defunctgames.com - 2/28/2009
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On Running Feuds (Ep. 160) - What is it about Tetris that makes people take it for granted? Every time one of these magazines has a list of the best games of all time, Tetris is always the runner up. It's always the bridesmaid, never a bride. And it's not just the Guinness World Records ...
playthisthing.com - 3/5/2009
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playthisthing.com —
Inventory Tetris is a quick joke, and perhaps
you don't even really need to play it to...
get the joke, but the joke is good enough that it's worth noting here. You've undoubted played any number of games where your character's inventory is, in essence, a square grid, and you position items on ...
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Inventory Tetris
watercoolergames.org - 2/24/2009
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watercoolergames.org —
Games for Change has announced plans to offer
the Knight News Game Award at the 2009 Sixth...
Annual Games for Change Festival in May of this year. Here are the criteria from the website: Our definition of a news game - A digital game which is ...
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Knight News Game Award
escapistmagazine.com - 2/25/2009
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escapistmagazine.com —
Not content with making videogames about himself, 50
Cent now wants to make a movie out of...
a videogame. He would also like to make a version of Tetris .
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50 Cent Making Saints Row Movie
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... NEWS - They call it FUEL because it'd obviously take an Exxon Valdez full of it to cross the game's 5,560 square miles (over 14,000 square kilometers for those of you living outside the U.S.) of accessible terrain. It's also given the confounding Guinness World Records a chance to slink back into gaming news, crowing publisher Codemasters' newest four-letter word with the title of "Biggest Console Game of All Time." And just to put the size in perspective for you, 5,560 square miles is approximately 92 times larger than all three ...
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