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UncategorizedMyndPlay Combines Full Motion Video, With Mind-Control Gaming
The future of mind-controlled video games looks very much like the past of arcade games. I’m sitting in a leather chair facing a television. I’m wearing loops of plastic on my head like a crown. I’m told that this device, the NeuroSky Mindwave, can trace the electrical impulses shooting from my earlobe to my forehead…
By Brian Crecente Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Japan is reeling from the impact of a massive earthquake, the rest of the world is preparing for tsunami waves. Use this place to talk about and anything else on your mind. (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Brian Crecente Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Day Japan (And The World) Will Never Forget
SNAPSHOT | TOKYO, JAPAN: Commuters take to the streets, walking home after train service in Tokyo was suspended due to today’s earthquake. (Photo by Koichi Saito/Getty Images) Wake Up, Kotaku Earthquake Crisis Brings Out the Best In Japan’s Gaming Greats About 2:45 p.m. Japan time today, an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the richter scale rocked…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Just Because He Made Pokémon: Black And White Doesn’t Mean He Caught Them All
Junichi Masuda directed Pokémon: Black and White. And you’d think that would mean he’s caught them all. Nope. “I’ve still got a long way to go,” Masuda told Gamespot. “My adventure is going to continue. I kind of play it a bit slower than other people. I’ve still got a lot of Pokemon to catch.”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Make Sure You’re Prepared for Disaster with a 72-Hour Kit
After Japan’s earthquake and tsunami earlier this morning, California and Hawaii are both under a Tsunami warning. If you don’t have an adequate emergency kit in your home, this site will help you put one together so you’re prepared. After a major disaster, emergency response units are usually spread pretty thin, so 72Hours.org recommends you…
By Brian Crecente Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Why The Heck Is Nintendo Remaking The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time?
There must be a reason for it. Turns out, there is. And it’s not a Nintendo 3DS cash-grab. In the most recent “Iwata Asks” feature on Nintendo.com, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says he really wanted to see Hyrule in 3D and that switching out items in the game is easier and streamlined in 3D. But…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Life Is The RPG That Ends With You Die. So How About Earning Points And Tracking It?
Okay, maybe life isn’t the best role-playing game, but it’s pretty damn important. And that’s why San Francisco start-up GreenGoose created lifestyle platform to track it. Packaged with a water bottle, toothbrush and a vitamin container, the GreenGoose logs how many times a week people, say, pick up their toothbrush, awarding them points each time…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedNine Guys, Giant Mechs And 2011’s Sexiest Indie Game
Two days ago, nobody had ever heard of Hawken, nor its developers Adhesive Games. What a difference an amazing debut trailer makes The clip blew people’s socks off because not only did it look good, period, but it looked unbelievable for such a small indie studio. “The core team at Adhesive has six members”, team…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mortal Kombat Is Walking In A Bloody Wonderland. First Web Series Images Surface.
Last year, a live-action short called Mortal Kombat: Re-Birth took the internet by storm. Now it’s going to be a web series, and the first images look most enticing. Well, as enticing as a spinal cord and a snowman can look. Both Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan are returning for the web series. It’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Guild Wars 2 Thief Is A Rogue Like None Other
Most massively-multiplayer online role-playing games have some sort of rogue class, but none are quite as roguish as the newly revealed Guild Wars 2 Thief. Kotaku spoke to developer ArenaNet about what raises this stealthy stabber above the rest. When ArenaNet initially announced the Thief class last week, the image that came to the mind…
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedEarthquake Crisis Brings Out the Best In Japan’s Gaming Greats
About 2:45 p.m. Japan time today, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the island nation. A devastating tsunami followed, rolling over cities, enveloping towns. Reports now put the death toll at 300 to 400, with at least another 350 missing. Reports from Japan are coming in from those who were in the middle of the tumult…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Pair Of Batman Toys Escape From Arkham City
DC Universe will be releasing a line of action figures based on the upcoming Batman game, Arkham City. The first two on the market will be Batman and Two-Face, who come packaged together in the one box. Which is awkward Pack Batman in on the Harvey Dent side and it’ll be swell! Pack him in…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
How Saying Bad Things Can Keep You From Playing A Video Game
It appears that a Bioware fan has been temporarily halted from playing his copy of Dragon Age II after copping a forum suspension. Which is weird since, you know, Dragon Age II is a singleplayer game According to a post on the Bioware forums, user v_ware had his account suspended for a period of 72…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Old Games Never Die (They Just Sit In Storage)
Old books are kept in a library. Old movies are kept in archives. But where are old video games kept? Don’t sweat it: they’re kept safe and sound. Or, at least, the ones developed and/or published by some of the industry’s biggest names are are, a great feature on Gamasutra finding out the archiving and…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Xbox Japan Isn’t Giving Up On Kinect. There Is A Trailer.
That’s good. It also hasn’t given up on the Xbox 360. Xbox Japan is plucky! While the peripheral’s launch wasn’t exactly spectacular, the Japan arm is once again rolling out its Kinect trailer at locations across Japan. The trailer offers folks a chance to check out Kinect — a chance they had at Japanese retail.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Meet Ayamo, Your New Nerd Heroine
Ayamo might look like your typical hipster fashion model: she’s got lipstick kiss-marks tattooed on her wrist and she wears Ramones shirts and blue bandanas. A quick peek in her bedroom reveals otherwise. She might be into skateboards, but she’s also a giant otaku. “I go to Nakano Broadway to look at anime figures, Akihabara…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ever Wonder Why Dragon Age II Came Out So Soon?
Dragon Age was an epic role-playing game. Sequels to those kind of things normally take years to be released (just ask Elder Scrolls fans!). So why did Dragon Age II come out less than 18 months after Dragon Age? The game’s composer, Inon Zur, may have an answer for you. “Unlike other titles from Bioware,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011