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Oh Yeah, Nvidia Also Officially Outs the World’s Fastest Mobile Processor
So there I was, prepping a post on Nvidia’s Tegra 4 processor, the successor to the Tegra 3 with six times the graphics processing power and all sorts of nifty advancements that really seem boring now compared to the Shield portable gaming device The Tegra 4 features 72 GeForce GPU cores—at least ten times the…
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USB 3.0 Is Going To Double Speeds
USB data transfer is about to get a hell of a lot faster. The USB Promoter Group is rolling out SuperSpeed USB, a supplement to USB 3.0 due out later this year that should surge your speeds two-fold. SuperSpeed USB is supposed to give you 10 Gbps USB data rate, which is the same as…
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The Speakys—Your Games of the Year—Have Been Named, Now Pick the Best
The votes are in, and you have spoken. The second annual Speakys, the Kotaku community-voted awards organized by GiantBoyDetective, have named their individual category winners. From here, the category winners will be faced off in a vote to determine the Speakys’ overall game of the year. Remember, tomorrow Kotaku will be conferring its Game of…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Did Sports Video Games Really Get Any Better in 2012?
Earlier this week, Metacritic bemoaned 2012 as a year of poorer review scores for video games than the one preceding it. Fewer titles surpassed the all-important 90—which practically guarantees job security to those who developed or greenlit the project—than in 2011. Interestingly, the three console platforms’ average review scores all improved slightly. This isn’t proof…
By Owen Good - Culture
The Week in Games: A Long Winter’s Nap
The Week in Games is back but, as is expected in January, we don’t have much to share. The western release of Anarchy Reigns is the lone console title. It doesn’t look like things pick up again until next week, when DmC: Devil May Cry arrives. Monday • Sesame Street TV – Season 2 (360…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
1993: The Birth of DLC
There’s a past-is-prologue quality to a lot what wwwtxt curates and sends out over its Twitter feed, exemplified by this nugget published on Friday. wwwtxt is not a bot. It’s Daniel Rehn, an artist and “media archaeologist,” who culls discussions before 1995, the beginning of the commercial Internet as we know it. The sources include…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Balloon Snake
It’s been a while since we’ve had this kind of an it-shops-itself exploitable: Solid Snake made out of balloons, with a mesmerizing stare that could be made to express any emotion or fit any situation. Some folks already got a head start on this when Tina posted the image on Friday. We’ll let everyone else…
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UncategorizedAuthor of The Warriors, Cult Film Adapted to Hit Video Game, Dies at 88
Sol Yurick, the writer whose 1965 novel “The Warriors” was adapted into a film 14 years later—which then became one of the best adapted works ever in video gaming—died this weekend. He was 88. Yurick’s work itself was a loose adaptation of a story told 2,300 years before: Anabasis, which chronicles the journey of Greek…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics: Some of My Best Friends are …
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 31. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Jan. 4. Read more of…
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