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The Last Thing I Want to Do is Push This Button
This week Zynga released its The Sims Social clone The Ville on Facebook. This morning I started up the game with the intention of doing some quick impressions. I logged into Facebook, got to the character creation screen… …and I sat there for nearly ten minutes, my mouse hovering over “Save and Exit”. I could…
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Here’s How You Can Play Roger Ebert’s Favorite Video Game
A few days back, I posted a video essay asserting the merits of an obscure adventure game called Cosmology of Kyoto, a game that film critic Roger Ebert reviewed for Wired in 1994. See, the old Mac version is busted, and even the Windows version can be a pain to get to run, mainly because…
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The Most Magical Gathering of Gaming Apps Ever Assembled
After years of smaller collectible card game publishers porting their decks to iOS and Android devices, enjoying a relatively Wizard-free reign, Magic: The Gathering swoops in and plucks mobile victory from their hands. On the bright side, we’ve got a game called Velocirapture. Velocirapture! I’m taking a few days off early next week to spend…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
That’s a Mighty Big Box for a Mighty Small Memory Card
Video games and the consoles we play them on may use a significant amount of materials. But even when going digital, it seems we can’t get away from the waste. Reddit user firstmarker ordered a PS Vita memory card. The Vita is a handheld. Memory cards for it are not large. And little tiny memory…
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UncategorizedI Wish I Had Infinite Cabbages That Replenish My Health
A lot of these Skyrim jokes have been done before: the ridiculous ease with which you can steal from a shopkeeper right under his nose, something about arrows and knees, etc. But imagining a warrior slink down on a tree trunk to gobble up randomly produced cabbages for health is too funny to pass up.…
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Vote For Your Favorite Comment Right Here
Hello Kotaku, and welcome to the thread where you pass judgment on the heads of your fellow readers. Drop a link to the comment you liked from this week down in the new discussion system below. Vote the ones you like up, and I’ll pick from popular selections for this week’s Best of Kotaku Normal…
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UncategorizedWatch What Could Happen if Real Life had DLC
What if real life had DLC? That’s one question this video attempts to answer. But the better question, really, is: How cool would it be to go stand in a field and be able to fight like Batman? Pretty cool. This is a great recreation of the camerawork and action we all know from inside…
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UncategorizedFlinging Cute Fuzzy Things to Their Doom is Kind of More Fun than Rescuing Them
I spent a not-insignificant amount of time in middle school and early in high school playing Lemmings games with my friend who lived next door. It was, of course, satisfying to guide the mindless little morons through perils to safety. And it was more satisfying still to misplace a beam intentionally and watch them all…
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