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UncategorizedAn Arcade Reboot with a Cosplay Connection
Sometime this year, Peter Pepper will be climbin’ up your ladders and stompin’ your patties down in Burgertime HD, a PlayStation Network/Xbox Live reboot of the nearly 30-year-old arcade classic. The game has an interesting connection to someone featured on Kotaku in the past. That would be Hezachan, the elite cosplayer known for her impersonations…
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The Real Cliffy B Meets the Real Fake Cliffy B
At left is the bona fide Cliff Bleszinski, design director for Epic Games. At right is Twitter’s Fakecliffy_b – the spoof account run by Matthew Rex Downham, himself a designer of iOS applications and games. Real Cliffy B and Fakecliffy_b met, at last, at GDC 2011.
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Video Gaming’s Future, in Three Acts
Friday at the Game Developers Conference found Kotaku’s newshounds still hard at work in the city by the bay, getting their hands and eyes on everything being discussed and displayed at the year’s first major games industry conference. The conference is scheduled to last through tomorrow, but that won’t be the end of news coming…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Presidents Of The United States Of America Book Sweet Pokémon Launch Gig
Forget Red Rock or Caesar’s Palace. The only true indicator that you’ve made it as a band is when Nintendo asks you to play the launch of its new Pokémon game in New York. Welcome to the big time, Presidents! The alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America once prophesized(on the…
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Research proves online gaming at work is good for you – and for your boss
Are you in danger of getting fired because of too much gaming at work? If so, here’s a scientific study you need to know about (and perhaps slip into the “to-read” pile on your boss’s desk): “Games at work: the recreational use of computer games during working hours.” In this study, the European author (+1…
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UncategorizedHomefront Multiplayer Destroys A Perfectly Good White Castle
I don’t care which players are playing which side in this new trailer for THQ’s Homefront; when a White Castle goes up in flames, everybody loses. We don’t have White Castle here in Georgia, so I’m forced to pretend to care about video game events held in states that do house the fine establishments in…
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Keyboard-Friendly Robotic Hand Is Probably Harmless
One thing ever fledgling robotic killing machine needs is a good pair of hands, deft enough to type but strong enough to choke the life out of its victims. Virginia Tech’s DART is a good start. Robotic hands have been around since the dawn of artificial man, but they haven’t been very good. They get…
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A Role-Playing Game That Makes You Pay For Your Party Members [Update]
During my play through of role-playing game Hyperdimension Neptunia I am delighted to welcome a new character into my party, but the NIS America-inspired Nisa won’t fight with me or gain experience. She just sits there, until I pay. Nisa is one of two game developer-inspired characters (along with Gust) that join your party on…
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