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Is There A Future In Bendable Gaming?
Motion-sensing, camera control, thought control; it’s all been done before, or has it? A team from Queen’s University in Ontario has created a new way to play games using a bendable projection screen and a shoulder-mounted projector. Is the future of gaming just around the bend? Zi Ye and Hammad Khalid of the Human Media…
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Black Wii Bundle Shows Up In GameStop Marketing
GameStop stores’ monthly poster shipment includes this lovely advertisement for the rumored black Nintendo Wii, bundled with Wii Sports, Wii MotionPlus, and Wii Sports Resort. An anonymous GameStop employee sent us an image of the new poster, which arrived in a monthly shipment with instructions to hold until May 4, five days before earlier rumors…
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Play Super Mario Bros. As Mega Man, Link, Samus, And More!
What if you could play the original Super Mario Bros. with other classic video game characters, controlling just as they did in their own titles? Well now you can, with Simon Belmont, Link, Samus, Mega Man, and Bill from Contra. Super Mario Crossover is a flash recreation of the original Super Mario Bros. with a…
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Mytheon Open Beta Launches With Fabulous Prizes
Petroglyph’s massive multiplayer online action strategy game Mytheon has entered open beta, with a laptop, iPod Touches, and iTunes gift cards up for grabs for those who give the game an early go. Mytheon is an interesting mix of Diablo-esque action role-playing game and collectible strategy. Instead of normal skills, players have an assortment of…
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Probing Record Of Agarest War’s Naughty Box
Aksys’ Really Naughty Limited Edition of Record of Agarest War is out for the Xbox 360, and its contents are so interesting that one girl and two cats gather to see what’s inside. Warning: Simulated boob poking ensues. I thought I was just joking when I mentioned preordering this Limited Edition back when it was…
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There Are Secret Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Demons In This Post
Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey features a password system that lets players summon special demons via secret codes, like the two they’ve passed on to Kotaku to share with our readers, including one for password-exclusive Alciel, the Black Sun. The latest Shin Megami Tensei DS game to hit North America features a sophisticated demon…
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Jazz Comes Late To The War For Cybertron Preorder Exclusive Party
It seems to me that you’d want to announce all of your retailer preorder exclusive items at the same time, to avoid shutting out one particular store, but here comes Jazz, ready to fight multiplayer battles for Best Buy customers. Activision revealed Shockwave as the GameStop preorder bonus multiplayer character for Transformers: War for Cybertron…
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What On Earth Is Mega Man Universe?
A trademark application filed last week by Capcom for Mega Man Universe could indicate big things in store for everyone’s favorite blue bomber. IS Capcom working on a massively-multiplayer Mega Man title? It sounds unlikely, but that’s the first thought that comes to mind when seeing the name Mega Man Universe. The trademark application, discovered…
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World Of Warcraft’s New Recruit-A-Friend Reward Is So Romantic
What could be more romantic than flying over the moon-dappled snow of Azeroth’s northlands with your significant other’s arms wrapped around you, straddling the new X-53 Touring Rocket, World of Warcraft’s first two-person flying mount? Blizzard wantts you to play World of Warcraft, but if they’ve already got you, they’ll gladly take your friends, and…
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Guild Wars 2’s Design Manifesto Details Anti-Social Social Enhancements
Guild Wars developer ArenaNet launches its new blog in grand fashion today, with a design manifesto detailing all the ways that they’re raising the MMO bar for Guild Wars 2, from exciting combat to a novel solution to kill stealing. The more I read about ArenaNet’s goals in developing the follow-up to Guild Wars, the…
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Bust Up Your World Of Warcraft Character
Why spend all day staring at your Blood Elf rogue’s ass when you can spend all day staring at her chest? Custom statue creators FigurePrints is now making busts of your World of Warcraft alter-egos. FigurePrints made a killing in the custom statue business a couple of years back when then first introduced made-to-order, full-figure…
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Why Conduit 2 Will Be Better Than The Conduit
In a message to Sega fans posted at the company’s European blog, High Voltage chief creative officer Eric Nofsinger explains why The Conduit was a muddled, uninteresting jumble, and why the game’s sequel won’t be. Nofsinger might not use those exact words, but they are certainly implied in the lengthy message, assuring fans that next…
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What’s My Motivation? Why We Play The Top 100 Games
We pulled the top 100 highest rated games from review aggregation website GameRankings.com and broke them down by primary motivation – the driving force behind the heroes, anti-heroes, competitors, and god-like beings inhabiting those acclaimed titles. Are we the world’s last bastion of defense against total destruction, or are we just trying to win the…
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Iron Man 2’s Cinematics Aren’t Looking Too Shabby
Uncanny, or funcanny? This cinematic intro for Sega’s Iron Man 2 captures the wit and warmth of the movie franchise quite nicely, even if the characters do look a little creepy. Becoming a video game character takes years off Don Cheadle’s face, doesn’t it? Samuel L. Jackson is looking a bit younger than usual as…
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Amazon Doing Xbox 360 Deals All Day Long
It’s that time again! Time to watch the clock, solve the clues, and save big on the Xbox 360 titles featured all day long in Amazon’s Gold Box. Is BioShock 2 for $40 really a good deal? Either way, that’s what Amazon.com is leading off with today, giving Xbox 360 owners a chance to revisit…
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Comcast Isn’t Just The Worst Internet Provider Anymore
After years of throttled internet and bad customer service earning it a reputation as the worst internet provider in America, Comcast scores a golden poo as Consumerist.com’s 2010 Worst Company in America. I promised myself I wouldn’t cry. Every year, the Consumerist pits some of the worst companies in the country against each other in…
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Celebrate Three Years Of Lord Of The Rings Online With Savings
Turbine marks three years’ worth of plunging players headlong into the magical world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth with discounts for folks who’d like to stick around a little bit longer. Turbine launched massively multiplayer online role-playing game Lord of the Rings Online on April 24, 2007, and servers quickly flooded with rabid fans, fresh…
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Ladies And Gentlemen, Restart Your Steam Engines
As promised, the new Steam client is now live, giving PC gamers the sort of shiny new and revamped features they’ve been craving for years. Just look at that library screen! It’s by far my favorite feature of the new Steam, though when you’ve got a gazillion games to navigate through I suppose it’s a…
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The Nintendo Download: It’s A Good Week To Own A DSi
This week’s Nintendo Download is packed to the brim with DSiWare goodness, with six titles ranging from Ferrari racing to an augmented reality shooter that gives players something to do with the DSi’s built-in camera. I might actually spend some points on DSiWare this week, which hasn’t happened since I bought my DSi in the…
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Don The Iron Man 2 Armor In PlayStation Home
Iron Man 2 is coming to theaters next week, but he’s making a pit stop in Europe’s PlayStation Home this Thursday, with the service’s first movie-themed mini-game and your chance to win your own set of virtual Iron Man armor. Pilot Tony Stark through the streets of the big city, dodging mines and picking up…
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