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    Bargains, Coupons, Freebies

    Games, games, games! Did you come across a bargain? A noteworthy sale? Is Steam selling one of your favorite games for half the price and you'd like to recommend it to your friends at AltTabMe? If you feel that it's a steal, post your find here!
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    RPS' Hands On: SimCity

    Source: Cara Ellison from RPS. Click here to read the original! As SimCity nears release (March 5th), we sent natural born mayor Cara Ellison to sit down with the game for a day. She recreated inner-Scotland. I dreamed of marching into EA HQ in a black pencil dress and high heels and...
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    Building Roads in SimCity

    Source: blog article by Ocean Quigley, SimCity's Creative Director. Click here for the original! When I started working on SimCity, Will Wright had an observation for me. "Roads" he said, "Roads...are hard." And oh, man, were they ever. What's more, they're fundamental. In previous SimCity's...
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    Things you DON'T want to hear!

    There are many takes on the classic "Things you don't want to hear from ____" jokes, whether it's your pilot or your surgeon who's filling in the blank. Your mission is to come up with something you wouldn't want to hear and who you wouldn't want to hear it from! Example: I wouldn't want to...
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    Your nick reminds me of...

    Easy: What does the person's username in the post above yours remind you of?
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    One thing that inspired you...

    Sometimes you come across something that wasn't planned, something that rattles you, touches you, wakes you up and lets you break out of your daily grind. A picture, a movie scene, the melody of a song, a train of thought, an idea, a realization, a moment that you shared with a loved one, a few...
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    Corrupt-A-Wish!

    Corrupt-A-Wish! I'm sure most of you have played this one before, the rules are very simple: I make a wish, and the next poster has to come up with a terribly bad consequence that comes with my wish being granted. After corrupting my wish s/he then makes a wish of her/his own and hopes for...
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    Bug: Chatbox out of place

    Taking a page out of Claark's book with the bug report, ;) Bug Description: The chatbox is slightly out of place when I'm viewing the website (it appears to be next to the "Chat (x)" text instead of underneath it): Operating System: Windows 7 Browser: Firefox 18.0.1 (Unable to recreate...
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    Upcoming games in 2013!

    I'm curious, what games are you guys looking forward to this year? On the top of my list are a few games that I wish I could play right away: Arma 3 (2013) Day Z (standalone) (2013) SimCity (March) Dead State (Q4) Single player zombie survival horror RPG! And here are a few...
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    Digital Music Production, Anyone?

    I'm wondering if anyone here is into (or interested in) digital music production? To get straight to the point: I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm a perfectionist, I have good ears, and I have many ideas - but I'm still miles away from getting the results that I'm looking for, or getting...
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    A Qwirkle-rant

    For those of you who haven’t heard of it, Qwirkle is a strategy board game (mobile app coming out soon-ish) in which you need to match tiles to score as many points as possible to win the game. There is a fair amount of luck involved, but for the most part, it’s a matter of strategizing to come...
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    What's in a name?

    Kali and I had a chat about our nicknames, and we thought it would be a fun idea to post a thread in the forums to hear the stories behind people's online names! Why am I calling myself Jia? Many years ago I created a character in the first Guild Wars standalone expansion "Factions". The...
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    Jia's Application

    Name Rene Age (must be 18+) 33 (Earlier, in chat, the much-younger-than-me Bruce called Raz “young” in an almost fatherly way. Boy does it feel awkward revealing my age now.) Do you have any friends in the guild? If so, who? Nope. But I've chatted with a few friendly people. Main Character...
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    Borderlands 2

    I know everyone has their eyes set on GW2 right now, but Borderlands 2 will see its release in mid September. I'm curious, is anyone here planning on playing it? Borderlands 2 trailer: Looks like the game will be putting Nvidia's PhysX to good use too: I've had it on preorder for...
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    No "guesting" on release

    Caution, if you're thinking that your server choice will have no effect on the PvE aspect of the game, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise: It looks like the promised "guesting" feature that allows you to join your friends' worlds and explore the PvE aspect of the game together won't be...
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