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UncategorizedMinecraft Captures the Non-Stop Action of Rock’em Sock’em Robots
Two robots enter, both robots stay, only one has a slightly elevated head. Minecraft craftsman Sethbling has recreated the 1964 sensation that swept an easily-amused nation, Rock’em Sock’em Robots The classic two-player big robot battles comes to life in Mojang’s pile of virtual building blocks, using a rather ingenious little pressure plate mechanic to simulate…
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Sweet Naiveté Triumphs Over “Normal” Mass Effect PC Controls
Just because we’ve conditioned ourselves to play PC games a certain way doesn’t mean everybody else has to follow suit. In today’s charming Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Confirm4Crit tells the inspiring story of what happened when he handed his non-gamer girlfriend his laptop running a copy of the original Mass Effect. I am very,…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Is More Than 200 Hours of Kingdoms of Amalur Too Much Reckoning?
Perhaps proving that you can have too much of a good thing, a recent total completion playthrough of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning clocked in at more than 200 hours, which has the lead designer wondering if maybe they might have overdone it a little. One would think more than 200 hours of content would be…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Come along, boys and girls. It’s time to let yourselves out of your shells and spend some time discussing video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Yankton, America’s Sweetheartmade my day with a wonderfully stacked TAYpic. Wonderfully done! Join the party and create your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share…
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With a Wink, One Epic Game Shrewdly Delivers Less Than It Promises
Having reviewed the likes of Matt Hazzard: Blood, Bath and Beyond, I was prepared to dislike One Epic Game, a platformer set in, let’s see here, yes, “an alien invasion right in the middle of a zombie outbreak in a fantasy kingdom somewhere in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.” That’s from a cutscene. “With World War II…
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Gamer Dies in Taipei Internet Cafe, Nine Hours Later Someone Notices
Chen Rong-yu of Taiwan checked into an internet cafe in the city of New Taipei on Tuesday evening to play popular multiplayer PC game League of Legends. Wednesday evening a waitress found the 23-year-old sitting rigidly in his chair, hands outstretched towards the computer. He had been dead for up to nine hours. Intense levels…
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