Word: pizzas
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...addition to inserting ads, gamemakers are experimenting with other novel ways of drawing revenue from multiplayer online gaming. "Pizza was just the first step," says Chris Kramer, spokesman for Sony Online Entertainment. "The next step is letting people buy music, clothes and DVDs within our games." Sony's game consumers, mostly 18-to-35-year-old males, will soon be able to charge such purchases to the same credit cards Sony has on file for their game subscriptions, Kramer says...
...many video gamers, juggling a joystick and a pizza is second nature. What's frustrating is having to stop playing to order. Sony Online Entertainment may have solved that problem with the recent release of add-on features for the game EverQuest II, allowing players to order online from Pizza Hut without leaving their game screens, let alone their couches...
...Banna loved America. During his nearly two years in the U.S., al-Banna, a lawyer by training, made a living as a factory worker, a shuttle-bus driver and a pizza tosser. He went to the World Trade Center and the Golden Gate Bridge, grew his hair long and listened to Nirvana. He told his family back in Jordan about the honesty and kindness of Americans. "They respect anybody who is sincere," he told his father. He said he had planned to marry an American woman until her parents demanded that the wedding take place in a Christian church...
Pring-Wilson admitted to stabbing local Hispanic teen Michael D. Colono to death after an altercation outside of a pizza parlor on Western Avenue in April 2003, in what his defense called an act of self defense...
Damien, a deeply and eccentrically religious child, favors giving it to the poor in whatever form he can—from stuffing it into the mailboxes of a local group of Mormons to treating several vagrants to a Pizza Hut dinner. Anthony, already immersed in consumer culture, sees the windfall as a way to gain popularity in his new school (and high-tech toys). Perhaps unsurprisingly, the money is eventually revealed to be the result of a robbery and the thief has tracked it down and wants it back...