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Back On God’s Time
To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Ice Tea In the old days, you had the Saturday newspaper to tell your dumb ass you got an extra hour of sleep during the switch from Daylight Saving time to Standard time. And if you didn’t take the Saturday paper, the Sunday paper said so. And if you…
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Armed Robbers Snatch 100 Copies Of Black Ops In GameStop Heist
Two guys with semiautomatic firearms were hellbent on breaking street for Call of Duty: Black Ops, sticking up a Baltimore-area GameStop and looting it of 100 copies of the game, due out Tuesday. The Harford County, Md. sheriff’s office said the heist happened Saturday evening, and the robbers waited until closing time to hold up…
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The Week In Games: Call of Duty Black Out
Much like Madden’s first Tuesday in August, Call of Duty’s second Tuesday in November is getting to be a gaming holiday. No one’s going up against Activision’s military shooter, which looks to break records set last year. Sunday (Nov. 7) FlingSmash (Wii) Monday (Nov. 8) Gods vs. Humans (WiiWare) Tuesday (Nov. 9) Call of Duty:…
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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. •Top 5 Religions That Would Make Great Video Games [Ranker] This is, essentially, how to make the Top 5 religions (by number of adherents) into…
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Is Kinect Already Hacked?
Judge for yourself. Someone claims to have written a driver for the Kinect’s motor, and he’s extracted a Kinect’s-eye view of what players look like to the device (above). A while back we had a series of monochromatic shots animated together, showing you how the Kinect recognizes players. This gives you a better view of…
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Interactive Comic Will Set Up Mass Effect 2 For PS3 [Update]
Mass Effect 2 is coming to the PS3; Mass Effect 1 is not. As the sequel can account for consequences of choices you made in the original, some were wondering how this will be addressed on the PS3. The answer, according to a BioWare producer in the print edition of the German magazine Play3, is…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Time Travelers Edition
A couple weeks ago, the Internet flipped out when someone thought they found a time traveling woman using a mobile phone in the middle of a Charlie Chaplin silent flick. This is something that made the nightly news. Turns out the large woman so rudely chatting away on her Droid in The Circus, circa 1928,…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Not sure that we should be making Infected jokes where the Columbian Exchange is involved. Blankets anyone? Too soon? It was 500 years ago. p4w4rr10r 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…
By Owen Good
