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Which of the Console Companies will an Apple “Smart Television” Kill?
There’s going to be another round of consoles. There’s another Xbox coming, another PlayStation. Anything could happen in the next couple of years before they’re released. For instance, Apple could start selling “smart televisions”. There have been “Apple TV” rumors for years, even before there was the current bolt-on AppleTV. (Here’s one of today’s.) But…
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The Solo StarCraft II Player Thanks You For a Shorter Heart of the Swarm Campaign, Jerks
During BlizzCon 2011 this weekend I got to ask Starcraft II senior designer Jonny Ebbert what was in store for the solo player in the upcoming expansions and why Heart of the Swarm‘s campaign is nine missions shorter that Wings of Liberty‘s. You whiny bastards. Not you folks personally — well, not all of you…
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Zombies Do Not Understand Pumpkin Carving, But Damn Can They Dance
It’s Pumpkins Vs. Zombies as PopCap’s zombie temp worker tries his hand at gourd gutting and cutting. Then a rave breaks out. It’s great to see the folks at PopCap having a great time preparing for Halloween this year, and any video that starts with the undead and ends with dancing is an instant classic.…
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A Cube of Cubes, or a Perplexing Way to Play 16 GameCube Games
Blessed with a surplus of ancient Commodore 1702 monitors and a handful of GameCubes, Personal Computer Museum curator Syd Bolton stacked them all together to form a pleasantly confusing cube of cubes. After debuting his cube of cubes at a recent Game Night held at his Ontario, Canada museum, Bolton took a little time out…
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Cheapest Price Ever for Kinect and Two Games
• Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures and Child of Eden (download code) is $107.24, free shipping from Buy.com. Next best is $120 from Amazon. The previous best Kinect deal was a $114 net value ($139 w/ $25 bonus credit) from Amazon, but that was for the original bundle without Child of Eden. [Dealzon]
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A More Official Look at the Sights and Sounds of BlizzCon 2011
After spending the entire weekend trying to get good shots and video on a dimply lit show floor with a mobile phone, Blizzard walks in, drops a load of professionally shot official BlizzCon 2011 photos and a small video on my desk, and then disappears in a puff of smoke. Jerks. Oh look, they’ve even…
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Why Not Just Do Away With Boss Fights Altogether?
Some people love boss fights; others dread them. Commenter TheBlackHole25 is in the latter camp, and he’ll explain why in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku Does anyone else here really dislike boss fights? I don’t know why this is the case, but I always enter boss fights with a feeling of dread. And the dread…
By Mike Fahey
