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Killing Tasty Animals The Windows Phone 7 Way
After the initial lineup of Xbox Live-ready games for the Windows Phone 7 platform debuted, new releases have slowed to a crawl, and crawling is just want you’ll need to do to score a kill in Deer Hunter 3D. Like many Windows Phone 7 games, Deer Hunter 3D is a port of an older iPhone…
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Rift Combats Massive Player Influx With Massive Server Additions
Response to Trion World’s MMO Rift has been overwhelming, with the 17 servers allocated to North America for last week’s head start blossoming into 39 to combat long login queues. The game launches tomorrow, with more servers on the way. My Dwarven warrior Oprah might be exaggerating a little, but not much. Since the Friday…
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The Bleak Despair Of Abject Poverty In Video Game Form
You’ve lost your job, your house, and your savings are completely gone. Can you survive for a month on $1,000? That’s the challenge put forth in the game Spent. Are you up to it? For many of us, poverty is something that happens to other people. We have comfortable jobs, reliable transportation, good health insurance,…
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Steam Plans To Take Over Your Television
Not content to dominate digital downloads on the Mac and PC, Valve is heading to GDC 2011 with plans for a “big picture” mode, a controller-friendly version of Steam perfect for playing on your big-screen television. Steam is big, but Valve wants it bigger. With the digital download platform’s dominance on the PC growing every…
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Suspect Compares British Shooting Spree To Grand Theft Auto
Qhuram Awan was either an unwilling hostage or a willing accomplice during Raoul Moat’s 2010 crime spree that left one dead and two seriously wounded. Speaking to Newcastle Crown Court, Awan recalls the event was “like a video game.” “It’s all getting too much now. It’s like a cross between GTA and Jason Bourne.” Those…
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Flashback Designer Creates Survival Horror Babysitting Adventure
Paul Cuisset, the man behind the rotoscoped classic Flashback, takes a turn at survival horror with Amy, a tale of post-global warming horror that charges you with protecting one very special little girl. Developed by Cuisset’s VectorCell studio and published by Lexis Numérique for the PlayStation Network, Amy tells the tale of a near-future Earth…
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Now That We’ve Mastered Modern Warfare, Bring On The Swords
In today’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Nameloi craves a game that realistically depicts getting brained with a morningstar. We’ve got modern combat covered, why not medieval combat? She’s even made her own box art. How about a First Person Combat game set in the middle ages? replace assault rifles, bazookas and grenades for…
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The Bit.Trip Saga Reaches Its Final Destination
After five wonderfully retro-tastic installments, the Bit.Trip series comes to a close with the release of Bit.Trip Flux in this week’s edition of the Nintendo Download. CommanderVideo’s final WiiWare adventure is a return to form, in this case, paddle-form. After spending the previous five games steadily evolving, the Commander is back in the ball-bouncing form…
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