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Game Design Tips From The Creator Of Frog Fractions
Frog Fractions creator Jim Crawford gave a presentation titled Preserving a Sense of Discovery in the Age of Spoilers. You can watch it here, or read a transcript here. He recommends several games that illustrate his rules of game design. My favorite example: In the tabletop RPG Legend of the Five Rings, there’s a sourcebook…
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Eight Things You Might Not Know About Mass Effect
Did you know Mass Effect was originally designed as a Puzzle Quest spin-off? That’s not true at all. I’m just establishing a baseline for Did You Know Gaming‘s video exploration of true Mass Effect facts and Easter eggs. They might not be as exciting as the ones I made up in my head, but that…
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The Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: White House Pokémon
What possesses a Pokémon fan to storm the most protexted lawn in the United States of America decked out in Pikachu gear? Perhaps this week’s Photoshop contest can shed some light on the matter. In case you missed it, an obvious lover of all things Pikachudanced with the Secret Service on the White House lawn…
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Watch Japan’s Talking Animatronic Rocket Raccoon
This is video of an animatronic Rocket Raccoon answering reporters’ questions in Japan. My understanding is that he threatens the reporters and it’s hilarious: Via Harry Knowles You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Destiny Nonvertising: The Winners!
Last week I asked Kotaku‘s image manipulation army to, whatever they did,not advertise the gameDestiny, just like Microsoft didn’t. I have never seen a group of people not advertise this much in my entire life. Thanks to a combination of factors too complicated for mere mortals to comprehend (how do people feel about corpse ass?),…
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A Video Game Finally Does The X-Men’s Rogue Justice
How do you handle a hero like Rogue, whose ability allows her to siphon powers from any other character? MMO Marvel Heroes has come up with an elegant solution — give her all the powers. Rogue has traditionally gotten the short end of the stick in Marvel video games. She’ll get her flight and super…
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The World’s A Little More Galactic Empire Than Rebel Alliance
In Star Wars: Commander, Disney’s recently-released Star Wars take on the popular Clash of Clans, players are given a choice of siding with evil or good. With more than five million players around the world picking sides, it turns out the planet’s leaning slightly towards the Dark Side. Available now for iOS and coming soon…
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If Top Gear Reviewed High-Performance Starships
It stands to reason that if the world of Chris Roberts’ ambitious crowd-funded space sim Star Citizen hastelevision commercialsfor new starships, it would likely have its own space-themed version of Top Gear as well. Here’s what that looks like. Accompanying the beefy o.9 update to Star Citizen‘s Arena Commander mode, this episode of “Galaxy Gear”…
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9/8/2014: Sports Glitches Are The Best Glitches
Mainly because they are downright horrifying or hilarious, and nothing in between. Reddit user xluke discovered this glitch in NHL 15, thankfully for us and our weekend entertainment. Head on over to Kotaku Selects for other news and entertaining this to catch up on from the week. To contact the author of this post, write…
By Tina Amini
