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'Mafia Wars' Game On Facebook Annoys Pedestrians
PIX 11 NewsFacebook users often complain about " Mafia Wars" and "Farmville" because the world's 90 million players incessantly crowd their friends' walls with game-related gibberish. Now the social networking game is becoming more than a virtual irritant. It is...Tags: Facebook, New York, Manhattan (New York City), New York City, Travel
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AT&T Latest Sponsor to Dump Tiger Woods
AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture in dropping support for the world's top golfer, who's taking a break from the sport to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity.
The phone company hasn't used...Tags: AT&T Corp., Nike, Inc., Clubs and Associations, Golf, Electronic Arts Inc.
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Cultural Exchange: Hong Kong comics industry back in the game
Hong Kong — Times were good in the 1970s and '80s for Hong Kong comics — so good that one publisher was listed on the stock exchange and a newspaper dedicated to the genre published daily for two years. They were, in the words of Tony Wong,...
Tags: Cartoons, World War II (1939-1945), Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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G4 to count down the Top 100 Video Games of All Time in weeklong series
Channel Guide MagazineFrom June 11-15, in a five-part series airing in hourlong episodes at 8pm ET each night, G4′s The Top 100 Video Games of All Time will look at an industry that began in arcades, pizza parlors and shag-carpeted living rooms and has grown into a... -
Timonium video game maker closes, lays off 100
About 100 employees of Big Huge Games, a Timonium-based maker of video games, lost their jobs this week as the studio and its Rhode Island-based parent company abruptly shut down because of financial problems. The 12-year-old company was one of the...Tags: Lincoln Chafee, Baltimore County, Entertainment, Companies and Corporations, Politics
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Skeleton crew cleans up at Big Huge Games in Timonium
Big Huge Games, a studio in Timonium that designed rich, immersive video games, has closed its office and only a skeleton crew of employees remained as its parent company in Rhode Island appears to have gone out of business, according to online reports. ...
Tags: Baltimore County, Entertainment, Companies and Corporations, Politics, Zynga Inc.
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Curt Schilling's gaming company lays off entire staff
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's faltering video game company, which received a $75 million loan guarantee to move to Rhode Island in 2010, laid off its entire staff on Thursday. An email sent by the 38 Studios...
Tags: Lincoln Chafee, Entertainment, Companies and Corporations, Politics, Gaming
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Facebook hires design firm staff, attempting to fix its image?
Facebook has hired yet another company, this time in the shape of a design firm. The social network snatched up the team at Bolt Peters, a 10-year-old design firm in San Francisco, according to a post on the firm's blog put up earlier this week. Bolt...
Tags: Facebook, Arts and Culture, Media Industry, Companies and Corporations, Google+
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Activision clash with Call of Duty developers dates back years
Activision Blizzard Inc.'s testy relations with the two creators of the Call of Duty franchise dated back at least a year before the company fired them, according to emails recently unsealed in the company's $1-billion lawsuit against the developers....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Entertainment, Companies and Corporations, EA Tiburon, Gaming
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Grand Theft Auto V coming by March, analyst says
It's one of the most buzzed about questions in the video game world: When will Grand Theft Auto V hit stores? The hugely anticipated sequel to one of video gaming's best-selling franchises was first announced by developer Rockstar Games last November....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Entertainment, Companies and Corporations, Finance, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
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Q&A: Ask the pediatrician! Dr. Diana Blythe answers your questions about kids' health
Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com
May 21, 2012
Q: My school-age children have been sick with colds lately and, because of conflicting information in the news, I'm still unsure about which over-the-counter...Tags: Nose, Medical Research, Health Treatments, Symptoms, Urinary System
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