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Baseball Rivals Play Dueling Cameras [Updated]
Kotaku may have kicked off a fad last year, with our post on how to make your video game baseball presentation conform to real life broadcasting angles. MLB 2K11 directly cited the work as an inspiration behind its new broadcast presentation. MLB 11 The Show was assuredly thinking the same thing when it introduced realistic…
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Seized European PlayStation 3 Systems To Be Released Into The Wild
While the Blu-ray patent infringement lawsuit between electronics manufacturer LG and Sony rages on, a court decision in the Netherlands has halted the confiscation of PlayStation 3 systems entering Europe, with the more than 300,000 units already seized ordered returned. The confiscations began last month, when a civil court in The Hague, Netherlands ordered a…
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Microsoft Invalidates Stolen Point Codes, Considers Punishment For Exploiters
An algorithm that allowed the generation of working Microsoft point codes resulted in the unauthorized acquisition of what some claim could be as high as $1.2 million in virtual currency. Microsoft tells Kotaku that they looking into punishing those that took advantage. Microsoft points might not be real money but they are purchased with real…
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Want To See What A Hacking Attempt Looks Like?
Contrary to 1995 movie Hackers, breaking into a computer system does not involve colorful cartoon characters. The act can be accurately represented visually, however, as proven in this excellent video created by Ben Reardon of Dataviz Australia. Reardon’s visualization transforms the act of hacking a voice over IP server into a strategic dance. The hacker…
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The Secret World Takes You On A Terrifying Trip Around The Globe
Funcom takes us from New York to Egypt to do battle with everything from demons to dinosaurs in the epic Game Developers Conference trailer for its upcoming modern day supernatural MMO. In The Secret World Earth is Funcom’s playground. Setting a massively multiplayer online game on a modern day version of our own planet gives…
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Lightning Strikes In Dissidia Duodecim‘s Downloadable Prologue
Final Fantasy stars battle once more when Dissidia Duodecim hits the PSP on March 22, but first Final Fantasy XIII’s Lightning strikes out on her own in Dissidia Duodecim Prologus, the downloadable prologue that brings Aerith back to life, kinda. Pink-haired powerhouse Lightning makes her Dissidia debut on March 15, when Square Enix releases Prologus…
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Xbox Live Labs Exchanges Your Time And Bandwidth For Avatar Goodies
Microsoft wants to enlist your help in testing the Xbox Live network, rewarding volunteers willing to donate up to six hours of Xbox 360 time with crazy mad scientist goodies once the testing’s done. Here’s how to participate. Xbox Live Labs is really a brilliant idea. Microsoft needs to test its network, so why not…
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Updating Kills The Joy Of Broken Games
Remember back when broken console games stayed broken? Commenter Don’t forget to bring a towel! does, pining for the pre-update era in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. Enough updating. It seems nearly every game I play these days requires lengthy updates every other time I play them. The frequency of being updated is so absurd that…
By Mike Fahey
