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Wear Your Xbox Live Avatar on Your Chest, Water Bottle, or Coffee Mug
Do it yourself clothing and crap company CafePress has teamed up with Microsoft to give Xbox Live users the ability to print and purchase stuff starring their own personalized avatar. Let’s go Voltron force! At least that’s what would be on my chest if I went ahead and ordered the snazzy t-shirt on the left…
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SOL: Exodus Closed Beta Contest Winners Demonstrate the Soul of a Space Fighter
Over the Thanksgiving break we asked fans of space sims to prove their passion for a shot at one of 25 spots in the closed beta test for upcoming PC star fighter SOL: Exodus. Time to see who made the grade! SOL: Exodus is a (currently) single-player space shooter crafted by developers at Seamless Interactive…
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Suddenly Diablo‘s Town Portal Scrolls Don’t Seem Like Such a Good Idea
This was bound to happen eventually. Now Dorkly isn’t saying that Town Portal scrolls aren’t an incredibly convenient way to get out of hell and sell off your extra stuff. It”s just that eventually the forces of evil are going to get curious about that glowing blue circle floating down the hall and send someone…
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Fortune Street‘s Review Scores Are All Over the Board
Fans have been clamoring for the popular Japanese financial board game series Itadaki Street to make it to North America since the original was released back in 1991. Fortune Street for the Wii scratches that itch bloody. Featuring charming characters from the Mario and Dragon Quest series, Fortune Street seems like the perfect family party…
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The Problem With Pathological Gaming Studies
Is gaming addiction a real psychological affliction that should be recognized by the American Psychiatric Association? According to some studies as many as ten percent of all gamers could be considered gaming addicts. A new study from Texas A&M’s Christopher J. Ferguson explains how those studies are doing it wrong. Christopher J. Ferguson isn’t a…
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Mind-Bending Flash Favorite Shift Gains a 3D Twist in Shifting World
More than 16 million players have enjoyed Armor Games’ flash-based Shift series of puzzle platformers. Now Akysys Games seeks to capture some of that magic on Nintendo’s 3D handheld with Shifting World First off, if you haven’t played Armor Games’ Shift yet, go do that right now. I’ll wait. Shift is a simple platforming game…
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You Should Definitely Buy Your Child a Nintendo DS3, the 3D Version of the DS
Demonstrating that sometimes Speak Up on Kotaku only needs to be a single link with a little color commentary, colorful commenter Killer Toilet shares with us a little holiday gift buying tip courtesy of Fox News’ Kim Kommando Fox be trolling the 3DS. It’s apparently for children “too young for smartphones”. They call it a…
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Inertia Catapults From Xbox Live Indie Darling to Android Excellence
If you’re not moving forward you’re doing it wrong. That’s the philosophy that launched Inertia: Escape Velocity from its humble beginnings as an Xbox Indie student project to a full-featured mobile game for Android and iOS devices. It’s also the strategy you’ll need to employ to advance through the games 35 plus levels of off-the-wall…
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Kinect Helps High School Duo Win $100,000 National Science Prize
Who says gaming can’t lead to a higher education? Ziyuan Liu and Cassee Cain of Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge are splitting a $100,000 college scholarship awarded in the Siemens Foundation’s annual high school science competition after creating a Kinect-powered application that uses Microsoft’s magical camera to analyze the way a person walks.…
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A Halo: Reach Recreation of Resident Evil‘s Most Infamous Location
It might not seem familiar at first, but once you start wandering the corridors you’ll realize that this is a faithful scale recreation of Resident Evil‘s Spencer Mansion crafted using the creation tools from Halo: Reach Marrying his love of two decidedly different game franchises, ForgeHub member Cryptic Sin spent nearly a year crafting and…
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Explore the Dusty Pages of the Ultimate Tome of Diablo Lore
Hello my friends! Stay awhile and listen…err, watch as I explore Diablo III: Book of Cain, 147 pages of illustrations, excerpts, and firsthand accounts of the history of the world of Sanctuary, coming soon to a bookseller near you. As the last of the Horadrim mages, an ancient brotherhood formed by the Archangel Tyrael to…
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An Adorable Musical Argument for Legend of Zelda Fan Procreation
Three children (with a baby cameo) take on the roles of Link, Zelda, and Ganon in what could be the most favorable outcome of Legend of Zelda fans in love, even if they got the musical credit wrong. I can only hope that my children will one day allow me to submit them to this…
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HeroClix Online Gets a Double Dose of DC Comics and Digital Content Codes
HeroClix Online isn’t just for Marvel fans anymore, at least it won’t be come December 7 when WizKids introduces the first two DC Comics-themed sets to the online game and releases the first physical product with codes for in-game heroes included. Fulfilling the promise of the popular tabletop game’s move to digital form, HeroClix Online…
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Whosoever Holds This Pinball Table Shall Possess the Power of Thor
Should you be worthy or willing to spend 800 Microsoft points / $9.99 next week, this Thor table and more shall be yours when Zen Studio releases the Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue pack on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Thor joins the X-Men on the side of virtue in this downloadable pinball…
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Devs Explain How Animal Crossing 3DS Will Be the Best Animal Crossing Yet
Producer Katsuya Eguchi and a trio of developers from the Animal Crossing 3DS team spend ten minutes discussing how the latest iteration of the animal life sim will set itself apart from the rest. They had me at skirts and pants. While I love me some Animal Crossing, the game hasn’t changed very much since…
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The 3DS is the Perfect Platform for the Return of Yoshi
With Nintendo visiting many of its classic franchises upon the 3DS, commenter Daemon_Gildas believes it’s high time Mario’s trusty mount companion got a little 3D lovin’. Hear him out in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I think it’s about time Yoshi got some love on the 3DS. Maybe an open-world game, but maybe the “world”…
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Why the Hell Are You Online Right Now?
Is there any reason you’re sitting in front of a computer or plinking away at your cell phone right now, or are you part of the 53 percent of 18 to 29 year-olds that go online just to pass the time on any given day? A new study has determined that a large number of…
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Several Avengers Assemble for the Marvel Universe MMO
As Gazillion offshoot Secret Identity continues to hammer away at the Marvel Universe MMO. the folks at the Marvel Massively Multiplayer Society have been slipping out glimpses of the iconic characters we’ll be playing when it goes live. Avengers assemble! Well, some assembly is required, at least. Over the past few months the MMMS has…
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Countdown the Release of Star Wars: The Old Republic With Free Music
Looking for a little intergalactic conflict music? Every day leading up to the game’s December 20 launch BioWare is passing out free tracks from Star Wars: The Old Republic, perfect for endlessly looping while you stare at your calendar. It’s terribly nice of BioWare to provide us with some appropriate music as we careen headlong…
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