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An Ambidextrous Gaming Mouse So Powerful You Can Use It One-Handed
Not a day goes by that I don’t get an email from left-handed mutants wondering why I don’t review mice made just for them. I believe I just answered that question. What I can do, however, is review a gaming mouse for people both right and wrong-handed. A mouse that weighs its fearful symmetry to…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Apple Store Rips Down Torchlight Ripoff
The mall cops in the iTunes App Store today finally ejected Armed Heroes Online, a Chinese-published MMO, sold only in iTunes’ Canadian store, which evidently stole most, if not all, of its audiovisual assets from the PC dungeon-crawling hit Torchlight. The takedown came about a week after demands from Torchlight‘s lawyers. That doesn’t mean Armed…
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UncategorizedFrom Tetris to Metroid: The ‘Hip’ Tanaka Mixtape
Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka’s music is infectious. It gets in your blood. Metroid, Tetris, Kid Icarus: if you own a Gameboy, or a Nintendo you’ve had one of his songs stuck in your head. Possibly for a week. This week on the Kotaku Mixtape, we take a look at one of the great composers of all…
By Chris Person - Uncategorized
Too Bad You Can’t Actually Travel Across The Room With These Portals
Sure, it’s fairly cheap and easy to make yourself a Portal-themed mirror with some paint and a quick trip to IKEA. But what really makes a portal fun isn’t just its blue or orange halo but rather, that trippy infinity effect. For that, you need two mirrors. And some LEDs. Or if you’re not particularly…
By Kate Cox - Uncategorized
Scottish Team’s Bankruptcy Means FIFA 13 Faces a Financial Decision, Too
It’s a simple truth: A club that is relegated out of a league appearing in EA Sports’ FIFA runs the risk of getting relegated out of the video game, too. For the more popular sides, this usually isn’t much of a threat, and in any event many of the biggest leagues run two divisions deep,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Recruiting Myself with NCAA Football and Wondering If I’ll Even Answer the Phone
Deciding where to go to college was very simple for me. It had nothing to do with a university convincing me to enroll there; it had everything to do with convincing one to actually admit me. N.C. State, for whatever reason, sent me the fat envelope in late 1990, and I said yes on the…
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Browser-Based MMO Runescape Boasts 200 Million Players… and Counting
When you talk about MMORPGs in the United States, most minds jump to World of Warcraft. And yes, with subscriber base that peaked at twelve million and still hangs out around ten million, WoW was and is a big deal. But Runescape, a free-to-play browser-based MMORPG from British company Jagex, makes every subscription-based game ever…
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