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: Oh Dear, the Wii U's Controller Battery Only Lasts For 3-5 Hours

#nintendo Here's some E3 buzzkill for you: it seems the battery in Nintendo's Wii U control pad only lasts for 3-5 hours. More »

nintendo.co.jp posted by Kotaku Jun 05 2012 22:40 GMT in Wii U

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i'm sure the wii u provides great entertainment and all but playing video games for more than 3 hours at at time is unhealthy anyway
and it's not like the wii remote lasted any longer anyway, you eventually had to change the batteries or charge rechargeable batteries for it

: Portal Picks Up a PlayStation Move Controller, Returns to the PS3 With New Levels

#portal Developers Sixense have announced that a bunch of new Portal content is coming to the PlayStation 3. It's called Portal 2 In Motion, and is DLC for the existing game that takes full advantage of So...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jun 05 2012 19:46 GMT in Portal 2

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: Nintendo Unveils Hardcore Wii U Controller

#nintendo The point of the Wii U is that it has a fancy, touch-screen controller. That may not be suitable for all titles, though. Especially ones being ported from other consoles. For that, much like the W...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jun 03 2012 22:05 GMT in Wii U

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Ph1r3 App Inventor for Android's visual block language

the button layout

: Excuse me, I'm Going to go Lie Down on This Beautiful Video Game Grass

#pc Time to check in again with the Outerra project, an engine that's currently being developed that threatens to make video games more awesome. How dare it. More »

outerra.blogspot.com.au posted by Kotaku May 28 2012 05:00 GMT in Gaming News

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This looks like the forest like 6 streets from my house.

Minus the mountains in the background.

: Mounted Combat Arrives in Skyrim

#theelderscrolls Your Skyrim horse is now good for something other than getting accidentally killed in the heat of battle. Update 1.6, available today on PC, adds the ability for players to charge into batt...

bethblog.com posted by Kotaku May 24 2012 20:15 GMT in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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Nastasia: also wtf mounted combat in skyrim?

: When Internet Memes Become Art

#internet Nerd stronghold Gallery 1988 is currently holding quite the exhibition, showcasing a ton of works done by artists all inspired by the one thing: internet memes. More »

superpunch.blogspot.com.au posted by Kotaku May 07 2012 03:30 GMT in teh internets

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and last but not least, Tumblr is the hipster stronghold of the internet

: See Halo, Mass Effect, Battlefield & Modern Warfare Stab Each Other in the Guts

#humor Some of the biggest shooters in the world (and Mass Effect) go head to head in this clip by Corridor Digital, which compares each series' "instakill" by having a whole lot of people get stabbed. More »

geeks.thedailywh.at posted by Kotaku May 14 2012 06:30 GMT in Gaming News

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: Japan Made Robot Ass for You to Spank. Finally!

#video From robotic vocal chords to robotic lips, Japan has made a variety of robotic body parts over the years. But one body part has always been noticeably overlooked: robot ass. More »

gizmodo.jp posted by Kotaku May 10 2012 08:30 GMT in Japan

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I remember that niggerass

: The Nintendo DSi Drops to $99 May 20

#pricedrop One of the best values in gaming gets even better on May 20, when Nintendo drops the price of the DSi to $99.99, with its larger sibling the DSi XL at $129.99. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 10 2012 12:07 GMT in Gaming News

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: Binding of Isaac is Getting an Expansion

#bindingofisaac No joke, it really is! It's called Wrath of the Lamb, and for $3 you'll get new chapters, new enemies, new achievements, new bosses, new room types and even a "new final (final) chapter and...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 07 2012 07:20 GMT in Steam

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*crag* now I really wish my save wasn't deleted.
Now I have to go unlock all the characters again before this.

: Dream Mortal Kombat Cameo Proves Dr. Robotnik Can Be a Right Murderous Bastard

#watchthis In the latest installment of CurtainsAreOnFire's Mortal Kombat Secret Character Tryouts video series, the Angry Birds get angrier, Paperboy delivers carnage, and Dr. Robotnik finally creates an obstacle course capable of murder. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 07 2012 16:00 GMT in Mortal Kombat

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: The Elder Scrolls Online Now Has A Trailer

#theelderscrolls There's no gameplay in this new teaser for Bethesda's upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game, but at least it sounds cool. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 04 2012 14:00 GMT in Gaming News

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it's going to be an elder scrolls game with none of the things elder scrolls fans like about the series
don't get me wrong, the series is pretty bad, but it's shaping up to be nothing more than generic fantasy WoW clone #55

: Valve Knows They Keep You Waiting. There's Even an Amusing Chart About It.

#valve Nothing's worse than thinking you're going to get something cool at a certain time and finding out that there's going to be some sort of delay. Damn you, delays! More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 03 2012 15:00 GMT in Steam

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: Report: Microsoft Might Launch $99 Xbox 360 With Monthly Payment Plan

#rumor Microsoft may launch a $99 Xbox 360 package attached to a two-year $15 monthly subscription plan, according to a new report. More »

theverge.com posted by Kotaku May 02 2012 15:17 GMT in Gaming News

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Jews - Why pay $60 for a generic shooter when you could pay hundreds

: Here’s How You’ll Make Test Chambers with Portal 2’s Level Creator

#portal It's already been announced that Valve will be releasing DLC that lets PC and Mac owners create their own additions to Aperture Science's brain-teasing architecture. Now, a leaked video shows what ...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 01 2012 14:15 GMT in Portal 2

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shut up shadoo

: A Paper Mario Automaton Won't Kill its Masters

#mario Automatons can come in many shapes and sizes. You can get giant robots, who will one day rise up and kill us all, and you can get tiny little novelties, like this Paper Mario box. More » ...

blog.craftzine.com posted by Kotaku Apr 30 2012 11:00 GMT in Gaming News

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: Portal 2 Level Creator Hitting PC And Mac This May

#portal Valve will release free Portal 2 downloadable content titled "Perpetual Testing Initiative" for PC and Mac on May 8, the publisher said today. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 26 2012 17:21 GMT in Portal 2

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in other news Hammer was released in 1996

: Guy Condenses Each World of Super Mario Into A Single Level

#mario You must play Super Mario Summary, a platformer that designer Johan Peitz created during the latest Ludum Dare game dev challenge. More »

johanpeitz.com posted by Kotaku Apr 24 2012 18:30 GMT in Super Mario Bros.

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oh wow
a super mario brothers fan game
how clever

: Read Valve's Employee Company Handbook. It's Amazing.

#rumor On Friday, a user on the Flamehaus forums uploaded a very convincing pdf, complete with accompanying photo, of a new book called Valve: Handbook For New Employees. More »

neogaf.com posted by Kotaku Apr 21 2012 12:40 GMT in Gaming News

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nice hat meow

: Kirby Anthology Coming This Year for Wii, Says Nintendo

#blip Not much more than a brief tease; as part of today's "Nintendo Direct" news event in Japan, the company said "a special Wii disc featuring all your favorite Kirby games," will be released this year, t...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 21 2012 04:34 GMT in Gaming News

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want

: The Toxic, Psychedelic Drug Behind Sony’s Newest Game

#datura People do recreational drugs for a lot of reasons: addiction, boredom, energy, depression, relaxation. But there are just some drugs that no person would ever want to do, drugs that are outright un...

erowid.org posted by Kotaku Apr 20 2012 17:00 GMT in PlayStation Move

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datura isn't a psy

: Zynga’s Two-Billion-Dollar Bid Wasn’t Enough to Buy Angry Birds

#angrybirds The company behind Farmville has money. Lots of it. And, for more than a year, they've been buying up smaller development houses left and right. But, Rovio—the development house that created mobile megahit Angry Birds—turned down Zynga w...

bloomberg.com posted by Kotaku Apr 17 2012 22:30 GMT in Angry Birds

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Well I hate games so not like it's going to effect me. Especially mainstream corporate games. Damn every one of them.

: Russian Police Mistake Space Invader For Bomb

#russia A Moscow police force called in the bomb squad last night to investigate a "suspicious object" that turned out to be an alien from the arcade game Space Invaders. More »

rt.com posted by Kotaku Apr 17 2012 18:00 GMT in Gaming News

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I beg to differ

: Japan's Black Window Killer Met Men Online. Then She Killed Them.

#culturesmash On the morning of August 5, 2009, Yoshiyuki Oide logged onto his blog. He posted some photos of a model tank he was working on as well as some cookies he recently got in Tokyo's geek district...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 16 2012 08:01 GMT in Gaming News

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Whoa man how the hell was she not caught earlier? Seriously how did a college drop out commit murder so perfectly that Japanese forensic teams didn't catch on to her?

: Miyamoto Says He’d Like to Make a Spiritual Sequel to A Link to the Past

#thelegendofzelda It's been a long time since Shigeru Miyamoto's directly worked on a Legend of Zelda game. 1991, to be exact. That's the year that the classic A Link to the Past hit the SNES. Now, recent ...

edge-online.com posted by Kotaku Apr 12 2012 19:30 GMT in The Legend of Zelda

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: A Kid's Cardboard Arcade is the Most Beautiful Thing You'll See Today

#arcades Caine is nine. And like all the best nine year-olds in the world, Caine is obsessed with video games. In Caine's case, it's arcade games, and he's so obsessed he built himself a giant cardboard ar...

cainesarcade.com posted by Kotaku Apr 10 2012 06:00 GMT in Gaming News

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: OK, So, This is a Rather Horrible Story Out of Korea

#crime Straight from Korea, we have a story that seems to meld all the most awful components of video game stories that hit the mainstream media: Gaming addiction, an Internet cafe, a neglectful mother, and...

koreabang.com posted by Kotaku Apr 08 2012 21:00 GMT in Gaming News

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: Why I'm Worried About My Daughter's Video Game Future

#parenting This is my daughter. Her nickname is Cheeks. I really want her to play video games. Like, I really, really do. One of her favorite things to grab when she wanders around the apartment is an Xbox...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 03 2012 21:00 GMT in Gaming News

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i agree

: Sonic's Co-Creator Joins Nintendo

#sonic Well this is a line-crossing worth taking note of. Gamasutra reports that Hirokazu Yasuhara, co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, has taken a job at Nintendo. More »