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Fine, I’ll Buy Your Damn Transformers Prime Game
But only because Arcee looks halfway decent in the screens for the game, coming to 3DS, DS and Wii this October. I know I gave you guys shit earlier, but you have found my weakness. I’m in the middle of reading through IDW’s excellent run of Transformers comic books, which might account for my soft…
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I Need a Shiny New Phone So I Can Make It Look Like a 25-Year-Old Controller
The wonderfully named Killer Duck Decals sells, well, decals. Stickers for your phone or smallish electronics. But not just any stickers. These NES controller iPhone decals kind of make me wish I had an iPhone, not going to lie. (The store does stock some Android decals! But not, sadly, for my phone.) On the other…
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How The World Got Centipede: “It Didn’t Seem That Bad To Shoot A Bug.”
Centipede was an arcade classic, famous still to this day. It debuted in 1981, with a home version for the Atari 2600 showing up in 1982. In honor of Atari’s recent 40th anniversary, the Associated Press caught up with programming pioneer Dona Bailey, the mind behind Centipede and one of only the barest tiny handful…
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UncategorizedThe Secret To A Successful Game Trailer: Endings With Roars
It’s an ancient Mazatec secret passed down verbally from video editor to video editor: If you want your game to be a smash hit, end your trailer with something roaring. It can be an alien, a dragon, a balrog, a T-Rex, whatever; as long as it’s roaring, you’ll move a minimum of 20 million units,…
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Angry Birds Trilogy Coming Soon to Xbox 360, PS3, and 3DS
Sure, you can play Angry Birds on your Android phone, your iPhone, your iPod and iPad, on Facebook, on PC, and in your browser, but what if that’s just not enough? What if, instead of flinging irritated avians across the screen on the go, you want to do it from the comfort of your own…
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What Ever Happened to Starhawk?
In today’s lost in space edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Golwar is concerned about the fate of Starhawk, the PlayStation 3 exclusive online shooter that showed so much promise up until it became a real product. I’m wondering, what happened with Starhawk? During the beta this game had been a hot topic around…
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This Year’s San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives Are Gonna Break Me
Now that my wallet has finally recovered from Comic-Con 2009, it’s time to venture forth once more into the land of must-buy exclusive toys and shame. Rather than surprise my bank account this year, I’ve compiled a shopping list containing the logical, illogical and not-embarrassing-at-all items I’ll be bringing home this weekend. And then I…
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UncategorizedCall of Duty Vet Debuts a Whole New Kind of Digital Comic
Keith Arem, talent director on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, among others, is planning an interactive graphic novel designed for the iPad. Infex tells a complicated sci-fi thriller murder mystery. Cancer survivor Evelyn “Ivy” Kendall discovers her father’s research could end all disease… and also create a horde of horrific genetically engineered monsters. He…
By Kate Cox
