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Sony’s Hosting Provider Calls Anonymous’ Cyber-Attack an ‘Annoyance’
Ars Technica reports that sources within Sony’s hosting provider belittled Anonymous’ cyber-attack as “medium strength,” and something that only “annoyed our network engineers.” The hosting service’s plan is to wait out Anonymous until the attackers get bored. Sony sites have gone up and down through the week, to the point that Anonymous called off an…
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UncategorizedHas Someone Already Won a Million Dollars from MLB 2K11?
Yesterday someone uploaded a YouTube video purporting to show him completing 2K Sports’ Million Dollar Perfect Game Challenge in MLB 2K11. While it’s confirmation of nothing, it may signal another early end to the game’s sweepstakes promotion. [Warning: The audio gets very loud and NSFW after the final out.] Excusing the lag-fest and skipped audio,…
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Preorder Dungeon Siege III Through Steam, Get The First Two Games Free
Dungeon Siege III might be delayed, but that just gives Steam users more time to play through Dungeon Siege and Dungeon Siege II. They’ll get both games free as soon as their preorder goes through. That’s a lot of dungeons.
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Sony Bigwig Trash Talks Nintendo 3DS and Hurts Our Feelings
During an interview with Fortune Magazine, SCEA’s charming CEO Jack Tretton discussed the company’s business strategies…and then indulged in some nasty smack talk. “If you’re really going to sustain technology for a decade, you have to be cutting edge when you launch a platform,” Tretton explains to the business mag. Reasonable enough. But the Playstaion…
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UncategorizedMineCraft-Inspired FortressCraft Is Building Excitement On Xbox Live
While it may look and smell like Mojang’s hit PC building game MineCraft, ProjectorGames’ FortressCraft, now available via Xbox Live Indie Games, is a slightly different animal. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? If you love the building aspect of MineCraft but aren’t too keen on the actual harvesting of materials, then…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Where Does Portal 2‘s Co-Op Campaign Fit Into the Half-Life Universe?
From an interview with Valve Software’s Chet Faliszek from Beefjack.com: With regards to the co-op campaign, how does it fit in the Portal universe? Chet Faliszek: It has its own separate story, with its own characters, and takes place after the single-player game. GLaDOS has a little thing for you to do, and I’ll say…
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UncategorizedEverything You Need To Know About The Story And Setting Of Space Marine
Fans familiar with the Warhammer 40,000 universe are incredibly excited about THQ and Relic Entertainment’s Space Marine for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. Players not familiar with the universe have no idea what’s going on. This video fixes that. Kotaku employs gamers and geeks from all walks of fandom, and sometimes it’s hard…
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Crysis 2 Getting a DirectX 11 Patch for Extra Glistening, Dripping Aliens
Details are basically non-existent, but Crytek has officially announced that there will be a DirectX 11 patch for Crysis 2 to take full advantage of modern PC gaming hardware. [MyCrysis.com] (Thanks, Kyle!)
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You Know What Would Make EyePet Better? Two EyePets, Licking Each Other
What do you do when you get tired of playing with your new pet? You buy it a friend! Sony takes this fundamental pet handling tip to heart in the sequel to its PlayStation Move powered virtual pet, EyePet & Friends. The EyePet was a charming little fuzzball that harnessed the power of augmented reality,…
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UncategorizedEverybody Have Fun Tonight, Everybody Shang Tsung Tonight
Long before the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung discovered a portal to Outworld and pleged his service to Shao Kahn, he was known to take his baby by the hand and make her do a high hand stand. True story. Back then he was so in phase and cool on craze, but it was a different…
By Mike Fahey