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The Bully Arcade Cabinet We Wish Was Real
With a built-in exercise bike and a sweet slingshot controller, this conceptual arcade cabinet from Kotaku reader Cobra would be the ultimate way to play Rockstar’s school days sandbox game Bully. Perhaps if arcades were more successful than they are today we’d see something like this sexy Bully cabinet sitting in the corner of our…
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Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Adds A Chinese Vampire And A Robotic Mutant Killer
We’ve got less than 20 days before the release of Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Capcom is still rolling out the new playable characters. Here comes the purplish pairing of Marvel’s Sentinel and Darkstalkers’ Hsien-Ko. Hsein-Ko and her sister Lei-Lei used a forbidden Tensei-no-Jutsu technique to try and bring their mother…
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Celebrity Impersonators Flood The Virtual Spaceways
EVE Online recently introduced an amazing new character customization tool that has the game’s players seeing virtual stars at every turn. Space Conan O’Brien heads up our star-studded gallery. It’s the most versatile character editor I’ve ever seen, and now it’s in the hands of countless EVE Online players, sculpting faces to resemble their favorite…
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EVE Gallery
A close, but not quite representation of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Kurt Russell, Morpheus, and George Michael walk into a bar. . . Cate Blanchett, captain of outer space. I could totally see this happening. You don’;t want a boyfriend. What you want is Mr. Spock. Want to know what happens to…
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Give Us Your Video Game Baby Names
Kotaku commenter LordDisco’s wife is pregnant with a bouncing baby boy, so he’s on the lookout for interesting labels to attach to this potential gamer in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku All right, everyone. Open for suggestions. My wife and I went to the doctor today for her 20-week checkup (She’s pregnant, by the way). That…
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Guild Wars 2’s Guardian Is A Master Of Self-Sacrifice
ArenaNet replaces Guild War’s Monk with the better armed and armored Guild Wars 2 Guardian, a brand-new fighting profession that can sacrifice its own defenses for the sake of its allies. Where did the Monk go? There are no dedicated healing classes in Guild Wars 2. One of developer ArenaNet’s goals in creating the second…
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Autistic Boy Branded A Cheater By Xbox Live [Update]
Julias Jackson is an 11-year-old boy living with autism, whose only real social interaction comes from playing online multiplayer games on Xbox Live, an activity that became more difficult when the Xbox Live team labeled him a cheater. Autism is a neural development disorder that is often associated with a lack of social and communication…
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The Oregon Trail Leads Carmen Sandiego To Facebook
Now everyone on Facebook can experience the joy of hunting criminals and having dysentery, as Blue Fang Games and The Learning Company bring two of the most beloved learning computer games of all time to the social network next month. Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger developed The Oregon Trail in 1971 as a…
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New Surgical Special Effects Are All Smoke And Bloody Mirrors
Realistic rendering of smoke and blood isn’t just a game developer problem. Engineers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have come up with a novel way to give surgical students the virtual blood and gore they need. Today’s young surgeons perform virtual surgeries using some pretty advanced technology. While they dig into a…
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Broken Record Congressman Pushing Health Warnings On Video Games Again
In 2009 California congressman Joe Baca introduced legislation that would require games to display a label warning of links between violent video games and aggressive behavior. Now Baca’s back, singing the same old song with a few new lines. Joe Baca wants to put warning labels on your video games, and he wants it bad.…
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A Hands-On Tour Of The PlayStation Phone
You’ve seen the blurry photos, the clearer photos, and the videos of the Xperia Play ‘PlayStation Phone’ in action. Now Engadget’s gotten their hands on the real thing, and they’ve put it through its gaming paces. The prototype Xperia Play that’s been floating around China is now in the hands of gadget website Engadget, and…
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A Teenager Tackles Respect For Girl Gamers
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Cernadas is tired of the way she is treated online and games designed for men. She vents her frustrations in an NPR piece called “Why Do Girl Gamers Get So Little Respect?” Listen to it here. Jessica’s piece, part of a Radio Rookies program at NPR member station WNYC in New York, covers…
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Is Buying Used Video Games Worse Than Stealing Them?
This morning on Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Wocalax ponders which is worse: Stealing video games or buying them secondhand. Is buying used games just as bad as pirating? Is it worse? Now this might seem preposterous to some of you, but think about it: when you buy a used game from Game Stop you not…
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The Mayor Welcomes You To New Rage Screens
Bethesda has given the website for id’s upcoming sandbox shooter Rage a striking new facelift, and they celebrate by capturing the essence of the game in three new screenshots. These three screens tell you all you need to know about Rage. For instance, the screenshot up is an example of one of the eccentric characters…
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Battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder With A Virtual Suicide Bombing
The Humvee drives down a crowded street in a foreign land. A child waves. Merchants display their wares. Suddenly soldiers raise their rifles as a suicide bomber runs into the street, detonating his lethal package. This is virtual PTSD therapy. This graphic simulation of a suicide bombing is part of a program launched earlier this…
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The Rise Of Egypt And How You’ll Pay For Age Of Empires Online
Age of Empires Online is a free-to-play online game, but every free-to-play game needs to make money somehow. Kotaku spoke to members of the game’s development team about the newly-unveiled Egyptian civilization and how gamers can pay to play. Age of Empires, released in 1997 for the PC, was one of the first real-time strategy…
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Witness The Awesome Power Of A Runaway Star
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer captured this amazing image of the star Zeta Ophiuchi plowing through a radiant dust cloud at 54,000 miles per hour. Why is Zeta Ophiuchi on the run? We like to think of stars as fixed objects hanging in the sky, but as we’ve seen before in Kotaku’s daily science post,…
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Giggling My Way Through The Bloody Bulletstorm Demo
Epic’s demo of its upcoming over-the-top first-person shooter Bulletstorm urges players to kill with skill. Lacking any real skill myself, fits of childish giggling will have to do. Keep in mind this is the first time I’ve gotten my hands on Bulletstorm, and I did sort of skip the tutorial for brevity’s sake, so my…
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