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This game has become your favorite game on Facebook, and now you can play a new version on your smartphone. Candy Crush Match isn't nearly as polished or as fun as the true version of the game, but it's still a decent way to while away some time.

Though the name is the same, this game isn't made by the same folks who make the popular series of Facebook games. It's made in the same style of the Facebook Candy Crush Match and other matching games like Bejeweled, though. Picking up and playing Candy Crush Match … Read more

King.com, the company behind Facebook's No. 1 game Candy Crush, is rebranding and changing its name to simply "King."

It's fitting, considering that the 10-year-old company, relatively unknown just two years ago, is a top game for Facebook.com and in mobile, thanks to its 5-month-old candy-themed puzzle game.

"It's not a .com company, it's a multi-platform company," according to King CEO Riccardo Zacconi. King announced today that its games are played 12 billion times a month. King's games have more than 108 million monthly players on all platforms, desktop … Read more

Adapted from the popular online game, this game is sure to please with its quick gameplay, colorful graphics and hundreds of tasty levels. Candy Crush Saga is a highly addictive game app that promises many hours of fun on your Android device.

At around 31MB, Candy Crush Saga belongs to some of the bigger applications you can download to your Android device. Setup for this game is very simple, and there is a one-touch Facebook registration for those interested in social network integration. Once the game is set up there are tutorials that will help you learn the basic strategies … Read more

It's a Prizefight throwdown showdown! We're throwing two of the best point-and-shoot cameras that were made to outlast the elements. It's the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS4 versus the Olympus Tough TG-1 iHS!

Panasonic's TS4 brings a sleeker design that's still rugged with better image quality results. Olympus' TG-1 is chunkier, but it brings a larger feature set and is even crushproof.

Both of these bad boys are waterproof, shockproof, and freezeproof; which do you think deserves to be crowned the Prizefight King of the Ring?

Cast your vote!

Today's show title comes from this scene in Billy Madison, but unfortunately Adam Sandler got no recognition at last night's Academy Awards.

We thought James Franco and Anne Hathaway made a cute couple of hosts, and we appreciated James's #oscarsrealtime updates but we also agree with Roger Ebert and the LA Times, who gave critical reviews of the remarkably tame ceremony.

As usual, the Oscar food puns for each nominee were borderline more entertaining than the show itself.

Last week we talked about a Facebook app called Breakup Notifier that would send you a message when your crush changed his or her relationship status to "single."

Well, an "accidental" change in the Facebook developer's code permanently disabled access to such notifications, so creator Dan Loewenherz clever shifted his focus to a new project called the Crush Notifier.

The Facebook Crush Notifier lets you purchase Facebook credits that allow you to select crushes in your friend list. Those individuals are notified in an anonymous e-mail, and have the option to rate you back.

If you're selected as well, you'll receive a similar message- unfortunately… Read more

ioSafe, maker of disaster-proof storage devices such as the ioSafe SoloPro for general consumers, is looking to get people excited about what it's going to unveil at CES 2011.

The company put out a short blog post on its Web site today challenging people to guess, well, what it's going to show off at the world's biggest annual consumer electronic show. The reward for the lucky winner: a sample of the product itself.

Apart from a short clue that reads: "It weighs more than a Cadbury Cream Egg but less than an adult coon hound," the company also posted an ambiguous-looking image of the device, pictured above. To qualify to win, you just have to leave a comment at on the blog post by January 2. Some other restrictions apply, of course.

My guess is as good as yours, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be another superrugged storage product, possibly even bullet-proof, considering the blog teased the users by suggesting a "Napalm-proof NAS."… Read more

A Web site promoting graphic videos of pit bulls fighting in Japan and hunting wild boar is shielded by the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

In a strongly worded 8-1 opinion, the court tossed out the criminal conviction of Robert Stevens, a documentary filmmaker in rural Virginia who sold books, videos, and equipment related to raising pit bulls through the now-defunct Pitbulllife.com site.

A 1999 federal law that Stevens was prosecuted under is "substantially overbroad, and therefore invalid under the First Amendment," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote … Read more

Dong wants you to change your passwords often, and he seems committed to spreading his brand of Internet security ideals. I see it slightly differently.

Then, from the world of extreme ridiculousness--at least from my perspective--comes Game Crush . One of the saddest takes on Web 2.0 social networking I've ever heard of. In this episode, I explain why I'm so livid.

Finally, I've attributed the empty void currently in my soul to the fact that my Xbox 360 has been on the road to the red ring. Games have been crashing after two minutes of play … Read more

Let's make sure we've got the concept behind GameCrush right. The Web site pays girls to play video games and live-chat with gamers (presumably somewhat lonely gamer boys), who pay for the privilege. This isn't a joke. This is GameCrush's business model.

GameCrush is set to launch at 6 p.m. PDT Tuesday, and its premise, in theory, is simple. It's the gaming equivalent of buying a girl a drink to chat her up, the developers say.

A Player (yes, they're called "Players") buys points--500 cost $8.25--and uses them to buy &… Read more