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Ladies, The Party Dorm Is Right Here …
The Fallout: New Vegas sign we gave away last month has arrived to christen its new owner’s digs. Kotaku reader ipottersmith, the contest winner, just shared this pic. Definitely beats the crap out of an Animal House poster from Spencer’s.
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UncategorizedMinecraft’s New Musical “Note Blocks” Are Already A Triumph
Note blocks, which play a tone in one of two octaves, were added to Minecraft with the PC hit’s update yesterday. Already someone’s figured out how to make them play the introduction to the Portal theme “Still Alive.” YouTube poster Tritex989 made the music machine, which plays automatically thanks to redstone powering each note block.…
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UncategorizedIn Letters From The Front, The Solemn Words Of Angry Birds
“I’m having trouble making sense of all this,” writes Red, from the War of Porcine Passive Aggression. “They tell me I can come home after we get three stars on 3-18.” Yeah, well, it ain’t gonna get no better on 3-19, corporal, I can assure you of that. Chris Riebschlager, a Kansas City web developer,…
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UncategorizedGetting A Casual Flick From Your Phone
FlickBuddies has a cheeky name that resembles another word if you glance at it quickly. The game does provide good, clean fun, though it still is a casual encounter. Two people can play this 99-cent iPhone game (even four on some of its 12 boards) but for large groups the iPad version (which costs a…
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PS3 Hack Dispenses Trophies Galore
Hackers have figured out how to bestow themselves trophies in some PlayStation 3 games, revealing another threat posed by the PS3 root key crack unleashed earlier this month. CVG reported that hackers in some forums claimed to have given themselves trophies, though it was not clear if they were able to sync their altered trophy…
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UncategorizedWould You Play Kinect Games In The Arcade?
The Game Gate VU is an arcade cabinet that houses an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 – a coin-op kiosk, more or less, with some other features. It’s now been outfitted for Kinect. Anybody seen one of these yet? BMI Gaming, a heavyweight distributor of arcade machines, lists the unit for $4,875 – with a…
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UncategorizedWatch Me Unbox Batman And The Game He Comes With
After four days of impassable, ice-covered roads the mail finally made it through, and the Batman statue Sony Online Entertainment sent has arrived. Can you believe it came with DC Universe Online packed inside? At least it arrived before the weekend, right? I was certain the roads around my neighborhood wouldn’t be clear until Monday…
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Lovers’ Quarrel Ends With A Face Full Of Wii
An Oregon couple discovered an unexpected benefit of being a Wii gamer earlier this week: When your drunken girlfriend hurls the console in your face, it does less damage than an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. According to her boyfriend, 31-year-old Rebecca Varina Sloskowski was intoxicated on the evening of January 10, so he left…
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