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No Less of a Memory — The Human Drama of Video Game Sports
Some video game sports moments are so indelible we remember and narrate them the same way we do the ones from real life. I’m not saying we confuse the realities, necessarily, although anyone who’s completed his third season of a dynasty in any simulation can be forgiven for wandering into an alternate reality. “My star…
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Weekend Coupons: Home Stretch
This Friday won’t be the death of Internet specials, but you can bet retailers with a physical location will be trying to drag you in there for values, rather than ship ’em to your door. Online shops will be trying to keep up, too, but come Nov. 27, everyone’s gonna try to make both their…
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once you get it to work right 1. delete app 2. deactivate video/comic playback 3. download comics(there are four of them) EC2N-9HBR-HJD6 63N8-R2BF-9E4D FF3N-H7B6-M2JF 4. redownload app & reactivate video/comic playback after those steps the app actually works very nicely. but its just a hastle to get it to work correctly
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Kotaku Originals: Review to a Thrill
The releases of Assassin’s Creed II and Left 4 Dead 2 dominated this week’s news cycle, with McWhertor and Totilo supplying immediate reviews of what both offer. The end of Pandemic, as a studio anyway, was the big headline. Kotaku Talk Radio Top Stories Confirmed: EA Closes Pandemic Studios, Says Brand Will Live On Rumor:…
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The Life and Times of Luigi
If you ever wanted to know why Luigi is thinner than Mario or how he bears living in the shadow of his older brother, this exhaustively researched article over on GamesRadar’s got you covered. “Luigi: A life in the shadows” cover the other brother’s origins from palette swap to star of his own (two) video…
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Valve Bans Gray-Market Modern Warfare 2 Keys
Some who bought CD keys for Modern Warfare 2 – no physicial media in other words – from import resellers have seen their access to the game vanish, as Activision has apparently asked Valve to ban such keys. A poster in Valve’s official forums complained that a key he bought through G2Play.net no longer lets…
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Child’s Play Drivers Pile Back on the Bus
Take a seat and don’t stand forward of the yellow line – Desert Bus for Hope kicked off its third marathon o’ masochism, and looks to top the $70,000 it raised last year for the Child’s Play charity. Online sketch comedy team LoadingReadyRun is back behind the wheel, promising to play the most boring video…
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Snow Temple Preview: Ditching Zelda
Two of the major selling points for The Legend of Zelda: Spirits Tracks have been the train and the addition of Zelda to Link as a companion character. But what can you expect from the rest of the game? I sat down at Nintendo’s Redwood City office to get a good look at the single-player…
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Gameloft Cuts Android Efforts, Says It’s Not Alone
The French mobile games developer Gameloft has scaled back its development on Google’s Android platform, complaining that the Android application store is “not as neatly done” and offers little enticement to buy games offered there. This is interesting because, as MacWorld points out, smaller developers had welcomed Android as an alternative to the sometimes inscrutable…
By Owen Good