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  We All Had Super Powers Once

  An article at Cracked.com explores the fact that every human being on the planet is born with super powers, from telepathy to heightened senses – we just grow out of them. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s super babies! Scientists love studying babies more than they enjoy studying rats and monkeys, mainly because babies…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2010
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  Rocket Knight Micro-Review: High As A Kite

  For a game that had awesome as one of its defining traits, Konami’s Rocket Knight Adventures isn’t exactly one of the Genesis’ most well-remembered games. Shame. Maybe you’ll remember this modern-day successor in its stead. Rocket Knight, a game that serves as more of a spiritual remake than a true sequel to the 1993 original,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 19, 2010
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  Disney Guilty Party Looks Like This

  I’m a fan of Disney Guilty Party and its “mystery machine”. The idea of being able to play an endlessly changing stream of mystery games on the Wii with friends and family is appealing. Here’s a deeper look at the game’s design and controls. Check out my full write up here

  By Brian Crecente Published May 19, 2010
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  Mario Music of Golden Proportions

  You could say that video game music is becoming much more epic as the years go by. A growing number of MIDI possibilities are at the disposal of game composers, and the number of streaming, fully orchestrated soundtracks is continually increasing. There are those that say newer game soundtracks are less memorable, because soundtracks for…

  By Lauren Orsini Published May 19, 2010
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  Okamiden Is The DS Game We Expected

  In 2004 we heard of the DS, a video game system with a stylus. Many of us imagined, justifiably, video games we could love that would somehow involve drawing. Six years later, how many DS games does that describe? Not many. Enter Okamiden? I recently played a demo of the game on a DS in…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 19, 2010
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  Google’s Chrome Web Store Brings Games To Your Web Browser

  At the Google I/O conference today, Google revealed the Chrome Web Store, a browser-based application store where users will be able to download and install games like LEGO Star Wars and Plants Vs. Zombies directly to their web browsers. The Chrome Web Store, due to launch later this year, will enable users to easily discover…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2010
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  Talk Live To Alan Wake’s Creators Right Now

  Load your pistol and make sure you pack plenty of batteries as Kotaku Talk Radio talks with two members of Alan Wake development studio Remedy Entertainment. Have a question about Alan Wake? Remedy Entertainment’s Matias Myllyrinne and Oskari Häkkinen have answers, and they’ll be taking your calls live for the next hour with Stephen Totilo…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2010
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  The Only Time You’ll Find A BMW At Kmart

  Blur comes out next week, and should you choose to pick the game up at Kmart or Sears for some strange reason, you’ll find a chromed-out BMW waiting for you when you launch the game. People still shop at Kmart? I drive by a Sears every once in awhile, but in order to pass a…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2010
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  Target’s Video Game Department Gets All Fancy

  If you’re the kind of shopper who makes a beeline for the game section of any store you enter, the reinvention of Target gaming department should be a welcome change, making games more accessible and organizing by platfom and genre. I’m a relatively regular Target shopper, and up until now I’ve known exactly what to…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2010
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  Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned Is A Guilty Pleasure

  I can’t help but think of it as a guilty pleasure. Sitting down yesterday to play through a chunk of Disney’s upcoming button-mashing adventure game Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned, I wasn’t expecting an experience that shook the tenets of game design or innovated in some surprising way. What I was expecting,…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 19, 2010
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  The Scientists Who Made A Zombie Game

  Life is funny. You can set out to become a human genome researcher or study bioinformatics and end up making a zombie iPhone game. Just ask Matthias and Thomas Hoechsmann. That’s exactly what happened to them. It was summer 2009, and Matthias was doing post-doc work at the University of California at Santa Cruz studying…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 19, 2010
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  Game Design as Make-Believe: Participation

  Based upon part five of the Mimesis as Make-Believe serial. See part four here When my wife and I played the Resident Evil remake (pictured left) and its sequels in the early 2000s, we did so by pad-passing. My wife would take control during the ominously-quiet exploration sequences, poking in the corners for green herbs…

  By Lauren Orsini Published May 19, 2010
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  We Get Our Lightcycle and Disc Throwing On In Tron Evolution

  There is nothing more iconic in the world of Tron than those neon light cycles and identity discs. So it’s fitting that my first encounter with the upcoming Tron game involved both. Tron Evolution: The Video Game is meant to bridge the gap between 1982’s Tron and the upcoming movie Tron: Legacy. While we don’t…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 19, 2010
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  PAX East Breach Code Theft Suspect Faces Arraignment

  Arrested at the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston for allegedly attempting to steal early code for Atomic Game’s upcoming multiplayer shooter Breach, Justin D. May faces arraignment today in Boston Municipal Court. May was arrested on Sunday, March 28, after representatives from developer Atomic Games caught him attempting to download the source code…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Here at TAY we hear your concerns about a lack of replay value, but at least TAY has cutting-edge graphics, yes? Now please keep on talking here about video games.

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 19, 2010
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  Phew

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Phew! Just…phew! Pheeeeeeeeeeeeeew. What you missed last night Yes, We Have A Winner Multi-Platform Final Fantasy Versus XIII Remarks Cleared Up Red Dead Redemption’s Truly, Truly Dastardly Achievement Another Countdown Clock Sorta Ruined! But Hey, Virtual-On! The New Call of Duty: Black Ops Trailer: ‘Everything You Know Is Wrong’

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 19, 2010
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  Dragon Quest IX Comes Stateside In July

  The wait for the North American release of the game that sold more than four million copies in Japan comes to an end this July, as Nintendo locks in a date for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS shattered sales records in Japan, so it came…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2010
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  This Schoolgirl Is Good At Drumming

  Senri Kawaguchi (in the pink shirt) is a 13-year-old junior high school student. But that’s not all. She’s also a drumming whiz. She’s been drumming since she was a kid (I know, she’s still a kid), and most of her vids on her site are of her doing the drumming parts for songs from schoolgirl…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 19, 2010
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  Sony Isn’t Arrogant, Apple Is

  There once was a time, when PS3s looked like grills and still played PS2 games, that Sony was accused of being arrogant. Now, though, another company has assumed the mantle. That’s not me saying that. It’s Sony! “I don’t think we (Sony) are arrogant anymore”, Sony Computer Entertainment Australia boss Michael Ephraim told Screen Play…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 19, 2010
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  Yes, We Have A Winner

  In 2008, Anthony Le set out to do something very important: Build a suit from Iron Man. The 25-year-old fitness consultant has been a life-long Iron Man fan, and his first attempt was more of a costume. His second? His second is a US$4,000 dollar suit held together by high-impact urethane and, according to Popular…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 19, 2010