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The Family That Plays Pokémon Together
Nine-year-old Grace Arnold took home the first place trophy for the Junior Division at the 2010 Southeast Regional Pokémon Video Game Championships. Her 13-year-old brother David won the Senior Division. Their father came in second. If just one of the Arnolds place in the Nationals, it would mean the family’s third trip to the World…
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The iPhone 4 Supports 3D Motion Gaming
The newly-announced iPhone 4 adds a 3-axis gyroscope to the motion-sensing mix, tied together with the accelerometer and built-in GPS to provide 6-axis motion sensing gaming. In these pictures from gdgt, Steve Jobs introduces an all-new method of motion controlling iPhone games live on stage at Apple’s WDCC 2010 event. Previous iterations of the iPhone…
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Apple Introduces The iPhone 4
Steve Jobs has confirmed at WWDC 2010 that what Gizmodo got their hands on in April was the next iPhone – the iPhone 4. At 9.3mm wide it’s the world’s thinnest smartphone, with a front-facing camera and a 326 pixel per inch “retina display,” a resolution never-before-seen on a phone, delivering 940×640 pixels and a…
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FarmVille Comes To The iPhone
During this morning’s keynote speech at Apple’s WWDC 2010 event, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus took the stage to introduce FarmVille for the iPhone. It’s all the fun of FarmVille, now with push notifications. Now you can be even more obsessive about your farm, as the iPhone app will send you little reminders when your crops…
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The Nintendo Download: A Mixed Bag With Meerkats
With no one game in particular standing out in this week’s Nintendo Download other than the one with the meerkats in it, perhaps it’s one of those weeks laced with hidden gems? Yes, we’ll go with that. And don’t take my singling out of Lapland’s Lead the Meerkats for WiiWare as any sort of endorsement.…
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Obsidian Takes On Dungeon Siege 3
Obsidian Entertainment takes on yet another action role-playing game sequel in Dungeon Siege 3, with series creator Chris Taylor on board as an advisor, helping oversee the franchise’s console debut. Obsidian Entertainment is the go-to development studio for big-name role-playing game sequels. While the company’s attempts at creating a first-party title hasn’t gone so well,…
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To Do In Atlanta: Pokémon Southeast Regional Championship
Tomorrow the Gwinnett Center in Atlanta will be transformed into a battleground, as the southeast regional Pokémon video game championship pits Pokémon against Pokémon, brother against brother. It’ll be like the Civil War, only cuter, and without the city burning down. Why attend the southeast regional Pokémon championship? Why, to be the very best, of…
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Call Of Duty Undead Return In World At War: Zombies II
Imperial zombies return in Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies II for the iPhone, recreating its console cousins’ Shi No Numa (Zombie Swamp) map, with new characters, traps, the Wunderwaffe DG-2, and Hellhounds adding to the portable carnage. Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies II is an iPhone version of World at War’s…
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VI Fit Is Wii Sports For The Blind
Wii Sports can be a big factor in getting sedentary children moving, but what about blind children? A video game research project at the University of Nevada, Reno, is creating Wii Sports-based PC games that don’t require eyesight to play. The two games in the VI Fit line play much like their Wii Sports counterparts.…
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Bring On The Monkey Mind-Powered Robots
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have trained monkeys to manipulate robotic appendages using the power of their minds, once again proving one solid scientific fact: monkeys kick ass. Just look at that monkey in the picture there. Is that not the coolest monkey ever? He’s manipulating a robotic arm with seven-degrees-of-freedom through two motor…
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Cole Sports A Sharp New Look In inFamous 2
Coming as a surprise to no one, Game Informer’s July issue confirms the sequel to Sucker Punch’s PlayStation 3 superhero hit inFamous, with a cover showing off a new look for series protagonist Cole MacGrath. inFamous 2 is no real surprise. Soy registered Infamous2TheGame.com back in April, and voice actors were talking about auditioning for…
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Olivia Munn’s Debut As The Daily Show’s Senior Asian Correspondent
Witness Olivia Munn’s debut on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, covering the plight of Gulf Coast Vietnamese fishermen as the program’s Senior Asian Correspondent. As reported earlier this morning, the co-host of Attack of the Show is taking a spin as a faux news reporter for Comedy Central’s hit show, and now we’ve got a…
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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die
Coming this October from Universe Publishing, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die sounds like the sort of book that could seriously chew up your free time from now until you die. Compiled by an international team of critics, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die is a collection of chronologically-ordered…
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BlackLight: Tango Down’s Technology Is Part Fact, Part Fiction
Summer shooter BlackLight: Tango Down features the Hyper Reality Visor – an advanced imaging system that uses augmented reality to deliver battlefield intelligence. Lead game designer Jared Gerritzen tells Kotaku about the real-life inspirations behind the game’s tech. BlackLight: Tango Down is more than a video game. Ignition Entertainment and developer Zombie Studios’ futuristic first-person…
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The Curtain Rises On Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock
Activision reveals the next entry in the Guitar Hero franchise, Warriors of Rock, featuring more than 90 tracks, a Gene Simmons-powered quest mode, and new challenges for every track in the Guitar Hero catalog. Check out the first 35 tracks! The biggest change coming to the Guitar Hero franchise in Warriors of Rock is the…
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Six Men Lock Themselves In A Box For Science
Three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Columbian, and a Chinese walk into a fake spaceship, and don’t walk out again for 520 days. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Starting today, a crew of six pseudo spacemen will be spending a year-and-a-half inside the Mars 500, a mock spacecraft, in order to help the Moscow-based…
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We’re Really Not Feeling This Thor Costume Concept Art
Yesterday’s live-action Captain America concept art gave us hope for the next Marvel properties getting the movie and video game treatment. Today’s Thor concept art takes a large hammer to that hope. Yesterday Ain’t It Cool News delivered a set of images purported to be concept art for the upcoming Captain America movie, which of…
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