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The Power of the Giraffe Compels You
I don’t care how damn old it is, they put me in charge of the Open Thread post while Kirk is at the Game Developers Conference and if that means giraffe pictures, then so be it. With my luck they’ll be some sort of Gawker-wide moratorium on giraffe pictures resulting in instant termination. In case…
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Skylanders Wave Four Brings Fresh Life, Air, and Fire to Retail
The hunt begins anew as three more Skylanders figures make their way to retail shelves, filling out the Fire element and adding one each to Life and Air. The checklist nears completion! Electricity-hurling Lightning Rod and bazooka-wielding Zook are a pair of single-packed Skylanders bringing the grand total of Air and Life creatures available to…
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UncategorizedThe Kinect Star Wars Dancing Mingame is Even More Horrifying Than I Imagined
Ignore the podracing and dueling portions of this Kinect Star Wars video and jump directly to around :50 in the video. I probably should have apologized first. Too late now. Whatever reasons I might have had to purchase Kinect Star Wars, this negates each and every one of them. I had heard of this dancing game.…
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ReviewsStreet Fighter X Tekken: The Kotaku Review
Worlds collide, battles erupt, and pink-haired transgendered beauties fight tooth-and-nail with freaking bears; Street Fighter X Tekken has arrived, pitting two of the fighting game scene’s favorite franchises into one sexy, riding-crop wielding package. Perhaps I’m a little obsessed with Capcom’s Poison, or maybe she/he merely represents the best of both worlds with a little…
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UncategorizedFun, Pointless Things To Do With a Portal Gun and a Plumber
We recently reported that Mari0, the Super Mario Brothers-meets-Portal mash-up-game, had launched. Does Mario need a Portal gun? Well, no. Not really. He managed just fine in his 1985 adventure with only basic jumps and fireballs at his disposal. He can squash goombas and rescue princesses just fine without Aperture Science’s latest, greatest device. But…
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UncategorizedHow Stretching Your Thumbs Could Make Your Games Feel Better
The University of Utah News Center reported today that their engineers are hard at work developing a new video game peripheral that stretches the skin on your thumbs. But why, you ask me, would I want little red tactors located on the center of the controller’s joystick to awkwardly move my thumb skin around? Because…
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Roger Ebert Not-So-Subtly Reminds Us What He Thinks of Video Games
Roger Ebert is a very smart man and a very sharp and entertaining writer who just happens to think very, very poorly of video games. Sometimes our gamer discussions leak out into the mainstream, as recently happened with Michael Thomsen’s piece in Slate. In his article, as we reported, Thomsen challenged the idea that a…
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Femshep Takes a Stab at Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” Trailer
Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” trailer was lovely and all, but for many fans of the franchise it featured the wrong main character. Entertainment Weekly‘s PopWatch has an exclusive trailer that fixes that oversight. Go look! [EW.com]
By Mike Fahey
