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What Makes a “Real” Sport in an Unreal World?
Twenty years ago I learned how to rename the rosters for Accolade’s Hardball! and rig the players’ performances. Every player would be a 40-40 man, I boasted to Dad. “Not really interested,” he said, “It’s not real baseball.” I thought about that old Commodore 64 game a few weeks ago when a friend told me…
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Weekend Coupons: Early Birds, the Worm and All That
Rise and shine, deal hunters. The full blown autumn retail season is here, and price drops for all consoles are in effect, so we’re not seeing the clearance discounts of late summer. But there still are values to be had. Hardware • You can get an Xbox 360 wireless controller for $29.99 and Viva Piñata:…
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Kotaku Originals: No Show-Stopper
Tokyo Games Show dominated this week but it didn’t account for all the news. Just like this week won’t account for all our TGS coverage. We’ll have plenty more when the team returns to the States. Well, except for Bash. Please do hit that first link to peer at the voluminous report put together by…
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The Gamer’s Girl Gives Dating Advice To Gamers
Last month I blogged about my colleague’s blog, The Gamer’s Girl. At the time, her project was aimed at the girlfriends of gamers, but now it looks like she’s broadened her blogging horizons. This week’s featured article is on how a Gamer can meet a Gamer’s Girl. Magic insight: every girl a gamer meets has…
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TGS Round-Up: Day 3
The 2009 Tokyo Game Show continues into the weekend, but today we’ve got Dead Rising 2, Hideo Kojima, Crackdown 2 multiplayer, and much, much more! Hands-On With Crackdown 2’s Tribes-Like Multiplayer Dead Rising 2: Behold The Rake Shotgun Hands On With Tecmo’s “TPS” Quantum Theory Order Of Importance? Booth Check: Sony’s PlayStation Space Dead Rising…
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New Risen Trailer — We Swear Famous People Are In This Game
You’d think if a developer shelled out to have Andy Serkis and John Rhys-Davies in their voice cast that they’d make use of the heavy-hitters in their trailer. But nope. All you get is some guy saying the name of the game right at the end. I guess that’s why they call it a “teaser”…
By AJ Glasser
