Hasta La Gadget!

In order to get game developers to contribute to the OUYA project, OUYA and Kill Screen collaborated together and launched the CREATE Game Jam. The event was a massive success for OUYA, drawing in around 165 game developers. They drew in developers with special grand prizes, like a $20,000 grand prize, and a $5000 prize for each winner in the specialized categories.

After several weeks, both Kill Screen and OUYA finally have a king to crown in their contest. The game, Strange Happenings on Murder Island, developed by FreeLives, has been crowned the Grand Prize winner of the entire event, scoring them the coveted prize of $20,000. Strange Happenings is an odd, Minecraft-esque game, packed with gun violence, dinosaurs, and possibly drug-induced levels. We can definitely see the entertainment aspect of the game.

There were also 6 special categories in which the winners won the $5000 each. The winner for the “Most Surprising” award was ‘Television’ by Laboratory Games LLC. The winner of the “Four Bright Buttons and Two Joysticks” award was ‘Bombball’ by E McNeill. The winner of the “Most Immersive” award was ‘Whispering Willows’ by Night Light Interactive. The winner of the “Pop Your Eyes Out” award was ‘Pipnis’ by Santa Ragione. The winner of the “Best Couch with Friends” award was ’2D Cube Zombie Platformer’ by Molinware. And finally, the “Best Game Created Using the Unity Engine” award went to ‘Stikbold’ by Team Stikbold.

So congratulations to all of the winners. It was also a huge win for OUYA as well. Not only will the winners of each category be included in the OUYA gaming system, but every other game that competed should be available for the system too. These games are optimized to be played on the OUYA system, and they should make the Kickstarter product that much more appealing when it finally hits the stores in June.

[via Kill Screen]

OUYA CREATE Game Jam winners burst forth is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian President Evo Morales says he’s nationalizing a Spanish-owned venture that runs the country’s three main airports and is ordering the military to make sure the facilities stay operating.

Morales’ move Monday is the latest in a series of nationalizations he has ordered of mostly Spanish investments in what he considers public utilities.

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Hacking into systems and servers to play some harmless pranks isn’t anything new, but today Burger King’s official Twitter account was breached and the hackers appeared to be die-hard McDonald’s fans, because they ended up changing the page’s branding to the McDonald’s logo and name, and mentioned that Burger King “just got sold to McDonald’s because the Whopper flopped.”

Burger King’s Twitter account, which has almost 90,000 followers, was made to look like McDonald’s own Twitter feed, with a McDonald’s logo and all. The only difference was that the username remained unchanged. Many of the tweets beared the hashtag “#DFNCTSC”, which seem to suggest that the hackers behind this comical trick are a part of the Defonic Team Screen Name Club, who are best known for hacking into Paris Hilton’s phone.

The hackers continued to tweet for 30 minutes before the account was finally suspended for the time being. Tweets were filled with text, photos, and videos that made fun of Burger King and its employees, including a couple of tweets mentioning employees doing drugs in the bathroom. The rest of the tweets were pretty random and some didn’t really make sense.

Twitter has recently been a huge target for hackers, with over 250,000 passwords leaked from a hacker who broke into the service’s servers. This also isn’t the first time that verified accounts, and popular Twitter users have been targeted. Major League Baseball was recently hacked, as well as the New York Yankees account, which made fun of Derek Jeter.

UPDATE: We’ve received some stats about the hacking from Unmetric regarding the Twitter account. The number of followers that the account gained jumped from 83,000 to 110,000 within 60 minutes, and the hackers sent a total of 55 tweets before the account was eventually suspended, 33 of which were either replies or retweets. McDonald’s also chimed in on the Burger King hack, assuring users that they had nothing to do with the fiasco.

[via ABC News]

Burger King Twitter account hacked to show McDonald’s superiority [UPDATE] is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Just in time for President’s Day, a new poll shows Bill Clinton topping New Jersey residents’ list of favorite presidents.

In a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press survey, 22 percent of New Jerseyans named Clinton as their all-time favorite president. Coming in at number two is Ronald Reagan, who topped 16 percent of respondents’ lists, dropping from 24 percent in 2010.

“Three years ago, Ronald Reagan garnered the most support of any president in our poll, but he seems to have lost some of that support to the nation’s first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln,” poll director Patrick Murray writes.

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