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Saturday Timewaster: And We Really Mean It
Some wit cooked up a HD-version of Tetris – I can’t even begin to count the grid here – which makes dying or clearing lines an agonizingly long process. Everyone who’s played this and blogged about it so far instead have created abstract art or raced each other to a fastest death time, some taking…
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Writing Contest Offers Trip to Blizzard HQ
Fanfic writing just got a little less thankless and potentially more rewarding with a creative writing contest just announced by Blizzard. Winners get a sword, lunch, and a peek at Blizz HQ. Fans of Warcraft, Starcraft or Diablo are invited to write 3,000 to 10,000 words, set in either of the three franchises. The grand…
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Improv Act Seeks “Wiimbledon” Champ
“Wiimbledon Champion” looks great on a resume, especially if whomever’s reading it thinks it’s just a typo. An improv troupe is putting the title up for grabs in a tournament next month in Seattle. Organizers for Wiimbledon, to be held April 11, are looking to fill a field of 32 doubles teams playing Wii tennis.…
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Weekend Coupons: Free and Reduced Price Lunch
A $20 gift card can be yours with Resident Evil 5; free shipping can be found for Halo Wars 2, and Gamestop is offering three-for-the-price-of-two on used titles. Here’s this weekend’s bargain-huntin’ highlights: • Toys R Us is offering a $20 gift card with a purchase of Resident Evil 5, so you can pick it…
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How a Lightweight Console Lay the Foundations of Game Design
A book by two professors of media studies examines the challenges of designing games on the Atari 2600, and posits that the infamous port of Pac-Man wasn’t a half-assed effort after all. Racing the Beam sets up the Atari Video Computer System (later 2600) as a console that profoundly shaped game design because its limitations…
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The Pitt: a Confluence of Mutation
.html Lots of running-and-gunning in this here debut trailer for Fallout 3’s “The Pitt”, which drops March 24. So I guess I’ve been playing wrong. See, my instinct when I’m down in the tunnels and I hear a feral ghoul (or, in this case, a trogg) snarl is to bring up VATS, take a deep…
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Kotaku Originals: Up Your Nose With a Rubber Hose
Kinda presumptuous to welcome myself back, but, I don’t see anyone else doing it. Anyway, it’s nice to be missed. I was missed, right? This week was Resident Evil 5’s big closeup, but others still managed to crack the news lineup. Namely, BioShock 2’s Big Sister stomped on in and said, where you saw but…
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