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This Might Be the Only Way a Live-Action Pac-Man Movie Could Ever Work
Production company Steelhouse and writer James Farr have just answered one of life’s greatest questions: How do you make a live-action film about a yellow ball with eyes that runs about a maze eating dots and ghosts without resorting to a man in a giant foam suit? The trick, it seems, was keeping Pac-Man a…
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G.I. Joe and Cobra Hired Just About Anyone in the 80s
Meet Darklon, one of Destro’s Iron Grenadiers. He lives in a cast-iron castle in the Alps, where he dispatches his powerful mercenary army via a crack squad of telephone solicitors. That’s right, he’s Cobra’s chief telemarketer. Darklon’s bio is just one of the 20 hilariously horrible G.I. Joe and Cobra file cards featured in Patrick…
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The Original Hard-Boiled, Slow-Motion Max Payne Goes Mobile Next Week
We’ve still got another month before the third installment of Max Payne hits the Xbox 360, PlayStation3 and PC. Why not spend that time reliving the original on the iPhone or iPad? In honor of the upcoming Max Payne revival, Rockstar Games is releasing a remastered version of the 2001 original for iOS devices and,…
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Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 Will Be Magic on the iPad
Wizards of the Coast finally realized how amazing the Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers series would be on the iPad, with Apple’s tablet joining PC, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live when the game’s 2013 installment launches this summer.
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CSI: NY Tackles the Deadly World of Competitive Gaming in the Cleverly-Titled “Kill Screen”
On tomorrow’s investigation-packed episode of CBS’s CSI: NY, Spengler, Mattock and Lady Minerva attempt to solve the murder of a pro-gaming champion in “Kill Screen”. Gives you tingles, doesn’t it? “Kill Screen”! So menacing. Sounds like the team at the New York Department of Solving Crimes is in over their heads this time. It will…
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Cloud Patrol is an Addictive Little Shooting Gallery With a Skylanders Hook
When Activision first announced the toy-meets-video game concept of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, Apple’s iPhone was on the list of supported platforms. Today we finally get to see how the colorful plastic warriors interact with iOS in Skylanders Cloud Patrol. Rather than the story-driven adventures of the console, PC, and 3DS versions of Skylanders, Cloud Patrol…
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This Week’s Nintendo Download is Every Bit as Exciting as Free Mass Effect 3 DLC
Just because we pre-empted this week’s Nintendo Download for some special Mass Effect 3 news doesn’t make it any less exciting and important. Does Mass Effect 3 have music from The Shins? Not unless it’s a very special episode of Mass Effect 3. Does it have an exclusive interview with Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector?…
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Gabe Newell Just Made My Little Pony Fans Extremely Happy
Let’s get this out of the way first thing in the morning, before the rest of the herd tramples down Kotaku‘s tips email. During an interview with Geek a Week‘s Len Peralta, Valve head honcho and 854th richest man on the planet Gabe Newell admits that he is, as suspected, a fan of My Little…
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GameStop Begins Buying and Selling Used Skylanders Toys
GameStop might not accept your band game instruments as trade anymore, but the company does have its eye on another sort of colorful plastic toys. Gaming website Pixelitis recently received information about a Skylanders trade-in program being tested at several U.S. GameStop locations. Having spent the months following Christmas 2011 fielding calls from desperate children…
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The Ancient Mayans Foresaw the Coming of this Devastating Case Mod
Dan McGrath’s stunning Thermaltake Level 10 GT mod might be called the AzTtec, but the inspiration is all Mayan. Looking every bit as if it were carved out of ancient stone from some scenic Central American temple, the material covering Thermaltake’s Level 10 GT case is actually a material called Balsa Foam, which when carved…
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I Didn’t Know What to Expect from the Wonderfully Random Really Big Sky
Why would I feature a game that came out last year in our relatively new weekly PC Indie Spotlight feature? I simply couldn’t resist the sweet allure of a procedurally generated twin-stick shooter that never played the same way twice. And I missed Luke’s post last year and didn’t notice Really Big Sky until it…
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They’re Never Too Young To Start PC Gaming
Not only is this nine-month-old infant attempting to play Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on his father’s computer, he also gets incredibly annoyed when his session is interrupted. This is how it starts. Yes, I found another excuse to post a video of one of my children, but it does speak of the allure of the…
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A Little Something Special for the Shadowrun Fans in the Audience
Culled from the video from this morning’s Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter post, it’s time to put the sins of Shadowrun games past behind us. Watching the executive producer of 2007’s horrid first-person shooter get pelted with random objects a few thousand times should do the trick. The 2007 game was a cross-platform affair, uniting Xbox 360…
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The First True 7.1 Surround Sound Headset Makes Me Want to Buy a Better Sound Card
Back in 2002 I dropped a large chunk of change on a pair of “true” 6.1 surround sound headphones. They were essentially a pair of normal headphones with extra speakers extending out to either side of each ear cup. They looked ridiculous. I loved them. After spending three weeks with Razer’s Tiamat 7.1, the world’s…
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