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UncategorizedCertain Video Games Can Help Kids Beat Cancer, Researchers Say
Researchers have looked at mainstream video games for years, trying to determine the effects games have on players’ brains. Maybe they make us faster decision-makers, or better thinkers, or more aggressive. Studies come out nearly weekly and often seem to contradict each other’s findings. But one specially designed game has been having a beneficial effect…
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How Can I Take Dungeons & Dragons Online‘s New Druid Class Seriously Now?
Dungeons & Dragons Online‘s Menace of the Underdark expansion launches on June 25, bringing with it the new Druid class, seen here dragging its ass across the carpet. Somebody get me a rolled-up newspaper.
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UncategorizedWTPT: I Might Actually Play This Video Game If It Weren’t Just a Music Video
German electronic music producer Faderhead clearly has a taste for video games. His latest track, “Fistful of F*ck You,” couldn’t be more suited to this video game style music video. In the most heroic of quests—aka searching for a club to make his scheduled on-stage performance—Faderhead fights through bouncers, horrific-looking club-goers and homeless people. There’s…
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UncategorizedDeus Ex Designer Warren Spector Isn’t a Real Spectre? I Feel Cheated.
Earlier this month at the Game Developers Choice Awards, Deus Ex and Epic Mickey designer received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the gaming. This Mega64 tribute to Spector featuring Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski aired during the program. I’m surprised they didn’t take the award back on the spot. I mean come on, Warren…
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Hideo Kojima Speaks on Creativity, Business, and Wanting to Be in the LAPD When He Grew Up
The Smithsonian American Art Museum celebrated the opening of its new exhibit, The Art of Video Games, this weekend with GameFest, three days’ worth of entertainment and panels with game industry notables. On Saturday, the museum featured a one-hour talk with game design legend Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid fame. Kojima’s mere entry into…
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The Greatest Achievement of This Console Generation is… Warm Hands?
What’s the single greatest achievement of the current generation of video game consoles? While some might say motion control or the rise of online multiplayer, in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Aikage is just happy to keep his hands under the covers. What do you think has been the current generation of console’s greatest…
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Game Critics Punish Ninja Gaiden 3 for a Change
For years the folks at Team Ninja have been making poor game reviewers battle their way through some of the most ninja battles in gaming history. With the release of Ninja Gaiden 3 the tables are finally turned. In order for the tables to be turned the game critics would have to make their game…
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UncategorizedThe Boys of Silence are BioShock Infinite‘s Most Terrifying Heavy Hitters Yet
In a normal situation, hanging out with the boys in the band is a welcome occasion. BioShock Infinite does not present a normal situation, and the Boys of Silence are not your average band geeks. We’ve seen robot George Washington; we’ve seen Big Hands and sworn he was the one. Now the Boys of Silence…
By Mike Fahey
