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The App Store's rotten with platformers. Everywhere you turn, there's some developer revisiting his or her childhood with their own take on the hoppy/jumpy left-to-right adventure genre. Many of these stink or are otherwise unremarkable. But 5th Cell's Run Roo Run is different. More »
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The iPhone iteration of 5th Cell's magical word puzzle game gains voice control on the 4S, integrating Siri's voice recognition technology in Scribblenauts: Remix to make you say things like "Giant Flying Kielbasa" in mixed company. More »
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The fantastic image you see above is courtesy of someone named crzisme over at Reddit, and is an actual in-game screenshot! A pretty realistic representation of the Occupy Together movement, wouldn't you say? More »
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The premise and the promise of Scribblenauts always was extraordinary: write any noun (concrete noun, no proper names) into the game and the virtual object it represents will appear. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5848854&view=rss&microfeed=true Currently, we know Scribblenauts Remix is a new domain registered by Warner Bros. (and spotted by "superannuation"), but little else about mysterious Scribblenauts project. But, I wonder what would be summoned if we typed in "iOS" into a Scribblenauts game... More »
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5th Cell's inventive puzzle-platformer Scribblenauts will be coming to vinyl toy and plushie form later this year, thanks to bobblehead and action figure experts Funko. Maxwell in fabric and vinyl form is now available for pre-order at fine toy resellers. More »
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The next great innovation in shooting video game bad guys is focused not on our virtual guns, but on our virtual feet. More »
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Scribblenauts is now out in Japan, and to make up for the delay, some extra characters have been added to the game. Like who? Well, the fact it's been published by Konami might give you an idea or two... More »
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Scribblenauts is a title that is synonymous with the English language. Or, at least, the Roman alphabet. So how does the game look when it gets translated into Japanese? More »
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If you know a little something about which people make which video games, the trailer for a game called Hybrid released late last month seemed strange. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5697191&view=rss&microfeed=true 5th Cell, the team behind Scribblenauts, plan to unveil their next game a week from today on Spike TV at 1 a.m. PDT. The team says that the new title is going to be "a completely new experience for Xbox Live Arcade players." More »
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Mom, Dad and Mini-Maxwell seen this weekend in Los Angeles at a launch event for Super Scribblenauts, which hit shelves yesterday. More »
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Super Scribblenauts, out yesterday, contains more words than its decidedly wordy predecessor. How many words is that? Try about 33,000. And here they all are! More »
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What innumerable whimsical scenarios can Scribblenauts players generate like some sort of god in the sequel? How about knife-wielding murderous computers, flaming snowmen and flesheating bicycles? That's just the tip of the iceberg in the still kid-friendly Super Scribblenauts. More »
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It's tough to beat the wow factor of the dizzying dictionary of usable words in last year's Scribblenauts for the DS. This year's followup: Super Scribblenauts, doesn't try to outdo that as much as perfect other aspects of the game. More »
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Scribblenauts returns in 2010, and as you'd expect from a game like this, the focus is on new words. All kinds of new words. Like EXPLOSIVE ADJECTIVES. More »
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We already know that the DS sequel to 2009 hit Scribblenauts will not be called Scribblenauts 2. A now-dead link on Amazon suggests it will be called Super Scribblenauts. More »
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Beating Zelda and Grand Theft Auto, Jeremiah Slaczka's 5th Cell won top handheld and innovation honors at the Game Developer's Choice Awards for Scribblenauts. After winning, he explained why the sequel isn't "Scribblenauts 2" ... and I got Pokemon tips. More »
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A sequel for last year's breakout DS hit Scribblenauts graces the cover of the latest Nintendo power, promising a look at what 5th Cell has in mind. More »
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Attention, Joan Rivers. Heads up to the E! Network. Pay attention, producers of the upcoming Academy Awards pre-show. I am about to show you how to do a Red Carpet right. Because everything is better with video games. More »
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While Scribblenauts ultimately failed to live up to many people's (perhaps unfairly lofty) expectations, it was still an admirable piece of work. So it's nice to see that it's punched well above its weight in terms of sales. More »
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment proudly announces today that 5th Cell's word-based wonder, Scribblenauts, has sold more than one million units worldwide. That's more copies than you can shake a fig leaf gourd at! More »
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Our finalists for Game of the Year have all been announced and continue to be hotly debated within Kotaku Tower as we try to come to a conclusion, but those three titles weren't the only ones of note in 2009. More »
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While not cake, these confections define the idiomatic dilemma of choosing to have one or eat it. Ana Fuji's amazing truffles tackle many themes, games among them. On the jump, Pokémon, LEGO and, yes, Super Mario truffles. More »
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Language recognition is not a new concept to video games - the first text adventures had to understand commands somehow. But researchers are trying to integrate it in more open-ended ways - allowing for dynamic conversations between players and characters. More »
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Jeremiah Slaczka, the visionary behind Scribblenauts and other creative Nintendo DS games from studio 5th Cell is today's guest on our live Kotaku podcast. We're starting now. Call in. You could be live on the air with me and Jeremiah. More »
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As noted yesterday, Jeremiah Slaczka, lead designer of 2009 DS surprise Scribblenauts will guest-host tomorrow's live Kotaku call-in podcast. Show time's 11am MT, 1pm ET. Call-in and listening details will be live on the site just before show time. More »
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Looking back on 2009's many kerfuffles and foofaraws, it may not have been the most contentious year the gaming industry has ever seen. But it certainly was among the most entertaining. More »
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The very creative creative director behind Scribblenauts and the Drawn to Life is hanging with our own Stephen Totilo this week, taking your calls and answering your queries with a vocabulary of more than 22,800 individual words. More »
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Where many video games have you hone your reaction time and eye-hand coordination to excel, a mastery of spelling and a deep vocabulary are key to succeeding in Jeremiah Slaczka's DS title. More »
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As seen on Tiny Cartridge. More »
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This year saw the launch of not one, but two additions to the DS family. More »
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Post price drop sales of the PlayStation 3 in the United States appear to have giving the console "strong momentum" following a "strong surge" that should give the console a "very strong" October, according to GameStop VP Tony Bartel. More »
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Though it didn't make an appearance in the NPD Group's top ten bestselling games in the U.S. for September, 5th Cell's innovative Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts conjured up impressive sales. More »
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Having sufficiently conquered the handheld platform with clever games like Drawn To Life and Scribblenauts, developer 5th Cell is moving onward and upward to console platforms. That includes a "pretty big" unannounced Xbox Live Arcade game. More »
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Scribblenauts is People's Exhibit No. 1 for giving a game a great name. It's a unique word, hinting strongly at the quirky adventures you'll have. Good thing, too, because the original name sounded like something Wink Martindale would host. More »
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This past weekend's Approval Ratings sought to measure your attitude toward the PSPgo, which launched this week, and also motion control systems, which have been much in the news lately. You're not going for either in strong numbers. More »
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After a week's hiatus, Kotaku Approval Ratings has returned to measure your opinions on certain games, concepts and controversies involved in the news over the past two weeks. More »
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Despite a groundswell of internet love, Scribblenauts isn't quite at the stage where they're churning out official action figures. Still, that doesn't stop people making their own. More »
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