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9 Weird Video Game Tidbits From The Elon Musk Biography
Walter Isaacson’s recently published biography of unhinged kingpin Elon Musk, Elon Musk, unloaded several bombshells about Musk’s family and hectic approach to business, but the real gold is his relationship to video games. So I compiled nine revealing video game facts from the Musk biography to help piece it together. The way Musk interacts with…
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IKEA Asks Horror Game to Change So People Stop Comparing It to IKEA
In an unexpected move, furniture giant IKEA has sent a solo indie developer a cease and desist letter reviewed by Kotaku, demanding he make changes to his unreleased survival horror game set in an IKEA-like furniture store. Lawyers representing IKEA are claiming that the game commits trademark infringement because some press outlets have drawn comparisons between…
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Someone Just Bought Two Super-Rare Golden Funko Pops for More Than $140K in Cash
On May 5, a man in Glendale, California met up with another man to buy from him a sealed two-pack of ultra-rare Funko Pops for $US100k (A$141k) cash. This deal, the first six-digit Funko Pop sale ever recorded, is believed to be the largest in Funko Pop collecting history, and it might just be the…
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Fortnite’s Getting Sued by a Dance Choreographer
On March 29, lawyers representing choreographer Kyle Hanagami sued Epic Games for copyright infringement over the “It’s Complicated” dance emote in Fortnite. The in-game emote begins with movements which Hanagami’s lawyers allege are lifted from copyrighted dance moves created by the choreographer. The lawsuit was filed in the Central District of California, and states that…