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Lost Your Nintendo 3DS AR Cards? No Problem: Put Them On Your Phone
Did you know you could use Nintendo’s 3DS to do augmented reality on an iPhone? No, no. Not using an iPhone. I mean on top of an iPhone Totilo forgot to bring his AR Cards into the office today, so instead of printing some new ones, we just copied them onto our phone. Not only…
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UncategorizedOrder & Chaos Online Is Gameloft’s Answer To World Of Warcraft
Known for its shameless copies of popular games, Gameloft takes copycat gaming to a whole new level with Order & Chaos Online, a massively-multiplayer World of Warcraft clone for iOS. Gameloft has managed to pull off quality copies of everything from Halo to StarCraft on the iPhone and iPad, so it was really only a…
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Mercury Didn’t Have A Satellite, So We Gave It One
The planet closest to the sun better be on its best behavior, because we’re watching it. As of last night NASA’s Messenger probe is the first man-made satellite ever to orbit the planet Mercury. What do we hope to find? After a journey of nearly seven years, 96 million miles, and two fly-bys, NASA’s Mercury…
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UncategorizedHow Bad is the Nintendo 3DS “Depth Zone”? Let Us Show You.
Nintendo’s 3DS, their new handheld console, can show images with depth—it’s real 3D. But because you don’t have to wear glasses to play, you have to hold the 3DS somewhat precisely. But how precisely? Turns out the distance you hold the 3DS from your eyes matters very little. On a table? At arm’s length? Nearly…
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Turbo Grannies Proves The Swedish Have Iffy Taste In Mobile Games
I’ll admit, the biggest hook Turbo Grannies had for me was when their PR guy mentioned that it was about to beat Angry Birds in the Swedish iTunes App Store. I wasn’t exactly champing at the bit to play another Excitebite clone. It’s basically an Excitebike clone, complete with the Newtonian-incomplete ability to rock back…
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Get A Taste Of The High Life In L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire’s 1947 Los Angeles setting isn’t all about dead bodies in dirty back alleys. Above that seedy underbelly is the seedy upperbelly, where the idle class while away the days in high-end mansions and exclusive restaurants. Money is power, and with great power comes great responsibility. Those that can’t handle the power and prestige…
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Melbourne Gunman Felt Like A Computer Game Hero During Two-Day Crime Spree
Last June 19-year-old David Rowntree grabbed a sawed-off shotgun and went on a two-day criminal rampage, stealing two cars and committing multiple burglaries. Now Rowntree tells a Melbourne, Australia, court that he felt like a computer game hero. Rowntree’s 2010 rampage was impressive, to say the least. The young man forced a lockdown around the…
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What Classic Gaming Achievements Have You Unlocked?
Today in a very special episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenterQuiddity looks back on the achievements he would have unlocked had their been achievements when Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country 3, and Final Fantasy VII came out. Do you ever wish achievements were implemented in the earlier generations? To have all the accomplishments of your…
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The Final Mass Effect 2 Mission Arrives On March 29
Commander Shepard travels to the edge of the galaxy to rescue an undercover operative that could have evidence about an impending Reaper invasion in Mass Effect 2’s Arrival downloadable content, coming March 29 to the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. This final batch of downloadable content for Mass Effect will set the stage for…
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