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	Jon Stewart Blasts Viacom For Stupid Blackout; Viacom Sheepishly Turns Web Streams Back On Last week, we wrote about Viacom's really short-sighted decision to use its fans as hostages in a silly dispute with DirecTV over fees. More...
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07.19.2012

Gaming News:

An Open Letter from Blizzard to the Diablo III Community
GamePolitics
Blizzard President offers a post mortem on the game's launch and what the company plans for the future.

Fez Developer Won't Fix Buggy Update Because it 'Costs Too Much'
GamePolitics
Indie developer will re-deploy patch that corrupts save game files to save some clams.

58 Hours of Borderlands 2
NHS
That is how long it will take to finish the single player campaign...

How fast is your ISP? A new report tells all.
GigaOM
Is your ISP the slowest? Only if you have DSL, apparently.

Top 10 Lost References In Video Games
GameInformer
Game developers loved the ABC drama so much that they had to sneak references into their games. Fan boys...

New Assassin's Creed novel due this Christmas
MCVUK
Thank you Santa!

Scientists using Kinect to study locusts
GameSpot
Ecologists from Princeton want to use research to aid in swarm prediction.

Diskette Boy: A PC Gaming History Mashup
RPS
Video manages to portray a history of PC gaming, in a really stupendous way.

State Department Proposes "Trolling" Web-Based Islamic Extremists
Escapist
The Viral Peace program is out to make the internet uninhabitable for Islamic extremists.

Recruit a friend for World of Warcraft, get a winged panther mount
ShackNews
You become the winged panther and players will get to ride on your back.

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