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Playing 3DS Augmented-Reality Games with a Whiteboard
Everyone’s testing the limits of the Nintendo 3DS augmented reality games, but it does seem that if you can replicate one of the cards it uses – preferably the question-mark box – you can start the game from anywhere, whether it’s on the screen of an iPhone or, now, a white board. Some guys at…
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EA Sports Boss Says Michael Vick “Has Served His Time”
Michael Vick, who returned to the NFL in 2009 after a two-year prison sentence for running a dogfighting ring, was the second-biggest winner (by percentage) in the first round of EA Sports’ fan-voted playoff for the Madden NFL 12 cover. To no one’s surprise, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has demanded Vick’s removal…
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Walmart’s Exclusive L.A. Noire Case Is Stuck In Traffic
Preorder Rockstar’s L.A. Noire from GameStop and you get a thrilling homicide case. Preorder the game from Walmart and you’re stuck on traffic duty. Rockstar continues to dole out retailer-exclusive cases for its upcoming detective thriller L.A. Noire, and today we get our first peek at “A Slip of the Tongue”, the traffic case that’ll…
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Offended Gay Gamer Wants Dragon Age II Writer Fired
Last week we lauded BioWare writer David Gaider for his eloquent defense of the inclusion of love interests for players of any sexual orientation in Dragon Age II. Now one gamer has started an internet petition asking that Gaider be fired for his poor portrayal of gay men. You can’t please all of the Dragon…
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Sony’s MMO Studio Confirms Massive Layoffs, Closes The Book On The Agency
Yesterday’s rumors have proven true, as Sony Online Entertainment confirms 205 cut positions, the closure of three studio locations, and puts the final bullet in the head of massively multiplayer online spy game The Agency. In an official statement delivered to Kotaku this afternoon, Sony Online Entertainment outlines the strategic decision that resulted in the…
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It’s Not Every Day You Get To Create A Brand-New Muppet
Creating a brand-new official Muppet character is a task few people in this world have the opportunity to undertake. Double Fine Productions Scott Campbell is one of those people, and this is what his effort has wrought. Once Upon A Monster is the most exciting Sesame Street video game ever created. Using Microsoft’s Kinect camera,…
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BloodRayne Is Back And More Two-Dimensional Than Ever
We’ve still got a day left until April Fools, so we’re going to have to take Majesco seriously when they announce the return of their half-vampire, half-supermodel heroine this summer in the 2D side-scrolling platformer BloodRayne: Betrayal. Why take a franchise that did moderately well as a 3D action-adventure title and transform it into a…
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Deep Space Mystery Solved Using 1970s Computer Graphics Technique
Extra-solar probes Pioneer 10 and 11 have been confusing astrophysicists for the last decade: they’re slowing down a lot more than we’d expected as they’re leaving the solar system. The slowing has become know as the “Pioneer Anomaly.” (But you probably know it by the popular formula, “Ol’ (8.74±1.33)×10^−10 ms^−2”.) Scientists working out of Lisbon…
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Canadian Man Terrorizes Bus With Video Game Controller
A 50-year-old man surrendered to police in Maine this morning, following a nine-hour standoff during which he threatened to blow up a bus using a fake detonator crafted out of a spiral notebook, a video game controller, and duct tape
By Mike Fahey
