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This LSD-Inspired Oculus Game is The Most Intense Thing I Saw at E3
I’ve seen things inside the Oculus Rift you people wouldn’t believe. And, for the most part, it involved the strange LSD-inspired indie game SoundSelf In the video above, SoundSelf’s designer Robin Arnott shows you the ins-and-outs of his LSD-trip inspired VR game, which he was showing off at the IndieCade booth at E3. SoundSelf is…
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The Ninja Gaiden Zombie Game Contains At Least One Panty Shower
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, the zombie-centric Ninja Gaiden game, is on display at E3 and I can confirm one thing: there is at least one incident of panties raining from the sky. In the pre-alpha E3 demo, cyborg-ninja protagonist Yaiba throws a zombie into a truck. That zombie then drives said truck into a panty…
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This is What E3 Looks Like Right Now
The Kotaku crew has just recently landed in LA, ready for a barrage of news to hit us in our collective faces. But before the press and exhibitors and everyone else comes piling onto the convention center show floor on Tuesday, we wanted to give you a quick tour of what E3 looks like this…
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Here’s Why You Should Play State of Decay
Between DayZ, ZombiU, Left 4 Dead 2 and The Walking Dead, I thought I was burnt out on zombie games. Well, it turns out I was wrong. In the video above I quickly show you around the world of State of Decay, the open-world zombie game released yesterday for XBLA that’s been slowly winning me…
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If Only 3D Animation Was Really This Easy
I’ve always wanted to be be an animator, but it’s always seemed like a complicated, arduous process. If only there was a simpler way… Now there is! Well, not really. Check out the video above by animator Giovanni Braggio, as he shows you just how easy (fictional) CGI animation is. [Vimeo Staff Pick via Chevy…
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Their $5 Gaming Chair Turned Out To Be A $150,000 Antique
A Colorado couple found out that the chair that they’d been gaming on was a vintage Eames chair. According to Fox Philadelphia the chair, an antique Eames LCW manufactured by Herman Miller and designed by Charles and Ray Eames, is estimated to be worth 150,000 dollars. The couple had bought it for five bucks, used…
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What We Can Learn From Paul McCartney’s Awful Video Game
Sir Paul McCartney had a video game. It is pretty awful, but it’s also fascinating. In the video above, I talk about Give My Reguards to Broad Street, a game by Argus Press Software for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum based on an equally terrible movie of the same name. I talk about why…
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Here’s that Maltese Joy Division Game You Asked For!
When I woke up this morning, you know what I said to myself? “Man, I sure would like a game loosely based on Joy Division’s song ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart‘ — preferably from the island nation of Malta.” Well it looks like I got my wish! Will Love Tear Us Apart?, which you can…
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One Author Breaks Down the Reality of Violent Games in the Media
The sober truth of the world is often a hard thing for the 24-hour TV news cycle to stomach. Blaming violent games is easy, so it’s refreshing to see someone break down the reality of the situation in one fell swoop. In the clip above, taken from C-SPAN 2’s Book TV, author Karen Sternheimer gives…
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I Wish America Had Local Game Coverage Like This
I end up watching a lot of news in my line of work, and one thing that is frequently hammered home is this: mainstream American media doesn’t know what they’re doing with games. Across the board what you see on television (with the exception of business reporting) is at best marginally competent and at worst…
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Marine Vet Justifies His Argument For Xbox As “Anti-Empathy Machine”
Today on televison, somebody said something reasonable about violent video games. Karl Marlantes, an author, Marine veteran and author of the book “What It Is Like to Go to War” fielded a question on C-Span2 about the long-term effect that unrealistic depictions of war in media and specifically gaming will have on the military. Despite…
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MSNBC Host Calls Men in Their Twenties Weak, Unmarriable Gamers
In the middle of a dated metaphor about cavemen killing dinosaurs to make ends meet Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, called men in their twenties weak, unmarriable gamers. Speaking on the topic of shifting gender roles and female breadwinners, Joe stated the following about my generation: “Men in their twenties, who unfortunately I…
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Show Us What You Love And Hate About Mario’s Character Design
Ah Mario; the Superman of video games. He’s the modest, iconic, do-gooder everyone loves. He’s wholesome — a video game character you can bring home to mom for the holidays. Like Superman, Mario has had his highs and his lows (I’m looking at you Hotel Mario and Bob Hoskins) but his design still remains unsullied…
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Katie Couric Offers ‘Mea Culpa’ For One-Sided Violent Video Game Show
At the beginning of the month, Katie Couric got some heat from gamers over her one-sided, fear-mongering episode about violent game addiction. On Friday, Couric gave voice to those dissenters and issued a ‘Mea Culpa’ follow-up on her show. Pulling some fairly ruthless quotes from both Twitter and Facebook, Couric admitted that it was probably…
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