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Max Payne Ruins the Week in Gaming Apps for Everybody Else
Here I was, having a great week (in gaming apps), and Rockstar’s Max Payne Mobile has to wander in and make things all noir and edgy—in bullet time no less! How can a game in which you snipe at stick people stand in the way of the smirking face that would one day become Marky…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
These Portal Rings Are Great. Now Someone Make Them Out Of Silver.
All things geek website Geekologie found an array of cute Portal rings from a 3D printing company, shapeways Although the company prints designs that you supply them with, and you’ll therefore have to fill in the details with painting skills of your own, the results can be quite nice looking. It’s little more than cheap…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
Nintendo Registers “Super Mario 4” Domain Name, Hinting at Future Game
Nintendo has just managed to throw massive fuel onto the fire of rumor and speculation with a simple domain name registration. On April 3, Nintendo of America registered the website “supermario4.com,” as recently spotted by an IGN reader. Currently, navigating to the site only results in a redirect to Nintendo’s main page. Mario, Luigi, Peach,…
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Time To Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Happy Friday, Kotaku! It’s that time of week again where you get to pass actual solicited judgment on your fellow community members. Who will this week’s winner of the The Best Comment From The Community be? It’s up to you but, as always, please reserve self-nominations for our self-nomination post. Which happens never. So, never.…
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UncategorizedWhat Battlefield Might Look Like With Google Glasses
Google Glasses is somewhat of a creepy concept, but it can also mean a drastic change for gamers. Imagine playing the next Battlefield title like something of an ARG, where the playing field is the literal space you stand in. Can’t imagine it? That’s fine, because YouTube user ThereIsaCanal has uploaded a video of what…
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EA Wants Need for Speed to Race into Movie Theaters
For all that movies and games so often feel like they should be a natural partnership, they usually aren’t. A huge number of films based on game franchises have been developed in the last thirty years or so, and most of them were awful. This doesn’t seem to be deterring EA, who are shopping around…
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UncategorizedGeralt Makes “Rated M for Mature” Sound So Sexy
The Witcher 2: Assassin’s of Kings‘ hero doesn’t get laid all the time for nothing. In this launch trailer for the Xbox 360 edition of the game, Geralt of Rivia warns of mature content in a way that’ll have your parents purchasing the game for themselves. I vote we have Geralt’s voice actor Doug Cockle…
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UncategorizedIndie Man Valiantly Brings Down The Big Bad Game Companies
All of the qualms you’ve been having over your favorite AAA games—like bad endings and online passes—have Indie Man to blame. Indie Man bursts into high profile game company meetings and inserts his crazy ideas to bring down the man. All of his valiant efforts are to help indie games’ popularity. So, does it work?
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UncategorizedDabble With Word Puzzles and Just Enough Strategy
Dabble is an incredibly simple but satisfying game that combines two of my favorite things: words and puzzles. Like any other word game, Dabble gives the player a bunch of tiles and asks them to form words; this is fairly straightforward. Then the puzzle catch comes in: each round has exactly 20 tiles, from which…
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UncategorizedYou’re Trapped Inside a Gigantic Claw Machine. What Do You Do?!
It’s all fun and games until the giant claw descends from the sky and threatens to make you the unwilling plaything of a surly teenager. This brilliant (very) short film from SoKrispyMedia captures the sheer panic experienced by brave men that have, perhaps foolishly, made the inside of a claw machine their preferred hang-out spot.…
By Mike Fahey