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Five Mobile Games Combine to Form Week in Gaming Appicus
Any one of this week’s Gaming Apps of the Day could easily crush you beneath their heavy metal feet. When all five of them join together, however, they’re one giant pissed-off strategic defense robot that’s got the Empire State in its sights. Will anyone survive? Worry not, fair citizens; the only thing this week’s apps…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
World of Warcraft is Good for Grandparents’ Brains
For many years, researchers have conducted various studies on the effects games and play can have on the aging brain. Games specifically designed to enhance certain kinds of thinking, like Brain Age, may or may not always have the intended effect. However, a team of researchers have found that perhaps mainstream games, not expressly designed…
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Is Mass Effect 3‘s Controversial DLC Your Fault?
Games are a passion and a hobby for millions of players worldwide. As is clear from even the most cursory glance at the comments on any post here at Kotaku, gamers feel very strongly about their content and its makers. They are also a business. An exceptionally large, very valuable business. The most recent ESA…
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UncategorizedWTPT: BioWare Fan Throws a Fit Over Mass Effect 3 DLC
A portion of the gaming community hasn’t taken news of the day one DLC, From Ashes, for Mass Effect 3 lightly. Amongst them is Francis, who you may know from his many YouTube videos, rants and other oddities. He is not pleased with having to pay more for a complete game. IT’S 10 AMERICAN DOLLARS,…
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UncategorizedPuzzling Choices—Both Good and Bad—Define Furmins
Having seen enough of physics puzzles scored on one-to-three star scales, Furmins was going to have to show me something enjoyably different to get a nod in my App of the Day writeup. It did, but this game, by Housemarque, brings another unnecessary problem on itself in how it gets you to pay for it…
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UncategorizedPrincess Peach Does One Amazing Lana Del Rey Impression
With retooled lyrics, some sweet costumes, and a heavy application of lip makeup, the magical Jenny Bede transforms Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” into a tale of video gaming’s most heartbreaking love triangle. Sorry, Miss Del Rey, but if you’re going to name a song “Video Games” this sort of thing is bound to happen.…
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Killzone 3 Multiplayer Coming Free to a PlayStation Near You
This week, Sony announced a new experiment in free-to-play gaming coming to the Playstation Network, in their most recent Blogcast podcast Killzone 3 Multiplayer will be available on PSN next week. This edition of the shooter spins off the multiplayer part of the game as a separate entity from the single-player campaign, bringing all of…
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Next Week’s Rock Band Wonders: Do You Like Huey Lewis and the News?
Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in ’83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Why Do Text-Heavy Games Make Reading So Painful?
In today’s short-but-sweet installment of Read Up on Kotaku, commenter RevRain wonders why developers spend days filling their games with tomes of ancient lore without putting nearly as much effort into delivering a pleasant reading experience. A lot of games require you to read lots of text be it in a form of a mystic…
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