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Watch This, Play This: Monday Diversions
Watch! BioShock’s Rapture is in for a surprise come the New Year of 1959. Watch! This video will guide you in the art of using an arcade stick. Play! Ashcraft suggests Pig & Bullet to train your bullet hell skills on your iPhone. Watch! All three Skyrim 2012 videos put into one compilation in preparation…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
Why Gamers Love to Fail
We play games to win. To complete challenges, to finish stories, to overcome obstacles. Games are goals and we need to meet them… right? Or do we, really? Might we play, instead, to feel the thrill of failure? Perhaps getting our butts kicked regularly motivates us more than we think. And yet, surely there must…
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UncategorizedPretending to Use the Force Works Better with Kinect Star Wars
We’re just a week away from the April 3 launch of Kinect Star Wars, the game you get when you buy that sexy new Star Wars Xbox 360 bundle. While my hopes aren’t particularly high for the game, at least it gives pretending to Force Choke someone important context. Kinect Star Wars stands to play…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Ten Officially Sanctioned Guild Wars 2 Screenshots
As I mentioned in my questions and answers post, I’m not allowed to share my own screenshots of the Guild Wars 2 beta weekend with you folks, so Arenanet and NCsoft provided me with ten official screens vaguely connected to this weekend’s experience. How vaguely connected? The top shot here shows an Asura thief, a…
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UncategorizedEverything You Wanted to Know About Guild Wars 2
Last month I shared what I learned during the first Guild Wars 2 press beta weekend. Now the student becomes the master as I tackle the questions Kotaku posed had about the eagerly anticipated massively-multiplayer game after spending another beta weekend adventuring in the world of Tyria. The second Guild Wars 2 beta weekend has…
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Taiwanese Weather Girls Ripped Off By Chinese Weather Girls
Last December, Guangdong Satellite TV Station introduced a change to their regular weather broadcasts. Instead of stuffy meteorologists or on-air reporters reporting the changes in the weather, they hired a group of undergraduate Chinese girls. The group, called Pin-Ko Pie, is made up of nine college girls who have “modeling” experience. These nine girls take…
By Eric Jou - Kotaku East
Let’s Check Out China’s Team Fortress 2 Clone, Final Combat
Whenever I visit an internet cafe in China, be it Shanghai, Beijing or wherever, it always surprises me how many of the games available are MMO’s or bad rip-offs of western games. Normally I would scroll past the Chinese fare and move onto something a little more domestic like Call of Duty or Ages of…
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In China, Hire Your Online Fans and Internet Defenders—Cheap!
I listen to This American Life a lot, and for the longest time at the end of each show Ira Glass would say, “This episode of This American Life is bought to you by Reputation.com.” For long have I pondered what exactly what it is that Reputation.com does. Do they Google-bomb Google or do they…
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