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If SimCity Were A Noir Film
With SimCity slowly stabilizing, more and more user-created content surfaces—which means we finally get to have some time to kick back and enjoy the beauty of our creations. YouTube user Calvin Chan put up this melancholic, noir-themed (the music from L.A. Noire fits right in) montage of his city at night. SimCity – My City…
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Look At This Cool Journey Hoodie That You Can’t Have
I was browsing Reddit casually last night and stumbled on this seemingly well-made Journey hoodie by user volpinazzurra (you can only tell so much from pictures). “It’s reversible, too,” I excitedly proclaimed to myself and my cat. Quickly check the comments and…oh. Not for sale. Not on Etsy. Probably can’t bribe volpinazzurra with cookies and…
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Modders Keep MVP Baseball 2005 Alive With the World Baseball Classic
There is no game-action simulation of baseball on the PC this year, whatsoever. Management sims like Out of the Park Baseball or Sega’s MLB Manager are your only current options in a role that MLB 2K had filled—but the rush job it put in on MLB 2K13 left out that platform. At any rate, no…
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Someone Put an Assassin’s Creed Screengrab In a TV Report on Syria
Ah, the dangers of Google image search. On Feb. 26, Denmark’s TV2 needed an over-the-shoulder shot for a report on the conflict in Syria, and some production assistant gave the control room a screengrab from the original Assassin’s Creed (which features Damascus prominently) Apparently it’s this one, from the game’s unofficial wiki site. That’s supposed…
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The Best at Tecmo Super Bowl Settle a Claim Made by Everyone
MADISON, Wis.—Most of us are realistic about our shot. We are going to get our asses kicked, and then go to the bar. But we’re in March, we’re in a tournament, we’re all sports fans and if anybody in the 224-man field of Tecmo Madison, the largest Tecmo Super Bowl event in the nation, didn’t…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Emperor Has No Pants
Though SimCity says it’s adding servers and stabilizing the situation, the game’s launch week will forever be remembered as a disasterbacle. That makes the image above of comedian Adam DeVine—a frame from this video advertisement—rather appropriate. The game was completely pantsed by its always-on DRM, and while I know a lot of you are upset…
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Cool Dad Hacks Donkey Kong So His Daughter Can Play It as Pauline
This is pretty sweet. Mike Mika’s daughter is three years old, and the two of them play a lot of video games together. “She’s played as Peach in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally just assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong,” he wrote. When it bummed her out to learn she couldn’t…
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SimCity Boss on Game’s Failure: ‘This is on Maxis. We Own It.’
After fielding some 1900 questions in a 45-minute Twitter Q&A, Maxis, the maker of SimCity, directly answered about eight regarding the game, which has been inaccessible to many since it released on Tuesday. “This is on Maxis,” said Lucy Bradshaw, the studio’s boss, in response to a customer’s allegation that publisher Electronic Arts required SimCity…
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Someone, Quick, Send UN Election Monitors to Observe the NCAA Football Cover Voting
I’ve already had my say on the cynical, abusive b.s.. of running a Twitter or Facebook campaign to get folks to vote on a cover or a character or to pretend to give them some kind of influence over a video game publishing decision. In a nutshell, it’s garbage, and its true purpose is to…
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It Would Take ‘Significant Engineering’ to Make SimCity an Offline Game
Later this afternoon, Lucy Bradshaw, the general manager of SimCity maker Maxis, is going to take over the studio’s official account to answer questions from gamers who, four days after the game’s release, are still unable to play the thing they purchased. She’s already given a preview answer to the question most of them likely…
By Owen Good
