Greenheart Games has come up with a clever, refreshing way to discourage its patrons from pirating video games. Minutes after releasing their latest title Game Dev Tycoon last Sunday, the developers intentionally leaked a free "cracked" version of the game on a torrent site, and with the help of a few seeding friends, more than 3,104 users, or nearly 94% of all players, had downloaded the illegal copy within the first day. What none of them had realized is that the "cracked" version was designed for failure: after a few hours of gameplay, the player's virtual game development company's titles would become victims of piracy themselves, causing them to slowly go bankrupt.

Watch the latest parody of Dove's viral "Real Beauty Sketches" ad campaign that explores how men view their own balls in contrast to what others see. As it turns out, men, too, are their own worst beauty critics.

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Check out this awesome fanart showing who's who of the fictional crime-fighting universe. How many can you name? For more info, be sure to check out the labeled version of the same illustration. Original art illustrated by deviantART user Dryponder.

Over the weekend, Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson released his latest browser-based game Drop. Inspired by Terry Cavanaugh's 2012 game Super Hexagon and his apartment ceiling, Notch created the typing game in lieu of a submission to the rapid game creation competition Ludum Dare. Hat tip goes to BoingBoing!

It may sound like a bad joke from a family comedy film, but this actually happened: Michael Doyle, a 19-year-old who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, was prevented from boarding a plane for involuntarily ticking the word "bomb." According to Doyle, he was waiting to board his flight to Puerto Rico when he suddenly found himself repeating the "B word" while having a panic episode over the recent terrorist bombings in Boston, Massachusetts. In responding to the news, Jet Blue released a statement explaining that Doyle had been deemed a "safety concern" by the plane's commanding pilot and the airline offered him a free round-trip ticket to make up for the embarrassing fiasco.

Who knew taking selfies could get so dangerous? After Sun Sports reporter Kelly Nash took an Instagram of herself during a Red Sox batting practice, she later discovered that a flying ball had narrowly avoided hitting her in the skull. On an interesting side note, Nash later credited a DVD copy of the film Angels in the Outfield she had been carrying with her for saving the day.

In the cover story of the upcoming May issue of Sports Illustrated, NBA free agent Jason Collins publicly revealed that he is gay, becoming the first active male professional athlete in the United States to do so. According to the article, Collins worked up his courage to come out after hearing about his college roommate-turned-Massachusetts senator Joe Kennedy walking in last year's Gay Pride Parade in Boston and now, they will be marching together at this year's parade in June. Collins' disclosure was largely met by encouragements and messages of support from dozens of other athletes as well as his twin brother Jarron.