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Snooze and the Gray
Snooze and the Gray | Interestingly, South Carolina chose to observe the 150th anniversary of April 12, 1861, the first shot of the American Civil War on April 9, 2011, the 146th anniversary of the Confederates’ surrender. Here a Confederate re-enactor – hell, is there any other left? – takes a nap during South Carolina’s…
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Promoter Sues Microsoft Over Kinect Launch Event
Remember the Times Square launch event for Kinect last fall? It took some begging, pleading, and cold hard cash just to happen, when the cops made the last-minute discovery a full blown concert didn’t have the requisite permits. The promoter who made all the bad stuff go away says Microsoft owes him $63,000 for it.…
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Beating a Different Drum
Another tranquil week; Patapon 3 arrives for PSP; World of Tanks rumbles across the line on PCs. Outside of those two, the heavy sounds of shovels as April’s first bloom hits its stride. Sunday Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time (3DS) Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell 3D (3DS) Monday Escape Trick: The Secret of Rock City Prison…
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UncategorizedLittleBigPlanet 2 Does a Good Job of Babysitting with this Game Boy Remake
Drive up the volume for this user-created level from LittleBigPlanet 2, an homage to World 1-1 from Super Mario Land on the Game Boy. Creator Junkvxxl loaded the level three days ago; it became a developer favorite two days ago; it’s been played more than 36,000 times in that span. If you have the game,…
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Top 5 of 10: Bad Dog Days
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 5 Game Characters Having a Worse Day Than You [Calm Down Tom] Though No. 2 is “Kane and/or Lynch in Kane and Lynch 2,”…
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‘Honest Hearts’ Is Indeed Fallout; New Vegas‘ Next DLC
Back in January, a trademark filing hinted that “Honest Hearts” would succeed “Dead Money” as Fallout: New Vegas’ second DLC extension. A few screengrabs of a video briefly uploaded by Fallout maker Bethesda Softworks verifies that as the title and gives the briefest and tiniest of glimpses at its visuals. A Bethesda forum user who…
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UncategorizedGuard That Nice Everything You Have With This ‘Attack Creeper’
A couple months back a Minecraft enthusiast/do-it-yourselfer figured he needed improved seccurity in his apartment. “Unfortunately for me my building does not allow dogs so a big scary animal was not an option,” he writes. Then, boom! he got this idea. A little crude, but Chris’ Arduino-powered, motion-detecting, RC-scootering, ssssss-booming Creeper from Minecraft does the…
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Adventures in Babysitting — for Sony
This week, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment America gave a rather impertinent comment to Fortune magazine, dismissing Nintendo handhelds as “babysitting tools.” We think this calls for a role reversal. I don’t have a specific image for you to ‘Shop this week – we haven’t gone open-ended for a couple of months. But I…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Unfortunately, the image we have to use today is the original. Not because you guys haven’t been contributing. ShinLord, Squizzy, you guys both put in worthy submissions. But a screwup in our comments – I know, fancy that – prevents me from accessing the full-size images. So I’m sorry that I can’t serve you a…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published April 4 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published April 8 – Read more of Nerf…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: First In Line Winners
Last week, we asked you to reimagine the summit of Isaiah “Triforce” Johnson and Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime at the Nintendo 3DS launch event two weeks ago in New York. As a316sob’s entry (1, above) shows, many items changed hands, and many heads swapped places. Let’s round up the winners. ARYXANDRE (3) brought…
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UncategorizedIs This Metal Gear Solid or Lemmings?
It’s not Call of Duty multiplayer. Master filmmaker Freddie Wong has taken dead aim at the guilty pleasures and accepted norms of many video games. Here he goes after Metal Gear Solid, and the urge everyone has to endlessly replay this fish-in-a-barrel killfest. Want a good laugh? Read through the predictably dumbassed YouTube comments. It’s…
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UncategorizedModders Take Flight With This Kinect-Controlled Drone
Self-described hacker Tom Zickel serves up the latest Kinect mod – this time manipulating the flight of an AR Drone (this one a Parrot Quadricopter) using hand gestures recognized by Kinect. Kinect Hack: Controlling an AR Drone [Joystiq; first spotted by AR Drone’s Twitter]
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No Strikes, but One Out as Labor Unrest Hovers Over Video Games
For a brief moment Tuesday, I wasn’t sure we’d be seeing any basketball video game this year, even though I’d taken for granted that NBA 2K12 would release, a death-and-taxes sure thing in October for more than 10 years. When EA Sports decided to pass on publishing an NBA simulation this year, its well known…
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1 vs. 100 Finds New Life on Facebook
People sometimes forget that 1 vs. 100, the MMO gameshow offered by Xbox Live from 2009 to 2010, is based on an actual gameshow of the same name and format, running in several countries, including the U.S. from 2006 to 2008. Though Microsoft declined to bring it back for a third season, it’ll be resuscitated…
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UncategorizedHere’s a Look at Minecraft‘s Weather Effects, Achievements and Stats
Minecraft’s next title update (1.5) will deliver a host of new features, among them an achievement system, a statistics log and, perhaps more importantly, weather effects. The game’s creator released this video late last night showing all those features in action. Markus “Notch” Persson says there’s some tinkering to be done with the weather –…
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Guy Who Casket-Robbed a Game Boy is Headed to Jail
Jody Bennett of Mentcle, Pa., whose coffin-burgling of a Game Boy back in December managed to get the gaming handheld described – for purposes of criminal charges and possibly the first time ever – as a “venerated object,” got two months of probation for his ugly deed. He’s still going to jail, but on unrelated…
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Sportsmanlike Conduct
Twenty-five penalty minutes, multiple fight challenges. Tripping and a short-handed goal in the third period. There were any number of opportunities to ragequit out of this online multiplayer game of NHL 11. But for some reason, perhaps stubbornness, both sides played through. Reader t0ddd prevailed, but it took plenty of will to stay in. Playing…
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The First Four Super Meat Boy Figurines Have Arrived
The official – and tiny – Super Meat Boy figurines from Voxelous and Team Meat have been revealed. Just two inches high, they’re $12 each (plus $3.49 shipping for one, $3.99 for two or more). The first set includes Meat Boy, Bandage Girl, Brownie and the pathetic Tofu Boy. “We want to release toys for…
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Citizens on Patrol
You know, Mahoney, I’d like to spend the next ten weeks breaking you into little pieces. But I won’t. Because you’re bad. You’re bad for morale, Mahoney. Oh, you look like the sweet little boy from next door. But you don’t fool me, oh no. You’re the devil, and you’re rotten to the core, and…
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