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UncategorizedHey Kids, Don’t Eat Your Xbox 360; Eat Tim Schafer’s Instead
This promotional video for Double Fine’s Once Upon a Monster teaches children several important lessons. For instance, look how well cookies fit inside the Xbox 360 DVD drive. Bet they hadn’t thought of that. Not only is the Xbox 360 a handy place to store snacks, it also acts as a snack itself, it’s circuit…
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Playdead Used The Limbo Profits to Buy Itself From Investors
Denmark-based indie developer Playdead was created with one goal—to produce Xbox Arcade game Limbo. Since the game premiered in 2010, it has been also been developed for the PlayStation Network, and for the PC on Steam In order to complete and expand Limbo, Playdead founders Arnt Jensen and Dino Patty called on the Danish government.…
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Madden NFL 12 Covers Game Reviewers’ Spread
If the assembled video game reviewers were a lazier bunch, they’d simply release a short blurb with each new Madden game calling it the best official NFL console game of the year. Luckily for fans of the Frankenreview, those game reviewers are made of sterner, more critical stuff. Instead of noting that Madden NFL 12…
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A Biofeedback-Driven Video Game to Battle Anxiety and Stress
While gamers have been using video games to combat stress and anxiety for decades, mental health professionals are only just beginning to see the benefits (and potential drawbacks) of interactive entertainment on our physiological well-being. The world is getting more and more stressful every day, especially for the college student. With the rising cost of…
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UncategorizedHow Silicon Knights Guided X-Men’s Destiny
In this behind the scenes video for X-Men Destiny, Denis Dyack and the team at Silicon Knights explain how they went about crafting a new chapter in the tale of Marvel’s mighty mutants. There’s a trick to crafting a tale of super-powered comic book characters. On the one hand, you have to capture the breathtaking…
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The Pizza of Fortune Will Be the Key to Burnout Crash‘s Success
When I first saw the top-down arcade game Criterion Games is trying to pass off as a Burnout title, like many fans I was somewhat upset, but how can I stay angry at a game that features the Pizza of Fortune? Between some promising previews and these latest screens, I think I’m finally ready to…
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“Fired for Planking” Is More Complicated Than You Think
About a month ago, we got an email from our reader John Mazzocchi who found himself recently unemployed. He had apparently been fired for planking while on the job at the Gamestop where he had worked for almost four years. Mazzocchi posted two pictures of himself planking inside what looks like an otherwise empty Gamestop…
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Have You Considered a Career In Morally Questionable Pharmaceuticals?
Looking for a new line of work? Do you know anything about the potential harmful effects of shady experimental drugs and mad scientist-level bioengineering? No? Then you sound perfect for the Umbrella Corporation. That’s right, the fictional pharmaceutical giant and antagonist of many a Resident Evil game is kicking off a big recruitment drive today,…
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A PC Gamer Dragged Kicking and Screaming Into the Digital Age
In today’s digital-only edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter TaylorEatWorld tries to find a physical copy of a hit PC game, not knowing what a monumental challenge that is these days. I’m an absolutely furious gamer right now. Not only that, I’m of a dying breed of PC gamer.. one who likes physical copies…
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