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How Do You Make a Race of Intelligent Plant People Sexy?
ArenaNet character designer Kristen Perry was presented was presented with a thorny task when asked to cultivate the plant-like sylvari race for Guild Wars 2: Finding the balance between green-skinned humans and tentacle monsters. When you imagine plant people, those are the two images that immediately come to mind. Either you’ve got green elves with…
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If You Were a Video Game Console, Would You Be As Cool As Ellen?
“If you were a video game console, what would you be?” is not the sort of question one would expect to find on the Facebook page of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, yet here we are. We might not be Ellen’s demographic, but sometimes she really speaks our language. No wonder Portia de Rossi married the…
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How to Play Your Android Games with a PlayStation 3 Controller
Answering the call of Android gamers frustrated by virtual joysticks, Dancing Pixel Studios’ Sixaxis Controller can grant your PlayStation 3 controller power over your mobile games, as long as the device is right. Don’t get too excited just yet; there are some pretty strict requirements for running Sixaxis Controller on your Android-powered gadgets. First off,…
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LEGO Universe Raises Level Cap from Zero to 40
When LEGO Universe launched in October of last year it was a breath of fresh air in the stale MMO market. Putting an emphasis on exploration and creativity, it didn’t need standard MMO mechanics like leveling to entice people to play. Today LEGO Universe adds a leveling system to entice people to play. Along with…
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The End Could Be An Interesting Only Friend
The End is like no other educational game you’ve played before. Commissioned by Channel 4 Education and produced by Preloaded studios, The End is a free online web-based platformer that probes into the player’s philosophical and metaphysical opinions on morality and death. Combining physics-based puzzles with questions and battles with the world’s Guardians, the game…
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An Hour with Skyrim. It’s Amazing.
I mean no disrespect when I say this: I couldn’t give a dragon’s ass about the story in Skyrim. It may well be wonderful, but as the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls series—none of which I’ve played for more than an hour or two at most—I’ve never had any opportunity to understand, let alone…
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Be a Part of Zelda‘s 25th Anniversary Celebration with Flipnote Studio
Nintendo wants fans to help them celebrate 25 years of Hyrulian adventure by creating their own Zelda-themed animations in Flipnote Studio, with the winners publically judged by the creators of the beloved series, including one Mr. Miyamoto. Using templates and music made available by Nintendo, fans can use the free Flipnote Studio on their DSi…
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Mega Man Might Not Have a Game, But He’s Got a Portal Gun
The folks at Dorkly have been mighty free with those Portal guns lately, but Mega Man has to work for it. Enter Aperture Man! Maybe if Rock had gotten his hands on one of these sooner we wouldn’t have to deal with the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3. He could have just opened up…
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Domino’s Brings Back The Noid, The Nation Weeps
Ready or not, the Noid is back. Domino’s announced today that their long defunct mascot is making a comeback. Starting today Domino’s will feature the Noid in an arcade-style video game on its Facebook page for one week, awarding a free pizza coupon every minute to the player with the highest score. After “liking” Domino’s…
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The World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse Gets a Legendary Downgrade
In World of Warcraft a legendary item is a piece of equipment of extreme rarity and power, a virtual status symbol for those that harness its powers. In SteelSeries gaming mouse parlance, legendary means cheaper with fewer buttons. The original and Cataclysm editions of the World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse were lovely devices, large, bulky,…
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Should We Just Wait for the Game of the Year Edition?
In today’s award-winning edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, cold-hearted commenter Monsieur.Froid wonders if other gamers are beginning to catch on to this whole Game of the Year trend. So with Fallout 3, I discovered the advent of the gaming industry’s newest conception: the ‘Game of the Year’ edition. Sure, it comes in other flavours,…
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Watch a Master Modder Split an Xbox 360 Controller in Two
In the latest episode of The Ben Heck Show, master video game console modder Benjamin J. Heckendorn creates an Xbox 360 controller for folks that can’t bring their hands together in front of their bodies. How does he do it? Well I figured he would split the damn thing in half, but I guess there…
By Mike Fahey
