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An MMA Challenger Walks The Line Of Violence — And Reality
Supremacy MMA touts a motto of “unlicensed, unrestricted and uncompromising,” meaning brutal combat and graphic content is part of the game’s no-holds barred presentation. But with gameplay rooted more in arcade fighters than sports, should it also add “unrealistic”? Supremacy MMA, under development by Kung Fu Factory and due in late spring, volunteers that its…
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For Electronic Arts, It Means ‘Mothers I’d Like to Frighten’
A Dead Space 2 viral campaign launching this weekend took plenty of chutzpah, I’ll give it that. Electronic Arts brought in 200 middle-aged mothers under the auspices of a focus group looking at a new game. They were, aptly, horrified. Four videos that released yesterday show moms walking into a conference room where they’re greeted…
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Kinect Boxing Match Ends In Tactical Knock-Out
In Sweden, a team of cops stormed a couple’s home after a neighbor reported that five people were beating the crap out of a woman. Turns out they were all playing boxing on Kinect Sports. At least I hope that’s what Robert Johansson and his five friends were playing; otherwise they should have been arrested…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Facebook Games From Hell
It’s pretty clear, whenever we write about them, that many of you don’t care for Facebook games, certainly some of the more popular ones. Today’s your chance for revenge. Our mission today: Create your worst Facebook game imaginable. The sky is the limit, but I want to see total caricatures. At their worst, Facebook games…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is Kotaku’s official forum for you to talk about video games. This paragraph also is a palindrome. Emordnilap a si osla hpargarap siht. Semag oediv tuoba klat ot uoy rof murof laiciffo sukatok si siht. I didn’t say it was a palindrome composed of more than 50 percent actual words. Hisilarn is the weekend…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Backstage at Nintendo World Winners
Our efforts to meme-ify a moment from the big 3DS public event in Japan last weekend bore prodigious fruit – more than 600 entries. But we still haven’t answered who that guy was. First, the inevitables Andy Bane (5) gives us Antoine Dodson, Berd (7) and Zigzagoon (20) gave us good treatments of Team Fortress…
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Belgian Postage Stamps Honor — New Super Mario Bros. Wii?
bpost, the postal service of Belgium, will put stamps featuring New Super Mario Bros. Wii on sale beginning Monday. Looks like it offers Mario with three different powerups, plus Yoshi. A sheet is €4,99. [via Polygonal Lawn, thanks Philip]
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Fight In The Shade Of 600 Arrows Launched By This Minecraft Contraption
Wait, we forgot to mention those arrows are on fire. Minecraft user ScottyDoesKnow built this dispenser array as a monument to overkill. The framerate only slows down when it shoots eggs. Or eggs and arrows. [thanks Trakata for the tip.]
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Boxing Is The Past; Long Live Boxing
Two years ago, EA Sports president Peter Moore called boxing “the past of fighting.” Mixed martial arts was the future, with his company hard at work on that game. Thursday, Moore wrote, “let me be clear, boxing’s not dead.” Moore also acknowledged the sport “clearly is not the cultural fixture it once was,” and is…
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Kinect-Controlled Gundam Mech Stands On Its Own One Foot
In the evolution of Kinect-controlled robotics, we’ve gone from a Roomba in November, to a robot moving its arms in December, now to one that may stand on one foot. We should be slaves to our robot overlords by May. This is a Kinect-controlled V-Sido humanoid robot, dressed to resemble a Gundam mech. Sort of…
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Can Sports Close Facebook Gaming’s Credibility Gap?
The coda for Facebook games, among serious gamers anyway, normally begins with a sneer at the idea and then an accounting of all the ways it’s not a video game. Would a sports title make any difference? Probably not. Well, not right now, anyway. Earlier this week PGA Tour Golf Challenge went live on the…
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Minecraft And Team Fortress 2 Is Like Comparing Weapons And Cows
Tuesday, a reader compared Minecraft and Farmville. Heresy! Would Team Fortress 2 be more apt? Both involve crafting, but where five cows equal one hat in Minecraft, the cost is more ridiculous in TF2. Very large infographic, by SplitScreen, inside. Minecraft vs. Team Fortress 2 [Split-Screen; higher-quality .png available there.]
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Box Scores: Beast Mode
Everyone saw Marshawn Lynch go 67 yards through the entire New Orleans defense to put away the Saints on Saturday. No more than 12 hours later, JuGGerNaut6372 performed his salute to Beast Mode with this run in Madden NFL 11. That’s the Raida Organization’s Brandon Myers on a 60-yard catch-and-run in the fourth quarter against…
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong With This Glasses-Free 3D Solution …
This video is comprised of: English in a French accent, 38 seconds; what the hell is he putting on his face, 22 seconds; and HOLY GOD STOP DOING THAT TO YOUR EYES, 55 seconds. François Vogel, an innovative filmmaker and visual artist, here demonstrates why you should never complain about 3D glasses again. Interesting, definitely…
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