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March Badness
A Lot to Handle | The first weekend of the NCAA Tournament is widely recognized as the busiest four-day stretch of gambling in Las Vegas. After an upset-filled Thursday, the tournament played out its first two rounds more conventionally. (File photo: Getty Images) Here’s Kinect – Working on a PS3 (And Playing Killzone 3) This…
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Here’s Kinect — Working on a PS3 (And Playing Killzone 3)
This genie of Kinect modification is never going back in the bottle. Now a modder has figured out a way to get the Microsoft device to work with a PlayStation 3. This is Shantanu Goel, and his code is in a pre-alpha state, but you can see him navigating the Xross Media Bar, starting Killzone…
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Confidence of Crysis
Crysis 2’s arrival is the console highlight of the week. A raft of games in preparation for the Nintendo 3DS’s North American release next Sunday also start hitting retail shelves. Tuesday (March 22) Crysis 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) – Crytek’s futuristic shooter comes to the urban jungle of New York City. You’ll use the…
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Hitman Viral Campaign Ends, Points to E3 Reveal
An alternate-reality game run for Hitman enthusiasts by the developing studio’s community manager has evidently come to a close, with a series of barcode-clues seeming to point to the first day of E3 2011. That would likely mean a reveal of a long-awaited Hitman 5 then. The windup of this particular game of cat and…
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Top 5 of 10: A Great Starting Lineup
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The Best First Levels in Video Games [UGO] As a serial restarter, this is a list I can get behind. Uncharted 2’s opener was a…
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Minecraft Creator Already Working on Achievements; but First, Wolves
Minecraft’s creator revealed on Friday that he’s working on an achievement system for the PC gaming obsession. He didn’t specify when that will be implemented, but he did say something new’s coming in the game’s next update: Wolves. Wolves will be a new mob within the game, Markus “Notch” Persson said. “You can tame it…
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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery to Release This Week on iPad
People left GDC 2010 raving about Sword & Sworcery for the iPhone and iPad, but the game’s late 2010 release didn’t materialize as expected. Your wait is over. The game’s developer tweeted early this morning that Apple has approved the game and it is set for release this week on the iPad, the iPhone and…
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Everyone Wins This Dueling Post-It Art Contest
Yeah, yeah, I know. Post-Its as the pixels in an old-school sprite mosaic, that has been done, and overdone, before. I don’t know if I’ve seen it done this well, or this comprehensively. A Seattle-area office building complex, which includes Expedia as a tenant, has been locked in a kind of Post-It art competition that…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Blizzard Hits the Street
This week we’ll move to a single exploitable image. On March 8, Blizzard’s co-founders got to play a little StarCraft II on the NASDAQ’s big screen before ringing its closing bell, as part of the publisher’s 20th anniversary celebration. But we all know they secretly run our financial system. I don’t have the best ‘shop…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
The weekend may be coming to a close, but Weekend TAY is right around the corner. This corner. What’s on your mind? Feel free to talk about it here, amongst yourselves. Today’s image comes from Prof.Gast. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Milo Edition Winners
A cache of storyboards for the abandoned game “Milo,” which was supposed to have been a Kinect title about a little boy’s adventures, provided the grist for last week’s ‘Shop Contest. We’ve got 20 winners for you, hot and fresh! billysan (3) turned in a brilliantly subtle play on Milo’s shadow. SecretMoblin (17) made a…
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Is This Studying Hate Speech, or Just Intellectualized Trolling?
GAMBIT, the video games research center at MIT, is investigating racism and hate speech in online multiplayer gaming. The results are not particularly surprising, but I’ll confess to a morbid curiosity as to what a gamer would hear playing Halo: Reach under the gamertag PROUD_2B_MUSLIM, GayPride90 or Black_N_Proud90. It, and the language in this video,…
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Multiplayer Silent Hill Rumors Shot Down [Update]
The producer of Silent Hill: Downpour shot down a rumor that a separate multiplayer version for the game would be published over Xbox Live. The rumor appeared in an Italian-language magazine’s interview with the game’s art director. Devin Shatsky told Hell Descent the remarks were either out of context or lost in translation. Shatsky said…
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Taking a Punch Like a Man — Just Not From One
Felice Herrig has taken a punch from a man before. Many. She’s also hit back. Hard. She’s a mixed martial arts fighter, in a comparatively small population of women professionals, and, like it or not, in many gyms her only sparring partners are men. “Some guys go way too light on me, like they don’t…
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3DS StreetPass Groups Forming to Play Together Outside
Street Pass is the new, always-on wireless connection for the Nintendo 3DS through which multiplayer gaming is possible. The idea is, a couple of perfect strangers, both with 3DSes, will be buzzed when they’re near each other, inviting them to connect. A 3DS StreetPass group is forming, a week before the device’s release, to take…
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