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The Week in Gaming Apps is Gonna Make You Sweat
I turn my back for just a second and the Week in Gaming Apps goes fitness crazy, or at least two apps more fitness-centric than my restroom-based iPhone gaming sessions will allow. I mean, I guess I could run around in the restroom while playing Zombies, Run!, but there is limited space in there, and…
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This Video Game Actually Treats Teenagers’ Depression
Usually when “video games” and “depression” show up in a sentence together, there’s a research team trying to prove that playing video games causes or at least correlates with depression, especially in kids and teens. This time, however, the news is much more positive: at least one video game out there, it seems, can actually…
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This Is Where You Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Hello Kotaku. Are you aware that it is Friday? I am very aware that it is Friday. And Friday means that it’s time you all gather and vote someone onto the Island that is Best of Kotaku, which runs every Saturday morning. As always, don’t vote yourself onto the island. Only your peers have that…
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Ask For Baby Hadouken GIF, And Ye Shall Receive
The video we posted of a cute, giggling baby getting knocked out by his father’s hadouken was too adorable to not get the GIF treatment. You can thank our own Chris Person for the GIF creation. And now you can watch the baby fall over from a Street Fighter move on loop.
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The Toxic, Psychedelic Drug Behind Sony’s Newest PlayStation 3 Game
People do recreational drugs for a lot of reasons: addiction, boredom, energy, depression, relaxation. But there are just some drugs that no person would ever want to do, drugs that are outright unpleasant and dangerous. Datura is one of those drugs. It is also the name of Sony’s latest Playstation Move title. What Datura Is…
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Work Out Smarter, Not Harder, With Fitocracy‘s Mobile App
It was embarassing to check back in to Fitocracy, the gamified “workout MMO” I touted about a year ago, and see almost no activity on my account since the previous summer. It’s not that I haven’t been to a gym since then. But a combination of backsliding and simply failing to log my activity meant…
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UncategorizedWhat Those Resident Evil Herbs Really Do
When done well, parody videos are great. They feel like an inside joke we can all nod our heads along with and be all, “Yeah, that is a pretty ridiculous thing we did in that video game that one time.” In the spirit of…today, Mega Land Games makes a spoof video of Resident Evil involving…
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UncategorizedSpectacular Modern Warfare 3 Thowing Knife Kill Foiled by Pesky Portable Radar
YouTube user TehPadre would have had a pretty spectacular cross-map throwing knife kill on his hands, if not for the courageous efforts of a portable handheld radar. Missed it by that much! Good thing TehPadre checks his replays after every long-distance throwing knife attack. If not he never would have known the man that shot…
By Mike Fahey
