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Kotaku Off-Topic: Every Kiss Begins with Uranus
You might think you got your girl a nice sized rock when you popped the question, some gas giant at the edge of the solar system just blew the curve for the rest of us guys. Plenty of chatter today about games. Too much, even. Let’s take a break with some officially sanctioned off-topic discussion.…
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Trendy Mario Bros.
Half of this seems about as hamfistedly hip as a Mentos ad, but a team of design students at a Milan university identified five top global trends – guerrilla gardening, couch-surfing, carpooling – and used Mario to illustrate them. I guess by planting trees on the sly you bring a Fiat dealership to town, turn…
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Visit Age Of Conan: Rise Of The Godslayer’s Lovely Chosain Province
New screens for Funcom’s Age of Conan show off the distinctive Asian flair of the Chosain Province, the new area being introduced in the Rise of the Godslayer expansion pack. Going by the screens, the Chosain Province looks to be a bit more vibrant than any of the locations I visited during my time with…
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U.S. Army Trains with “SimCity Bagdad”
Army officers are practicing counterinsurgency strategies for Iraq with using a video game plainly inspired by SimCity. In fact, a frustrated officer unprepared for the fall of Baghdad asked for such a thing by name years ago. UrbanSim is the name of the training program, profiled in an item in the current issue of The…
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Sherlock Holmes Tracks Jack The Ripper To U.S. Xbox 360
JoWooD Entertainment and Dreamcatcher pit the greatest fictional detective of all time against one of the most notorious real-life serial killers in Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper, coming in March to the North American Xbox 360. Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper is the fifth in a series of Holmes adventure titles developed by…
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Unpaid Internet Bill Leads to Game-Blamed Stabbing
Game-blame news from Romania: a 15-year-old boy said to be “dependent” on video games stabbed to death his adoptive mother, after she refused to pay the Internet bill in hopes the disconnection would put an end to his Counter-Strike addiction. In the narrative of the attack the boy, Ionut Savin (pictured), stabbed his mother (on…
By Owen Good