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Fear and Loathing in World 1-1 [Acid Flashbacks]
With great apologies to the late Hunter S. Thompson, for the out-of-context riffing. "Luigi had taken his shirt off and was pouring beer on his chest...
Dead Space: Glimpses of Outer Space Carnage [Dead Space]
Gametrailers put up this, the second teaser of Dead Space which releases October for the PS3 and 360. It's a backstory trailer, which justifies your r...
90% of Virtual Worlds Will Fail Within 18 Months [Virtual Worlds]
For those that lament the plethora of crappy MMOs and poorly-planned 'virtual worlds' of various stripes — fear not, a new report indicates that...
Dead Space Hands-on
Dead Space (PS3) The final frontier is about to get a whole lot scarier.
Dead Space Screenshots and Trailer
EA has sent along some new screenshots of this mysterious deep space thriller along with the latest trailer.
- Dead Space Trailer - IGN.com
Dead Space Video Interview
Dead Space (X360) Inside info on zero gravity.
Girl Gamers: There are More of Them [Girl Gamers]
You might need to head to Australia to find them (Brian? Luke?). Or at least, that's where the sure bet is. A story in the Sydney Morning Herald last ...
Saturday Timewaster: Putty Puzzle [Timewasters]
I don't have time to waste this weekend, sadly, but if you do, there's a challenging little puzzler called Putty Puzzler, found over on the interestin...
Virtual Property Disputes Landing in Real Courts [Law]
Ok, so virtual property disputes aren't exactly new, but there's a little wrap up on some of the current issues over at a Canadian website. Most of t...
Kotaku Pitch Meeting: "Noise" [Video Game Pitch]
Back in 2005 when I was hating my job and casting about for meaning in life, I wrote Crecente and asked him what the process was for writing up and se...
UCSD's SoftWhere 2008 [Softwhere]
If you're going to be in San Diego and free next Wednesday afternoon, UCSD is hosting a public portion of their "SoftWhere 2008" at the UCSD campus L...
Difficulty: The Designer Perspective [En Garde]
We meditated on the question of difficulty in games last weekend, and Ernest Adams is now over at Gamasutra mulling the same problem (sort of). What's...
Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader [Book Release]
Looking for new reading material? A new book is out examining WoW, and is available from Amazon for the nice price of $19.77 (not bad for a book comi...
Hell for Gamers [Thumbs]
Another reason this is hell? Think of another thing gamers enjoy that requires opposable thumbs. My vision of hell would be something like no opposab...
19-year-old mayor of Oklahoma town is a gaming enthusiast
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