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Welcome to the New and Improved Kotaku Off-Kilter
Welcome to the all-new, all-different Kotaku Off-Kilter! We’ve completely overhauled the format thanks to a new technique called “trimming the block by a half-hour”. So get ready for 90 minutes of humor in 60 minutes flat. Innovation!
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UncategorizedYou Can Only Play Starhawk On PS3, But You Can Look at Your Leaderboards Anywhere
Some games stay with you even when you’re not playing them. Sometimes, you get so deeply into a game that you need to bring it with you on the go. You need to keep up with everything that’s going on, and even looking over stats or reading through the game’s encyclopedia makes that time spent…
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The Breast Cancer Battle is a Boon to Pink Peripheral Lovers
In 2007 my older sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. She went through hell fighting against the malignant neoplasm — radiation, chemotherapy, a mastectomy, follow-up surgeries and reconstruction. She won her battle eventually, but the process was painful for the entire family. It’s safe to say I hate breast cancer. I am, however, a big…
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How 22 Cans, and Other Experiments, Really Can Change Gaming Forever
Over the decades and centuries, many conventions we now take for granted in film, literature, photography, and so on first came from independent, experimental artists. It has seemed like common sense, then, to assume that the next best innovations in gaming would come from a vibrant indie scene, and from gaming developing a true avant-garde.…
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Australia’s Long Struggle for Mature Video Game Ratings is Over
Legislation passed in Australia’s Federal Parliament adds a R18+ rating for video games on January 1, 2013, ending years of mature games being censored, banned, or simply unreleased due to lack of age-appropriate classification. [News.com.au]
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UncategorizedMaster Chief Needs Groceries, Too, You Know
What, you think he doesn’t eat? When Master Chief is back home, propping his feet up on his coffee table and playing rounds of Halo, he needs to munch on some Doritos, too. Master Chief IRL: The Grocery Store [YouTube via Reddit]
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Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM Might Be the Best Incarnation of the Card Game I’ve Played
What has always fascinated me about the colorful kid-focused card game Yu-Gi-Oh! has been the way the card statistics morph with each new skill and spell introduced to the play field. Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM captures the essence of that numerical dance in a fast paced Facebook game. Frima Studio has taken the traditional five-card-wide Yu-Gi-Oh! playing…
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Rich Chinese Man Shows Off At Train Station with Video Games
A few days ago an unidentified Chinese man was spotted sitting on a suitcase at Beijing West Railway Station. Unlike most people at Beijing West Station, commonly known as Beijing West, the young man wasn’t interested in purchasing a train ticket or even waiting for a train, instead he was interested in one thing, hooking…
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