Child uses sleeping mom's fingerprints to buy Pokemon gifts

A fingerprint-ID locked phone wasn't going to stop this 6-year-old from catching 'em all. Online purchases have been a pain in the wallet for parents, with the Federal Trade Commission hitting Apple, Google and Amazon with complaints accusing the companies of making it too easy for kids to make in-app purchases. Kids buying online without their parents' consent has cost these companies millions in settlements.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Apolatia/child-uses-sleeping-moms-fingerprints-to-buy-pokemon-gifts?source=Snapzu

Game on! The best board games of 2016

Do you get unhealthy levels of enjoyment from unwrapping decks of cards, punching out cardboard tiles, and evaluating the heft and finish of wooden cubes? We do, too—we're gamers, after all—and 2016 was a tremendous year for tabletop gaming. The tireless members of the Ars Cardboard crew spent a lot of time playing, replaying, and dissecting the year's new titles, and we're ready to tell you what we enjoyed most.
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The Pinball Punk of Montreal

When musician Adam Kiesler tried to get pinball back on the street, he uncovered the game's seedy past – and the archaic laws that banned it.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/cloudcrafter/the-pinball-punk-of-montreal?source=Snapzu

Super Mario’s Reluctant Leap to the iPhone

As recently as five years ago, Nintendo’s late president, Satoru Iwata, was adamant that Super Mario would never make the leap to smartphones. “If we did this, Nintendo would cease to be Nintendo,” he said in an interview with Nikkei, in 2011. The decision was philosophical rather than economic. The goal of smartphone developers, Iwata had said earlier that year, “is just to gather as much software as possible, because quantity is what makes the money flow.”
Read more: http://snapzu.com/TentativePrince/super-marios-reluctant-leap-to-the-iphone?source=Snapzu

Original The Legend of Zelda Map Gets Printed In 3D

The Legend of Zelda on NES had a sprawling world by the standards of 1980s console games. While decades ago people used to draw their own maps to try and keep track of where each dungeon and secret, alternative methods now exist. Like, for instance, 3D printing a replica of the game’s entire overworld.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/drunkenninja/original-thelegend-of-zeldamap-gets-printed-in-3d?source=Snapzu

Best gaming monitor reviews and latest news

A website dedicated to PC Monitors, you can find anything related to computer screens, including reviews, news guide and much more.
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Disney and MLB purchase streaming rights for 'League of Legends'

Media titans are getting interested in esports.
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Now you can get Super Mario Run on your iPhone

Mario fans can now hang out with their favourite Nintendo character while they're away from their game system. Nintendo announced on Thursday that Super Mario Run is now available for iPhone and iPad. The game can be downloaded from the App Store at no cost, and players have a chance to try out the game's three modes for free. For unlimited access to the game, there's a one-time payment of $13.99.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/aj0690/now-you-can-get-super-mario-run-on-your-iphone?source=Snapzu

This Mod Makes Grand Theft Auto V as Photorealistic as Possible

A Modder by the name of ‘Razed’ has just released an epic graphical mod for Grand Theft Auto V that aims to make Rockstar’s title as photorealistic as possible. This mod goes by the name of NaturalVision 2.0 and is the result of greatly utilizing ReShade, ENB, VisualSettings and TimeCycle files in combination with the VisualV mod.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/geoleo/this-mod-makes-grand-theft-auto-v-as-photorealistic-as-possible?source=Snapzu

Man spends stolen $1m on Game of War

A man went on a $1m (£800,000) spending spree on the Game of War app after stealing $4.8m from his employer. Kevin Lee Co, 45, from Sacramento, California, pleaded guilty to fraudulently using company credit cards to steal the money. Court documents reveal Mr Co spent about $1m of the embezzled funds on Game of War, one of the world's highest grossing mobile games. Players buy gold and other in-game credits to help build their empires.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/hiihii/man-spends-stolen-1m-on-game-of-war?source=Snapzu

Fun and Games Led to Some of the World's Greatest Inventions

Delight and play are important drivers of historical change.
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What happens when Mario dies?

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F.D.A. Agrees to New Trials for Ecstasy as Relief for PTSD Patients

The Food and Drug Administration has approved large-scale clinical trials to study MDMA, the illegal party drug better known as Ecstasy, as treatment for PTSD patients. By Dave Philipps.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/fda-agrees-to-new-trials-for-ecstasy-as-relief-for-ptsd-patients?source=Snapzu

A Forgotten Adventure With a Telepathic Tribe

New Broadway play revisits a National Geographic photographer’s strange encounter while searching for the source of the Amazon. By Nina Strochlic.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/a-forgotten-adventure-with-a-telepathic-tribe?source=Snapzu

The Beautiful, Stunning Move That Won Magnus Carlsen the World Chess Championship

Magnus Carlsen retained his world title with one of the most beautiful, stunning moves in the history of the World Chess Championship. By Matt Gaffney.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/the-beautiful-stunning-move-that-won-magnus-carlsen-the-world-chess-championship?source=Snapzu

The Life-Changing Magic of Mushrooms

A landmark pair of studies shows that giving people with depression and anxiety magic mushrooms made them better for months. By Olga Khazan.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/the-life-changing-magic-of-mushrooms?source=Snapzu

'No Man's Sky' cleared in false advertising investigation

No Man's Sky developer Hello Games has emerged from a marketing investigation unscathed. The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has spent the last two months examining claims that the game's steam page is misleading. Disgruntled players had taken issue with screenshots, videos and text which, in their opinion, showed the game with better visuals, performance and planetary exploration. These covered warping, ship battles and the complexity of extraterrestrial life.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/hxxp/no-mans-sky-cleared-in-false-advertising-investigation?source=Snapzu

A personal take on a potential full-length Overwatch movie and TV-series

I don´t know if it´s because I´ve been lacking of sleep for the last couple of days, or if it´s because I´ve been reading, watching and hearing a lot of stuff about “Overwatch” as of la…
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Facebook Messenger launches Instant Games

Bored while you wait for someone to text back? Now you can challenge friends for high scores on Facebook Messenger’s new Instant Games, like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Words With Friends Frenzy. Available right from your message threads, they load in seconds since they’re built on the HTML5 mobile web standard, rather than having to be downloaded like clunky native apps.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/90boss/facebook-messenger-launches-instantgames?source=Snapzu

Easter eggs evolved: Why gamers spent 3-years-plus studying GTAV’s Mount Chiliad

This unsolved mystery is a perfect artifact of communal sleuthing in the Reddit age. Just below the peak of Mount Chiliad, a huge mountain in the far north of San Andreas, a mysterious mural sits high atop a cliff face. It looks like a map of the mountain's interior—a network of tunnels that connect five small chambers and three large ones with what appear to be a UFO, an egg, and a jetpack within them. Whether it's actually a map isn't clear. Nearby, painted on the bottom edge of a lookout platform, are the words "come back when your journey is complete." And beneath that, painted on the ground, there's a red eye.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/everlost/easter-eggs-evolved-why-gamers-spent-3-years-plus-studying-gtavs-mount-chiliad?source=Snapzu

The true story of Nintendo's most wanted game

None of this would've happened had Jennifer Thompson not gone thriftin'. This was in April 2013, and she was browsing clothes and $1 DVDs at the Steele Creek Goodwill in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, when she noticed it behind the glass counter. The video game title sparked a memory, a Yahoo article about the rarest games in the world. Jennifer carefully drove her '99 Honda Accord across the street to McDonald's, just to use the restaurant's Wi-Fi to make sure she hadn't been wrong.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/yuriburi/the-true-story-of-nintendos-most-wanted-game?source=Snapzu

5 Ways Gamers are holding back the games they love – Cracked Vs Gamers and violent games

Ah ha, I see…It´s time for yet another “Let´s attack Gamers and violent video games” piece. Well, sadly enough, that´s the case (yet again). As Cracked and Josh Sargent (Senior ed…
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Best Gaming Mouse: Buyer's Guide (Nov. 2016)

Choosing a mouse is a very personal decision. What may suit one person won’t necessarily suit another. There are a range of factors to consider from the various features to comfort and style. This isn’t made any easier thanks to the huge market that currently exists for gaming mice. While gaming mice can be subjective topic, one thing is generally understood to be true among gamers: prediction and acceleration are bad news for competitive play, and DPI numbers are far more emphasized by the big name manufacturers than they need to be.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/TNY/best-gaming-mouse-buyers-guide-nov-2016?source=Snapzu

No Man’s Sky devs end months of silence, announce Foundation Update

Two months of silence from the makers of No Man's Sky ended on Friday with news that the game would finally receive a substantial update "this week." "We’re calling it The Foundation Update, because we have added the foundations of base building, and also because this is putting in place a foundation for things to come," an unnamed author posted at Hello Games' official development blog.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/geoleo/no-mans-sky-devs-end-months-of-silence-announce-foundation-update?source=Snapzu

Are Computers Draining The Beauty Out Of Chess?

The sixth game of the World Chess Championship was over before the sun set. This was new. The intricately fought contests had thus far lasted until night fell, and sometimes well beyond. The darkne…
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Why free-to-play could save EVE Online

EVE's player-driven ecosystem runs on one thing: new blood. By Steven Messner.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/why-free-to-play-could-save-eve-online?source=Snapzu

Steampunk Makeup Guide

From historically accurate Victorian makeup to Special FX (and everything in between). Includes options for men, too. Presented by SteampunkFashionGuide.com.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/getgood/steampunk-makeup-guide?source=Snapzu

Nintendowned: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in (null) seconds

We knew the NES Classic Edition, with its retro aesthetic and solid game selection, would be hard to get at first, but this is some next level, Tickle Me Elmo..
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Facebook officially announces Gameroom, its PC Steam competitor

After losing mobile gaming to iOS and Android, Facebook is making a big push into playing on PC with today’s developer launch of its Gameroom Windows desktop gaming platform. After months of name changes, beta tests and dev solicitation, Facebook opened up the beta build for all developers and officially named it Gameroom. The app is openly available for users to download on Windows 7 and up.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/grandsalami/facebook-officially-announces-gameroom-its-pc-steamcompetitor?source=Snapzu

Sony Issues Response to Xbox One and PS4 Cross-Platform Play

Yesterday, Microsoft announced plans to open up Xbox One for PS4 cross-platform play, and publicly invited many other companies and developers to consider connecting its networks with Xbox Live as well. Now, Sony has given a somewhat open-minded response to the press outlet GameSpot that neither confirms nor denies the possibility of such a deal going down with Microsoft. Nevertheless, Sony‘s reply to the invitation of uniting its PlayStation Network with Xbox Live is moderately encouraging...
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Three Psychedelic Visions of the Future of V.R. Gaming

Virtual reality can be at its best when it’s at its least real. By Simon Parkin.
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2017 Steampunk Event Calendar (events worldwide)

SteampunkFashionGuide.com: A guide to Steampunk fashion: costume tutorials, Steampunk clothing guide, cosplay photo gallery, updated calendar of Steampunk events, and more.
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The Ouija board’s mysterious origins: war, spirits, and a strange death

Historian Robert Murch has spent years studying the Ouija board. He explains how the civil war and the Sears catalogue fueled a phenomenon. By Baynard Woods.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/the-ouija-boards-mysterious-origins-war-spirits-and-a-strange-death?source=Snapzu

How a forgotten ’80s gem created the formula for video game horror

Conventional wisdom tends to ascribe the birth of survival-horror to Alone In The Dark. Infogrames’ 1992 Lovecraftian adventure bore practically every hallmark of the genre and proved a major influence on its two most prominent series, Resident Evil and Silent Hill. What’s often omitted from history books is how Dynamix’s Project Firestart, a much less conspicuous title, had been released for the aging Commodore 64 three years earlier and provided the genre’s formula.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Zeus/how-a-forgotten-80s-gem-created-the-formula-for-video-game-horror?source=Snapzu

EA Origin Server Outage Reported

Yes… there is a problem with EA’s origin server. There is no way to know when it will be back up…but if you are getting Error messages…or “you hav been logged out,” you are not alone. As in millions of players. So…chillax. Do something else and don’t panic. It is likely another DDOS attack…which seems to be part of the new “fun” hackers from Russia have these days. But, hey…just two more weeks and this madness will be over? Maybe…
Read more: http://snapzu.com/messi/ea-origin-server-outage-reported?source=Snapzu

Halloween D&D Adventure

So for Halloween we are hosting a D&D 5th edition game. 1st step is to create a theme. Halloween! Done! Nope, that’s not enough. So I’d like to make it scary, and also this really is initiatory, so it doesn’t have to be overly complicated. How about find and defeat the evil in the Haunted House. What is the Evil, well I will need to figure all of this out as I build this up.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Zeus/halloween-theme-adventure?source=Snapzu

Playing with History: What Sid Meier’s Video Game Empire Got Right and Wrong About ‘Civilization’

Twenty-five years ago, Meier turned human history into a video game, and sold 33 million copies along the way. With the launch of Civilization VI, Kanishk Tharoor takes a closer look at its impact.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/playing-with-history-what-sid-meiers-video-game-empire-got-right-and-wrong-about-civilization?source=Snapzu

Women Are Leading Amazon Ayahuasca Ceremonies for the First Time

Ten years ago women in the Amazon were not allowed anywhere near the rituals. By Marina Lopes.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/women-are-leading-amazon-ayahuasca-ceremonies-for-the-first-time?source=Snapzu

If Battlefield 1 Was Historically Accurate to WWI

Can't wait for that inevitable DLC.
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The Elder Scrolls Online: One Tamriel Update is Amazing & Makes ESO Feel New Again

Players adventuring in the realm of Tamriel, you're in for a treat. Elder Scrolls Online got a big patch called One Tamriel and it has tons of new features.
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Hearthstone: One Massive Poisoned Blade

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A New Impossible Coin [Super Mario 64]

UncommentatedPannen shows that there's yet another impossible coin in the game, located in the huge version of Tiny-Huge Island. Specifically, there's a coin spawner there that's intended to spawn 5 coins in a horizontal line on the ground. However, this coin spawner's located under the ground, causing the most uphill coin to not load properly. In particular, this coin spawns about 49 units below the ground, triggering a failsafe that causes the coin to immediately unload. Currently, there's no known way to collect this coin.
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Violence In Games Does Not Cause Real-Life Violence

Violence is a strategic act. What I mean by this is that a threat to employ physical aggression against someone else unless they do what you want is one that needs to be credible to be useful. If a 5-year-old child threatened to beat up her parents if they don't stop for ice cream, the parents understand that the child does not actually pose a real physical risk and, if push came to shove, the parents would win a physical contest; by contrast, if you happen to hanging out with a heavy-weight MMA fighter and he demands you pull over for ice cream...
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Modern Warfare is still Call of Duty’s finest game

There have been mixed reactions to Infinity Ward’s announcement and trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, if we were to judge by the downvotes on YouTube. Sales projections are still solid for the new title that is going to feature some futuristic space action as opposed to the traditional boots-on-the-ground combat, so it is not easy to tell what the player base’s opinion of Infinite Warfare really is at this point.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Chubros/modern-warfare-is-still-call-of-dutys-finest-game?source=Snapzu

WTF Is... - Battlefield 1 Single Player Campaign ?

TotalBiscuit takes a look at the single player campaign of the highly anticipated shooter from EA Dice.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Coming Fall 2017

Red Dead Redemption 2 will release worldwide in Fall 2017 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems. An epic tale of life in America’s unforgiving heartland, the game's vast and atmospheric world will also provide the foundation for a brand new online multiplayer experience. Watch the Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer at 11AM Eastern on Thursday, October 20th at rockstargames.com, as well at the official Rockstar Games YouTube and Twitch pages.
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Here's Your First Look At The Nintendo Switch, Nintendo's Next Console

Ladies and gentlemen, here’s the system that will be replacing the Wii U (and possibly the 3DS) as Nintendo’s main home gaming system. Meet the Nintendo Switch. It will launch in 2017.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/montyHall/heres-your-first-look-at-the-nintendo-switch-nintendos-next-console?source=Snapzu

Samsung made YouTube remove video of GTA mod that turns Note 7 into a bomb

Samsung apparently doesn't see much humor in a Grand Theft Auto V mod that turns the recalled, hazardous Galaxy Note 7 into an in-game weapon. In fact, the company is trying to erase it from the internet completely. Samsung has issued a DMCA takedown targeting a YouTube video that showcased the mod, which gives the Note 7 explosive, grenade-like capabilities. It was a pretty great way of poking fun at Samsung's ongoing PR crisis — and now the company is responding in a terrible way: ridiculous overreach and misuse of the DMCA tool.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/rhingo/samsung-made-youtube-remove-video-of-gta-mod-that-turns-note-7-into-a-bomb?source=Snapzu

Thompson.

The history of the Thompson submachine gun.
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Introducing Heroic Tavern Brawl!

Heroic Brawl will challenge even Hearthstone’s most experienced players as they vie for glory and in-game rewards!
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