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Doom: The Bored Game


Finally, someone s taken all of the monotonous, shooting, running, solving, and monsters out of the Doom franchise and focused in on what made the game good: The instructional manual. Oh, that and cheap plastic figures and dice. Doom: The Boardgame runs for about the same price as the computer game. So pop some popcorn and get ready for some boarding goodness. More »

2:38 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Where's My PSP?


Why does Electronic Arts hate me so? I got an email Friday asking me if I had a Playstation Portable yet, because they had all kinds of cool games to send me if I did. Do you? We really want to send you these cool games. Oh, you don t? Awwww, too bad, because we really wanted to give you all of these cool games. They even went out of their way to write, in bold no less, that they had no PSPs, just cool games. More »

2:27 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Mini Pong
Wanna play a little Pong? I crack myself up. Mini Pong [Guimp, Digg]

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Gran Turismo 4: Too Little, Too Late?


After the years of waiting for Gran Turismo 4, turns out no one might want it when it hits shelves. Gamesblog makes a good point: For the most part gamers have moved past the world of pristine cars and slick unchanging graphics and into the world of collision damage and customization. Will anyone really want to play a game that doesn t have a ludicrously good crash physics engine? More »

12:32 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Dressed to Game


Lots of companies make T-shirts, ties, heck, even underwear, for their games. But only Capcom pushes it up a notch by making replicas of their characters in game clothes available for purchase. You can buy Biohazard 4 Leon s long sleeve shirt, weathered blue jeans or even his belt on the site. If things get cold you can pick up a spiffy jacket or engineer boots. It s all perfect for that creepy game-obsessed stalker in your life. More »

12:29 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Announcements

Two New Gawker Sites Launch

Gawker Media, the juice behind Kotaku, just popped out two more babies. From Dr. Evil way up on floor 231 of Gawker Towers: Lifehacker.com is a hand-holding smarty guide to time-saving tips and tricks for the computer. Gridskipper is a sassy urban travel guide to sexy bars, sexy hotels and sexy sex. More »

12:17 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Pokemon Causes Cancer


No, not that annoying little yellow critter from Nintendo, I m talking about the POK Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic factor also known as POKEMON. What the hell the scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have against Pokemon, besides the typical laundry list of complaints, is beyond me. Maybe they thought it would be funny to name a carcinogenic after a cartoon character. One day some 5-year-old is going to be able to tell his buddies at school that Pokemon killed his mom. More »

11:29 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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N-Gage Takes More Then a Year to Tie Ds's First Month

Nokia has finally released some real numbers for the amount of N-Gages they sold. Cumulative sales for the system since its launch in October 2003 is 1.3 million. It took Nintendo about a month to sell that many DSs. More »

10:08 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Night of the Naked Gnomes


They came in loin clothes and nothing else, hundreds of angry little gnomes protesting the character balance of the warrior class in World of Warcraft. A bunch of gamers who play warriors decided Saturday night to create new Gnome characters and hop around in mass on the Argent Dawn server because they are ticked about the way their character class was adjusted in an update. Not sure what naked Gnomes have to do with all of this, but they re fun and easy to kill. All the protesters received a three hour ban from the game and a stern warning. Word to the wise: One level one Gnome easy to kill, 150 level one Gnomes not so easy. More »

9:37 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Paper Katamari Damacy Prince


If the paper nose and the square cat weren t enough Katamari Damacy origami for you, then how about the prince himself? Making the prince is a neat little bit of paper cutting and folding. Granted, if I did it, it would look like a ball of compact trash, especially right before I tossed it in my trash can in frustration. More »

8:01 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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GPS Tron


GPS::Tron is a reality based game that uses GPS and cell phones to track movement and decide at what point you have crashed into your opponents glowing red cyber trail. Like in the classic Tron cyberbike game, and the cell phone Snakes game, you leave a line of color behind you as you move. The object of the game is to corner you opponent and make him eat his own virtual dust. Adding cell phones and GPS to the formula means it tracks actual movement, converting 200 meters into one centimeter and then displaying it on a map. Since both players are plopped down on a virtual battlefield, you can be on different continents and still compete. You can also travel by foot, car, boat, plane, or Cyberbike, if you can find one. More »

5:16 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Giveaway: N-Gage QD and Pathway to Glory


Nokia contacted Kotaku a few weeks back and asked if we d be interested in giving away one of their spiffy Nokia N-Gage QDs and a copy of their best yet game: The turn based strategy game Pathway to Glory. Of course, I d be nuts to say no, and you all would hate me. So here s the rules for the giveaway: More »

12:00 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Housekeeping

The Week in Games

It s been a crazy week, but the sun is shining and the week is over. I plan on convalescing over the next two days. Here s a little reading material for the break: More »

2:27 PM on Fri Jan 28 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Oddities

Cool Collection of Vintage Game Commercials

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Check out this mega-list of vintage video game commercials for some hardcore nostalgia. It s like mainlining Pop Rocks and Coca Cola with a Super Friends chaser. More »

2:00 PM on Fri Jan 28 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Best Grand Theft Auto Stunt Ever
This is why I just love Grand Theft Auto. This video demonstrates that you don't need to play the game to have fun. Enjoy. Best Grand Theft Auto Stunt Video [Digg]

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Sex: Online, Hardcore, All the Time


I'm happy to see that everyone is discovering the hardcore sex, devil worshiping and venereal diseases of Sociolotron. I wrote about the massively multiplayer game about a year ago for the Rocky Mountain News and then kicked off a semi-regular column by a girl gamer who became a big Sociolotron Ho. The game looks a lot like The Sims Online but allows very, very graphic sex, human sacrifice and lots of MDK (i.e. murder-death-kill.) There are laws in the game, however, complete with judges, attorneys and evidence. It's fascinating to watch people discover this game, then spend the next week boinking anyone they can find. More »

12:15 PM on Fri Jan 28 2005
By Brian Crecente
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PSP Takes on iPod

With news of Sony s planned PSP music download service, you can t help but start thinking that the big S has their eyes on the iPod. They did that major mea cupla about their MP3-hating not too long ago, and the PSP is a multimedia device, so gunning for the iPod makes sense. The big question, as Keith Stuart over at Gamesblog points out, is whether people really want convergence in their media. Do you want something that can play movies, music and games? More »

10:30 AM on Fri Jan 28 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Dance Dance Revolution: Fat Folks Good for Business


I ve been working on a story about exercise and gaming for the Rocky Mountain News this month and Thursday I was talking to Jason Enos, the American product manager for Dance Dance Revolution. Enos is pretty psyched about the game s rising popularity in North America. The game sold 1.2 million copies last year; that doubles it s total sales since 2001. More »

9:40 AM on Fri Jan 28 2005
By Brian Crecente
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