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Even The Library of Congress Has a Hard Time Preserving Old Games
Game designers and enthusiasts have, for many years, faced the challenges of preserving history in a digital medium. Source code and original designs for a project get lost over time, or data storage methods change and degrade. Gamers, though, aren’t the only ones facing those challenges. Professional preservationists have their hands full trying to maintain…
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UncategorizedMIT Students Turn Campus Building Into Playable Tetris Game
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a long (long) history of student “hacks,” harmless but clever pranks. Several tend to show up in any given year. Previous reasonably recent favorites (of mine) include turning a building into The One Ring, flying Nyan Cat through a lobby, and an upside-down lounge The students’ newest adventure brought…
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Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battle: It’s Why Tails is Fighting the Murlocs That Matters
Sometimes it’s not the battle that really matters, but rather the events leading up to the battle. For instance, in 1monkeyfromhell’s “The Winter of Tails”, Sonic’s sidekick is on the run because everyone he knows has been murdered in horrible ways. Ouch. Cream the Rabbit? Raped and murdered by “some bizarre creature”. Knuckles the Echidna?…
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UncategorizedWinning Mario Party 9 by Doing Absolutely Nothing
How hard is it to win Mario Party 9 against computer opponents? If you set the AI difficulty to easy, you don’t even need to touch the controller. This video might be a month and a half old, but I’ve been watching it and laughing all morning, so I’d say that’s worth something. YouTube user…
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Nintendo’s President, Steven Spielberg, and the Dead Eyes of a Serial Killer
In a transcript for a never-before-seen installment of Iwata Asks unearthed by Nintendo Gamer, the president of Nintendo explains to legendary director Steven Spielberg why it would not be acceptable to put Mario in the fridge. Here at Kotaku we’ve become big fans of Nintendo Gamer‘s Iwata Asks parody series, riffing on Nintendo’s own interview…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Pokémon Hypno-Therapy
There are Pokémon that breathe fire; Pokémon that shoot electricity; there are Pokémon that warp the very fabric of reality. And then there’s the Pokémon that opens for comedy acts at Cerulean City’s Chuckle Hut. Psychic Pokémon have their uses, but I can’t recall one of them that I’ve actually wanted to keep in my…
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UncategorizedGreat Moments in Video Game Humor: Devil May Laugh His Ass Off
One could liken a video game boss fight to a pair of actors on a stage engaged in a heated argument, trading overblown barbs instead of blows. In Devil May Cry 4, Dante and Angus take that comparison and run with it. The Devil May Cry series is known for its over-the-top action and tongue-barely-in-cheek…
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Nearly 40% Of The US Population Enjoys Free-To-Play Games, And Bunches Of Them Pay
Free-to-play games are all the rage here in 2012. With MMOs, social games, and mobile games leading the way, some analysts see the model as the inevitable wave of the future across genres. And given how very well freemium games seem to be doing, they might just be right. The NPD analyst group’s newest report…
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