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Driving A Car Using The Power Of Your Mind
German engineers have rigged up a Volkswagen Passat so it maneuvers using only the driver’s mental directions. This technology could lead to a new age in which people actually use their brains while driving. The technology Autonomos Labs uses to mind control the modified Volkswagen Passat Variant 3c should be quite familiar to long-time Kotaku…
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Mexican State Calls For A Ban On Call Of Juarez: The Cartel
After officials in El Paso, Texas, made their discomfort over Call of Juarez: The Cartel last week, the Mexican state of Chihuahua is asking Federal authorities for an outright ban on the video game that hits too close to home. The Mexican state of Chihuahua is home to the city of Ciudad Juarez, a city…
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Killzone 3’s Engineer Is The Ultimate Team Player
In the first of a series of videos covering Killzone 3’s multiplayer professions, Guerrilla Games multiplayer designer Dan Nanni discusses the engineer, the game’s turret-building support class. Whenever I see any form of the word ‘engineering’ associated with a video game character class, ‘complicated’ is generally the next word that pops into my head. From…
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Skyrim Developer Wants Your Babies To Be Dragonborn
You may love Bethesda Softworks’ Elder Scrolls series, but do you love it enough to conceive a child and name it after the protagonist of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? What if a mystery prize is involved? Bethesda’s Pete Hines calculated that February 18 was the perfect day for conceiving a baby that would be…
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An Elegant Video Hate Letter To The Makers Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Kotaku commenter Goldwings is having problems connecting to mutliplayer games in Call of Duty: Black Ops for the PlayStation 3, so he voices his displeasure in video form in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. My internet is fine Treyarch, so stop telling me that’s the reason why I can’t go online and play some games with…
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The Nintendo Download Is On Fire This Week
WiiWare really heats up in this week’s Nintendo Download with Cozy Fire, a fireplace simulator with six – count ’em – six different fireplaces to choose from. Yeah, it’s that kind of week. Perhaps Nintendo and dtp young entertainment are celebrating President’s Day by releasing Cozy Fireplace. After all, President’s Lincoln and Washington surely spent…
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The Bloodiest Football Game You’ll Play Today
While it’s not the most accurate representation of American football, Milkstone Studios’ Zombie Football Carnage still has all the right moves – just a little bloodier. Zombie Football Carnage hit the Xbox Live Indie Games store today, and its colorful Castle Crashers-style graphics caught my eye immediately. The you play a little football helmet wearing…
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Are Video Games Turning Liberals Into Virtual Conservatives?
Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband’s name or dream of ending her career to raise children. In the Sims 3 she’s a married mother that stays home with the kids. In a fascinating article on The American Prospect, Potts explores the phenomenon of players like herself…
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Light-Absorbing Anti-Lasers Could One Day Rule Your Computer
Scientists at Yale University have created the world’s first anti-laser, a device in which two beams of light clash together, ultimately cancelling each other out. How could such a device change the way we do our computing? A laser is a device that emits a focused beam of light using a process of optical amplification.…
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How Samurai Warriors 3DS Plays While You’re Not Playing
With the Nintendo 3DS’s innovative new Street Pass feature, developers now have to figure out how their games will play when the players aren’t playing. In Samurai Warriors Chronicles, your 3DS will fight your battles for you. Street Pass is the Nintendo 3DS feature that allows your 3DS to communicate with other players’ systems while…
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Killzone 3 Is Too Big For Just One Funny TV Ad
With two different ways to play and a special peripheral specifically designed for motion control, Sony spokes model Kevin Butler couldn’t cover all of Killzone 3 in just one ad, so he did two. The first Butlermercial covers the Killzone 3 basics. It’s a shooter. You shoot things. You shoot them dramatically enough to make…
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inFamous 2 And Its $100 Hero Edition Have A Date With Your PS3
Sony and Sucker Punch have made a date in June for the sequel to the hit PlayStation 3 superhero game inFamous, with a pricey Hero Edition available for players that just can’t get enough Cole MacGrath. Cole and friends travel down south to the city of New Marais to face down the mysterious Beast on…
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What’s Your Super-Powered Signature Move?
Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter GunFlame craves his own super-powered video game special move. If you could have one, which would you choose? I wish I could do a Hadouken…no! a Rising Storm, no! a Buster Wolf, no! a Grand Viper…man, if only I had some kind of sci-mana-magic-tec-arte-skill-spell-synt-hyper-type power…:( About Speak-Up on Kotaku:…
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He’s Only Crushing People’s Skulls To Save The Earth
Just because Liu Kang is the good guy of the Mortal Kombat series doesn’t mean he can’t crack your skull like a giant, gore-filled walnut. Who’s hungry? We’ve seen his story and now we’re getting a gory look at the brutal moves of the greatest hope for humanity to survive Mortal Kombat. You can’t make…
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Two Of The Coolest Comic Books Are Going To Be Video Games
Not only is Telltale Games working on a title based on the hit television and comic book property The Walking Dead, they’ve also snagged the rights to create games based on Vertigo’s fan-favorite fairy tale series Fables. Rumors were crawling all over the internet concerning Telltale’s involvement with The Walking Dead, with the company hinting…
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Artists That Use Video Games As Their Canvas
Are game developers creating games, or are they creating art? In the case of the ten creators showcased in flavorwire’s “10 Artists Who Use Video Games as Their Medium” I suspect it might be a little bit of both. These are small, modest titles like Steph Thirion’s Eliss, seen above. An interactive artist by trade,…
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A Million Demo Downloads Unlocks Dragon Age II Prizes
If one million players download the Dragon Age II demo in the week following its February 22 release on the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3, magic artifacts will be theirs for the taking. BioWare issues its Dragon Age II Call to Arms. A million downloads may seem like quite a lot, but when you’re…
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The Massive Chaos-Causing Solar Flares Are Just Getting Started
This week the sun shot off a massive class X solar flare. Its effects on radio broadcasts, electronics, and power are still being felt today, and this is only the beginning. The sun is our shiny friend in the sky, generating heat and light and basically making life a whole lot more livable, so we’ll…
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