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Fils-Aime on PSPgo: “What’s the Benefit?”
In an interview for Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post (posted today), the Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says the PSPgo might have “a fundamental concept problem in terms of ‘Who’s it for?’ and ‘What’s the benefit?'” “I have the utmost respect for all our competitors,” he told the Post, “but it’s interesting to…
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Runic’s Next Big Fantasy: Getting Torchlight on XBLA
The dungeon-crawler Torchlight is due for an exclusive PC release on Oct. 27, but developer Runic wouldn’t mind seeing the game offered on Xbox Live Arcade someday. The Runic CEO Max Schaefer told 1Up that he and his team “talk about it a lot. We fantasize about getting the [Xbox Live Arcade] version, and that…
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Coruscant, Where Nothing Grows — Except Power
Oh great. I’ve been calling it Corrus-kant all these years. Next someone’s gonna tell me I’ve been mispronouncing Eidos, too. Well, however it’s said, this six-minute vid shows us how BioWare built the city-planet of the Star Wars Universe. From a design perspective, Coruscant is a planet with zero percent terrain, which poses its own…
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Play Uncharted 2 Demo to Win Fortune Hunter Edition
It’s true, the Uncharted 2 Fortune Hunter edition is priceless. Which means it has not yet been priced. But its price is free if you’re one of 10 randomly selected winners today and tomorrow. Just play the Uncharted 2 demo. PlayStation.Blog announced the contest yesterday. Here’s the deal – you need to play the Uncharted…
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Achievements, 100 Percent, and Games: Fun or Compulsive Behavior?
Finishing a bad or uninteresting book might feel like a chore, or at least unsatisfying, but it’s nothing like playing to the end of a game you don’t care for. Why do so many still choose to do this? True/Slant’s Modus Pwned doesn’t understand it either. Breaking a game down to its utilitarian purpose, the…
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Kojima Weighs In on Obama’s Nobel Prize
On his blog, Hideo Kojima found a tie-in, albeit a tenuous one, between his upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama yesterday. Here’s what the eminent games designer had to say: President Obama, who declared ‘A World Without Nuclear Weapons’ in Prague, has won the Nobel Peace…
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It’s Not in the Game — Should it Be?
What do straight-ahead kicks, busted rackets and plaid jackets have in common? They’re all on a list of completely amateurish and uninvited suggestions for what should go in next year’s sports titles. This week’s release of NBA 2K10 and NBA Live 10 mean the major North American professional sports have all seen their video game…
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Weekend Coupons: Bent Boxes
When I was in college, someone at a warehouse where one of my frat brothers worked dinged a sled of Pringle’s Cheezums and the whole thing was written off. We got like 250 cans out of it. After two months I’d eaten so many damn Cheezums that everything started taking on an orange hue. I…
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Kotaku Originals: Porn
Porn, porn porn porn. Porn porn. Porn. Porn, porn porn porn – porn porn pr0n porn porn porn? (Porn porn.) “Porn porn porn,” porn porn, “porn porn porn porn porn.” Porn porn porn; porn porn porn … porn porn porn. The week that was in Kotaku originals: Porn So About Those Porn Stars And That…
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UncategorizedToad’s Gay? Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That …
Brentalfloss is back at it again, discovering clues to Toad’s sexual orientation in the lyrics to the Super Mario Bros. 2. Or at least the ones he made up for it. I guess the link to Sunday’s National Equality March in Washington D.C. everything cool, right? Brental (Mr. Floss) says he’ll be in attendance. You…
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Patch Lets Left 4 Dead Out of the Closet
Steam put out a patch this evening solving a problem in the PC version of Left 4 Dead‘s Crash Course campaign, whereby rescue closet doors would not open to let survivors out in Versus mode. The patch was announced around 7:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern time. In addition to the rescue closet glitch, the patch allows…
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You Want It, You Got It — College Lacrosse on Xbox 360
Great, Another sport I’ve never played in my life, but will have to review because, you know, I’m the sports guy. Here’s lacrosse, game of Native Americans, Jim Brown, and every Volvo-driving L.L. Bean family between Charlottesville and Albany. College LaCrosse 2010 is on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel and, yeah, yeah, my smirking…
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PSP Minis Pay a Premium for ESRB Ratings [Updated]
Those who analogize the PSPgo, with its library of Minis titles, to the iPhone should remember that developing for both is not just about code. It’s also about the costs every Minis game must pay for an ESRB rating. Sergei Gourski, developer of the iTunes App Store hit Fieldrunners, said PSP development is “definitely more…
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Eminem, Jay-Z Tracks Revealed for DJ Hero Renegade Edition
Activision gave Rolling Stone first dibs on the Renegade Edition tracklist for DJ Hero, featuring 12 cuts each from Jay-Z and Eminem – who recently endorsed the game by saying “the s—t is dope.” Jay-Z’s set is said to be the first best-of compilation of his career, Rolling Stone reports, although another is said to…
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