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Here’s an iPad Game Running on a 50-inch HDTV
Infinity Blade, for the iPhone and iPad, has won strong praise as an uncommonly good mobile title with impressive visuals and console-style gameplay. To really gain an appreciation of it, you should see it on a 50-inch HDTV. An iPad 2 will let you do that, outputting to an HDTV with an HDMI adapter for…
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Chinatown Fair’s Spiritual Descendant Will be a Different Type of Arcade
The beloved New York City arcade Chinatown Fair closed last month after three decades; its owner, Henry Cen, will open a new arcade, but it will be in a different location, with a different focus, and evidently with fewer games. The New York Times, in a profile in today’s edition, says Cen will open “Next…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Milo Edition
This week’s challenge is another no-brainer. Develop unearthed some storyboards for Milo, the presumed-dead game by Lionhead Studios that was one of the first proofs of concept for what is now known as Kinect. Now, we value good games development and are very respectful of others’ property, always. But not when we’ve got our mitts…
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Power Concerns After Japan Quake Take Down Multiplayer Servers [Updated]
At 6 p.m. EST/3 p.m. PST, servers for Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI will be taken offline for at least one week as Square-Enix cooperates with a Japanese power company’s request to conserve power while it restores services severely damaged by Thursday’s monster earthquake. [Update] Servers for Metal Gear Online also have been…
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The iPad 2: Gizmodo‘s Complete Coverage
The iPad 2 is here. And yeah, it’s pretty great. Despite the early looks, we’re still finding surprises. Like? The screen is definitely better than the original iPad’s. That’s just the beginning. Here’s Gizmodo‘s ongoing iPad 2 coverage, from speedtests and graphics battles versus the original iPad to essential apps (and app deals), a possible…
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Pokémon Company Squashes Twitter Rumor of Creator’s Death [Update]
A spokesman for the Pokémon Company said all employees, including Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri, are alive and safe following Thursday’s tremendous earthquake in Japan, specifically rebutting a widespread rumor that Tajiri had died in the disaster. “False. Everyone at the Pokemon Company and Gamefreak is fine,” spokesman J.C. Smith told Kotaku. He said that power…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to Kotaku’s Official Forum. Feel free to talk about anything on your minds, but make it fast. We’ve got one less hour in the day thanks to daylight saving time today. Today’s image is by pistelho. Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: History’s Greatest Villains Winners
Last week, we asked you to take some of the most revered, most admired and least threatening figures of history and swap them out for the most dreadful and frightening adversaries in video games – as if John Adams were, for example, a Triceratops. Here’s what we got. Krakenstein (12), who inspired our contest, added…
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Resistance, Ratchet & Clank Creators Push Into Facebook with Insomniac Click
Insomniac Games, the makers of the Resistance and Ratchet and Clank series, will push into mobile and Web-based games development with a new division – Insomniac Click – that the studio unveiled on Saturday. Going public with their plans at a social gaming panel at the South by Southwest interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Insomniac…
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Nickels, Dimes, Pennants, Pennies or Points, Sports Gamers Still Get Value
>It didn’t take long after MLB 11 The Show’s release for everyone to notice its microtransactions menu and give it a good public flogging. While I don’t claim that these things are in anyone’s interest other than the publisher’s, gamers do a fantastic job of making this out to be a more odious threat than…
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Here’s One Tricked-Out Ride on Shift 2 Unleashed
Here’s Shift 2: Unleashed being played at PAX East on three extremely large television screens, shot by our man there, Stephen Totilo. It’s video-of-video, but this setup definitely amplifies the thrill-ride sense of speed and motion delivered through driving the game in its default in-car camera view. The flag drops on Shift 2 Unleashed on…
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New Settings Highlight The Show‘s Good Cause
MLB 11 The Show arrived on Tuesday, bringing with it a set of controls and options designed to include disabled gamers. The association for these gamers, begun by a 25-year-old college student, also launched on Tuesday and gets a plug from the PS3 game. The Association for Disabled Virtual Athletes is the brainchild of Hans…
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Stop What You Are Doing and Watch This My Little Pony Video Right Now
Proving that My Little Pony makes everything hilarious and StarCraft II makes everything awesome – at the same time – is this fantastic two-minute mashup that is simply not to be missed. YouTube’s StubbornlyObsolete put this together using the audio from StarCraft II’s cinematic launch trailer and video from seventeen goddamn episodes of “My Little…
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UFC Takeover of Strikeforce Could KO EA Sports MMA After One Round
Zuffa llc, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has bought out mixed martial arts’ second largest promotion, Strikeforce. The acquisition could mean only one MMA video game going forward. Last year’s EA Sports MMA was licensed by Strikeforce, using its rules, many of its fighters, and venues where major Strikeforce cards have been…
By Owen Good
