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Do You Ever Regret the Time Spent Gaming?
Commenter Aikage returns to Speak Up on Kotaku for the second time in as many days, wondering if you every iamgine where life would have taken you if not for all of that time spent gaming. Do you ever regret gaming? Especially in high school and college I feel I may have missed out on…
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You’ve Seen the Dead Island Trailer, Now Read the Book
Inspired by the award-winning CGI trailer that sort of vaguely touched on the actual gameplay of Techland’s upcoming zombie survival game, UK author Mark Morris delivers his take on the tropical carnage with Dead Island: The Book While I’m certain the game itself will contain some sort of narrative, it takes a true novelist to…
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Tablet Games Trump Traditional Therapy in Treating Autism and Cerebral Palsy
For decades the traditional therapy for adults and children afflicted with autism and cerebral palsy have remained the same: repetitive activities aimed at hammering home the social and physical skills these disorders make difficult for those afflicted. That’s all changing, thanks to multi-touch tablet technology. Today’s multi-touch technology has given researchers the ability to develop…
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This Portal Rap Song May Have Read Your Dirty Mind
Dorkly’s “Wish I Had a Portal Gun” is a rough and clumsy little rap tune that inevitably travels to that NSFW place many a player’s mind has discovered when imagining what they’d do if they got their hands on a little Aperture Science tech.
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Just How Popular is League of Legends?
As the first season of competition comes to a close, League of Legends developer Riot Games celebrates by dropping some incredibly impressive player statistics for the free-to-play online action strategy title enjoyed by more than 1.4 million players a day. That’s right, more than 1.4 million players log in to the League of Legends servers…
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The GameStop Versus Best Buy Argument Ends With a Shocking Twist
When Kotaku editorial director Joel Johnson and east coast reporter Michael Fahey launch into an argument over which video game retailer offers the superior shopping experience, one withholds a terrible secret that renders the other’s argument moot. Joel: How in the hell can you say shopping at GameStop is better than shopping at Best Buy?…
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You Know What Kinectimals Needs? Bears
Kinect launch title Kinectimals was a fine showcase for Microsoft’s motion-sensing technology, but it was all about cat. They should have just called it Kinecticats. This problem, like many others, has been fixed via liberal application of bears. Five bears, to be exact: Black Bear, Grizzly Bear, Cinnamon Bear, Polar Bear, and Glacier Bear. These…
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Is the Pre-Rendered Cutscene a Gift or a Curse?
In today’s episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage laments the general lack of pre-rendered cutscenes in today’s video games, a feature many were glad to see die out. Which side of the gorgeous CGI fence do you fall on? Maybe I’ve been playing the wrong games, but I miss the pre-rendered / anime…
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Behold the Sleek and Sexy New Xbox 360 Bluetooth Headset and Media Remote
Last year Microsoft updated the white and clunky original Xbox 360 with the slim model, a slick black beast of a gaming console. Suddenly peripherals for the old system looked like ass in comparison. Today Microsoft fixes that, introducing the gorgeous new Xbox 360 Wireless Headset with Bluetooth and Xbox 360 Media Remote. Less high-tech…
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A Candid Look Inside the Weird and Wonderful Minds Behind Dwarf Fortress
In a small two-bedroom apartment 20 in a strip mall of a town outside of Seattle, two brothers are hard at work crafting one of the most complex, convoluted, and difficult games ever created. Sometimes they code ASCII graphics. Other times they break out the crayons. Writer Jonah Weiner spent five days with Tarn and…
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Ghost Rider Vs. Firebrand Vs. Hawkeye Vs. Strider
Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 introduces twelve new characters to the MVC3 roster. Capcom has only (technically) revealed four, and here they are kicking each other’s asses. We’ll kick things off with a little Firebrand Vs. Hawkeye, solely because I love the purple avenger’s opening line. “Avengers, Defenders, Thunderbolts; I make any team better,” Clint…
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Here Are Three New Ways to Spend Your Hard-Earned Club Nintendo Coins
You’ve bought Nintendo product, registered it online, and collected Club Nintendo coins for your effort. Nintendo repays you with a Metroid screensaver, Donkey Kong posters, and a giant AR card you could have printed out yourself! Reader Zonic505 pointed us towards these three new Club Nintendo rewards, sure to be a big hit with people…
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Ezio Struggles with Old Age in Assassin’s Creed Embers
There’s no such thing as aging gracefully when you’re Ezio Auditore. UbiWorkshop’s animated tale, Assassin’s Creed Embers, tells the tale of what happens when old age and old enemies start catching up with the master assassin. It’s rare that we get to see our video game heroes grow old. Aside from the odd fighting game…
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Violent Video Game Legal Battle Could Cost California Another $1.1 Million
Now that the smoke has cleared and the video game industry stands triumphant over the state of California in the Supreme Court battle over making it a crime to sell violent games to minors, the Entertainment Software Association needs to pay its lawyers. Why hello there, California taxpayers. For six years the state of California…
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Dead Island‘s Infestation Spreads to PlayStation Home
The zombie strain that strikes the vacationers on Dead Island is so virulent that even advertising the game results in a full-on undead plague, as European PlayStation Home users will discover shortly before the game launches in September. PlayStation 3 owners will start feeling the effects of the Dead Island infection shortly before the game…
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In Search of New and Exciting Collectible Card-Based Video Games
Appropriately named commenter Tengen Toppa Duck Face has a craving for video games based on collectible card games, but his experience is limited to Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon. Somebody help a brother deal a fresh hand in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Are there any collectible card video games that come highly recommended, new or old?…
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There’s a Hard-Hitting Story Behind Anarchy Reigns‘ Battle Royale
What, you thought Platinum Games’ online multiplayer brawler was just a bunch of super-powered beings battling each other for no reason? No sir, there is some sort of story going on in Anarchy Reigns; it just happens to involve a lot of punching, kicking, and stabbing. Shit’s going down in Altambra, yo, which I’m imagining…
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