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From Play-Fakers to Music-Makers, Here Are Your Gaming Apps of the Week
Between vacations and major gaming events, we’ve spent far more time playing gaming apps than writing about them over the past few weeks. This week we bounce back with something old, something new, something NFL-related, and something oddly musical. Are you ready for some football? No? Then are you ready for a music creation app…
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All of the Life-Changing Power of Video Games
Video games cause depression. Video games cause violence. Video games are a waste of time. The next time someone pulls out one of these arguments against our favorite hobby, send them to read the stories at How Video Games Saved My Life, and hope they’re not sharp enough to refute them with cold logic. Created…
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EA’s Origin Prepares for Third-Party Content as Install Base Approaches Four Million
It may be inconvenient to users of more popular digital distribution platforms, but its picking up steam. During a UBS conference in London earlier today, EA chief financial officer Eric Brown set Origin install numbers at “about 4 million”, saying that third-party content was coming “very soon”. Millions have flocked to EA’s Origin since its…
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Another Mystifying Example of Uncharted Sand Art
Earlier this morning we posted a video of sand artist Natalya Netselya rendering a scene from Uncharted 3 using nothing but tiny pieces of silica. In case you couldn’t believe such fine art could come from a handful of sand, here’s another look. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected].…
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The Six Biggest Sports in the World in One Kinect Game
Why worry about which sports game to play on your Xbox 360 when you can get baseball, hockey, basketball, golf, football, and other football, all in one handy Kinect game? I guess if you wanted to completely immerse yourself in your favorite sport you’d just buy a dedicated title, but if you’re in the mood…
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Holds Its Ground Against the Reviewing Hordes
Relic Entertainment has proven time and time again with its Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise that it has a deep respect for Warhammer: 40.000. Does that respect extend to the third-person shooter? Warhammer 40,000is an entire universe dedicated to grand battles, massive armies, and strategic combat. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine strips away all of…
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The Helicopters, Bombers, and Gunships of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
It’s Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Friday once again, and this week Project Aces gives us a detailed look at what we’ll be flying when the fighter jets are grounded. The Ace Combat series has a strong focus on jets, and Assault Horizon is no different, with 25 different models to choose from. But sometime you…
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The iPhone Game You Can Only Play Once Gets a Sequel, Infinite Lives
Released earlier this year, One Single Life for the iPhone achieved a massive 2.6 million downloads based on one simple concept: When you die, you can’t play it again. Next week the sequel hits the iTunes store, but some of the magic is gone. At its heart, One Single Life 2 still features the same…
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A “Pair of Walking Tits” Brings Resident Evil‘s Direction Into Question
The recent revelation of Resident Evil‘s Rachel has commenter LordFlash questioning the direction Capcom is taking its popular survival horror franchise in. Share his worries in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Has anyone seen that Resident Evil Revelations trailer introducing a minor character, Rachel? (Editor’s Note: See the trailer here.) Massive spoiler alert: Rachel appears…
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