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MySpace getting old... literally
According to comScore Media Metrix, MySpace users are starting to look a bit long in the tooth. Despite the common conception of MySpace as a teenybopper mecca, comScore says that half of all MySpace users are 35 or older, and the under-25 set makes up only 30 percent of its population. comScore has never been accused of incredible accuracy, but GigaOM's Liz Gannes called Fox Interactive whose spokesperson, Ann Burkart, confirmed the numbers' accuracy. According to Burkart, the 35+ demographic is growing fast on MySpace, having made up only 39.5 of MySpace's users a year ago.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
