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USB 3.0 Is Going To Double Speeds
USB data transfer is about to get a hell of a lot faster. The USB Promoter Group is rolling out SuperSpeed USB, a supplement to USB 3.0 due out later this year that should surge your speeds two-fold. SuperSpeed USB is supposed to give you 10 Gbps USB data rate, which is the same as…
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The Speakys—Your Games of the Year—Have Been Named, Now Pick the Best
The votes are in, and you have spoken. The second annual Speakys, the Kotaku community-voted awards organized by GiantBoyDetective, have named their individual category winners. From here, the category winners will be faced off in a vote to determine the Speakys’ overall game of the year. Remember, tomorrow Kotaku will be conferring its Game of…
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Did Sports Video Games Really Get Any Better in 2012?
Earlier this week, Metacritic bemoaned 2012 as a year of poorer review scores for video games than the one preceding it. Fewer titles surpassed the all-important 90—which practically guarantees job security to those who developed or greenlit the project—than in 2011. Interestingly, the three console platforms’ average review scores all improved slightly. This isn’t proof…
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1993: The Birth of DLC
There’s a past-is-prologue quality to a lot what wwwtxt curates and sends out over its Twitter feed, exemplified by this nugget published on Friday. wwwtxt is not a bot. It’s Daniel Rehn, an artist and “media archaeologist,” who culls discussions before 1995, the beginning of the commercial Internet as we know it. The sources include…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Balloon Snake
It’s been a while since we’ve had this kind of an it-shops-itself exploitable: Solid Snake made out of balloons, with a mesmerizing stare that could be made to express any emotion or fit any situation. Some folks already got a head start on this when Tina posted the image on Friday. We’ll let everyone else…
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Author of The Warriors, Cult Film Adapted to Hit Video Game, Dies at 88
Sol Yurick, the writer whose 1965 novel “The Warriors” was adapted into a film 14 years later—which then became one of the best adapted works ever in video gaming—died this weekend. He was 88. Yurick’s work itself was a loose adaptation of a story told 2,300 years before: Anabasis, which chronicles the journey of Greek…
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We’ve All Been Fooled by the ‘Firefly MMO‘ [UPDATE 2]
If you think there’s going to be an MMO based on or “inspired by” Firefly, well, you’re not alone. So did I yesterday, and we’ve all been trolled. [Update] This story has taken a few more turns. The upshot is that it may not be a hoax after all. For the latest, check out this…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest Year-End All-Star Extravaganza
Anything goes and anything went as we asked you to revisit the exploitables and callbacks of the year that was 2012. halfbeast’s bitchin’ fightstick leads our roundup of overall finalists, with hat-tips to all-stars sciteach, uscg_pa, and returning champ Pan_1da7. Thanks to all who participated. There’s a ‘Shop Contest tomorrow, etc. AirCairo azureguy Galogon halfbeast…
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GLaDOS Did Appear in Pacific Rim‘s Trailer, but Won’t Return for the Movie
When Pacific Rim‘s latest trailer (above) went out last month, a lot of people thought, “Wait! I know that voice!” And indeed, it sounds like Jax Teller reading from “The Life and Death of Sam Crow” as an enormous sea monster destroys a bridge. Oh yeah, GLaDOS from the Portal series can be heard as…
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Report: Warner Bros. Interactive Interested in Bidding on THQ’s Assets
A bankruptcy judge yesterday did not approve the bidding procedures THQ proposed in selling off its assets, which THQ’s creditors had complained was rigged to sell the whole thing to a private equity firm for $60 million. Now comes a report that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an interested buyer. The word comes from Distressed…
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The Moneysaver: Walking in a Winter Download-land
Digital downloads lead the list of offers this week, particularly as Steam’s always-popular holiday bonanza is closing down gets an encore lasting through Monday. Green Man Gaming has discounts on 10 preorders between now and April, and a coupon code currently on offer will stack on that, so give it a look if what you…
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The Best Of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. You see that up there? That up there is what we call wishful thinking, also known as a potentially awesome video game realization of one of the best comics there is: Calvin & Hobbes. Unfortunately it’s currently just a…
By Tina Amini
