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Farming Simulator Is Much More Fun With A Complicated Controller
Real farmers do not operate their tractors using keyboard and mice. They don’t operate their tractors using Saitek’s $300 Heavy Equipment Precision Control System for PC either, but it’s much closer and a hell of a lot more entertaining. I love Giants Software’s Farming Simulator series. Or maybe I just love the idea of it.…
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Disney Infinity, LEGO Dimensions Or Skylanders: Which Toy-Based Game Is Right For You?
First Skylanders, then Disney Infinity and now LEGO—the video game sections of major retailers everywhere are slowly being taken over by toys. Which plastic portal of power should you be plugging into your game console? Let’s see if we can help. In a perfect world where no one needed to care about cost or shelf…
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Computers Sure Looked Goofy In 80s Movies
It’s a supercut of the weirdest movie scenes with computers and computer interfaces from a time when even copying a simple file to a floppy was shown as some sort of magic trick. YouTuber elsafrickey collected a whole bunch of these scenes from the 70s, the 90s, but mostly from the 80s. Obviously, a giant…
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Custom Super Mario World SNES Is A Thing Of Beauty
Custom-themed, limited edition consoles weren’t really a thing back in the day of the SNES and the Genesis, so it’s up to a dedicated few to set things right. Zoki64 picked Super Mario World, the most obvious choice for his custom SNES. And it looks prety shiny! He also made a similar one with a…
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Fallout Fan 3D Prints a Mini Nuke
Mini nukes sure look a lot more high-tech on the inside. Valcrow of the 3D printing blog Redicubricks dug the fact that Bethesda’s Fallout Anthology came with a mini nuke case, but they weren’t interested in playing the older games. So, of course, they did what any other sane person would and decided to print…
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The fourth episode of Dreamfall: Chapters, Red Thread Games’ sequel to the classic Longest Journey adventure game series, is out this week—on December 3, Thursday, to be exact. The trailer announcing the release date is above, and you can find our impressions of the first three episodes here, here and here.
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
Thanksgiving is over, and you all know what comes next—a Photoshop contest involving decorating your favorite gaming images for Christmas. We skipped a week due to the holidays, but this week we’re getting back at them for it. Today’s games are wonderful and immersive and all sorts of amazing buzzwords, but they’re generally not all…
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Prank Phone Calls, Cut Content And Other Fun Facts About South Park: The Stick Of Truth
A massive vampire battle, ginger doll thieves and an entire town dedicated to Christmas—these are just some of scenes cut from South Park: The Stick Of Truth, the role-playing game that begin with a suspected prank phone call. While Did You Know Gaming?’s latest doesn’t go into great detail about the South Park RPG’s origin…
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Metal Gear Solid V‘s Not-So-Secret Nuclear Disarmament Event Is Go, Still Seems Impossible
Uncovered via datamining way back in September, Konami has confirmed Metal Gear Solid V’s Nuclear Disarmament event. All players need to do to activate it is dismantle every nuclear weapon in their platform’s region, a task so easy Superman could do it. Nuke are the ultimate deterrent in The Phantom Pain’s FOB (Forward Operating Base)…
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The Battle Of The Big-Headed Anime Children
“Please defeat these children,” she said. “It looks like they won’t learn without some pain.” Don’t worry, it feels pretty good. Wait… Now before anyone gets on my case about defeating children and how good it feels, know that GOCCO of War (that’s Global Online Chibi Combat Offensive…of War) is an online multiplayer game recently…
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Razer And Lenovo Team Up To ‘Revolutionize Gaming Devices’
Razer’s been working on the whole “revolutionize gaming devices” thing for many years now, but lacked the reach of the big names in PC hardware. Teaming up with multi-national computer technology company Lenovo should do the trick. Announced yesterday during the Dreamhack 2015 computer festival in Sweden, the partnership between Razer and Lenovo gives each…
By Mike Fahey
