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Justin and Brian are so stunned by an off-the-bat $100 in-app-purchase that they don't even notice the ads, stolen sound effects and Pokemon ripoffs.

If you've been playing Counter-Strike on the ESEA gaming network, you've been doing a lot more than tossing virtual hand grenades and firing virtual machine guns. You've been mining Bitcoins for an unnamed staffer inside the company that runs the network. The mining started on April 13 and may have affected as many as 14,000 gamers.

CCP EVE Online is a game famous for its devious players attempting to either fight for power or to destabilize the game in some way. I spoke with the then- EVE Online executive product John Lander at Fanfest in Iceland last week, and I asked about the player behavior that most surprised or delighted him.

Discusses the challenges of UX for video games. Traditional UX (simplicity) leads to boredom. There's a fine line between good-tough and bad-tough.

Apple's rumored iPad mini could very well be a shrunken-down iPad 2, according to analysis by Instapaper developer Marco Arment. He recently discovered references to two previously unknown iPad models in logs that track device usage among Instapaper users, which suggest Apple may soon release two new variations of the iPad 2.