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Zynga closes Timonium video game studio in broader consolidation
Zynga, the video game maker best known for FarmVille and Words With Friends, has closed its Timonium office as part of a broader corporate consolidation, company officials said Monday. The company also made changes at three other offices, closing and...
Tags: Gaming, Timonium, Zynga Inc., FrontierVille, Gaming Industry
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Phelps, Maryland's Olympians welcomed home
Arriving aboard the Pride of Baltimore II and hailed by a cannon blast from the Constellation, Michael Phelps and Maryland's other Olympic athletes were celebrated in true local style Monday afternoon by elected officials and an Inner Harbor crowd. "I...
Tags: Kevin Kamenetz, Tide Point Waterfront Park, Inner Harbor, Swimming, Public Officials
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Michael Phelps doesn't want your Words With Friends request
The Baltimore SunFor a few moments this weekend, the world thought they had a chance to go head to head with Michael Phelps -- on Words With Friends, that is. The Olympian accidentally revealed his screen name for the game, sending it out to his nearly 200,000 Twitter...Tags: Scrabble (game), Michael Phelps, Alec Baldwin, Twitter, Inc.
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Essay: Social gaming for the anti-social
This is a quandary about the future of video games, but it also has a lot to do with text messages, phone calls, headsets and millennials. The backlash to the “Facebook Age” cries out for more human connection, more “real”...
Tags: Social Media, Sociology, Gaming, Xbox, NBC (tv network)
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Introducing Game Cache: Press Start to play
“You can learn more about a person in an hour of playing 'Call of Duty' than in a year of conversation.”
-Plato, paraphrased
Hello, fellow gamers. We don’t know each other yet, but I need to ask: Will you co-op with me?
You see, I want...Tags: Gaming
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Why can't Alec, Leisha, Kevin and Gerard fly the friendly skies?
The Baltimore SunNote to airlines: Can you please stop kicking celebrities off your planes? Alec Baldwin is the latest in a string of high-profile kerfuffles based on what to me - person who was not there - seems some very thin reasoning. And then there's: -Country...Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Mitt Romney, Green Day (music group), Alec Baldwin, LMFAO (music group)
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TV This Week: May 26 - June 1: 'Smash' on NBC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 26 - June 1, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SUNDAY Them? The Bluth family is back in...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Jennifer Lopez, Luke Kirby, Matt Damon, TLC (tv network)
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Silicon Valley's unlikely new favorite cause: Gov. Christie
The Philadelphia InquirerThe hottest new trend in Silicon Valley isn't inventing a gadget, developing an app, or investing in an IPO. It's giving to the governor of New Jersey. Gov. Christie has collected $289,150 from those involved in California's technology industry, an...Tags: Social Media, Mark Zuckerberg, Parties and Movements, Government, Microsoft Corporation
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Mother knows best
No one ever threatened me with my mom coming home. No one ever said, "You just wait until your mom gets home. You'll be sorry then." Mom was much too delicate for that. She had dark hair and ivory skin, long perfectly polished oval nails, a soft...Tags: Mother's Day, Hulu
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Brother's impending move worries 'big sis'
Dear Amy: My mother is planning to move to a state far from the one in which we have lived since I was a preteen. She is moving with my younger brother, "Barney." He is 12, and I am 21. I want to go with them so my brother and I don't grow apart as my...
Tags: Skype
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Daniel Radcliffe's Out cover story reveals a few choice tidbits
Daniel Radcliffe's Out magazine cover story teaches us a couple of very important things. One, he seems like a really decent guy who gets along with just about everybody when he's on a movie set. Two, he's circumcised. Radcliffe, who plays Allen...
Tags: Social Media, Judaism, Sundance Film Festival, Allen Ginsberg, Google Inc.
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'Scoring' at Orlando's arcade bars
Like a lot of people whose phones have been replaced by demanding little robots, I have had some difficulty adjusting to the new technology. Thanks to smartphone games such as Words With Friends, there are no longer awkward pauses in conversation, or...
Tags: Gaming, Bars and Clubs, Orlando Science Center, Dining and Drinking, Colonialtown
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