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The Good, The Bad, The Really Bad, and The Week in Gaming Apps
In the course of randomly selecting which mobile games we’ll be featuring in our Gaming Apps of the Day, sometimes we come up with a week’s worth of winners. This was not this week. While we did manage to drum up a pair of keepers with the iOS version of indie masterpiece Aquaria and the…
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Video Games Plant the Seeds of Creativity in Children’s Minds
I was under the impression that it took a creative person to fully appreciate everything video games have to offer. According to recent research conducted at Michigan State University, I may have had that backwards. Does playing video games make you more creative? Researchers surveyed nearly 500 middle-school students as part of MSU’s Children and…
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Modern Warfare 3 Now Available for Purchase and Pre-Load on Amazon
Amazon’s digital download service is serving up fresh copies of Modern Warfare 3 standard edition to all comers today, allowing players to purchase and pre-load for play at launch, with a $10 digital download coupon to sweeten the deal. [Amazon]
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The LEGO Universe Ends on January 31
Despite a strong brand name, positive early buzz, and the implementation of a new free-to-play model back in August, the massively multiplayer LEGO Universe will be closing its doors on January 31, 2012, the day imagination died. While the game attracted plenty of players, LEGO Universe‘s problem laid in turning its big numbers into big…
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UncategorizedRainbow 6: Patriots‘ Tough Choices Brought to Life in this Proof-of-Concept Video
We’ve been telling you about the hard choices being put on the players of Rainbow 6: Patriots since June, now see for yourself in Ubisoft’s proof-of-concept video. Happy birthday to you. While the footage differs slightly from what was leaked to Kotaku earlier this year, it certainly demonstrates the ideas we’ve been discussing since yesterday’s…
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Kinect for Windows Coming Soon to Change the Way We Do Everything
The sinister phase two of Microsoft’s Kinect plan picks up steam as the company makes Kinect for Windows impeding arrival official. Are you ready to do everything six to eight feet from a computer screen? With hundreds of financial, educational, and commercial companies signed up to see what Kinect can do for them, next year…
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MinecraftEdu Distributes the Building Blocks of Games-Based Education to Classrooms Everywhere
Joel Levin at the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School used popular indie block building game Minecraft as a learning tool for his second grade computer class. Now he’s a part of the newly-launched MinecraftEdu, a program dedicated to spreading Minecraft-based learning to classrooms around the world. Earlier this year Kotaku took a field trip to…
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