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It's all fun and games using 'Piracy' to describe copyright infringement when you want to reframe the debate and equate the sharing of intellectual property with aquatic larceny, but what happens when your actual ship-based armed robbers yo-ho-ho into view? What then, Mr cognitive linguistics smartypants? More »
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'Operation Main Street' is not - as you may have suspected - a sinister mash-up of the Rainbow Six and SimCity franchises, but is in fact Wal-Mart's Holiday Season price cutting bonanza.The supermarket chain reckons it can save consumers around $200 Million on consumer electronics, toys, games and other gifts. $200M between them, obviously. Anything else would be silly. More »
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You can tell it is nearly Christmas - perfume adverts are on TV, frost is biting your nose in the morning and Nintendo have announced that they might be short of Wiis again. Or are they? More »
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No, not just on Steve Balmer's Xmas stocking (he is getting hundreds of Zunes). Microsoft are preparing for a full-on Xbox marketing blitz this Christmas. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5052548&view=rss&microfeed=true Look, I had the Christmas off yesterday, so forgive me for being one day late with the Angry Nintendo Nerd's very special Christian Rock edition of his classic NES game "reviews". This round he curses excessively in the general direction of Bible Adventures, Bible Buffet, Super Noah's Ark 3D, Spiritual Warfare and The King of Kings. In my opinion, hilarious stuff on rare games, only one of which I've ever played. Yeah, you probably have the week off, but this video is not safe for work. Michael McWhertor More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=224403&view=rss&microfeed=true Sometimes it's better to give than to annihilate entire nations with thermonuclear bombs. That's the philosophy behind this lovely mod of the PC strategy game DEFCON: Everybody Dies, the WarGames-like Introversion title in which the goal is to destroy your opponent while suffering fewer losses. More »
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Sony, Nintendo, forget this Christmas. Next year? Maaaybe, but 2006 will be an "Xbox Xmas" says Microsoft marketing person Stephen McGill. Last year, the console launched and was meet with a buying frenzy. Microsoft believes that the 360 juggernaut isn't slowly down, but picking up speed. Big time games like zombie shopping game Dead Rising are out, shoot 'n' hide Gears of War is around the corner and tattoo-inducing Halo 3 has been promised. McGill explains: More »
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