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3 hrs ago | Digital Trends

'Earth Defense Force 2025:' Bigger bugs, more vehicles, and over 700 weapons

Earth Defense Force 2025 is the fruit of the Global Defence Force tree, the same tree that gave life to Earth Defense Force 2017 and Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon.

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Related Topix: Sandlot, Earth Defense Force 2025, D3Publisher, Video Games, Games, Earth Defense Force, Jaleco Entertainment, The, Deep Silver

18 hrs ago | AllAfrica.com

South Africa: It's Time to Let Mandela Go, Says Controversial Cartoonist Zapiro

As anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela spends his 11th day in hospital on Tuesday, South African satirical cartoonist Zapiro tells RFI that hanging onto Mandela is not helping the country.

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Related Topix: Mandela, Drama Movies, World News, South Africa, Africa, Journalism, Games

Tue Jun 18, 2013

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Daily iPhone App: Agricola is Playdek's great adaptation of the board game

Agricola is one of the most popular board games around these days -- it's sort of a farming simulation game, where you can take two turns every round, and then periodically get rewards paid off in a harvest.

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Related Topix: Games, Agriculture, Science

The Cincinnati Enquirer

Grant hosts Summer Career Experience

The Summer Career Experience was open to all students finishing the eighth grade from Bethel-Tate, Felicity-Franklin, New Richmond and Williamsburg school districts.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Games

Business Journal

Winning Kickstarter campaign kicked one game developer's butt

The UpTake: Crowdfunding has created new opportunities for upstarts, but in case you needed reminding, it's not a magic wand for building businesses.

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Related Topix: Games

The Courier-Journal

Business Snapshot | Colin Moore, role playing at Game Shop

Games: "The shop specializes in board games and hobby games and provides a playing space.

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Related Topix: Games, Retro Affect, Snapshot, Video Games, Louisville, KY

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Evening Sun

News in brief June 18, 2013

Hauser Estate Winery, 410 Cashtown Road, Gettysburg, will offer the second annual renewal of marriage vows Sunday, June 23 at 1:30 p.m. It will be a mass renewal of vows with all couples participating at the same time.

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Related Topix: Gettysburg, PA, Wedding, Arendtsville, PA, McSherrystown, PA, Games, Adams County, PA

The Paramus Post

Gooey Louie is a Hilarious Family Game Where Players Take Turns Picking Louie's Nose

Gooey Louie is ignoring the old adage "you can pick your nose and you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your friend's nose."

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Related Topix: Games

Patch.com

Scooper's Ice Cream Sweetens Up East Windsor

Sometimes a taste is all it takes to conjure up a memory, and Scooper's Gourmet Ice Cream of East Windsor is hoping to bring you down memory lane this summer.

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Related Topix: Life, Dessert, Food, Ice Cream, East Windsor, NJ, Windsor, NJ, Games

Trend Hunter Magazine

Island-Sized Board Games - The Yoron Island Will Be Transformed into...

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the board game 'Game of LIFE,' The island of Yoron in Japan teamed up with Hasbro in order to create an island-sized board game.

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Related Topix: Games

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Lansing State Journal

Use your brain to stay cognitively fit

Experts say you rewire your brain each time you create a new memory, and playing board games and doing crosswords can help.

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Related Topix: Games

Examiner.com

Live Action Role Playing at Origins 2013

This weekend gamers and game companies from all over the country and many nations have descended on Columbus, Ohio for the Origins 2013 gaming convention.

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Nuketown

My Favorite Game I Never Play

I love WizKids' Pirates of the Spanish Main and its various expansions, even though I never actually get to play the game.

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Fri Jun 14, 2013

The Daily Gazette

Comics, gaming store opens

DIXON – A comic book and board games store opened June 7 at 118 N. Peoria Ave., at the former Dollar Green location across the street from Dixon High School.

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Related Topix: Games, Dixon, IL, Morrison, IL, Potatoes, Life, Food, Vegetables, Whiteside County, IL, Fulton, IL

The Almaden Resident

Rose Garden:

Centuries ago, before video games could even be imagined; adults and children in Egypt enjoyed playing a board game called Senet.

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Daily Southerner

Harper goes to Disney

Little Harper Doughtie, who has battled leukemia for one-third of her short, six-year life, got the wish of a lifetime earlier this year when Make-a-Wish Eastern North Carolina sent her and her parents to Walt Disney World in Orlando.

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Related Topix: Leukemia, Health, us Travel, North America Travel, Travel, Orlando Travel, Family, Kids, Games, Edgecombe County, NC

NBC12

12 About Town: Things to do on Father's Day

It's time to show appreciation to the number one man in your life. Here's a collection of the perfect things to do to celebrate him on Father's Day.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Breakfast, Life, Food, Games

Switched

Andreas Bernstrom: How Communications Technology Brings Generations Together Like Never Before

Not too long ago, technology served as a divider between generations. Parents, for example, saw their iPod-using, headphone-wearing kids as blocking themselves off from the rest of the world.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Games, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Draw Something, Skype, Facebook, Instagram

El Paso Times

In brief: Archbishop overseeing Nigeria to speak in El Paso

The Most Rev. Nicholas Dikeriehi Orogodo Okoh, the primate of the Church of All Nigeria, will lead the 10 a.m. service Sunday at St. Francis Anglican Church, 470 Eagle.

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Related Topix: El Paso, TX, Games

Thu Jun 13, 2013

Cornish Guardian

Henry Jasper of Grublin Games. PZPM20130604A-001C.JPG

Already known for creating brain teasers for friends and family to enjoy, the 33-year-old set up business Grublin Games recently to help push his ideas forward.

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