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A Biofeedback-Driven Video Game to Battle Anxiety and Stress
While gamers have been using video games to combat stress and anxiety for decades, mental health professionals are only just beginning to see the benefits (and potential drawbacks) of interactive entertainment on our physiological well-being. The world is getting more and more stressful every day, especially for the college student. With the rising cost of…
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How Silicon Knights Guided X-Men’s Destiny
In this behind the scenes video for X-Men Destiny, Denis Dyack and the team at Silicon Knights explain how they went about crafting a new chapter in the tale of Marvel’s mighty mutants. There’s a trick to crafting a tale of super-powered comic book characters. On the one hand, you have to capture the breathtaking…
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The Pizza of Fortune Will Be the Key to Burnout Crash‘s Success
When I first saw the top-down arcade game Criterion Games is trying to pass off as a Burnout title, like many fans I was somewhat upset, but how can I stay angry at a game that features the Pizza of Fortune? Between some promising previews and these latest screens, I think I’m finally ready to…
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Have You Considered a Career In Morally Questionable Pharmaceuticals?
Looking for a new line of work? Do you know anything about the potential harmful effects of shady experimental drugs and mad scientist-level bioengineering? No? Then you sound perfect for the Umbrella Corporation. That’s right, the fictional pharmaceutical giant and antagonist of many a Resident Evil game is kicking off a big recruitment drive today,…
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A PC Gamer Dragged Kicking and Screaming Into the Digital Age
In today’s digital-only edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter TaylorEatWorld tries to find a physical copy of a hit PC game, not knowing what a monumental challenge that is these days. I’m an absolutely furious gamer right now. Not only that, I’m of a dying breed of PC gamer.. one who likes physical copies…
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The Last Dead Island Trailer Before Everyone Dies
With a musical cue taken from the heartbreaking trailer that started all of this Dead Island excitement in the first place, here’s the final trailer for Techland’s tropical zombie apocalypse, hitting stores next week. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and…
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This Is the Mantra of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
While its big, burly characters make it look like it wants to be Gears of War, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine‘s core tenant is distinctly un-Gears-like: Cover is for the weak. This image arrived at my home in poster form late last week, following my gameplay impressions of the recently released demo for Relic Entertainment’s Warhammer…
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Mortal Kombat Ninja Dancers
Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Smoke, and Reptile were made for loving you, baby, and you were made for loving them. The PAX ninja quartet takes their friendship to the next logical level: a steaming hot Just Dance 3 demo. They win, fatality. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
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They’ve Taken Twister and Made It Not Twister
Yesterday when I posted the news that Majesco was bringing the classic full-body board game Twister to the Xbox 360 Kinect, I figured it would at least maintain some resemblance of the original product. Then came the first screens for Twister Mania Featuring three game modes with over 16 variations and more than 1800 shapes,…
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Child of Eden Sweetens the Kinect Sensor Bundle
In case you were still on the fence about dropping $150 on Microsoft’s magical camera stick, the company today announced that the bundle is getting updated to include a download code for a free copy of sensual shooter Child of Eden Not that Kinect Adventures wasn’t enough of a hardware mover, but one can only…
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Funny, I Don’t Remember “Sassy Gay” Being a Dragon Age II Character Creation Option
PAX Prime was a great place to catch some cosplay, and if you looked closely enough, find some sassy new friends to help keep you from blowing up the entire convention center in a fit of anger. The Sassy Gay Hawke from Dragon Age II seems to be inspired by this comic at DeviantArt (which…
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It’s Video Game Competition, Not Violence, That Sparks Aggression
Do violent video games cause aggressive behavior? According to a recent report published in the journal Psychology of Violence, the competitive aspect of gaming is more likely to generate aggro than mere violence. All this from a bunch of university students, some video games, and some hot sauce. Science is an amazing thing. In the…
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Long Live Play, Long Live Flaming Crossbows, Long Live Kevin Butler
Like a flaming crossbow bolt casually launched at gigantic rooftop slogan, Sony celebrity spokesmodel Kevin Butler returns to launch the “Long Live Play” marketing campaign. Last week PlayStation 3 advertising fans were concerned by Twitter reports that celebrity spokesmodel Kevin Butler had left Sony for Economy Flooring, his uncle’s flooring startup. Luckily for Sony ad-fans,…
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It’s Like Resident Evil: The Board Game, Only With More Cthulhu
In today’s maddening installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Wirebrain shares with us a board game that feels a lot like Capcom’s famous survival horror series. This Saturday, I discovered an amazing board game called Mansions of Madness. Set in the “Cthulhu mythos”, players control one of eight investigators exploring trap filled locations with…
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You Can Dance If You Want To in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is all about choice, and that includes the choice to dance. Will you dance, and leave their friends behind? What if they don’t dance? Does that disqualify them from being your friend as well? So many questions, one brilliant answer. While I was busy playing a rousing game of “No Refrigerator…
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If Anyone Needs Me I’ll Be Growing and Selling Pot on Facebook
While there are several Facebook games that involve growing and distributing marijuana, only one is the official game of the Showtime original series Weeds. It’s okay to grow and sell pot when Mary Louise Parker is involved! Just about everything is okay as long as Mary Louise Parker is involved, especially when she’s playing the…
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Video Game Version of Twister Offers Fewer Flirting Opportunities
In the old days, playing Twister involved a group of (hopefully drunk) friends of mixed sex, a plastic play mat, and a spinner. In November, thanks to the video game magicians at Majesco, all you’ll need it a $200 to $300 video game console, a $150 add-on, and a $50 video game. Apparently EA didn’t…
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The Voice of Spider-Man 2099 is a Real Prince
To a generation of Spidey fans, Christopher Daniel Barnes is the voice of Peter Parker. To a generation of Disney fans, he’s better known as Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid Back when Disney made The Little Mermaid, voice actors in animated films didn’t need to be big-name actors from television and movies. All they…
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In Crystal Meth Wonderland You Can Play Rage With a Light Gun
Dealing with the guilt of shooting someone in the head, Breaking Bad‘s Jesse Pinkman winds down with the special light gun version of id Software’s Rage AMC’s breaking bad is pulling in the gaming sponsors left and right, so Jesse and friends have developed quite the video game habit lately. First they talked Left 4…
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