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If You Don’t Mind Used, the PS Vita is Super Cheap at Amazon
Our spies at Dealzon say “The PS Vita must be getting a good volume of returns at Amazon for them to offer such a low drop in pricing for used models.” The WiFi model, refurbished is $162.49, free shipping. The cheapest you find it new is $250.
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UncategorizedOne Intrepid Indie Team Takes On Convention Booth-Building
Unknown Worlds, creators of Natural Selection were at PAX East this year. It was their first experience at PAX, and with that comes a lot of lessons. A bunch of programmers had to play carpenter that weekend to set up their presentation booth before a rush of gamers came to try their games. In the…
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UncategorizedMega64 Takes Skyward Sword Motion Control to the Streets
Normally comedy team Mega64 deploys just one of its members into public to act as a video game character. For The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword they sent two: one to be Link, the other to control Link. And you thought motion control looked silly in your living room. SKYWARD SWORDS AND SHIFTY SHIRTS!! [Mega64]
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Four-Year-Old Boy Kills His Father After Not Getting a PlayStation
A preschool-aged boy in Saudi Arabia reportedly fatally shot his father this weekend because of a PlayStation. The AFP reports that according to Arabic-language press, the boy, about four-and-a-half years old, had asked his father to buy him a PlayStation of some variety. When his father returned without a Sony device in hand, the child…
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I Am One of Those Horrible Neglectful MMO-Playing Parents
Whenever I post a story about a parent neglecting their children while playing a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game I can’t hide my disgust for that sort of person, so you can imagine how I felt about myself this weekend when my two ten-month-old children left the house in the middle of a boss fight. I…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Marketing Survey Hints at a Rayman Origins Sequel of Mythic Proportions
Ubisoft’s critically acclaimed platformer Rayman Origins is going to get a sequel; it’s pretty much inevitable. What form that sequel will take might be hinted at in these screens taken from a marketing survey by one of our readers, hinting at a world filled with dragons, ghosts and Greek gods. Rayman Origins received rave reviews,…
By Mike Fahey - Kotaku East
The Continent of a Boring MMO… Zzzzz…
Chinese and Korean online MMO’s are a dime a dozen, and Tecent and Webzen’s latest MMO, The Continent of the Ninth, definitely feels stale. Despite the gorgeous graphics and a very simple battle system, I wasn’t taken byThe Continent of the Ninth. It is by no means a bad game; it just felt boring to…
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How Tourists Are Encouraging Chinese Knock-Offs
There are countless markets in China that sell un-branded merchandise that appears to be blatant knock-offs, but there are certain places in every major city in China that sell knock-off and counterfeit goods right in the open. Located in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, these markets are huge tourist traps. They sell…
By Eric Jou
