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Command & Conquer Reborn Under The Flag Of Victory
The brief appearance of a staging site for the new home of Command & Conquer on the web revealed that the beloved real-time strategy franchise will be born again under a brand-new EA development studio, Jon Van Caneghem’s Victory Games. While the current Command & Conquer homepage is still online and fully-functional, a new site…
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Driving A Car Using The Power Of Your Mind
German engineers have rigged up a Volkswagen Passat so it maneuvers using only the driver’s mental directions. This technology could lead to a new age in which people actually use their brains while driving. The technology Autonomos Labs uses to mind control the modified Volkswagen Passat Variant 3c should be quite familiar to long-time Kotaku…
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Mexican State Calls For A Ban On Call Of Juarez: The Cartel
After officials in El Paso, Texas, made their discomfort over Call of Juarez: The Cartel last week, the Mexican state of Chihuahua is asking Federal authorities for an outright ban on the video game that hits too close to home. The Mexican state of Chihuahua is home to the city of Ciudad Juarez, a city…
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Killzone 3’s Engineer Is The Ultimate Team Player
In the first of a series of videos covering Killzone 3’s multiplayer professions, Guerrilla Games multiplayer designer Dan Nanni discusses the engineer, the game’s turret-building support class. Whenever I see any form of the word ‘engineering’ associated with a video game character class, ‘complicated’ is generally the next word that pops into my head. From…
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Skyrim Developer Wants Your Babies To Be Dragonborn
You may love Bethesda Softworks’ Elder Scrolls series, but do you love it enough to conceive a child and name it after the protagonist of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? What if a mystery prize is involved? Bethesda’s Pete Hines calculated that February 18 was the perfect day for conceiving a baby that would be…
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Driving a video game Porsche on the Nürburgring versus the real thing
Every gamer who’s ever lapped a track in Forza or Gran Turismo has wondered how the real track would compare. Driver Brian Maerske got the chance to compare the games to a live run on the world’s toughest racetrack. [Jalopnik]
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An Elegant Video Hate Letter To The Makers Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Kotaku commenter Goldwings is having problems connecting to mutliplayer games in Call of Duty: Black Ops for the PlayStation 3, so he voices his displeasure in video form in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. My internet is fine Treyarch, so stop telling me that’s the reason why I can’t go online and play some games with…
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The Nintendo Download Is On Fire This Week
WiiWare really heats up in this week’s Nintendo Download with Cozy Fire, a fireplace simulator with six – count ’em – six different fireplaces to choose from. Yeah, it’s that kind of week. Perhaps Nintendo and dtp young entertainment are celebrating President’s Day by releasing Cozy Fireplace. After all, President’s Lincoln and Washington surely spent…
By Mike Fahey
