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Go Play Games With Earthquakes In Them
October 17 marks the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake — that famous 1989 one that rocked Northern California during an Oakland Athletics/San Francisco Giants game. So all this week, I’m going to try to play games with earthquakes in them. I guess I could widen that to include games with bridge collapses, since part…
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Mass Effect 2 On PS3? Da, Mate! UPDATE
Two non-United States EA sites are listing Mass Effect 2 for the PlayStation 3. UPDATE: Brian Rubin with Fortyseven Communications has confirmed to Kotaku that those listings were “both mistakes, and they’re being corrected.” Sorry, PS3 owners! The first spotting was made by RPG Site on Russia’s EA site. VG247 made a second spotting on…
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Prince Of Persia Creator Talks Film Sequel
At China’s Game Developers Conference, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner talked about the evolution of the series and about the sequel potential for that upcoming Jake Gyllenhaal flick. Gamasutra reports that Mechner sees potential for the film to continue on its own way in sequels that aren’t necessarily bound to any of the Prince…
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You Led Me On! — Dating In Video Games
I peruse columns on Sundays and today found myself cracking up over Emily Short’s GameSetWatch column, ‘Homer In Silicon’: Communicating Character. In it, Short recounts her first brush with Fable II‘s romantic interaction system. She was told non-playable characters would have gifts for her, so she mistook the ring icon above a villager’s head as…
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I Could Car Less
To: Bash From: Owen Re: Tangled Up in Blues After tomorrow my car is officially like Airwolf. No, smarty, Ernest Borgnine is not coming over to ride shotgun. I mean it will be a vehicle whose existence is not acknowledged by the government. That’s thanks to the California DMV. In mid-August, after I moved here,…
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SOE Prez Calls it ‘Planetside Next’ in Blog
Two weeks ago, word spread among Planetside fans that Sony Online Entertainment would be working on another iteration of the popular MMO FPS. Now John Smedley, the SOE president, has called it “Planetside Next” in a LiveJournal entry. To me, Planetside Next means we get a chance to take the essence of everything that was…
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Ten Fingers on Five Frets in Guitar Hero: Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen’s performance of “Eruption” is more impressive. That’s not the question being asked. But this comparison shows the similarity of the finger work in the tapping sections, which speaks well of the design of Guitar Hero: Van Halen. It takes a performer like Danny “GuitarHeroPhenom” Johnson, holder of eight marks in the Guinness…
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“Dead Before Dawn” Mod Guaranteed to Hit on Halloween
News to some, friendly reminder to others, but the Left 4 Dead mod “Dead Before Dawn,” a mall-based homage to “Dawn of the Dead,” is no ordinary mod. Valve sent the makers a soundfile of Francis saying “I hate malls.” Anyway, “Dead Before Dawn” hits on Oct. 31. The modmakers are working feverishly, and promise…
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NES Controller Flash Drive Secured by Konami Code
The list of NES case- and controller-mods we’ve seen covers just about everything imaginable, but Joe from the modder site Proto Dojo goes one better – making a USB drive unlockable by the Konami Code. As Joe and everyone who’s seen this point out, that’s rather like picking 1234 for your ATM PIN. Because the…
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Dropped Connection Sends Starcraft Swede Into Stabby Rage
A balky Internet hookup is said to have triggered a Swedish Starcraft enthusiast’s random knife attack of a 15-year-old girl. According to Sweden’s Metro, the unnamed 18-year-old assailant “became angry when his internet connection wouldn’t work.” He then consulted a troubleshooting manual which apparently told him “grab a knife and go outside, that’ll solve everything.”…
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Week in Games: Amöng Greatness
Uncharted 2 is the glamor pick for this week’s releases; the PS3 exclusive has scored incredibly well in all reviews so far. Brütal Legend is another release bringing high anticipation and expectations, in a week of more than 50 games. Other drops of note: Marion & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, The Witcher: Rise…
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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. • Five Regrettable Music/Video Game Moments [OC Weekly] Really only recently have the duet between games and current, popular music hit their stride. OC Weekly…
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Street Fighter, Rendered in 15 Pixels
What? Don’t tell me you can’t see it, too? The U.K. games festival Gamecity recently commissioned this and two other works – iconic games animated with just 15 pixels. Explains Gamecity: This year we commissioned design collective the Alaskan Military School to produce an animation package to communicate the ethos of the event. We recently…
By Owen Good