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Do it yourself clothing and crap company CafePress has teamed up with Microsoft to give Xbox Live users the ability to print and purchase stuff starring their own personalized avatar. Let's go Voltron force! More »
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Movie to video game adaptations of the early 1980s were difficult things. Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, and The Empire Strikes Back were as hard to master as they were hard to genuinely enjoy. More »
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If you're on the fence about picking up Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, these preorder bonuses might seal the deal. More »
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No, it won't be wall-to-wall digital blue people. Well, I hope it won't, because, man, I did not like Avatar. More »
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Microsoft removed a Confederate soldier's uniform and cap from an Xbox Live avatar items collection, following complaints from users about what the symbols represent. More »
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Every couple of weeks we deliver a list of our favorite (mostly) new Xbox Live Indie games to officials involved with the Xbox 360. We pick our favorite indie games; they list them in a corner of the Xbox Live Games Marketplace called Kotaku's Favorites (it's in the Indie channel). More »
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3D. Had enough? Tough crap, it sounds like there will be more. And according to movie director James Cameron (pictured, with George Lucas), the future of 3D is being fueled by video games. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5795268&view=rss&microfeed=true Video games have stolen many things from Hollywood. What's Hollywood going to take back? Director James Cameron wants to shoot Avatar 2 and 3 at 48 or even 64 frames per second, the latter rate being the ideal framerate for first-person shooters and racing games. Movies are usually shot at 24 fps, but, hey, if every other military game is going to steal from Cameron's Aliens, then surely the man can have his 60 frames which, he says, "is just reality. It is really stunning." [The Hollywood Reporter] More »
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Activision makes with the corporate gloating today with news that Call of Duty: Black Ops has surpassed $1 billion in worldwide sales since its release in November. That's faster than Modern Warfare 2, but James Cameron still has it beat. More »
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Kinect may be touted as the Xbox 360's answer to motion gaming, but it's not just about making you the controller. Kinect can also let you interact with television, movies, music and the Xbox 360 like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, just without the fancy gloves. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5680932&view=rss&microfeed=true Sure, the new look for the Kinect-compatible Xbox 360 avatars isn't that different than the old look, but there is a certain je ne sais quoi. More »
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StarCraft and Diablo maker Blizzard already has a World of Warcraft film in development with Spider-man director Sam Raimi. What might twist the arm of Blizzard's top creators to get a StarCraft movie underway? James Cameron might! More »
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With the official Kinect Beta flooding out to those select few whom Microsoft invited to test out their upcoming motion gaming add-on, the images are already starting to stream in. More »
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Return to story. More »
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Preordering NBA 2K11 from GameStop will land your Xbox Live or PlayStation Home avatar a Michael Jordan No. 23 Bulls jersey for free. I hear if you pre-order Rock Band: Lollapalooza you get a Gary Trent Miami Heat model instead. More »
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Masahiro Sakurai, the man behind Smash Bros., is now the man behind Nintendo 3DS game Kid Icarus Uprising. Is it his first 3D game? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5605102&view=rss&microfeed=true Though Hollywood has cozied up to Comic-Con, which is in San Diego on July 22, a film's strong showing there does not necessarily portend success at the box office. Nor does a poor screening imply a bomb. More »
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At first I thought this was a Marine CH-46 ferrying a extremely large, green hot dog. No, it's actually an Army Chinook carrying a raft. Microsoft gave out this Kinect Adventures Avatar toy to everyone at last night's Kinect event. More »
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Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is not a fan of today's 3D, stating it is no different from the technology available in the 1950s. More »
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Clothing puts flesh on the avatar. More »
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After years of top-down and isometric views, EA is taking the Monopoly franchise to the streets, transforming it from board game to a "dynamic, living, 3D world." Will this be Monopoly's Grand Theft Auto III? More »
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It's not. This is a pirated game manual. A really, really funny one. More »
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Avatar is the biggest grossing movie of all time. It's video game version is not. It is, instead, a miserable failure. Why? More »
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Typically, there are two ways to bring media from one language to another language. One is to subtitle. The other is dubbing. Do you have a preference? More »
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So you're upset that you have to pay $15 for five maps, two of which are old, and that the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package launched broken. You know what'd cheer you up? Free night vision goggles for your avatar! More »
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Peter Molyneux, the game designer behind the Fable franchise, was invited on the set of Hollywood motion picture Avatar. He didn't quite "get it". More »
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Avatar, the biggest grossing film ever, looks familiar, says Square Enix's Motomu Toriyama, director of Final Fantasy XIII. A little too familiar. More »
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I was ready to like Avatar: The Game, the official video game of the movie like I've liked no other movie-game before. I said so when I reviewed the movie last month. And then, well... More »
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James Cameron's Avatar has brought in over $1 billion at the box office. Activision's Modern Warfare 2 has done likewise. Let's see how a blockbuster film and a blockbuster video game compare. More »
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James Cameron, the director of James Cameron's Avatar, has a rebuttal for Halo fanboys criticizing his film for its resemblance to their favorite game. In a nutshell, Cameron reminds everyone that Halo's borrowing from him, remember? More »
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Sci-fi opus Avatar, from director James Cameron, is the second highest-grossing movie of all time; and it's still playing in theaters. Earning over $1.8 billion, his historical epic Titanic is the biggest grossing film worldwide. More »
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According to the New York Times, someone out there thinks that James Cameron's Avatar is big budget mental poison because of its on-screen tobacco use. Let's start there, as we walk the winding path toward Avatar's video game association. More »
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Who is that lady who appears in the new Avatar video game from Ubisoft? Why, it's Kendra Midori who just may have starred in another Ubisoft game under a different name. More »
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As expected, James Cameron's latest blockbuster brings with it a tie-in title for every platform but the George Foreman Grill. More »
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In one of the most roundabout and expensive methods in history, James Cameron's new movie, Avatar, proposes that those of us who have honed our video game skills in the 21st century could become the world-saving diplomats of the 22nd. More »
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Conan O'Brien's really on the video game humor bandwagon - especially if he's going after disappointing film adaptations and skewering pompous trailer motifs. If the point here is "Avatar: Prepare to be Underwhelmed," we had that covered long ago. More »
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Reporting its full first-half 2009-10 financial results today, Ubisoft stresses its confidence in franchise titles like Assassin's Creed II, while some of its Wii titles continue to under-perform. More »
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With a new game coming out that supports 3D glasses gaming, publisher Ubisoft is claiming that 3D glasses gaming will someday be essential. More »
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Folks who participated in the Register - Tweet - Win Final Fantasy XIII event have unlocked a special prize for all Xbox 360 FF fans, and it tweets! Well, it warks. More »
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Shoot arrows, ride giant birds, and embrace your inner Predator, all in this Navi gameplay montage for James Cameron's Avatar: The Game. More »
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