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Newsweek has dealt a death blow to the Konami Code zombies gag that invaded its newly minted website last week, causing the magazine's headlines to read like sci-fi thrillers after a special, classic videogame code was punched-in by viewers.
"It's true that our programmers had a bit of fun and hid the Konami Easter egg in the site. It does not affect the rest of the site's functionality. Now that we've all had a laugh, we will be removing it," Katherine W. Barna, a publicist for Newsweek, said in an email to AOL News.
Newsweek added that none of their programmers had been fired over the incident. No word on whether or not any of them were turned into zombies.
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