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Cloud and Boy Might Seem Familiar, But It’s Still Great Fun
I don’t get to play a lot of Windows Phone games, mostly because I don’t own a Windows Phone and because there aren’t enough of them to warrant buying a Windows Phone. However, during last month’s game developers conference, I got to play a Windows Phone exclusive game developed by a student team from Taiwan.…
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Game Falls $28 Short Of $50,000 Kickstarter Goal
This has got to be agonizing. DreamQuest games wasn’t looking for an insane amount of money when they put their planned game, Alpha Colony up on Kickstarter. All they wanted was $50,000 to develop the exploration, building and trading simulation for PCs and mobile devices. The detailed explanation, with screenshots, and a playable browser-based demo…
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Will Anyone Really Care If There’s No More Baseball on the Xbox 360?
The first week after Thanksgiving is typically when MLB The Show‘s publicity machine rolls out the first screenshots and begins teasing upcoming details for the game, and right on schedule we got them this past week. The Show has had no serious competition for five years. Next year it won’t have any, in name or…
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Masters of Slenderman Terror Join Slender Sequel
Not with a gun to my head would I watch Marble Hornets. How much of a cowering, frightened ninny am I? I won’t even google it to get an abstract of what the YouTube series is about to cite in this lead paragraph. It is, on Kirk Hamilton’s recommendation to me, the most fucked-up frightening…
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Hate Using the Classic Controller on the Wii U? Use the PS2’s Instead.
A conversion kit going on sale soon in Japan allows gamers to connect a PlayStation 2 DualShock to the Wii U. It’s an alternative for those who don’t prefer the Wii Classic Controller to play old Wii games, and find themselves unable to use their good old GameCube controller because the new console lacks a…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Chin Down Eyes Up: The Game
BioShock Infinite‘s underwhelming cover art revived the concept Mega64 brought to our attention three months ago: If you’re making a video game, chin-down, eyes-up is the way to go for every cover subject. Well, I think it should be the way all images should be presented, at least for this edition of the Kotaku ‘Shop…
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Japanese Developer Codes First Ever Ding-Dong-Ditch Simulator
We called it Ring-And-Run. Other kids called it Ding Dong Ditch. Only when I moved out and lived on my own did I realize how aggravating it is to have some nitwit fifth-grader knock on your door and hide in the bushes when you went to open it. At least they didn’t leave a flaming…
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Can People Still Get Dead Island In Countries Where It’s Censored? ‘I Hope So,’ Says Developer
Like the original Dead Island, the sequel, Dead Island: Riptide won’t have a German release, because that country is really weird about depictions of killing video game zombies, who technically are not even human and literally are not real. The game’s creative director was asked if he thinks Germans are still getting their hands on…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bleak Friday: The Winners
Know how I can tell this picture of a father and son buying a Wii U on Black Friday is staged? There are no police barriers in the background. A publicity photo from Nintendo was the grist for last week’s ‘Shop Contest. We’ve got a dozen more interesting takes on this tender moment, plus overall…
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Here Are the Winners of the 2012 Saxxys for Excellence in Team Fortress 2 Movie-Making
Two weeks ago Valve opened voting on the second annual Saxxy Awards, celebrating cinematography in Team Fortress 2 and the Source Filmmaker tool released earlier in the year. Last night, voting ended, and winners in four categories were crowned. You may see them here in this gallery. The overall winner has not yet been named.…
By Owen Good
