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Game Boy Puts The Bomb In School Bus Bomb Scare
Police responding to a bomb scare this morning on a school bus outside of the Northside Intermediate school in Milton, Wisconsin, discovered an 11-year-old boy in possession of a video game system dressed up with wires and batteries to look like an explosive device Milton Police Department Lieutenant John Conger confirmed with Kotaku that the…
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UncategorizedWhat Is Chessboxing?
Chessboxing is an activity that combines the physical demands of boxing with the mental discipline of chess. Competitors alternate between rounds of chess and rounds of boxing, kicking things off with a four-minute round of chess and alternating with fisticuffs until 11 rounds have passed, or one competitor jams a rook in the other’s eye.…
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The Large Hadron Collider Might Also Be The World’s First Time Machine
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, propelling charged particles to high speeds and smashing them together in the name of science. It also might be a time machine. At least that’s what a long-shot theory put forth by Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho suggests. If this wacky…
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UncategorizedCasey the Bully-Breaking “Zangief Kid” Gets the Street Fighter Remix He Deserves
You may recall Casey Heynes, the chunky kid who was tired of being bullied and became an icon. Now he’s immortalized—overmortalized?—in this video that mixes back in all the sound and visual effects we all heard in our mind when we first watched Casey piledrive his bully into the schoolyard concrete. [via Calm Down Tom]
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Co-op Gaming Between an iPad and iMac, Guerilla Bob-style
Forget “PC vs Console” wars. Now it’s going to be “iPad vs Mac”. (Keyboard and mouse forever!) Guerilla Bob is a simplistic, three-quarters-overhead shooter in the Ikari Warriors vein, but that’s not what makes it unique. It’s that the co-op shoot ’em up doesn’t just allow two iOS devices to team up, but supports full…
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Keeping The HD-DVD Dream Alive
The other day while watching my high-definition copy of Blade Runner on my Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, I received an Xbox Live message thanking me for keeping the dream alive. Oh come on, where else can you buy a copy of The Bourne Identity for $2.39? They called us foolish for supporting HD-DVD over Blu-ray,…
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Twelve Years Later EverQuest Still Soldiers On
Today marks the twelfth anniversary of the original EverQuest. What keeps one of the original big massively-multiplayer fantasy games going after all these years? Ask a hardcore EverQuest player why they’re still playing a 12-year-old game, and they’ll shower you with stories of their fantastic adventures, anecdotes that are only humorous to folks that have…
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Microsoft’s Kodu Cup Contest Rewards Underage Game Developers
Today Microsoft fully launches its kid-friendly PC game development tool Kodu Game Lab, along with a contest that could win your child $5,00 cash, a new laptop, and a trip for two to New York’s Imagine Cup. We got our first look at Microsoft’s Kodu Game Lab back in 2009, finding it to be a…
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UncategorizedAr Tonelico Qoga‘s Intro Is A Wonder To Behold
Last night I picked up a copy of Gust’s newly-released Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel for the PlayStation 3, slipped it into my console, and watched the introductory movie five times in a row. We’re in the midst of a Japanese role-playing game drought. With a strong emphasis being put on developing games…
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What’s Wrong With Giant Breasts And Ninja Skills?
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku commenter CuttySark wonders why portraying women and men video games as physically or mentally superior is such a bad thing. I was reading an article the other day about women and how they are represented in games and media, with standards unattainable by the average woman/girl (i.e. Physical appearance, intelligence,…
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