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Jeff Fletcher, an IT guy from Halo creators Bungie, pulled into the parking lot of a US Bank branch in Skyway, Seattle last week. He then saw two guys start shooting each other. What happens next is awesome. More »
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Researching the exact birthday for a tribute to the 30th birthday of Donkey Kong, Patrick Scott Patterson of the Arcade Examiner came up with conflicting information. Absent official word from Nintendo, he thinks the big ape—and therefore Mario (né Jumpan)—turned 30 yesterday, July 9. More »
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The Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Wild. Majestic. Coffee-soaked. For too long these dark and mysterious areas of the United States have been bereft of a local GameFly distribution center, forced to suffer longer-than-normal shipping times for their game rentals. Today GameFly says no more. More »
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We're all familiar with the Make-a-Wish Foundation, who it supports, and why. With that out of the way, PopCap Games today announced that Allied Star Police, by the Seattle-area games designer Owain Weinert (pictured) will soon release for all iOS devices on the iTunes App Store. More »
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Yesterday's rumors have proven true, as Sony Online Entertainment confirms 205 cut positions, the closure of three studio locations, and puts the final bullet in the head of massively multiplayer online spy game The Agency. More »
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Or would we? We'd shoot one portal beside our couch, one on the side of the bus, and wait for it to reach its destination from the comfort of our own homes. Seattle's mobile Portal 2 ads via Reddit. More »
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Yeah, yeah, I know. Post-Its as the pixels in an old-school sprite mosaic, that has been done, and overdone, before. I don't know if I've seen it done this well, or this comprehensively. A Seattle-area office building complex, which includes Expedia as a tenant, has been locked in a kind of Post-It art competition that got the attention of local TV there. More »
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Good point, but if you just go ahead and donate the scrap metal, you get +10 good karma. Trolled office flyer for a Seattle-area school's fundraiser, seen via Reddit. More »
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Greene's Hardware in Seattle has a special on katanas this weekend - two for $309.99. You can also find values on dynamite and mayonnaise. What the hell is this? A pretty awesome Dead Rising 2 community event at PAX. More »
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Prosecutors say a New Jersey man managed to convince four 13- and 14-year-olds to send him pictures of their genitals by saying it was a membership condition of the clan he was starting in Call of Duty: World at War. More »
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After successfully launching the pilot program in Cleveland, Ohio, Blockbuster Video's Gamefly-challenging Games By Mail rental service expands into the Seattle area. More »
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Kotaku has arrived in Seattle at the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo for a weekend filled with news, interviews, hands-on time with all of the latest games, and enough Seattle's Best coffee to fell a rhino. More »
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With the sixth annual Penny Arcade Expo a mere month away, PAX organizers have released the full list of nearly 100 exhibitors strutting their stuff at the show. More »
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Gamers attending the Video Games Live concert performance at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on January 24th are in for a special treat, as music from Bungie's upcoming Halo 3: ODST makes its debut. More »
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The fifth annual Penny Arcade Expo is coming up at the end of August, and this Thursday marks your last chance to pre-register for the event before attending becomes waiting in a very long line for most of Friday. With convention organizers looking to break to 45,000 attending mark this year, things are going to be crowded enough without a giant queue of people who decided to wait until the last minute to participate. Just ask PA's Robert Khoo. More »
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Pirates of the Burning Sea has become the official video game of International Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19th), and to celebrate they are raiding the coastline of Seattle, causing a right ruckus in the streets, and hanging about the Seattle Aquarium looking swarthy and unkempt. Local Seattle pirate group SeaFair Pirates will be on hand, offering tours of the waterfront on their pirate ship, and you'll get a chance to meet the devs and get some hands-on time with Pirates of the Burning Sea. There'll even be an appearance by Talk Like A Pirate originators John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers, commemorating the game's official pirate status. You can hit the jump for more details, though I would suggest hitting the official RSVP page first, as spots are limited. The event runs from 7-10PM, leaving you plenty of time to get home and lock your doors before September 20th - Unofficial Kill Pirates Like A Ninja Day. Only kidding. Locking your doors won't help, silly. More »
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The Seattle Mariners' Safeco field has been the exclusive test bed for the Nintendo Fan Network for the 2007 season, and Nintendo will be on hand at the September 15th game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to show their appreciation. Saturday will be Nintendo Day at the stadium, with the first 1,500 fans to bring their DS to the stadium getting free access to the stat-tracking, food ordering network. Nintendo will also be giving out 16 limited edition Mariners DS Lites, autographed by members of the team. To top it all off, Mario himself will be on hand, though I highly suspect it to be a gruesome hollowed-out Mario body with a person inside. Way to go, Mariners fans! You might not make it to the Series, but you've got a guy sweating in a Mario suit, which is the next best thing! More »
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Straight from the streets of Seattle, Washington comes this bit of Mario street art. I say "bit", but in reality, this must have taken quite a bit of time. Each of those little squares of paper is stapled onto this utility pole to create a cool pixel/mosaic effect. I'm always amazed that stuff like this happens to completion in a public place without anyone getting all hot under the collar about it. Many cities would have stopped this project after the first 20 pieces were in place. If it were Boston, they'd call out the bomb squad. Flynn De Marco More »
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Big time Hollywood stars just love to do some video game voice work for some extra bread. No-name actors love to do the same. And for less money! Take theater actress Jen Taylor, who voices Cortana in Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. For the first game, she got about US $500 and twice that for the sequel. She adds, More »
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Statistical site Sperling's BestPlaces has, via survey, been able to determine what I already know: Seattle is Numbah One for gaming in the nation. But when our homeless people look like video game characters, this is a big No Duh. More »
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I am about to hop on a plane to Seattle to visit FASA Studio and check out Shadowrun for the Xbox 360/PC. I'll be posting a feature later this week with hands-on impressions and plenty of awkward erection moments, but for now hit the comments to let me know any specific questions you may have about the game. I really will try to ask a few of them. Also, the trip is sponsored by Microsoft - this includes the flight, a minimum of 5 bottles of Cristal, some of those people who just stand around and fan you with palms, and hotel accommodations - all per my contract. I'll send a postcard. Mark Wilson More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=200252&view=rss&microfeed=true As you read this be content that I am sitting on my ass at Denver International Airport waiting to board a plane to lovely Seattle with my wife and son. My two betters are going to check out the city while I check out the Penny Arcade Expo. More »
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In Seattle WA did Microsoft a stately gaming dome decree... Home of soulless yuppies and whinging slackers, Seattle is also apparently official metropolis of gamers... at least according to a poll conducted by Sterling Bestplaces. A poll coincidentally funded by Microsoft. More »
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According to NST game designer Richard Vorodi, Metroid Prime Hunters at final testing, was just a little shorter than Retro's Metroid Prime. Whether that is a run-through of Metroid Prime for the first time or a second or third run through MP wasn't clarified. But, according to Nintendo, the game has some meat to it. More »
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=157804&view=rss&microfeed=true Another function Nintendo rolled out with its WiFi network beside Metroid Prime Hunters is the long-requested voice chat for the DS. It comes in the form of an in-game lobby where you can chat with people whose friend code you have. It functions basically like a walkie-talkie, in its "click a button, then talk" functionality. That youc an only communicate with people whose friend code you have is a pretty good "safety feature" for potentially concerned parents. More »
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So, how does Metroid Prime Hunters play? Handheld gaming and First Person Shooter aren't exactly the peanut butter and jelly of the gaming world. The screens are small and it's tricky enough to be precise with dual analog sticks. But Metroid Prime Hunters doesn't have analog controls. Players move with the d-pad, fire their weapon with the left trigger and look around with the touch screen. How does the stylus work as a targeting mechanism? More after the jump. More »
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After stumbling walking back up to my hotel room in Seattle, I fired up the unofficial Kotaku laptop. It's the "unofficial Kotaku laptop" because I'm the only one who uses it and I've had it since college. It runs like a pre-Pentium computer. As a joke, once I tried to load World of Warcraft on to the machine. The joke was on me. It can barely handle Oregon Trail - many rivers have been forded, but no more. Logging in to check my email, the old cow just up and died. Smoke, whining noises and the sounds of disappointed Kotaku boys and girls who'd have to wait until I returned, got pulled over racing home from the airport to post frantically to compensate for my absence. My mother told me once that absence make hearts do something. I don't really care, unless it fixes laptops. More »
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Instead of putting us to bed early, Nintendo took us out for a night on the town (sort of). They brought us by the busload to the Redhook brewery for a dinner and a tour. What did we tour? The giant, beer-making facility that is Redhook. In case you needed to learn something new today, you can get it out of the way early: The Redhook Brewery in Seattle provides all of the states west of the Mississippi with their Redhook beer. Be enlightened. More »
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Leaving the frigid, frozen tundra of Detroit for the not-as-cold, damp gloom of Seattle is actually a good thing, especially when it's on Nintendo's dime. But why were they flying people out there this week? A bunch of journalists were brought in to run through Metroid Prime: Hunters, a game that began somewhat auspiciously as a slapped together demo for the Nintendo DS? Remember that? It might be better if you didn't. Whether you played it or not, Prime Hunters has changed considerably, but is it for better or worse? Keep checking back. More »
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Major Nelson decided to hit up yesterday s Mario Kart DS event in Seattle. He called the event, hosted by Reggie, underwhelming and the proceeds to smack talk the DS. Besides saying he wasn t able to connect via NiWiFi or play as Xbox Live, Nelson posts pictures with captions like the Crowd and Yea, all I got was this error. More »
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Yes, for some Nintendo's office in Seattle is the Holy Grail. More »
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Yep, underneath it that does say Fall Out Boy. Weird. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=135230&view=rss&microfeed=true Mario Kart DS is the best playing iteration of the Kart racer since the 64. The best difference? Wi-Fi functionality and local download play. The latter is for when not everyone has a Kart, fellow DS owners can just enter download mode and download tracks and the core of the game to their DS and then play (though after the holiday season, I'd expect everyone to have Mario Kart DS). More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=135220&view=rss&microfeed=true During a Q&A, Reggie was asked about the possibility of having a web browser on the DS: "Actually having a web browser on the DS? I think it is a provocative idea. I think it is very provocative. And again, looking at it with our "Disruptor Lens" by saying "how can we bring new people on board to buy DS and play DS" I think having a web browser would be highly disruptive; I would love to do it. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=135210&view=rss&microfeed=true I remember when the words "Nintendo" and "online" wouldn't even appear in the same sentence. But did you ever think a sentence like this would be constructed: "Nintendo has the leading online service in the world." More »
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"Technology alone can't advance the business. That Revolution doesn't follow the conventional path of game systems. That's what we're about. Disruptive technologies." - Reggie Fils-Aime More »
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In an address that might've been better suited to hit the shareholders rather than the media, Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime presented the future of video games being disruptive technology. These are "technologies that impact market leaders," according to Reggie. He cited the emergence of mp3 players (which disrupted Sony's vicegrip on the portable CD player) and then Apple's perfection of the mp3 player and distribution system with its iPod and iTunes. More »
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