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UncategorizedPft, And They Said Watching TV Doesn’t Impact Your Actions
If this DayZ video proves anything, it’s that watching TV most certainly impacts your actions. At least your virtual, inconsequential ones, anyway. [spoiler]Remember that scene in The Walking Dead where Shane shoots Otis to escape the zombies chasing them?[end spoiler] This betrayal in a round of Arma II mod, DayZ, is pretty much the same…
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UncategorizedI Have No Idea What’s Going On In This Game, But I’m Fascinated
This stop-motion horror game is downright creepy. It reminds me a lot of Limbo, given this somewhat vague description from the student project: Candle is an experimental stop motion survival horror game. In Candle you play as a puppet boy made from wood, cloth and entrails. Trapped underground, you must tunnel your way out, all…
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UncategorizedFirst We Fix 3D, Then We Get Our Holodeck
As demonstrated by the sharp decline in people giving a damn over the last two years, 3D isn’t quite the transcendent experience everyone wanted it to be, but with minds like Sharp’s 3D expert Jonathan Mather on the case it could lead to the true revolution in entertainment: holographic 3D. Mather, a research supervisor in…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
I Bought Facebook Credits This Weekend, and I am (Mostly) Not Ashamed
Until yesterday I prided myself on the fact that I never spent a single cent on Facebook’s fake game money. Now that pride is gone, but the cause was just: I used real money to kick someone’s ass. It almost sounds cool when I put it that way. Not so much when I expound. I…
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Study, China Says Minors Are Learning About Sex From Video Games
Earlier this month on Children’s Day, the China Youth Internet Association in conjunction with the Communication University of China released a study indicating that more than half of all minors ages 13-18 are learning about sex through sex in video games and video game related materials. The study reports that over 40 percent of young…
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Living in China is Life Behind the Great Firewall
Hello Kotaku readers, my name is Eric, you’ve probably seen some of my articles these last couple of months. If you haven’t already figured it out I live in China (the Chinese mainland) and these last 3 years haven’t exactly been a picnic. Now don’t get me wrong, life in China isn’t bad. In fact,…
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Chinese Arcade Owner Extorted For Cigarettes
A man in the south Chinese metropolis of Chongqing, Sichuan Province, was recently sentenced to jail for 7 months for blackmailing and extorting a video game arcade for…cigarettes. According to Chongqing Daily, the man in question, Duan Wei had a criminal record and was previously in Jail for 4 years for theft. Duan Wei got…
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