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When he got the vision floater in his right eye that morning at work, Mikey Neumann figured in the next 30 minutes he'd be asking someone to drive him home so he could fight off a migraine. But the walloping headache never came. More »
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"Obviously, I can't bring people back to life," Jon Jacobs recently told me. Obviously. More »
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"Disco is NOT dead!" shouted Eddie Izzard as a disco dancer-in-denial in the ridiculous super hero parody, Mystery Men. More »
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It was the hot, sticky summer of 1990. Japan's bubble economy, the period of rapid growth during the 1980s, would be over in a year, but Japanese gaming showed no signs of ending its dominance. More »
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It's the oldest profession in the world, but even in the free and easy 21st century, prostitution is still something that makes a lot of people squirm. Makes them feel uncomfortable. Maybe games can change that. More »
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Long hours, hard work, crap weather. Then there's the boredom, the long hours of boredom, followed by the bursts of heart-pounding adrenaline. This is war. More »
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There are approximately 100,000 hair follicles on the human head. Over the past three decades, video game developers have valiantly attempted to render them all. We've charted those attempts in one massively hairy infographic. More »
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Some time last year, I landed in Los Angeles. I was catching a connecting flight, the bane of the expedient traveler. But I was unusually happy for the brief stop. I'd been changed by something in my phone. More »
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I remember the first time the idea of making a gaming themed wine label came into my head. I was sitting in a wheat truck with 10,000 lbs of Hard Red Winter in the bed. More »
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Games are about social achievements, right? About goals, fulfillment, and making us feel powerful and happy? And yet video game lies are a part of the culture. More »
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What would the new year be without a massive graphical detailing of the highs and lows of the year previous? Let's take a look back at 2010, giant infographic style. More »
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How would Tim write a Super Mario novel? Who is the David Mamet of video games? Why are gamers so inarticulate? What was the crunchiest game of 2010? You asked our opinionated columnist video game questions. He answered, in depth. More »
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Greg LoPiccolo didn't have to leave his office in a brick building near Boston this year to see how two of the biggest trends in the last half-decade of video games were playing out. There were doubters outside. Inside? More »
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What was 2010? Maybe it was the year we got past the "are-games-art" debate. Game developer Kellee Santiago hopes so. She was in the thick of it, as she discovered one very early morning back in the spring. More »
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Christmas. It's not only a holiday, but a mood, a memory. Movies ranging from It's A Wonderful Life to Home Alone capture that festive feeling. Video games, do not. More »
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We think there's a video game out there for everyone, young or old, man or woman, and we want to help them find it. But we need your help. More »
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You've never heard of this game. It's in only one cabinet, playable in one city and, generously estimating, maybe it makes a dollar a day. Nothing about this video game suggests it's someone's meal ticket, but it is. For life. More »
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Jeffrey Yohalem wanted the blockbuster video game he wrote this year to be different. He wanted Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood to say something about the world today, if he could get away with it. More »
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He's one of the most hated men in movies. Critics pan his flicks. Audiences aren't having it. Gamers loathe him. Heck, a chewing gum maker even wanted him to retire. But is it possible that we've all been wrong? More »
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It's happened again: I spent 100 hours on Dragon Quest IX and I'm running out of things to do before I can just go beat the game. Funny thing is, I probably never will. More »
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Is Super Mario Bros. 2 bad? Was the Sonic series ever good? Who is the Ben Kingsley of video games? What does that even mean? You asked our opinionated columnist video game questions. He answered, in depth. More »
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Nintendo's famous ape seemed like a villain back in the original Donkey Kong game, but he's been a good guy recently. Which is it? We asked people who would know, some of whom were dressed as Nintendo characters. More »
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My acting teacher taught me a variety of things, such as how to cry on command and sound really excited about floor wax. More »
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Whether you feel the need for speed or the need to make the car you're driving sounds as close to the real thing as possible, The Kotaku Genre Guide to Racing Games has you covered. More »
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For a game based on a historical period and littered with historical figures, the latest Call of Duty game sure does take a lot of liberties with, well, history. So let's try and sort the fact from the fiction. More »
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Microsoft is spending half a billion dollars to make sure that when you hear the word Kinect you think "the future of video games." More »
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There's an old translator's joke that goes something like this: If you literally translated what is said when a Japanese businessman calls another, you'd get two people constantly apologizing. Not exactly fall over funny, but it's true. More »
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What if the gap between the work we "have to" do and the video games we want to play were smaller? It's happening – and while it's helped me reach some goals, it's also concerning me a bit. More »
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A tricked-out dune buggy busts through a mural made up of post-apocalyptic imagery and battered road signs in the front of NetDevil's Colorado offices, a lasting reminder of a world that came and went in the blink of an eye. More »
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For twenty years, one video game has tormented the office workers of the world more than any other. And it has nothing to do with farms, orcs or terrorists. More »
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Join us for a nostalgic look back at a decade of waiting for PC gaming to die. More »
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The other day, I mentioned to my friend of 10 years that I was doing research on massively multiplayer online role-playing games ("MMORPGs") for one of my game design jobs. I said that it was especially difficult to understand what people were talking about on online forums, given that I'd never played an MMORPG for more than an hour of my life. More »
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My love for slapstick comedy was evident at a very young age. Just ask my mom who used to film me ranting about airline food and had to clean up the aftermath of my Chevy Chase pratfalls. More »
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Seconds before he angered a lot of people, Jeremy Eden declared that he had figured out how to make a lot of money. More »
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I've never been much for online multiplayer. I play video games to get away from other people, I always say. I like a good campaign, totally solo. Or so I thought. More »
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The sounds of guns echoed throughout Al-Assad Library Book Exhibition in Damascus, Syria. The guns weren't tangible, but virtual. The conflict, however, was from real life. More »
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Electronic Arts' military shooter set during the modern war in Afghanistan could have lost its official U.S. Army support over the inclusion of Taliban fighters as playable characters in the game's online mode, military officials told Kotaku. More »
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When we play a great game, we know who to thank: the developers. But when we see a great game trailer, did you know that sometimes the developers had little or nothing to do with it? More »
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"The world lies on the brink of destruction. Only a select few may be able to save it." More »
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