Yesterday - November 5, 2010

Steamboat Mario Bros.

I like Paper Mario's stylised ake on the Mushroom Kingdom, but I'd like this one even more. By belldandies, as seen on Rampaged Reality.

11:30 PM

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By Luke Plunkett

#apb

APB's Remains Remain Valuable, But Codemasters Isn't Buying

"Nine months of hard work," could salvage All Points Bulletin, the failed cops-and-robbers MMO, but don't expect Codemasters to be the one doing the work, says the publisher's online general manager. More »

11:00 PM

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By Owen Good

#china

The PSP Phone That Plays Mario, Zelda

It says a lot about how hideous Sony's rumoured PlayStation Phone prototype is that a Chinese knock-off using the PSPgo as a template is a more desirable piece of hardware. More »

10:30 PM

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By Luke Plunkett

#apple

Kinect Could Have Been On The Mac Instead Of The Xbox

Kinect is the Xbox 360's Great Wavy Hope in the battle for the home entertainment market. Did you know, however, that the device could have easily gone to Apple instead? More »

10:00 PM

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By Luke Plunkett

#howisthisnews

Who Went To The Call of Duty: Black Ops Launch?

Metallica did. Bobby Kotick too. So did I and a ton of military dudes, all of who came out to play Call of Duty: Black Ops and... OK, they were really there to see Metallica. Did you go? More »

09:30 PM

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By Michael McWhertor

#review

Review: James Bond 007: Blood Stone

Ian Fleming's British super spy returns in an all-new original adventure, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, that's about as unoriginal as video games get. Blood Stone is an entertaining, just good enough shooter that borrows heavily from better games. More »

09:00 PM

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By Michael McWhertor

#iphone

Infinity Blade's Knight To Shine On iPhone 4

This launch trailer gives you a good look at Infinity Blade, the role-playing game for iPhone 4 (and iPad and iPod Touch) being built by Chair Entertainment and Epic Games, whose Unreal Engine makes the whole thing go. More »

08:30 PM

4,713

By Owen Good

#fallout

This Guy Beat Fallout: New Vegas With Zero Kills

NeoGAF user water_wendi started a couple of playthroughs in Fallout: New Vegas before deciding to try a complete pacifist run. Fifty-one hours later, he finished the game, with no humans nor animals harmed in the making of his story. More »

08:00 PM

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By Owen Good

#screengrab

Hope Tomorrow's Race Isn't Delayed, Too

Just to screw with you, GameStop's put Gran Turismo 5, which was originally planned to release on Tuesday, on the hood of Joey Logan's No. 20 Toyota for tomorrow's O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway. Seen via GoJoeyLogano.com More »

07:30 PM

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By Owen Good

#xbox360

Two Important Questions About Playing Kinect Naked

Kotaku has already put Kinect through its paces, testing its voice and face recognition capabilities and how well it performs under imperfect lighting conditions. We haven't tested it naked (as far as I know...) but other people have. More »

07:00 PM

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By Michael McWhertor

#webcomics

Sunday Comics Deathmatch: The Winners

Last week we put our current Sunday Comics features and 13 new candidates up for a vote. The results are in and your new page arrives Sunday. Find out who stays, who goes, and who got invited! More »

06:30 PM

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By Owen Good

#deals

Black Friday Ads Leak New PlayStation Bundles, DS Colors

Holiday shopping madness is just around the corner, with deals from post-Thanksgiving "Black Friday" sales heralding video game savings. In addition to temporary price cuts, it appears new PlayStation 3, PSP and Nintendo DS bundles are en route. More »

06:00 PM

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By Michael McWhertor

#consoletaisen

PSPgo Price Drops Its Way Out Of Last Place In Japan

Sony's recent slashing of the PSPgo's price worldwide has had a noticeable effect on sales of the download-only device, at least in Japan. The regularly triple-digit selling PSPgo just had one of its best weeks ever overseas. More »

05:40 PM

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By Michael McWhertor

#nascar

NASCAR 2011 Screens Get Loose In Turn Three

The flaps go up to keep Jeff Gordon from going airborne in this new batch of screenshots for NASCAR 2011: The Game, due next year from Eutechnyx and Activision. More »

05:20 PM

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By Owen Good

#note

The Ice Tea

05:00 PM

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#wii

Nintendo Keeps Super Mario's 25th Anniversary Classy For America

When Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. collection comes stateside next month, it will come in a pretty little package for Wii owners. If you're a fan of Mario, you're probably going to want to grab this slick limited edition package. More »

04:40 PM

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By Michael McWhertor

#3d

And Here's NBA 2K11 In 3D

Those who dug out their 3D glasses for the last post, my attempt to show you Madden's 3D mode fell flat. Here to save the day is Operation Sports' MessenjahMatt, with a 3D presentation of Michael Jordan in NBA 2K11. More »

04:20 PM

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By Owen Good

#madden

Madden's 3D: A Bag Of Chips And Not All That

Last week, Madden NFL 11 slipped in a 3D presentation mode through a promotion with Doritos. It's the old-school red-and-blue 3D, and if it's not entirely free, it only costs a bag of chips. Is it worth even that? More »

04:00 PM

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By Owen Good

#gameinformer

Are These The Video Game Characters The Defined A Decade?

Master Chief, Nathan Drake, Alyx Vance, Niko Bellic, Kratos, The Boss, GlaDOS — just a small selection of the 30 video game stars that the newest issue of Game Informer names as the video game characters who "defined a decade." More »

03:40 PM

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By Michael McWhertor

#xboxliveindieclips

Xbox Live Indie Clips: Radiangames Fluid

Developer Radiangames returns to Xbox Live Indie Clips with Fluid, a game that melds the gameplay of Pac-Man with the urgency of a timer and the terror that is hordes of jellyfish. More »

03:20 PM

1,702

By Mike Fahey

#xbox360

The Complete Kinect Round-Up

Kinect game reviews, good and bad. Kinect stress tests. Kinect photographed near a can of beans. A video diary of nine days with Kinect. A tale of two re-arranged living rooms It's all here in our definitive Kinect article round-up. More »

03:00 PM

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By Stephen Totilo

#lazysundays

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

02:40 PM

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#clips

The Daily Show Solves The Problem Of Violent Games And Children

Is the solution to children playing violent video games bundling Family Game Night with a machine gun, a nine-person shooter, or replacing Niko Bellic with American public radio personality Ira Glass? Watch out: He'll shoot your penis off. More »

02:20 PM

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By Mike Fahey

#event

To-Do In New York: Mario Party 25 At The Nintendo Store

02:00 PM

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#clips

Will Kinect's "Thousand Points of Light" Interfere With the Wii's Remote?

Let's say for some odd reason you want to have both your Xbox 360 Kinect on and your Wii? Why? I haven't a clue, but if you did, would the two systems, which both use infrared, interfere with one another? More »

01:30 PM

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By Brian Crecente

#life

When A Man Turns 60

Chris Crawford, whose lifelong dream has been to master the creation of interactive storytelling, turned 60 in late June. He moved the final red bead, the ones marking each day of his sixth decade, to the jar on the left. More »

01:00 PM

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By Stephen Totilo

#science

The Fascinating Story of the Twins Who Share Brains, Thoughts, and Senses

This is one of the most surprising and awesome tales ever told in the history of medicine. These twins are Tatiana and Krista Hogan. Their brains and sensory systems are networked together, but they have separate personalities. Their story defies belief. [Gizmodo]

12:40 PM

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By Jesus Diaz

#science

How Video Game Graphics Sped Up Chemistry

12:30 PM

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#guesteditorial

How Video Games Changed Our Science Fiction Fantasy

Roger Ebert has said that video games cannot be art. Similar judgments have been made over the decades and centuries about novels, plays, movies, television, comic books, and of course science fiction. More »

12:00 PM

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By Greg Bear

#preview

A Video Game That Dares To Make Americans Angry

I have little animosity for the virtual people I shoot in video games. They are cardboard targets. The worst they can do is kill the virtual me. My "death" lasts a few seconds. I can't hate them for that. More »

11:40 AM

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By Stephen Totilo

#midnightlaunch

Where Call Of Duty: Black Ops Rides At Midnight

11:20 AM

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#gunnar

Call of Duty: Black Ops Gets Its Own Pro Gaming Glasses

When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 hit last year it arrived in stores escorted by a virtual phallanx of tie-ins of varying quality. More »

11:00 AM

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By Brian Crecente

#bioware

A Look At The Old Republic's Player-Versus-Player Warzones

10:40 AM

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#gameface

A More Mature Mario Party

Good friends, a little beer, some smokes, and a whole lot of Mario Kart DS, as seen on Frantisek Fuka's Flickr page. More »

10:20 AM

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By Mike Fahey

#clips

"Questing" and Hero Creation in The Sims Medieval

10:00 AM

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#ipad

Full Quake 3 Arena for iPad, At Last and For Real

My good buddy Alexander Pick is about to release the full Quake 3 Arena for iPad today, with on-screen key controls, like it should be. You can play offline and online, and add levels through iTunes file sharing, using drag-and-drop. [Gizmodo]

09:58 AM

25,885

By Jesus Diaz

#music

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Needed A Little Jazz Scat

09:40 AM

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#kinect

Jimmy Fallon Pulls A Kinect Oprah

09:20 AM

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#kinect

Xbox 360 Kinect Stress Test, Technology Vs. Dogs, Darkness, Disguises

The Xbox 360 Kinect can be confused by large dogs and wildly flailing children. Those are two stress tests that Microsoft's controller-free add-on failed in a series of trials involving lighting, human and dog distraction, rubber masks and voice confusion. More »