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That’s a Mighty Big Box for a Mighty Small Memory Card
Video games and the consoles we play them on may use a significant amount of materials. But even when going digital, it seems we can’t get away from the waste. Reddit user firstmarker ordered a PS Vita memory card. The Vita is a handheld. Memory cards for it are not large. And little tiny memory…
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UncategorizedI Wish I Had Infinite Cabbages That Replenish My Health
A lot of these Skyrim jokes have been done before: the ridiculous ease with which you can steal from a shopkeeper right under his nose, something about arrows and knees, etc. But imagining a warrior slink down on a tree trunk to gobble up randomly produced cabbages for health is too funny to pass up.…
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Vote For Your Favorite Comment Right Here
Hello Kotaku, and welcome to the thread where you pass judgment on the heads of your fellow readers. Drop a link to the comment you liked from this week down in the new discussion system below. Vote the ones you like up, and I’ll pick from popular selections for this week’s Best of Kotaku Normal…
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UncategorizedWatch What Could Happen if Real Life had DLC
What if real life had DLC? That’s one question this video attempts to answer. But the better question, really, is: How cool would it be to go stand in a field and be able to fight like Batman? Pretty cool. This is a great recreation of the camerawork and action we all know from inside…
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UncategorizedFlinging Cute Fuzzy Things to Their Doom is Kind of More Fun than Rescuing Them
I spent a not-insignificant amount of time in middle school and early in high school playing Lemmings games with my friend who lived next door. It was, of course, satisfying to guide the mindless little morons through perils to safety. And it was more satisfying still to misplace a beam intentionally and watch them all…
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Hero Academy Coming to Steam on August 8
The popular iOS game is getting a PC version with bonus Team Fortress 2-themed content included. Players of both versions will be able to compete cross-platform; owners of both versions will have unlocked content from one available on both.
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They Couldn’t Kill Salman Rushdie in Real Life, So They’re Making a Video Game
On February 14, 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwā against Salman Rushdie, calling for the assassination of the British Indian author of The Satanic Verses. Seeing as Rushdie is still alive, it didn’t go so well. Now a state-sponsored Iranian student organization plans on correcting that oversight with The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie…
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The Amazing Spider-Man Marketing Team Has it So Easy
I bet the folks that do public relations and marketing for innovative and thoughtful games like From Dust and Journey spend days and days brainstorming inventive ways to communicate complex ideas in ways that appeal to the consumer. Meanwhile The Amazing Spider-Man UK marketing team nipped off early after putting in an order for footy…
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