Boston Bombing; "Always on", EA, Game Over, Videogames, Tetris

Boston Bombing

• FBI to probe Marathon bombings that killed child, 2 others, hurt 140
• 'No detail too small' in hunt for marathon bomber: FBI
• Heightened security across the country

"Always on"

• Following Twitter Tirade, Creative Director Adam Orth No Longer With Microsoft—Guess he got dealt with.
• Your tweets are always on: Adam Orth leaving Microsoft proves personal twitter accounts are dead
• Microsoft Xbox 720 criticism: always-on requirement would be suicidal
• Gears of War creator comes out in support of an always-online gaming future
• Xbox Live outage knocks gamers offline, renders Netflix and other apps useless

EA

• EA Makes Worst Company In America History, Wins Title For Second Year In A Row!
• EA executive responds to "worst company" poll: "We owe gamers better performance."—Dorkly.com has brings another perspecttive.
• EA Updates The Simpsons: Tapped Out With Origin Syncing, Deletes Some Players' Entire Towns
• EA selling advertising space in Sim City
• EA lays off employees to 'streamline operations'

Game Over

• Call of Duty "has almost ruined a generation of shooter players"
• January sales show continued rough tides for the Wii U
• Disney closes Lucasarts
• Lucasarts' Closure Convinces Developers To Release Awesome Star Wars Source Code
• EA shutting down The Sims Social, SimCity Social, and other Facebook games

Videogames

• What Games Are: The Shady Side Of Games
• This AI "solves" Super Mario Bros. and other classic NES games
• 24-year-old Total War fan immortalised in Rome 2 shortly before losing battle with cancer
• Sega forced to admit wrongdoing in Alien: Colonial Marines advertising."
• 'Bioshock Infinite': A First-Person Shooter, A Tragic Play

Tetris

• Playing Tetris in Stop Motion Chalk Art Is A Lot Harder Than You Think
• Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Is So Awesome At Tetris He Was Once A Champion At It
• The Weirdest And Most Exciting Tetris Lookalikes
• Tetris music theme in major
• First Person Tetris