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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Milo Edition Winners
A cache of storyboards for the abandoned game “Milo,” which was supposed to have been a Kinect title about a little boy’s adventures, provided the grist for last week’s ‘Shop Contest. We’ve got 20 winners for you, hot and fresh! billysan (3) turned in a brilliantly subtle play on Milo’s shadow. SecretMoblin (17) made a…
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UncategorizedIs This Studying Hate Speech, or Just Intellectualized Trolling?
GAMBIT, the video games research center at MIT, is investigating racism and hate speech in online multiplayer gaming. The results are not particularly surprising, but I’ll confess to a morbid curiosity as to what a gamer would hear playing Halo: Reach under the gamertag PROUD_2B_MUSLIM, GayPride90 or Black_N_Proud90. It, and the language in this video,…
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Multiplayer Silent Hill Rumors Shot Down [Update]
The producer of Silent Hill: Downpour shot down a rumor that a separate multiplayer version for the game would be published over Xbox Live. The rumor appeared in an Italian-language magazine’s interview with the game’s art director. Devin Shatsky told Hell Descent the remarks were either out of context or lost in translation. Shatsky said…
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Taking a Punch Like a Man — Just Not From One
Felice Herrig has taken a punch from a man before. Many. She’s also hit back. Hard. She’s a mixed martial arts fighter, in a comparatively small population of women professionals, and, like it or not, in many gyms her only sparring partners are men. “Some guys go way too light on me, like they don’t…
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3DS StreetPass Groups Forming to Play Together Outside
Street Pass is the new, always-on wireless connection for the Nintendo 3DS through which multiplayer gaming is possible. The idea is, a couple of perfect strangers, both with 3DSes, will be buzzed when they’re near each other, inviting them to connect. A 3DS StreetPass group is forming, a week before the device’s release, to take…
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See the Story Treatment for the Aborted Fallout Movie
In 1998, a year after Fallout released and became a smash hit on the PC, the game’s publisher formed a films division intending to develop its properties into movies. One of those was to be Fallout. The story treatment for that film has been found. Brent V. Friedman was commissioned to write the script. The…
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No More Manuals as EA Sports Goes Green
This is the last printed manual you’ll ever see for an EA Sports game. The publisher has joined Ubisoft in releasing games without an instruction booklet, and will instead include a version of instructions that gamers may page through from within the game. EA Sports spokesman Rob Semsey confirmed the change, begun on March 1…
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Dinner After The Show
The longest Major League Baseball game ever played remains the 25-inning marathon between the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers back in 1984. One devotee of MLB 11 The Show and his brother broke that mark on Monday, playing nearly a triple-header’s worth of baseball. Wonder if Dave Campbell, The Show’s analyst, trotted out…
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Creator of NBC’s “Community” Celebrated Its Renewal with … Bulletstorm?
The Twitterverse went off like a fireworks volley on Thursday when news passed that “Community,” the critically acclaimed but low-rated NBC comedy-drama, was picked up for a third season. How did the show’s creator celebrate? “I came home and I played ‘Bulletstorm.'” What the dick? Well, Dan Harmon says it was either Bulletstorm or go…
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Your Bodyguard [Updated]
He was only 9. I practically raised him since he was 2. Drive you crazy! Tell him to sit down, he’d stand up. Tell him do his homework, he’d read a comic book. Couldn’t eat food without spitting it at you. A real shoplifter too. Go through a store, half of it’d wind up in…
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Metacritic Now Ranks iPhone and iPad Games
Metacritic, whose cumulative scores provide a thumbs-up/thumbs-down barometer that can move games publishers’ stock prices, has expanded. The review aggregator has begun listing iPhone and iPad apps. “Our addition of a robust iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch games section … reflects the critical community’s growing acceptance of the iOS platform as a legitimate, full-fledged gaming system whose games…
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UncategorizedKinect Makes You the Rampaging Controller
Some folks, including the creator, describe this Kinect mod in Hulk-smash terms. It does tint the screen (and the skin of the players) green. But towering above puny buildings and smashing them into rubble, that sounds more like Rampage, to me. Either way, let’s get this one into production, stat. Next on the to-do list:…
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Our First Few Days with the Surprisingly Joyful Nintendo 3DS
The Nintendo 3DS is the next big thing in video games. The new portable gaming system from Nintendo lets you play games in 3D, without the need for special glasses, but there’s much more to it than that. We’ve had two of the first North American 3DS systems for several days and we’ve discovered a…
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UncategorizedKevin Butler, as You’ve Never Seen Him Before (NSFW)
Cat’s out of the bag, folks. Kevin Butler is not really PlayStation’s vice president of everything from First Person Shooter Relations to Rumor Confirmation. He is, in fact, the actor Jerry Lambert, who played quite the cringe-inducing straight man in the most recent episode of Showtime’s “Shameless” on Monday. KB, under the auspices of being…
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Stacking Piles on the DLC in April
If we had any quibbles with Stacking, Double Fine’s acclaimed downloadable game, it’s that it felt held back in a semi-conspicuous way – one that might have foretold a sequel or a DLC extension. Lo and behold, the latter is indeed coming. The Lost Hobo King, the next chapter of the ragtime nesting-dolls saga, will…
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