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Tomorrow Asteroid 2005 YU 55 will pass the Earth closer than the moon, a 1,312 foot chunk of rock slipping by a mere 201,000 miles away. For scientists it presents an excellent opportunity to study near-Earth objects. For Atari it's an opportunity to market their new free-to-play iOS game, Asteroids Gunner. More »
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Oh don't worry, id's latest and greatest is still scheduled to come out next week; it's premise just got a little bit weaker, as NASA reveals there are fewer apocalypse-causing asteroids rocketing through space than we once thought. More »
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Looks like rumors that Roland Emmerich, the director behind such films as Independence Day, The Patriot and The Day After Tomorrow, is set to direct an Asteroids movie, based on the video game may not be true. More »
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A lovely shrine to things that were excellent in the 1980s, as seen on the Flickr page of Touch Arcade editor Blake Patterson. Cool computer room, Blake! More »
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But you can never tell him the odds...by monkeyminion, as seen on Gamefreaks. More »
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Starcraft II looks to be an amazing game in its own right, but it's also an incredible tool for making your own games. More »
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Kitchen not Asteroids-referencing enough? Have a Centipede problem in your foyer, as in not enough Centipede stickers slathered upon your walls? Wall experts Blik and retro-game rights holders Atari can fix that right up. More »
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Gamers young and old dream of the possibility of being sucked into the world of their favorite video game. Over the Weekend I witnessed live action renditions of Atari classics Kaboom and Asteroids at the Come Out and Play Festival. More »
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It stood for 28 years and took 58 hours and one quarter to beat. More »
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As you read this, history is in the making. Asteroids is being played with great verve. High scores will topple. More »
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On the third floor of the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, visitors to the Penny Arcade Expo East get to visit an actual arcade, filled with free-to-play arcade cabinets and pinball machines, just like mother used to make. More »
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Did you ever play Space Invaders and, while you were dodging and firing and shooting, make up a story about who was in the tank and wish you could someday see them in a movie? Yeah, I didn't either. More »
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Iced chocolate graham cracker cookies recreating a scene from Asteroids. As seen on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories via The Daily What. More »
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Why sit at your computer working all day long when you can head over to the new Atari.com and play Yars Revenge all day long? More »
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Fall is here and that means two things: Prices are rising and temperatures are dropping. But you can still score a nerd-tinged wardrobe without breaking the bank, thanks to this handy save-splurge gamer apparel guide. More »
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The Asteroids movie will deliver a "really strong, deep mythology," for "this big thing in space," says the guy blamed credited as the film's producer. More »
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This should be a hoot. Seems Universal Pictures have won a bidding war against three other studios for the right to produce a movie based on Asteroids. Yes. The 1979 game Asteroids. More »
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From the same people that brought you the history of gaming (in Sauerkraut) comes this: a game of asteroids. Played with tomatoes. Don't ask why. Just ask "Zaxxon with celery next, please". More »
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It was 25 years ago today, Scott Safran taught the world to play... Asteroids. On this day in 1983, 15-year-old Scott Safran began playing Asteroids at an arcade in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5085851&view=rss&microfeed=true Will it blend? OLD NEWS. So 2007. This year, it's all about will it shred. That's the question SSI are asking. SSI make commercial-grade shredders. These things don't shred incriminating tax documents. They shred machines. Watch, then, as one of their units goes up against a genuine Asteroids arcade cabinet, in an effort to see which of the two will come out on top. Just...don't put your money on Asteroids walking away from this one. More »
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All those gaming figurines are neat and everything, but the last thing I want to be doing is explaining who Cloud is and how he carries such a large sword without his arm falling off during a dinner party. And multiply that statement times a thousand for my wife. More »
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This week's newcomer to the Xbox Live Arcade service is actually a bundled pair of virtually identical games, as Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe will hit Xbox 360s this Wednesday, November 28th. The original versions of each, a strictly black and white, low-fi affair, will be joined by "evolved" versions of the game, retaining the same gameplay but spit-shined with pretty sparks and lighting effects that we've come to expect from things that are evolved. There's even a hyperspeed "Throttle Monkey" mode that will hopefully help you justify the 400 Microsoft Points required to buy in. As a side bonus, your purchase of Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe comes with free bitter tears from Jeff Minter. That's value. More »
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The folks at Binaryzoo have a new game to unleash on the PC world. Echoes is a sort of cross between Geometry Wars and Asteroids with lots of flashing lights and pretty colors. Fortunately, for those of you apt to have seizures during long strobe sections, there is a non seizure setting that can be implemented. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=261982&view=rss&microfeed=true Remember the Pro-Keds Arcade Series shoes I posted back in late April? I wasn't kidding when I said I was desperately trying to find a pair for sale. Seemed like the Pac-Man shoe was the only one widely available, until a reader sent me a link to Designer Athletic, who had the Asteroids model in size 8, 8.5, 10, and 13. Now they are out of 13's *grins*. More »
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Like many of you, I used to laugh whenever Crecente would start going on about his love for gaming shoes. Until I saw these beauties from Pro Keds, of all places. When I was a young lad, Keds were those plain white shoes your mother would always buy and try to pass off as sneakers. These are definitely not my mother's Keds. Crecente and I have been killing ourselves trying to find these for sale, since the Pro Keds site's Buy Them Online button isn't working. Bastards. I must have your Centipede shoes! More »
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Those son of a bitch triangles have been terrorizing our great asteroid fields for years. Exact your revenge against those three sided heretics and honor our rocky space wandering brothers! Asteroid's Revenge!! It's free, it's fun, it's strangely satisfying to smash spaceships. Michael McWhertor More »
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What the hell is that? Only the worst gaming-themed Halloween costume of all time: the Atari's Asteroids costume. God knows I have absolutely no idea how you wear the frickin' thing. It looks like the costume is basically to wrap yourself in a gigantic plastic baggie and then slide a rubber mask resembling a giant, throbbing brain over your head. More »
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Guys, I'm really bored. Play some Multiplayer Asteroids with me, okay? I promise I'm really, really bad and I hardly know what any of the power ups do, so you can beat up on me for hours while I shirk my Kotaku duties. I'll be KotakuMike and I'll just sit there for a few rounds so you can up your kill ratio. More »
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Oh, that's HOT. For a mere $250 American, you can hit the slopes with your nerd flag flying proudly in this Asteroids inspired, but most likely not endorsed, softshell jacket. More »
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So what if I was doing some online shopping on a Saturday night? I have a good excuse! Really! But lucky me, while searching for new t-shirts, I stumbled upon this new Penguin Asteroids tee. Fashionable, yet won't get strange looks at the arcade. More »
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