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Cortana has a Different Look on the Windows Phone
Cortana, the digital consigliere coming to Windows Phone 8.1, won’t be represented by the light blue apparition of a woman. Cortana will, appropriately enough, be a halo. It, uh, she? will be represented by a blue ring that animates whenever she’s speaking or thinking, says The Verge, citing sources inside Microsoft and providing some screenshots…
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UncategorizedJimmy Kimmel Presents Bitman Begins
Classic YouTube clips, turned into big-budget Hollywood movies? There comes a time when it’ll be sober fact. Until then, here’s Jimmy Kimmel and his dramatic adaptation of “Charlie Bit My Finger” (sadly, Bitman has nothing to do with bitcoins) with Chris Hemsworth, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. Bitman Begins [Jimmy Kimmel Live, YouTube] To contact…
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UncategorizedKids Discover Rotary Phones, Everyone Else Feels Really Old
There was a time when we didn’t need games on our phones, because every phone came with a built-in game of roundabouts. Kids today have no idea what they missed, and don’t seem too impressed when they find out. For my children’s first birthdays, my sister got them a pair of those classic Fisher Price…
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Star Wars art doesn’t get any more religious than this. Hero-Glyphs is a series by artist Josh Ln, transforming well-known superheroes and other pop culture icons into hieroglyphs. His latest pieces feature Star Wars, Ghostbusters and (surprise, surprise) Firefly: Hero Glyphs by Josh Lane [Society6] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing…
By Gergo Vas - Kotaku East
You Can Make $40 A Day Cosplaying in China
Cosplay is huge in China and Taiwan. It’s become an industry in itself, where young men and women get paid to dress up. However, as glorious as it is to get paid to for cosplay, one girl’s tale reveals that cosplayers in China may not be making as much money as one would think. In…
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UncategorizedAn Anthropological Study of DayZ
In DayZ, and other survival sandbox games, you don’t necessarily have to shoot anything that moves, still—unless you’re playing with friends— the chances of being killed on sight are really high. So here’s RE:roll with an in-depth, serious analysis of what might go on in someone’s head while playing DayZ DayZ: An Anthropological Study [YouTube]…
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Kotaku EastPower Rangers Make the Best Diplomats
Taiwan has had fairly good relations with Japan—that’s taking into account that Japan once occupied the island. To celebrate and to strengthen these relations, Japan’s NGO Earth non government organization recently sent a group of volunteers to the island. The volunteers were Power Rangers. As reported by various Taiwanese media, NGO Earth visited North Taiwan’s…
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“We can capitalize the most on our strengths through a hardware-software integrated platform business, and therefore this type of dedicated video game platform will remain our core focus.” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, in a letter to shareholders and investors about the company’s future
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UncategorizedHow Star Trek Should Have Been Rebooted
Honor is never enough! This superbly-edited trailer parody of The Wolf of Wall Street by Grant Gourley throws new light upon everyone’s favorite Klingon. The Worf of Starfleet – Trailer Parody (The Wolf of Wall Street) [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
By Gergo Vas - Kotaku East
Chinese Government Wants to Ban Video Game Commercials On Kids’ TV
Video games in China have long had a bad rep, so it’s no wonder that the newest revision to commercial advertising regulations in China features video games. The only problem with these new regulations: they’re targeting something that, at this time, doesn’t really exist. Posted on the State Council’s legal affairs website last week, the…
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UncategorizedA Very Lonely Cross Between Pokémon and Harvest Moon
This is Toby’s Island, a PC RPG where you try to survive by farming, crafting, raising monsters and building a settlement all by yourself on a dangerous, untamed island. The game is heavily inspired by RPGs of the nineties, and it shows: there’s some rather good-looking sprite art to be found. The plot, which deals…
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