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Reminder: Our WarioWare D.I.Y. Contest Ends at Midnight
That’s midnight Kotaku time, so, seven hours from now. If you’ve been perfecting your Kotaku-themed WarioWare D.I.Y. mini-game to win the enormous grand prize package Nintendo’s put up, now’s the time to wrap things up and go gold. So be sure to visit the contest page – where you’ll find all the rules and conditions…
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How Hard Should A Video Game Be?
Indie game developer Edmund McMillen has written a fascinating article on the difficulty of determining the difficulty level of a game like Super Meat Boy, complete with plenty of helpful illustrations like this one. When the members of Team Meat aren’t busy getting ready for the summer release of Super Meat Boy, they like to…
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 Forecast Cloudy With A Chance Of Plumbers
The latest new power-up reveled for Super Mario Galaxy 2 shows how light on his feet everyone’s favorite plumber can be as he takes on the powers of Cloud Mario. Along with dressing our hero up in white overalls, puffing up his hat, and giving him attractive neck ruffles, the Cloud power-up also lets our…
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Appeals Court Deems Nintendo Controllers Patent Infringement-Free
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overturned the 2008 verdict of an East Texas jury that would have resulted in a ban on sales of the Nintendo Gamecube controller, Wavebird, and Classic Controller due to patent infringement. In 2006, Anascape Ltd. took Nintendo and Microsoft to court over the technology used to…
By Mike Fahey
