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Need A Sure-Fire First Down in Madden? Try “Cougar Cross” [Update]
The folks at Madden NFL 11 put out a list of all plays run by all of its zillion-plus users so far, sorted by average gain. No. 2 is “Cougar Cross,” which sounds like Rex Ryan’s wife’s best-selling video. In fact, I’m not sure where you find it in the playbook. I’ve never seen it…
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What’s The Poop On Dirty Diapers?
Keeping a dozen cranky infants happy hardly sounds like a fun time in real life; on the iPhone, it’s the premise of Dirty Diapers, a fast-twitch puzzler just released on the App Store. Dirty Diapers is by Streaming Colour studios, which made 2009’s Dapple, a game I still think highly of. In it, 12 babies…
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Are Game Companies Doing Enough To Avoid Funding War In the Congo?
Earlier this year we reported on efforts to urge electronics companies from using conflict materials mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Enough Project has released a report ranking companies’ responses. Where do Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony rank? The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country torn with strife. Since 1998 the Second Congo…
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The PSP2 Is No PlayStation Phone
Should you save up for the rumored PlayStation Phone or the equally rumored PSP2? Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kazuo Hirai manages to calm potential consumer confusion without actually confirming anything. What do we know about the PSP2 so far? According to various sources from throughout the gaming industry, it’s a powerful little machine that houses…
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It Takes A Wizard To Steal $45,000 Worth Of Magic Cards
A former Wizards of the Coast employee from Burien, Washington stands to lose a lot more than his job as King County prosecutors file felony theft charges over the theft of $45,000 worth of rare Magic: The Gathering cards. Twenty-six-year-old Donald J. Henry has been accused of the massive theft after a fellow employee observed…
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New Technology Could Revolutionize the Search For Internet Porn
When you search for “work related” videos on the internet, the results are normally limited to the title or tag given to any uploaded clip. What if computers could recognize specific human interactions? Would they get embarrassed? A new method developed by an Oxford University team including Alonso Patron-Perez, Dr. Ian Reid, Dr. Marcin Marszalek,…
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Do Video Games Really Need To Be Immersive?
Do we need to be drawn into our games, or can we just play and enjoy? That’s the question pondered by commenter RAMeyer19 in today’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku. Why in video games is “immersion” so often quoted as an important factor that a game has or lacks? Can I not love playing Pac-Man…
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This Classic RPG Series Revels In Its Hair Metal Roots
In 1987 Japanese developer Falcom released a role-playing game so metal it needed its own in-house band to create the soundtrack. This February XSEED celebrates with the Ys I & II Chronicles Hair Metal Pack for the PSP. Ys I & II Chronicles is a re-imagining of the first two games in the oft-mispronounced Ys…
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Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Whips Up A Double Dose Of DLC
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow left many unanswered questions lingering after the credits rolled, and Konami plans on answering them with a double dose of downloadable content coming next year to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The ending to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was…let’s just say it was interesting and leave it at that. Hopefully…
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Dungeons & Dragons Does Digital Download With Daggerdale
The battle for the Forgotten Realms goes digital with Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale, a downloadable multiplayer dungeon crawler coming to Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC this Spring from Atari and Bedlam Games. Dungeons & Dragons Online is lovely, but I’ve always had a different vision for an online version of Dungeons &…
By Mike Fahey
