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Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Wednesday! Now go Talk Amongst Yourselves, but please keep the topic to video games. I know. What a silly request. Special thanks goes out (again!!) to Incursor for today’s image. Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
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In Cow ClickARG, the Cowpocalypse is Nigh
The Cow Clicker-ing community has been sent on a mission; discover the secrets of Cow ClickARG before the secrets discover you. Ian Bogost, evil mastermind behind this whole damn cowpie, has let little slip regarding the alternate reality game for his massively popular satire of massively popular Facebook games, Cow Clicker: Some months ago, evil…
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Man Ships Himself Across the Country in a Box While Gaming Online
Jordan Wayne Long is preparing for his summer vacation- seven days, locked in a crate, traveling from Bald Knob, Arkansas to Portland, Oregon. Yes, you read that right. Long, a “performance and video artist” according to his website, plans to travel by crate for a week with no connection to the outside world, except for…
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Take Assassin’s Creed, Mass Effect and Other Gaming Greats, add Jedi
Everyone loves Star Wars. If you don’t love Star Wars, you’re wrong. Some people love Star Wars so much, they want more things to be Star Wars. Forevergeek.com has taken 50 Star Wars Mashups from all over the internet and thoughtfully put them all in one place. Here are the video game tie-ins from their…
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Flash Game Contest Favors Message over Violence
A recent video game contest asks the question “can you design a game about Teen Dating Violence without using violence itself?” The worldwide answer was a resounding ‘Yes.’ Jennifer Ann’s Group, a non-profit organization aimed at preventing Teen Dating Violence, announced the winners of their Life.Love. Game Design Contest this morning. All of the games…
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I Can Put Up With Ads While I Hang, Thanks
The newest addition to Zynga’s game family is Hanging With Friends, an app for iGadgets big and small. It’s a twist on classic hangman, with elements of Scrabble and other word games thrown in. You can only choose from a handful of letters when building your challenge (a la Scrabble), though you are given the…
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These Military Computer Games Are Ridiculously Ambitious
Last week I had a chance to talk to the Bohemia Interactive bossman, Marek Spanel. As one of the brains behind the original Operation Flashpoint, and then the three Arma games that followed, he is one PC gaming’s most ambitious developers. He’s now embarking on a huge project of developing three games across three studios…
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Duke Nukem Final Boss an Anti-Climax?
Unsurprisingly, Gearbox forum posters are talking about Duke Nukem Forever, and while they can’t seem to decide what was offensive and what was just par for the course, almost everyone agrees: the final boss pissed them off. SPOILERS AHEAD: [Gearbox]
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