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more about #feature more comments → zåɳzißårlÃ©É Ñ‘Ð¿È¡: i can't believe no one has asked this.. where is the Nintendo Wii Closet®? where am i supposed to put all this stuff? #wii more » Benguin: Kudos to these guys for capitalizing on an emerging market, but that particular market is stupid as shit. #wii more » Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: I wonder what consumers will do with all the extra plastic when the peripheral fad dies. #wii more » Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: May I quickly ask everybody to refrain from stupid stereotypes and remarks on the business men being Jewish. Thanks. I am reading this and they look l... more » -Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties!: Just wait until people start throwing the Frisbie's into their TVs.... more » deanbmmv: Nintendo Wii. Cornering the industry on Hardware BLC. #wii more » Kobun: I've gotten so used to buying on-line that I was genuinely shocked how many accessories the Wiimote has when I found myself in Best Buy a couple of ni... more » RicoTheSaboteur: Oddly, one of the oldest "omg it flies" moment in video games I can remember is when the flying ship takes off in Final Fantasy IV (aka FFII). Suddenl... more » Muggs Bigglesworth: true story: I'm a lucid dreamer. I can recall at least five instances of being aware I'm dreaming, allowing me to lift off the ground and fly around. ... more » CaptnRhay: NiGHTS into dreams. nuff said #flyinggames more » BigMoose is a big moose: I know there are plenty of "A flying piece with no mention of (insert game here)?" comments, but this can't be helped. If you're going to talk about e... more » MilsurpShooter: The problem now is the fact that many games are the "on rail" type of shooter/arcade games. No physics, no tactics, just turn until he's in front, fi... more » Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: There was a scene in the first transformers movie that I would love to play in a game. You guys remember the scene where starscream totally owns the j... more » Black-Dog-Howls: All we need is a perfect(and I mean perfect) Itano Circus/Macross Missile Massacre style game. I mean just missiles everywhere, super speeds and mane... more » Sobersean: When I think of flying in video games I think of the first time I enabled the godmode cheat in Duke Nukem 3d which gave infinite jetpack. I don't kno... more » -
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They Made The Wii Bowling Ball, And They're Not Done Yet
I sat in a blue room on Monday, surrounded by what some hardcore gamers might call artifacts of absurdity. More » -
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Head In The Clouds: Flying In Video Games
There's something fantastical about flying in a video game. We can easily run, jump and swim in real life. Flight is more exotic. But we do fantasize about it. Where do you think the term "flights of fancy" comes from? More » -
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I Clothe Gamers
It wasn't my idea to start a clothing line. It took some convincing, gentle arm-twisting from a friend who often knows me better than I know myself. That coercion worked. We started a business. More » -
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In Praise Of Hard Games
I've been roasted by a dragon, used as a pincushion for ghoul spears, and hacked to death by an axe knight, repeatedly. I keep trying, and I die and die again. Are we having fun yet? More » -
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I Can Kick Your Butt, Wanna Bet?
Whether it was the local arcades or the family living room, there have been players — not all — who have thrown down extra scratch to see if being good pays off in more than bragging rights. More » -
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Video Game Speakeasy Slips Into Soho for a Night of Raucous Fun
Nights in New York City's upscale Soho neighborhood always offers something at which to Gawk. More » -
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For Little Money And In Many Words, These Gamers Help You
In Richmond, Va., a 43-year-old father of three lines up a camera at his TV to film himself playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. More » -
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I Kept Playing — The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction
"I hated level 40," she said with a sigh. It was the first time we'd spoken in eight years, and she had never forgotten the night I spurned her advances in favor of gaining a level in EverQuest. More » -
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The Xbox Massage-Makers: Money, Sex Toys & Indie Backlash
College senior Justin Le Clair may be the most commercially successful Xbox 360 developer of 2009. For four hours of work he's pocketed $60,000 and counting. His creation? An Xbox massage program, the first in a controversial trend. More » -
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What Makes A Video Game Scary
How can a video game be scary? Unlike horror movies where you're stuck watching some hapless victim succumb to scary stuff, video games empower players to fight back. Or at least run away. It's October. Time to identify horror-gaming's essentials. More » -
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Is Single-Player Gaming In Danger Of Extinction?
It's in danger of becoming a lost art. Video game developers, increasingly focused on community building, cooperative play and massive online interactions, seem to have forgotten the satisfaction of the solo experience. More » -
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Where Are All The "Next Gen" Games?
The calendar says "2009". The Xbox 360 launched in 2005. That means we're four years into the "next generation" of video gaming. If so, then where the hell are our "next generation" games?
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Why We Love To Hate Activision — And Might Be Wrong
The games biz has a new favorite bad guy, and its name is Activision. Do the mega-publisher and its aggressive, polarizing CEO, Bobby Kotick, deserve the bad rap? Or do we just love to hate? Who is this man, anyway? More » -
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How To Dress A Tokyo Game Show Booth Lady
"They look cute," says 20-something-year-old Takahiro Yamaguchi. "So cute." He's spent a good chunk of his day taking booth companion photos. "It's not just how the girls look," he explains, "but what they're wearing. That's what I'm taking pictures of." More » -
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Asia’s Other Game Convention: Singapore Shines in September
When the Tokyo Game Show starts this week, it will be the talk of the town. Last year, the event drew 194,288 attendees over the course of four days for business and public visitors. More » -
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Minority Report: The Non-White Gamer's Experience
Fergus Mills searches for the words. It's clear he wants to say this carefully. The 22-year-old from Macon, Ga. is black. His Xbox Live avatar is black. Except that it's not. More » -
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Kotaku's Fall Fashion Special
Fall is here and that means two things: Prices are rising and temperatures are dropping. But you can still score a nerd-tinged wardrobe without breaking the bank, thanks to this handy save-splurge gamer apparel guide. More » -
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Stop Telling Me What To Do!
Bob Dylan once told a journalist that the first time he heard a recording of Elvis Presley singing "That's All Right", he realized that no one would ever again be able to tell him what to do. More »
