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That's potentially alarming news for the approximately 60,000 plus estimated attendees of this year's Penny Arcade Expo We contacted Penny Arcade reps to get more details on the reports of Swine Flu "This is the real thing If you get this number of people together in Rado this close a proximity it is the perfect storm for these kind of wild fire virus spreads," Penny Arcade's Robert Khoo told Kotaku "We just want to make sure everyone is informed.

"Khoo said that the reported case came from a Boston based game developer, one who confirmed contracting the H1N1 virus with a doctor That developer contacted PAX officials with confirmation of the infection.We contacted the U.S Center for Raymond Weil Disease Control and Prevention to see if any other reports of Swine Flu infection had been reported from the show and are waiting to hear back.As PAX officials already noted, we'd highly recommend seeking medical help should you notice any symptoms,

include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue We'd also recommend reading more information about the virus at the CDC's web site.iPhone owners with a retro enthusiast streak got some good news this Rolex Ladies weekend — an approved Commodore 64 emulator was now available for the Apple platform via the iTunes Store Today, the bad news hits.

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Sony's "High Resolution Image Enlargement Technology" may not have the coolest name, but the PlayStation 3 and PSP software could make for a much more interesting, zoom tastic PlayStation Store.Shown at the recent CEDEC conference in Tokyo, the high res image tech makes for a sweet looking calendar, smoothly scaled images and embedded Philip Stein web pages, but not much else But according to DigInfo, Sony will provide this image enlargement library to game developers, which could make for something interesting from a gameplay or application standpoints down the road.

High Resolution Image Enlargement Technology : DigInfo [YouTube via Engadget]Here is the Xbox "Playmaker Award"/Lamp as seen by Koaku at the Microsoft Xbox offices in Redmond, Washington You can't buy this It'll be passed around to exceptional employees There were other oddities that I saw during my quick tour of the offices The Piaget lamp was one of my favorites.The Playmaker Award is kind of like an Employee of the Month award crossed with the Stanley Cup crossed with an Xbox 360 crossed with Thomas Edison

It wasn't in use yet, but I was told that it is intended to honor employees for innovative work, the rounds of Microsoft as it does.munication from official PAX sources indicate that the show may have been home to an infestation of the H1N1 flu virus, more commonly known as the Swine Flu, with Penny Arcade reps urging attendees to monitor symptoms.The Porsche official PAX Twitter account wrote today "Just heard of our first test confirmed swine flu case at the show PLEASE if you feel symptoms (fever, etc) go to the doctor.

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Blizzard is working on giving players access to the World of Warcraft auction house through the WoW Armory, meaning players could soon do their in-game shopping everywhere they go.The news comes by way of the World of Warcraft forums, with Blizzard poster Bornakk informing players of the new development in a post titled ""Update: replica Cartier W50002N2 WoMen's watch Auction House & Armory Integration."" According to the post, a service is now in development that will allow players to access the auction house through the Armory website, as well as the Armory App for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Once released, it will be the first major MMO player auction house available outside of the game itself, and workplace productivity among World of Warcraft players will drop like a stone.There are a few things to keep in mind, however.First, this is a Blizzard service, which means they won't release it until they are damn good and ready, and second, as Bornakk points out, elements of the service will be premium-based, which replica Cartier watches Santos 100 watch means there is certain functionality you may end up having to pay extra for.This is a fairly complex service to develop, due in large part to its unprecedented integration with the game, so we don't have an exact release date yet.

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