WSJ: Gamers find love in MMOs
Filed under: Culture, PC, Online, RPGs, MMOIt goes without saying how MMO games have embedded themselves into our culture -- we have heard for some time about quite a few people who have found love in...
View ArticleA not so fairytale wedding
Filed under: News, Fan stuffSubscribers to Nintendo's mailing list received a classy invitation to Bowser and Peach's wedding early this morning. Posing for a photo to promote Super Paper Mario's...
View ArticleViva Pinata marks its first wedding proposal
Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360 Niagara Falls? For suckers. Having a plane write it in the sky? Boring. On the Jumbotron at a World Series of Video Games event? Sadly impossible. There's...
View ArticleBlizzard designer's gamer wedding
Filed under: Culture How to incorporate gaming into your wedding and still keep it tasteful? It's a question many young men and women are dealing with nowadays. So, until we get The Tasteful Gamer's...
View ArticleMan proposes using homebrew Bejeweled
Filed under: Fan stuff, HomebrewHey, casual games don't have to be cynical exercises in making loadsamoney. In fact, our inner romantic dork almost swooned after recently reading the tale of Bernie and...
View ArticleRomantic gamer proposes with homebrewed Bejeweled
Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS Proposing in MMOs like World of Warcraft and Second Life is played out, so what's a gamer to do when he wants to drop to one knee and still retain his nerd...
View ArticleViva Pinata proposer tying the knot today with game-themed cake
Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360 We all had our hearts warmed last year when we heard of David Rosowski's delightful approach to nuptial queries -- the young man proposed to his girlfriend Jenn...
View ArticleRock Band saves marriage
Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm Call us sappy saps, but we can't get enough of video game success stories -- failing relationships resurrected through the power of...
View ArticleRock Band rekindles relationship
Filed under: NewsThe tale of a spouse who pays more attention to a hobby than a significant other is an old one. Just what that hobby is has changed over the years. Be it watching sports, spending too...
View ArticleDo you take this Sackboy? The LittleBigPlanet marriage
The Escapist reports that Jed, a smitten Little Big Planet gamer, created a level last October in order to propose to his girlfriend, Andrea. She said yes, and now the couple have sent out a wedding...
View ArticleMario World marriage proposal is clever (but kinda creepy)
Marriage proposals via video games aren't exactly new, but they're still clever -- and usually cute. Last Thursday, Brad Smith proposed to his girlfriend of five years using a hacked version of Super...
View ArticleGuy hacks marriage proposal into Earthbound
Video game-themed proposals certainly aren't new, but when a reaction is as genuine as Liz's -- who was just proposed to via an in-game message hacked into Earthbound by Matt -- it must be shared....
View ArticleTook longer than expected: A marriage proposal in Minecraft
Wow, you really can build anything in Minecraft: To-scale models of the U.S.S. Enterprise, gigantic explorable globes, or relationships that last a lifetime. Check out the video after the jump to see...
View ArticleGearbox helps man propose via Claptrap
You can add one more feature to the list of Borderlands' Claptrap's various robotic abilities. Along with "dancin' ... dancin'!", getting angry about overlooked awards and taking over the world, you...
View ArticleA Metroid marriage proposal that would make the Chozo proud
Marriage is a sacred commitment; it's no kind of small thing to consider. You need to show you mean business. You need to put some effort into a proposal.Jered McFerron did when he decided to rewrite...
View ArticleGame Designers Union: Brenda Brathwaite marries John Romero
Matrimonial news now, as development veterans John Romero and Brenda Brathwaite tied the knot this weekend. The Romeros, who between them can boast Doom, Wizardry, Quake, Commander Keen, Jagged...
View ArticleRIFT players set record for most in-game weddings in one day
It wasn't but yesterday that we ran our feature on the gaming achievements of the Guinness Book of World Records: Gamer's Edition 2012, but between then and now, a new MMO-related record has been set....
View ArticleNothing like a June wedding ... in Azeroth
Soulbound! When World of Warcraft devotees become devoted to one another, do their characters get in on the action too? Some players save their gaming passions for a WoW-themed wedding cake, but other...
View ArticleTrue Love Between Gamers: I do take this rotting corpse as my husband
Ahh, the buoyant peal of June wedding bells -- as poignant and brimming with joy in Azeroth as here on Earth. Now that meeting a spouse online is no longer the social scandal it was in the earliest...
View ArticleDaily iPhone App: Avocado aims to connect couples on the go
In any marriage or romantic partnership, there are moments of agreement, negotiation, compromise and conflict -- but, above all, there has to be communication, digital or otherwise. The team behind...
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