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PAX East Creates A Game Of Cold-Blooded Journalism
Pen and paper role-playing game designer David Hill tasked a theater packed with PAX East attendees to create an RPG in sixty minutes, resulting in a thrilling game of journalistic intrique – with talking dinosaurs. The Design an RPG in an Hour panel at PAX East was already underway when I arrived, the room overflowing…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Mornin’ gang. Anyone else have an unusual Friday evening? Then again, what the hell is your usual Friday evening? If it includes video games, gab it up here while I make coffee and power on the weekend news-o-tron. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
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Whenever the Next Half-Life Comes Out, It Had Better Be Scary
Games have “gotten away from genuinely scaring the player,” and Half-Life, whenever it deploys its next episode, needs to get back to doing just that, the game’s boss said. Gabe Newell, the Valve honcho, was asked if the game’s tone has matured along with its audience’s over the past 12 years. He told Edge Magazine…
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UncategorizedNetflix on the Wii Features Some Nice Long Load Times
The Netflix discs enabling streaming video over the Wii are already in the mail and one reader’s uploaded this video, showing us what we can expect – in this case, 30 second loading times to browse the catalog. By this video, booting up the service takes 33 seconds. After registering the device, it’s another 33…
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PAX East Cosplay Gallery: Day One – Feeling A Bit Tingly
It’s been a busy first day at PAX East, and we’ve only managed to capture a handful of cosplayers in our mad dash about the convention area, but what they lack in quantity they make up in quality. Okay, maybe not, but they try really hard, and win points for originality? The Tingles are cute?…
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Crackdown 2 Multiplayer Preview: I Don’t Have Your Goddamned Orb
It’s hard to get an accurate feel for the Rocket Tag online multiplayer mode for Crackdown 2 when every time I try to get a word in edgewise – oh dammit I’m dead. That’s pretty much how my ten minute session of Rocket Tag went down. I slipped into one of the last rounds of…
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