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UncategorizedHoly @!#?@! Man Spends 68.5 Hours Playing Single Game of Q*Bert
When most of us think of a long session spent playing a single game, we think of spending a day or maybe a weekend immersed in story or competition. Eight or ten hours, maybe more, spent on the sofa or at a PC while the player loses track of time. One man, this morning, just…
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UncategorizedWTPT: Adventure Time Intro Sequence Just Made My Heart Stop and Start Again
I’m a huge geek for Adventure Time. And like any true, dedicated geek, I want to see one of my favorite shows plastered everywhere. Even my iPhone background is of Jake. Feel free to steal it, because it is awesome. Reddit user ungivenglory is also a big fan of Adventure Time, and he also wants…
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UncategorizedThey Need To Be Fed to the Monster at the End
They Need to be Fed is, aside from being a mouthful to remember and say, a gravity-based puzzle platformer. Only in this case, gravity doesn’t necessarily apply in the way you feel that it should. Rather, each little center of mass — the blocks from which the player’s avatar needs to leap — seems to…
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Only the Ruthless and Brutal Will Survive The Last of Us
Joel’s gun clicks pathetically as his finger desperately squeezes the trigger. Another survivor — the one with the still-loaded gun — grins, takes aim, and gets his head bashed in with a brick wielded by a 14-year-old girl. In describing the recent gameplay demo of The Last of Us in on the PlayStation Blog, Naughty…
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The Infinite Sadness That Comes When the Game Updates End
Recently the developers of the procedural PC playground game Terraria announced that updates for the game would be ending. It was a crushing blow to commenter Jezuz. Share his desolation in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I’m… I’m not sure why, but after finding out (quite late, at that), that the developer of Terraria was…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
With only a few days left before the Reaper invasion, it’s a good time to gather with your friends, loved ones and total strangers to discuss video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Snake56 does amazing things to the brand-spanking-new March TAYpic. I’m almost convinced this was the artist’s original intent. You too…
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War is Not a Video Game to President Barack Obama
Defending his preference for peace in an in-depth interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, President Obama updates the tried-and-true ‘war is not a game’. Eventually we’ll have a president that’s played a first-person shooter. It’s pretty much inevitable. Perhaps one day a president will sit down with a reporter and talk about how much the…
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DC Universe Online‘s Battle for Earth Begins March 13
Brainiac is going down, but he’s not going down without a fight. Players looking to help serve the metal menace his final comeuppance should hit up DC Universe Online on the PlayStation 3 or PC March 13, when The Battle for Earth expansion goes live. With new earth-based powers and epic battles to fight, The…
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