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A Vegas Club Offers a ‘Wine List’ of Vintage Games
The idea, says Christopher LaPorte, is you’ll come into his club, sit on a large, luxurious couch, and examine a list handed to you by an attractive cocktail waitress. You’ll then say something like, “I’ll have the Mega Man 3, 1990. Please bring two controllers.” “I really want it to be like a wine list,”…
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UncategorizedThe Bloodiest Football Game You’ll Play Today
While it’s not the most accurate representation of American football, Milkstone Studios’ Zombie Football Carnage still has all the right moves – just a little bloodier. Zombie Football Carnage hit the Xbox Live Indie Games store today, and its colorful Castle Crashers-style graphics caught my eye immediately. The you play a little football helmet wearing…
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Are Video Games Turning Liberals Into Virtual Conservatives?
Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband’s name or dream of ending her career to raise children. In the Sims 3 she’s a married mother that stays home with the kids. In a fascinating article on The American Prospect, Potts explores the phenomenon of players like herself…
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Light-Absorbing Anti-Lasers Could One Day Rule Your Computer
Scientists at Yale University have created the world’s first anti-laser, a device in which two beams of light clash together, ultimately cancelling each other out. How could such a device change the way we do our computing? A laser is a device that emits a focused beam of light using a process of optical amplification.…
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How Samurai Warriors 3DS Plays While You’re Not Playing
With the Nintendo 3DS’s innovative new Street Pass feature, developers now have to figure out how their games will play when the players aren’t playing. In Samurai Warriors Chronicles, your 3DS will fight your battles for you. Street Pass is the Nintendo 3DS feature that allows your 3DS to communicate with other players’ systems while…
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UncategorizedKillzone 3 Is Too Big For Just One Funny TV Ad
With two different ways to play and a special peripheral specifically designed for motion control, Sony spokes model Kevin Butler couldn’t cover all of Killzone 3 in just one ad, so he did two. The first Butlermercial covers the Killzone 3 basics. It’s a shooter. You shoot things. You shoot them dramatically enough to make…
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inFamous 2 And Its $100 Hero Edition Have A Date With Your PS3
Sony and Sucker Punch have made a date in June for the sequel to the hit PlayStation 3 superhero game inFamous, with a pricey Hero Edition available for players that just can’t get enough Cole MacGrath. Cole and friends travel down south to the city of New Marais to face down the mysterious Beast on…
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What’s Your Super-Powered Signature Move?
Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter GunFlame craves his own super-powered video game special move. If you could have one, which would you choose? I wish I could do a Hadouken…no! a Rising Storm, no! a Buster Wolf, no! a Grand Viper…man, if only I had some kind of sci-mana-magic-tec-arte-skill-spell-synt-hyper-type power…:( About Speak-Up on Kotaku:…
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