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The LEGO Universe Ends on January 31
Despite a strong brand name, positive early buzz, and the implementation of a new free-to-play model back in August, the massively multiplayer LEGO Universe will be closing its doors on January 31, 2012, the day imagination died. While the game attracted plenty of players, LEGO Universe‘s problem laid in turning its big numbers into big…
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Rainbow 6: Patriots‘ Tough Choices Brought to Life in this Proof-of-Concept Video
We’ve been telling you about the hard choices being put on the players of Rainbow 6: Patriots since June, now see for yourself in Ubisoft’s proof-of-concept video. Happy birthday to you. While the footage differs slightly from what was leaked to Kotaku earlier this year, it certainly demonstrates the ideas we’ve been discussing since yesterday’s…
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Kinect for Windows Coming Soon to Change the Way We Do Everything
The sinister phase two of Microsoft’s Kinect plan picks up steam as the company makes Kinect for Windows impeding arrival official. Are you ready to do everything six to eight feet from a computer screen? With hundreds of financial, educational, and commercial companies signed up to see what Kinect can do for them, next year…
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MinecraftEdu Distributes the Building Blocks of Games-Based Education to Classrooms Everywhere
Joel Levin at the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School used popular indie block building game Minecraft as a learning tool for his second grade computer class. Now he’s a part of the newly-launched MinecraftEdu, a program dedicated to spreading Minecraft-based learning to classrooms around the world. Earlier this year Kotaku took a field trip to…
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What Video Games Could Learn From Comic Book Continuity
Batman has his own stories but now and then runs into Superman. In Today’s Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Aikage imagines a video game universe filled with countless games linked by a single continuity. What an Oddworld idea. Video games need to take a cue from comic books. It’d be great if instead of endless…
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Russian Dancing Men: Too Unforgiving to be Fun
Rhythm games are difficult to do well on a smart device without simply porting over the note-highway interface of Guitar Hero or Rock Band whose ship everyone has agreed sailed about three years ago. Russian Dancing Men (iTunes, universal app) delivers rhythm gameplay aided not necessarily by fast-twitch reflexes, but by truly listening carefully. The…
By Owen Good
