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In case you didn't know, there are poor gamers. More »
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Do gamers need a theme song? An anthem that celebrates the gamer lifestyle and proves they can get girls? Did I just hear the lyric: "Get a girl and break the trend? And prove the ruuuumorrrrs wrong!"? 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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It is no secret that video games aid players with their hand-eye coordination. A new study shows that playing video games extensively reorganizes how the brain handles difficult visuomotor tasks. More »
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A recent study suggests that video game players could have the power to alter their nightmares, turning the tide on the things that go bump in our subconscious minds. We are the Dream Warriors. More »
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Here are a couple of guys checking out Gran Turismo last month at a PlayStation showcase at Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival. Seems weird, but I never frequented beach arcades either. Anyone else out there play games sans shirt? (PIC: Michael Buckner/Getty Images) More »
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You aren't some kid holding controllers from different systems posing for stock photos. You're a real gamer. You piss pixels and bleed polygons, and ultimately the fate of gaming in 2010 is up to you. What will you do? More »
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Next weekend in Miami you can enjoy live music, tournaments, world record competitions, special guests, a costume contest, and a video game museum at Infinite Bits, South Florida's "first major video game convention." More »
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A new study suggests that gamers are older, more active and more often female than previous industry figures have suggested. More »
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Any girl gamers reading this - move along please, nothing to see here. The BBC is reporting some dramatic new findings in the search for the root cause of premature ejaculation. A possible genetic link has been found that could make some men more prone to the condition. A study of 200 Dutch men found that many who shared a gene linked to low serotonin levels were, shall we say, prone to uncorking their wine before it had properly matured. Paula Hall, a sexual psychotherapist for relationship counsellors Relate,pointed out that this may show itself in other areas of the men's lives. More »
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Sega US boss Simon Jeffery wasn't the only big name in the industry who felt that this year's E3 Expo lacked a certain livelihood. Former Microsoft tattoo bearer and current EA Sports head man Peter Moore says that last week's event was "soulless and lacking an epicenter". All is not lost though. In a post on his official blog late last night, Moore assures us that the problems can be fixed, and that getting the fans involved is the key. More »
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When Brian first told me what I was going to be doing, I'll admit I was a little overwhelmed at the thought of going through potentially hundreds of photos, and making them presentable for all the world to see. But now I understand why Crecente called the first gallery his "labour of love". It was really exciting getting hear from you guys and receiving stories about your gaming setups from all over the world. I'm a little sad I couldn't include all the great stories you guys provided me with, but I think many of these pictures speak for themselves. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=345980&view=rss&microfeed=true In case you have never been here or have noticed that I haven't been posting lots of "hands on" articles, PAX is really about gamers. It's not an E3 where you will see all the latest games (although there are some thing s here) it's more a giant social gaming party. Everywhere you look there are gamers playing games. And not just video games either, there is plenty of board gaming, card gaming, RPG gaming, D&D gaming and pertty much any other kind of gaming you can think of. As I've been wandering around I've marveled at all these gamers peacefully co-existing with each other, making friends and just generally having a good time. If you've ever doubted the camaraderie of the cult of gaming, come to PAX and it will change your outlook completely. More »
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When Cheetos and Rockstar Energy drink stop cutting the mustard in giving you the necessary carbs and sugars to keep you going to the next level, you can now turn to Headshot, the energy bar for gamers. It's crisped rice, chocolate, toffee, and caffeinated guarana berries that you've been missing nutritionally from your diet, not those pesky fruits and vegetables. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=268041&view=rss&microfeed=true If you've never seen Wife Swap, you are missing out on some of the best reality television American programming has today. The premise is simple - two insanely different families trade mothers for a week and "earn" $20,000 for being on the show. That's how lucky viewers get to meet people like little Maguerite, "God Warrior". And if you would like some one like Maguerite to terrorize your family on national television, well now is your chance. ABC is looking for "avid" gamers to let crazy people into their house, and in turn they will send you out on a fabulous vacation into the very abyss of American culture. All you need to do is have a family that consists of two parents and at least one child (6+) living at home, and your promise that you won't call social services after you arrive at your new family's home. Many will enter, few will win, all will be scrutinized. Kim Phu More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=267996&view=rss&microfeed=true Sitting in teh front row of the Sega Gamers Day. More »
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This week sees the official launch of Eurogamers, the community-driven social networking site for European gamers. Part of the Eurogamer network which includes GamesIndustry.biz, the new site allows users to create profiles, join groups, maintain game lists, and be advertised at based on their gaming preferences. Eventually they will integrate user blogs. More »
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Apparently I'm a cryptic and rabid misogynist and my thinly-veiled attempt at getting female writers to work for Kotaku was all about how there are no female bloggers out there and why I hate women. (Note to self, make sure my wife doesn't read this, she'd kick my ass.) More »
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The Great Games Experiment is a social networking site created by the folks at Garage Games for the purpose of bringing together gamers, developers, and publishers into one cohesive community setting and seeing what wonderful things come of it. Think of it as Myspace for gamers. You can create a profile, list your favorite games, upload images, write game reviews, and even sign up for a developers account and share your own creations with the community. More »
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Analysts at TNS Worldpanel Entertainment have released research indicating that over the past four years the number of female and older gamers is on the rise. Old codgers (here interpreted as over 45) buying games for personal use has risen over 40%, while the female figure (rawr) is up 67%. They didn't say how many women over the age of 45 were buying games for themselves, which just goes to show I should be a market analyst, since they obviously didn't follow through here. Slackers. More »
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Hands. They're our tools. We use them to shoot, drive, jump and talk. UK photographer/journo Jon Jordan has a Flickr gallery up of gamers' hands. A fascinating and insightful look at an aspect of gaming that's often overlooked. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Bunching your face up into a ball, fine. Leaving your mouth gapping open, passable. But doing strange crap with your tongue? No thanks. Some photographer took photos of people playing video games "to reveal a hidden part of their character." Neat, in a creepy way. Brian Ashcraft More »
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There was a little bit of a stink last week at the W. More »
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We piss and moan continually about bad game press from the mainstream, and the attention paid by a worried and misled public to the Insane Jackasses, but even our most stringent objections often fail to consider the long-term societal ramifications of the villification of gaming. More »
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What a collection of jackasses. Jack Thompson rants; Adam Sessler, coked out of his mind, issues blustery straw man retorts and screams at the top of his lungs. Mark Friedler says that the real source of all society's evil is this dang hip-hop music that kids today are listening to, yet at least remains calm and collected. More »
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I'm not sure any of you are gamer enough to be reading this. I've discovered a simple test to ensure that what I say here will not go over your wee heads. Says Aeropause: More »
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In his series titled simply "Gamers (a work in progress)", photographer Todd Deutsch has produced a series of artfully-composed portraits documenting the slack jaw, slumped posture and terrible skin afflictions with which all gamers are intimately familiar. More »
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Wired has a great article up, detailing India's rise as a gamer society and the proliferation of cybercafes and gaming tournaments through India's growing middle class. India today is China of 2001: A rumbling cluster of highly compressed gamers ready to explode in a Big Bang across the entirety of the subcontinent. More »
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Do boy gamers hate girl gamers? Yes. frankly, I'm sick of you baby factories mucking up my cathartic games of virtual butchery with your rainbows and puppy dogs. I wince every time my girlfriend wanders barefoot out of the kitchen to play a game of Animal Crossing on my Gamecube: Doesn't she know that the estrogen she's oozing all over the controller is having an acidic reaction to the Cheetos-dust patina I've laboriously worked up over the years? You girls want to game? I've got a game you can play. It's called "make me a sandwich." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=183285&view=rss&microfeed=true To celebrate my recent, and undoubtedly brief victory over Florian as "Most Hated Kotakuite", I present for the delectation of your outraged eyes and nuts a trailer for a movie guaranteed to make many of us more self-conscious and uncomfortable than the convention scenes in Galaxy Quest. Thanks, Sarah! Eliza Gauger More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=182787&view=rss&microfeed=true There's something funny in the Hollywood waterbottles, I tell you: Jerry Bruckheimer has just been signed up to produce Game Boys, a sci-fi action movie spec script, with Disney putting up the moolah. Here's the matchbox pitch: More »
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Alexis over at The PSP Nation emailed to remind us of their site which helps Playstation Portable owners find people to game with. Coincidentally, The PSP Nation just kicked off their Frappr site. So now you can check out a map of where other PSP owners live. Sadly, none of them are in Colorado. Not one single gamer. Dammit, if it's the last thing I do, I will make Colorado a gaming hub. More »
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Robbie Cooper has a gallery up at BBC News featuring gamers pictures beside their avatars. It's probably not a representative sample, but it's solid photography and these galleries are always interesting. The fourth dude in the gallery is one of the 33 kings in Lineage. How do you get to be a king? More »
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