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The Wall Street Journal reports on the new tech boom and all of those wonderful perks it brings with it. More »
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One week ago, a red-ringed Xbox 360 met its fate under a firing squad from Kansas City. At the same time, a frustrated Dutch demolitionist packed his malfunctioning console with an illegal Italian pyrotechnic, the Cobra 6. More »
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We can daydream about alien invasion, killer robots, and rampaging genetic mutations, but the world is more likely to go on until something like this happens: the death of a star. More »
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BioWare has announced the latest playable planet for Star Wars: The Old Republic, Alderaan - an lovely place to hide your bastard children from their corrupted, guilt-crazed fathers. More »
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Finally a set of screenshots for EA's Boom Blox Bash Party that accurately portray what a true Bash Party should look like. More »
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The dust has finally settled for Jeff Gerstmann after the Gamespot controversy. He's actually starting a new site called Giant Bomb. Essentially a review-heavy video game blog, Gerstmann promises his tech crew is building a "robust, feature-filled website...which we'll use to talk about games. And energy drinks." More »
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Hot off the success of Bomberman Live on Xbox Live Arcade, Hudson is bringing the Bomberman Land triple threat in January with Bomberman Land for the Wii and PSP and Bomberman Land Touch! 2 for the Nintendo DS. Solve puzzles and quests in single-player mode, play 40-50 mini-games, or make some friends blow up real good in the Battle Pack Mode, which promises classic Bomberman action. The DS and PSP versions will both support single cartridge play, while the Wii version obviously won't. In fact the Wii version only supports 1-4 players locally, so until they get some online action going I'll stick to the 360 for my Bomberman fix. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=301933&view=rss&microfeed=true Crecente got a chance to play Warmonger, Operation: Downtown Destruction back in June at NetDevil's anniversary party, and they pretty much had to pry him away from the computer. PC gamers will soon get a chance to see if they experience similar ass-stickiness as NetDevil announces plans to release the game via digital download on October 16th for the low, low price of completely free. I've yet to see any mention of PC requirements, but from what Brian wrote back in June the Ageia PhysX card will not be one of them, with an option to turn off the effects for PC's without. This is good, because my Ageia card from BFG arrived dead, and I've yet to take them up on that lifetime replacement warranty. I'm not good with shipping things, apparently. In honor of the impeding release, NetDevil has produced a veritable art gallery of destruction. Enjoy! More »
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August software sales figures have just been released by the NPD Group, showing that EA's venerable football franchise shows no signs of slowing down, just like John Madden at a buffet table. The Xbox 360 SKU crushed the competition, beating out the PlayStation 2 version by an additional 250,000 units sold. Some 2 million-plus units of Madden NFL 08 were sold across all platforms. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=299760&view=rss&microfeed=true Here's what happens when you try to gather all the sand together in your sandbox game and attempt to make is explode. More »
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Been playing through my fair share of Resistance (man, the second half of single player gets HARD real fast!). The online experience so far has been alright. I play on a Japanese server, but don't yet have a headset for voice chat. The most players I've seen online at one time in a Deathmatch has been around 12. But what if there were 40 people in one game, doing the same thing at the same time? The game's Chief Tech Officer, Al Hastings, explains: More »
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