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A Machine That Changes Xbox 360 Discs For You

My TV has a remote. Ditto my surround sound. My Xbox 360 can be turned on remotely with my control pad. And yet, when I want to change the disc, I have to get up. On my feet. Which is never where I want to be. To help overthrow the tyranny of distance, master console…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 12, 2011

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The Father of the PlayStation and Japan’s Secret Koreans

In Japan, South Korea is now cool. Speaking and singing the local lingo, Korean popstars like Girls’ Generation rule the charts and appear on Japanese variety shows and in commercials. It wasn’t always that way. Japan and South Korea have a long, shared, and bloody history, with Japan recently colonizing the country. At the turn…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 12, 2011

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Microsoft, This Isn’t Helping Win PC Gamers Over

Perhaps realising it wasn’t exactly popular with gamers as a standalone marketplace, Microsoft recently decided to shift Games for Windows over to Xbox.com. That move has now taken place, and…it’s gone about as well as you’d expect from Microsoft and PC gaming. The image above is where you’ll find now find PC gaming on Xbox.com.…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 12, 2011

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This is the Best Star Wars Game We’ve Seen In a Long Time

Forget everything you know about Star Wars games. The ones that used control pads, mice or keyboards. Because Fleet Commander, a student project, might just blow them all out the airlock. It’s been developed by Arthur Nishimoto, a student at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Initially designed in 2009…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 12, 2011

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The Real Story Behind Sim City’s Arcologies

Despite the fact they only appeared in one game (Sim City 2000), arcologies remain an iconic symbol of the Sim City series. But just what the hell are they? While appearing in the game as projects from the future, arcologies are very much real, the name deriving from “architecture” and “ecology”. An arcology is, in…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 12, 2011

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The Dark Night

Kotaku readers, after a day of video game news and discussion, let’s insert a little combo breaker, tonight’s open thread where you can discuss whatever you want to, video game related or not. If you haven’t already seen it, the most exciting nerd development of the day is the reveal of The Dark Knight Rises…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011

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What the Hell’s Going On With ModernWarfare3.com?

Go ahead. If you haven’t already done so today, go to ModernWarfare3.com. You’ll see that you’re directed to the official Battlefield 3 web site. That’s some good trolling, no? But who’s sticking it to Activision by redirecting visitors from what appears to be an official looking Call of Duty site to one of its chief…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011

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The Promise of Haptic Feedback, Coming To Your iPhone

The makers of ViviTouch want to bring tactile feedback to your iPhone and iPod touch, technology that will offer the sensation of something touching back when you tap your touchscreen. Artificial Muscle boasts that its ViviTouch tech, an add-on for the iPhone platform, will let users “feel the difference between hundreds of sensations, not just…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011

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Valve Shows How Team Fortress 2‘s ‘Meet the Medic’ Sausage Was Made

“Meet the Medic,” the eighth and penultimate video in Valve’s “Meet the Team” shorts was a long time a-comin’. Why the long wait between “Meet the Spy” and the video introducing Team Fortress 2‘s Medic class? Well, Valve scrapped (at least) two previous attempts at “Meet the Medic,” one that involved the doctor coming back…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011

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The Relationship Experts of the Today Show Don’t Think Men in Their 30s Should Play Video Games

Dudes who play video games in their thirties and beyond? What’s up with that?! That’s the question posed to the leathery co-hosts of the fourth hour of Today, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, who explain that, well, that’s just weird! Gifford, Kotb and advertising exec/dude advice giver Donny Deutsch—author of The Big Idea: How…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011

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Mortal Kombat‘s Newest, Wettest Ninja Punches In on July 19

The purple one, Rain, is the latest addition to Mortal Kombat‘s cast of characters. The god of inclement weather joins the excessively bloody Skarlet and blind swordsman Kenshi as the third downloadable add-on for NetherRealm’s ultra gory fighter. You can see the super soaker, who made his first appearance as one of the many palette-swapped…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011

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Night Patrol

CAMP MERCURY, IRAQ – Marines embark on risky night patrols around their base in one of Iraq’s most dangerous zones to prevent attacks and keep insurgents at bay. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images) PipClock Has You Duck-and-Covered in Case of Apocalypse With the exception, maybe, of VATS calling out your headshots, our modern mobile devices…

By Brian Crecente Published July 11, 2011

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You Can Make Octodad 2 A Bizarre Reality

The video game about the difficulties of secretly being an octopus while wearing a business suit, Octodad, is getting a sequel. But it won’t happen without the help of people hungry for third-person tentacle stealth action willing to spare some change. The team behind Octodad, a student project featured in the Independent Games Festival Student…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Portal Gun

Proving once again that everything plays better when you add Portal, the folks at Dorkly arm Zelda’s hero with a little cutting-edge tech, courtesy of Aperture Science. The ensuing madness knocks the pig right out of Ganon.

By Mike Fahey Published July 11, 2011

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A Game Called Achron and the Theory That Games Would be Better With Time Travel

In the first mission of the upcoming computer game that Chris Hazard, PhD, has been trying to make since 1999, our hero, a man named Holloway meets himself. In the second mission, Holloway’s foot soldiers are killed in an ambush. But time can be backed up. The men can be given new orders in the…

By Stephen Totilo Published July 11, 2011

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The The King of Kong Remake Is Still On, but May Go Mockumentary

The high score battle between Donkey Kong pros Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell was immortalized in 2007’s The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. And for the past four years, there’s been talk of that movie being remade, further fictionalized in a film adaptation of a film. But now it appears that the planned…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011

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The King of Fighters XIII Brings Console-Exclusive Content to North America in October

Atlus narrows down the fall North American release for the console version of The King of Fighters XIII today, promising console-exclusive characters, stages, and game modes galore. Until then, expect screenshots and trailers galore, much like these. See if you can spot some of the console-exclusive content in the trailer of the thirteenth King of…

By Mike Fahey Published July 11, 2011

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First Look at Dishonored, the New Game from Arkane and Deus Ex Designer Harvey Smith

That right there? That’s Dishonored, the new stealth assassination game from Bethesda, Arx Fatalis dev Arkane Studios and Harvey Smith, one of the creative forces behind Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows. Why does it sound so interesting? Dishonored‘s blend of first-person stealth, magical gadgetry and ever-changing world is why, details which are laid out…

By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011

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The Pea Shooters and Samurai of the Wii’s Rhythm Heaven

We checked out the upcoming Wii version of music-infused Rhythm Heaven at E3, but we weren’t able to let you listen to it because it’s was so loud. This time around we’re in the relative quiet of Nintendo’s New York offices, where Stephen Totilo tried his hand at stabbing peas with a fork and slicing…

By Brian Crecente Published July 11, 2011

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The Authoritarian Control of Labor in Tiny Tower

While playing Tiny Tower, do you worry about your Bitizens’ happiness, or ignore them in favor of staffing your shops? Blogger Jorge Albor at popmatters.com examines the Marxist implications of doing well in Tiny Towers As Albor explains, playing Tiny Tower works, is not difficult, all it takes is a a little patience, but there’s…

By Jen Schiller Published July 11, 2011