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A Behavioral Analysis of the Pac-Man Ghosts
There a well known, long-established patterns for beating Pac-Man’s mazes, up until the ninth Key, as Buckner & Garcia sang. Still, Pac’s adversaries exhibit behavior that, if not exactly tactical, is still complex. Chad Birch, a researcher from Calgary, writes Game Internals, which “aims to spread knowledge of interesting game mechanics beyond the game-specific enthusiast…
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The Week In Games: Cataclysmic Ending
Everything arrives Tuesday in the final week of 2010 to see multiple major releases. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm leads the roster, joined by Tron: Evolution and Bejeweled 3 as notable drops. Tuesday (Dec. 7) World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (PC) – The third expansion to the genre-dominating MMO raises the level cap to 85, introduces two…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The 11 Most Racist Video Games [UGO] No, Resident Evil 5 is not on this list. But yes, Scribblenauts is … and what would be…
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Pre-Order Fight Night, Get George Foreman As A Lean Mean Machine
Pre-order bonuses are circulating for Fight Night Champion, due March 1. Get it through Amazon and you’ll be given a code that unlocks young George Foreman, back when he had a bigger afro and smaller moobs. He also fights better. Young George will have a power and speed boost commensurate to that of a young…
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What You Might Have Seen In Gran Turismo 5 If You Weren’t Going So Darn Fast
A Yakuza 3 ad, an Engrish restaurant sign and … George Clooney? Gran Turismo 5 is an amazingly detailed game, though some of that detail on its Tokyo race course is a bit strange. Reader Dean A. sent these in. Loads more images can be found here.
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Report: Australia’s Government Backs Adults-Only Games Classification [Corrected]
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Australia’s Labor government will support the creation of an adults-only classification for video games there. A decision on backing a new rating, called R18+, is expected Friday at a meeting of Australia’s attorneys general. Currently, the most “mature” rating that the Australian Classification Board may give a game is…
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One Arrest, $500,000 Recovered From Canadian PS3 Heist
Remember in the middle of last month someone jacked two trailers outside of Toronto and made off with $1 million in PlayStation 3 and PSP merch? Cops have made an arrest and recovered half the stolen property. It’s not known if the suspect, a 39-year-old man, is the person who actually stole the goods or…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Work Stoppage
Air traffic controllers in Spain went on a wildcat strike Friday, causing a national state of alarm there. Italian footballers will strike on Dec. 11 and 12. Two American sports leagues have unhappy unions and owners. Should any or all of these strike, well, we can still play FIFA, or NBA 2K, or even Flight…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
See, by pretending to give you permission to talk about video games, I give myself the illusion of authority over your conversation. OrbitofGlass is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just shop up this image and submit it to the #taypics hashtag. Confused…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: GT5 WTF Winners
Widely praised for its exacting standards of realism, our most recent ‘Shop Contest took Gran Turismo to the opposite extreme, with extremely hilarious results. The task: Create a panorama in which Gran Turismo 5’s cars would be indistinguishable from real autos or, conversely, where other cars would be noticeably out of place. The latter was…
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Red Faction SyFy Movie Releasing May, Not March
The Red Faction movie to air on SyFy will begin shooting in January and air in May, concurrent with the release of Red Faction: Armageddon, says the publisher. THQ’s Danny Bilson, the company’s president for core games publishing spread the word over his Twitter account The one-shot TV movie, originally scheduled to air in March,…
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Scads Of Gameplay In This Bionic Commando 2: Rearmed Video
Gametrailers got a three-minute look at Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2 due early next year from Capcom. Packed with gameplay, fans should get a good idea of the game’s innovative new features which, of course, include jumping. Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2 will release sometime before the end of march on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live…
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End Of The Line For Marvel Ultimate Alliance DLC [Corrected]
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2’s Character & Sim Mission Pack, which returned in July after being taken off both console download services for six months, is going, going gone once again. The DLC’s getting yanked at the end of the year. Activision’s social media manager tweeted the news that it’s gone once the Big Ball drops…
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The Sports Video Games Of The Year
Sports games are sometimes perceived as an outlier to the rest of the hardcore video gaming community. Still, an uncommon diversity of their offerings supports a class of awards unique to the genre. These are Stick Jockey’s Sports Video Games of the Year. This year’s list added honorable mentions for some categories. Akin to a…
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Get A New Angry Birds Level Every Day Until Christmas
Angry Birds Halloween has morphed to a new holidays-themed offering – Angry Birds Seasons – whose latest pack unlocks a new level every day until Christmas, Advent-calendar style. Seasons, which includes the original Angry Birds Halloween and its 45 levels, is still a buck for the iPhone and free (but ad-supported) on the Android. The…
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Survey Solicits What You’d Like To See In Assassin’s Creed 3
Ubisoft is considering cooperative online multiplayer, a crafting system for bombs, and improved Eagle Vision in the next Assassin’s Creed sequel, according to a U.K. marketing survey currently being taken. The survey, I suppose, stands as some confirmation of a sequel to Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. Ubisoft’s CEO has said there will be “something around Assassin’s”…
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Box Scores: A Bitter Beginning, But Not The End
If ever there was a time where dashboard-quitting a multiplayer game would be justified, it would be fumbling your first three kickoff returns in Madden NFL 11. Reader Pd771 stuck with it though, pulling off a righteously satisfying comeback. Picking the Packers right after their agonizing loss to the Falcons on Sunday, Pd771 saw no…
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