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PETA Praises Adult Swim Flash Games For Being Animal Friendly
While Adult Swim’s flash games aren’t known for classy content, two have been singled out by animal rights group PETA for being especially animal friendly. Humans killing polar bears is bad, but polar bears killing humans wins awards. Polar Bear Payback is an action game in which the player takes on the role of a…
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Entertainment And Fun Aren’t The Same Thing
He may switch a few words around, but what commenter DunnCarnage is basically saying in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku is that a game doesn’t have to be fun to be entertaining, and vice-versa. Something that has been bugging me recently about games is the concept that they don’t necessarily have to be “fun” to be…
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Police Say Man Stole Game Boy From Teen That Died On Christmas [Update]
Seventeen-year-old Bradley David-McCombs Jr. died in a tragic car accident on Christmas Day. On Monday night his family held a viewing at the Rairigh Funeral Home in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania. That night, someone decided to steal his Game Boy. McCombs, pictured here, died after his sport utility vehicle flipped on Route 553 in Cherryhill Township…
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Virtual Assets Are Not Community Property
A marriage based on a shared love of online gaming is just as valid as a normal one, but as one Chinese woman found out, virtual assets accrued during marital bliss aren’t divvied up in the divorce. According to a story in the Beijing Morning Post, a judge has denied a woman’s claim that half…
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Ever Wonder How The Nintendo Zapper Light Gun Worked?
Today’s shooting gallery games take advantage of high-tech infrared sensors and cameras. Back in the days of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, things were much simpler. As a child I spent countless hours firing away at video game ducks with my NES Zapper light gun, but I wasn’t actually firing anything. If anything, I was…
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Jerry Rice’s New Football Video Game Is For The Dogs
Dogs playing football is a video game idea that sells itself, but it never hurts to have a little star power behind your title. Get ready for Jerry Rice & Nitus’ Dog Football for the Nintendo Wii. Developer Judobaby has plans to create an entire series of Pet Sports League video games, and it’s kicking…
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The Rift Collector’s Edition Is More Than Just A Fancy Riding Turtle
You can spend $50 on Trion Worlds’ massively-multiplayer online role-playing game Rift and just get the game, or you can spend a little more and score the game plus this nifty riding turtle. But wait, there’s more! Not only do you get the lovely in0game turtle mount at level 20 when you purchase the Rift…
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This Is Not The Halo LEGO Set I Wanted For Christmas
If only LEGO had grabbed the Halo license instead of Mega Bloks I could be wearing this snazzy outfit right now. See more at Benny Brickster’s Flickr page Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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Violent Video Games Promote Civic Behaviors
Just because you’re shooting other people online doesn’t mean you’re going to shoot them offline. In fact, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Texas A&M International University, playing violent video games could promote civic engagement in children. Science loves the violent video game debate. Over the past decade we’ve been subjected to…
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Dealing With Sex And Violence In Video Games
In today’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Dracosummoner explores the controversial role of sex and violence in our video games. Practically every single time I hear about some controversy related to the depiction of sex in a video game, and not just on Kotaku, I see a ton of comments that go along the…
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Super Meat Boy Creator Pleads For Russian Art Aid
Russia will be the first country to score a retail release for the PC version of super Meat Boy, and creator Edmund McMillen sends out this moving call for Russian-inspired cover art. Good thing he’s okay with the Cold War. Hopefully the Russians can look beyond Edmund’s lack of knowledge about their lovely country and…
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First 4 Figures Next Sonic Statue Is Pure Metal
Whoever takes the product shots at premium action figure company First 4 Figures is making it incredibly difficult to not plunk down $175 for the company’s next big Sonic the Hedgehog statue, Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic will never look this good on your fireplace mantle or your $30 WalMart bookcase. First of all, the image…
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Earthrise Rises From The Ashes In February
Isn’t about time for another post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online science fiction role-playing game? Masthead Studios are gearing up to deliver just that, pinning a February release date on Earthrise. Is it the next Anarchy Online, or the next Tabula Rasa? Masthead’s MMORPG shares aspects of both of those storied science fiction role-playing games. It’s got…
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Robot Chicken Makes The Force Unleashed II Seem Playable
Everyone I’ve talked to has warned me away from Star Wars: the Force Unleashed II, but damn if the wizards at Robot Chicken don’t make it incredibly compelling. If only the game were more like this. I’d play a video game that involved Darth Vader avoiding the Emperor’s questions as Starkiller systematically took out major…
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Kmart Rings In The New Year With Gaming Deals
Kmart has discounted games like Goldeneye, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Epic Mickey as part of a sale lasting from now until the end of the year. For those of you not counting, that’s five days from now. If you got a Visa gift card for Christmas and find yourself on the wrong side…
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The One-Man Super Mario Galaxy Orchestra
Super Mario Galaxy has a rather impressive orchestral soundtrack. Composer, violinist, and cosplayer Diwa de Leon makes it even more impressive by performing it all by himself. I haven’t been this impressed by one man performing video game music since Danny Fong’s amazing rendition of the Pokemon theme song. Danny only used his voice, however,…
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High Praise For The Fiction Of Assassin’s Creed
In our first post-Christmas Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter TheolaRegulus keeps the mood festive by giving thanks to Ubisoft for keeping the plot of the Assassin’s Creed series together across many mediums. I gotta hand it to Ubisoft with the Assassin’s Creed series. For years I’ve been following games that are supposed to have a big,…
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Important Twisted Metal Questions Answered
While you were busy opening presents, David Jaffe and the crew at Eat Sleep Play were crunching like mad on the new Twisted Metal, yet he still had time to answer fans’ pressing questions about the next generation of vehicular combat. The outspoken creator plumbed the minds of IGN and GameSpot readers, NeoGAF posters, and…
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