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Nintendo is Moving its NYC Offices, Shipping Some Jobs West
In a move that probably won't affect you, Nintendo is making some changes to its presence in New York City. Don't panic! Their Nintendo World Store near Rockefeller Center in midtown is sticking...
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Why The Next Portable Nintendo Game Wouldn't Work on an iPhone
Nintendo executives have many reasons to keep their games off of iPhones and Androids and to only let them play on Nintendo hardware. But what about the creators of a new Nintendo video game? They've...
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She's Sexy. Now Kill Her?
I like God of War: Ascension. It's a violent video game. I've got nothing against that. I like a lot of violent video games. I "get" where a lot of in-game violence comes from: games need to feel...
View ArticleThe BBC Gave Gizmodo a TV Show About Recklessly Testing Gadgets. Watch it...
Our sister site Gizmodo on TV? This seems like a great idea. Better than Deadspin: The Movie or a Kotaku opera, yes? Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers is a real TV show. It's on BBC America tonight. Give it...
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What John Riccitiello Was Right About
If you gave me five, seven or even 10 guesses about who outgoing EA CEO's favorite character on HBO's acclaimed show The Wire was, I'd have gotten it wrong. The Wire ran for five seasons. It was a show...
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Strings Attached: What We're Not Allowed to Talk About When Reviewing Games
When professional reviewers prepare to review books, movies, or video games, there's a basic understanding that the reviewer won't spoil everything. The reviewer will hold back some details, for the...
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution Coming to Wii U, With Some Key Changes
The acclaimed 2011 Deus Ex: Human Revolution is getting a director's cut edition of the game for Wii U. The thing people hated most about that game? It's getting fixed, along with some other...
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The New Monster Hunter Is Out, But One Of Its Biggest Features Isn't
The ability to transfer save files across Wii U and 3DS versions of the new Monster Hunter series failed to go live on the game's North American launch day yesterday, despite being featured in the main...
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The Irrepressible Ingenuity Of People Who Draw Dicks In Video Games
On November 6, 2012 a profoundly simple game called Curiosity was officially launched on iPhones, inviting people to chisel away at a massive cube composed of millions of blocks. Players from around...
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Her Amazing Dress is Made of Magic: The Gathering Cards. So Is Her Axe.
Meet Amy Demicco. She's wearing the coolest dress in Boston this weekend at the PAX East convention. Her dress is made almost entirely out of playing cards for Magic: The Gathering. She estimates that...
View Article15 Minutes of the English Version of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Let's Go...
Tom Nook is no longer the boss of you in the new Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which is coming to the 3DS in North America on June 9. You're the mayor. You're in command of this town. Well, somewhat......
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Two Thirds of You Played Mass Effect 3 As a Paragon. Mostly as Soldiers.
Most of you who played Mass Effect 3 are just too nice. You were paragons. I was a renegade. Most of you played as a male commander Shepard. I played as a female. But just about all of us cured the...
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Next Mass Effect Will Be Fresh, New and Mostly Made in Montreal
A panel celebrating the recently-concluded Mass Effect trilogy produced scant details and vague teases about the future of the series and its creators at PAX East in Boston today. "We are starting to...
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Rock, Paper, Scissors, Hadoken, Baby Sloth Is a Tiny, Tiny Game
Rock, Paper, Scissors is too simple for our modern times. That's why Margaret Robertson and her fellow game designers at Hide & Seek have created Rock, Paper, Scissors, Hadoken, Baby Sloth. You...
View ArticleThat's some temporary ugliness before we settle on a new style for it.
That's some temporary ugliness before we settle on a new style for it.
View ArticleIt's not easy to play while talking! I've hit the bottom of the first level...
It's not easy to play while talking! I've hit the bottom of the first level and almost hit the bottom of the second, too. I'm not that bad.
View ArticleYou Should Add the Word "Luftrausers" to Your Vocabulary
"Luftrausers" is a made-up word. Sounds German. But it's not. "Luft" means "air," but "rausers"? It's nonsense.* Oh, but Luftrausers does mean one thing: "simple, stylish game about being an ace...
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Yesterday, we showed you that you can annotate images on Kotaku.
Yesterday, we showed you that you can annotate images on Kotaku. Today, let's go a step further. On this post, you'll see a press release for a video game that came out today. Care to annotate it? If...
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Interesting idea. I'm not sure. We're working on a better way to annotate text. I cheated by using an image for this one. I wanted to see what kind of feedback and annotations a piece of text generated.
View ArticleWe can moderate them the same way we do comments and we can block users who...
We can moderate them the same way we do comments and we can block users who try to ruin things for others. Where are you seeing that?
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