pinball FX2 Mars Tournament April 29 – May 13 Finding life a little lonely on Mars? The Red Planet is about to get invaded by pinball wizards seeking a SuperScoreRocketBoost and Martian themed prizes. Download the Mars tab…

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Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard. The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond. "The evolutionary history and amazing density of the planet all suggest it is comprised of carbon -- i.e. a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun," said Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. Lying 4,000 light years away,…

Lace up your running shoes and stretch those muscles, because Rare is looking for you to race into the record books. On Saturday, April 23 gamers from all over the world will have one chance to break the Guinness World Record for “the most people running a virtual 100m dash at one time.” All you have to do to participate is download your entry in the form of a free Xbox Nations gamer picture. Turn on your console on April 23, make sure that Kinect is running, pop in Kinect Sports, and complete a sprint mini game. Rare has stated that if you choose the entire Track & Field event, it will not register. For those of you who complete the sprint mini game during the spe…

Nothing says, “come get some” more than a rifle with a glowing round pink light attached above the barrel. CTA Digital developed a rifle peripheral for those of you looking to get a more “hardcore, realistic” experience according to the video. We all know that nothing says hardcore more than a guy sitting on his couch, waving a plastic rifle around with a light at the end of it. via Joystiq Tweet This Post View the full article

An attack on Sony’s PSN has not only angered Playstation owners at the thought of their credit card information being comprimised, but also Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal who sent a letter to Sony’s CEO, Jack Tretton demanding to know why Sony failed to report to users on April 20 when the attack happened instead of waiting for a week to pass by before users were notified of the data privacy breach. “April 26, 2011 Mr. Jack Tretton President and CEO Sony Computer Entertainment America 919 East Hillsdale Boulevard Foster City, CA USA 94404 Dear Mr. Tretton: I am writing regarding a recent data breach of Sony’s PlayStation Network service. I am troubled by the fai…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwHzclyYnI It's been reported, that this was leaked footage. This has happened before. Don't get your hopes up.

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Looks like were wobbling back to the Panthalassa and Pangaea times. The Guardian #Geodesy

This disgusts me to no end. The father had absolutely nothing to do with the crime that was reported. The police were called for domestic abuse because the mother slapped the daughter. The only thing the father did, was run to his wife in an attempt to calm her down as she ran to the family car after slapping her daughter. Here's what happened according to the mother and daughter of the victim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCNZByBU2-0 Read about it here http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/justice/oklahoma-arrest-death-video/ This shit needs to seriously end. Post haste.

It has emerged that Michigan State Police have been using a high-tech mobile forensics device that can extract information from over 3,000 models of mobile phone, potentially grabbing all media content from your iPhone in under two minutes. The CelleBrite UFED is a handheld device that Michigan officers have been using since August 2008 to copy information from mobile phones belonging to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations. The device can circumvent password restrictions and extract existing, hidden, and deleted phone data, including call history, text messages, contacts, images, and geotags. In short, it can copy everything on your smartphone in a matter of mi…

Police in Idaho Falls have told a man to stop wearing a bunny suit in public after people complained he has been frightening children. Residents in the northwestern U.S. city of 54,000 people also reported William Falkingham, 34, occasionally wears a tutu with the bunny suit, police said in a statement Tuesday. Police warned Falkingham after a woman said she saw him dressed in the costume, peeking at her young son from behind a tree and pointing his finger like a gun. While a police report said other residents were "greatly disturbed" by his activities, one neighbor defended Falkingham as eccentric but otherwise harmless. Read the rest, here. Thoughts on this?

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Dateranoth has given me permission to start a poll to determine which of my themes the community would prefer for the background on the livestream page (justin.tv and twitch.tv). If you've got a moment, please have a look and cast a vote. Themes can be tweaked and tooled, and I am open to suggestions from the community, so remember you're voting on a general theme. I'd like to have results within a week's time, however if we don't get a lot of votes by then, we may leave it open longer. Here are your choices: Theme #1: Multi-skull - tan Theme #2: Reaper skull Theme #3: Multi-skull - multiple colors Theme #4: Real skull Thanks all, and happy voting!

http://sopatrack.com/search For CA, Boxer raised over 5 million on this one bill. One single bill! Two and a half mill+ from big media, one and a half million+ from Pro-PIPA groups and an additional 1.1 million+ from Anti-PIPA groups.

One of the most successful casual gaming companies in the industry is bringing a new slightly edgy studio into the mix. PopCap Games announced that their new studio “4th & Battery” will be situated in Seattle and that the name comes from where the studio is located. Jason Kapalka, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at PopCap Games says to “expect weirdness” from the new label that gives their designers free range. “4th & Battery is a purely experimental, creative label with none of the typical concerns like schedules, profitability, or even target audience. It’s kind of the video game equivalent of B-sides or short films. Expect weirdness.” The studio has al…

Recently PopCap and The Red Cross teamed up for 48 hours to help raise money for the people of Japan who’s lives were changed after the earthquake struck the region on Friday March 11 causing a Tsunami, several aftershocks, and partial nuclear meltdowns. During the 48 hour markdown of all of PopCap games that are available on the Apple App Store, PopCap raised more than $200,000 with 100% of revenue made from the fundraiser being donated to the International Red Cross in hopes of providing aid to those in Japan who desperately need it right now. Tweet This Post View the full article

Privacy be damned cries Facebook! In the latest scandal involving Facebook user’s personal information being made public, Facebook has removed some popular gaming apps that have been taking user’s account information even if your profile information is set to have the highest level of security possible. Farmville, Texas Hold ‘Em Poker, and Frontierville are just 3 of the apps that have been mentioned in the privacy breech that is affecting millions of users across Facebook. Several apps have already being made unavailable to Facebook users as Facebook tries to sort out another privacy breech mess. Zynga, who is the company behind Farmville, Texas Hold ‘Em Poker, and Fro…

Fans of Starz widely successful nudity friendly show, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, rejoice because Spartacus is about to get it’s first free video game app on Facebook and a free iPad script app that will let you watch the first episode of Spartacus: Blood and Sand and will also have series content, historical facts, and include cast photos. The Spartacus: Gods of the Arena app for Facebook that allows you to train your very own horde of gladiators will release on January 20, while the iPad script app will release on January 22. via Fox News View the full article

This is pretty cool. Guy is putting usb powered external hard drives in classic game cartridges. Makes for some nice nostalgia. An enterprising retro gaming fan has created what could be the ultimate external hard drive: a Legend of Zelda NES cartridge. If you have the same fond memories of Link, Ganon, finding the pieces of the Triforce, and figuring out where the heck the next secret staircase is that I do, you may be interested in this. Modder 8BitMemory is selling various one-off copies of his NES External Hard Drive, which actually isn't for the NES at all. Instead, it's a genuine 1TB external USB hard disk for PCs and Macs. It just happens to be inside Ze…

Valve’s Gabe Newell is most likely doing one of two things at the moment. He’s either swimming in a huge pile of money received from piling $80+ of Day 1 DLC onto the widely anticipated release of Portal 2, or yelling at his computer monitor as he reads the hundreds of negative reviews currently being posted on Metacritic about it. PC players have flooded the user reviews of Metacritic with anger and confusion, delivering what is essentially a digital bitchslap that drove down the average review score for the game currently to a stellar 5.8! For comparison at the moment, Homefront which is a game considered to be a failure at launch and drove stocks in THQ crashing …