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Nintendo gives you a hand

Sign up to receive a free hand, because touching is good and creeping out your friends and family is probably a lot more fun than Pokémon Dash. Plus you can send in movies you make with your new hand by May 6th and win a DS or money.

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Golf

A post by Alice made me remember this crazy Korean golf game called Pangya that I played a bit of some time ago. It’s pretty fun for awhile as long as you don’t mind getting pounded into the ground by people willing to pay money to upgrade their characters (yes, real money). I found out [...]

Ars Technica reviews the PSP

Ars Technica, The Website You Can Trust Because The Name Is All Full of Latin And Shit™, has just put up an in-depth review of the Sony PSP. If you’ve got a hankering for some mobile gaming and want to know where to blow your hard-earned tuppence, take a look.

Scifi author to discuss book in MMOG

Science fiction author Cory Doctorow, who you may know from the popular group blog Boing Boing, will be discussing his newest book Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town in the online game Second Life sometime in July. Yes, in-game, as in he’ll be chatting just like any other player and be subject to the [...]

Im-pasta-bowl!

Mario and friends have always inhabited a very special place in the hearts of many players of games, giving rise to creations in almost any medium you can imagine. Flash music videos are pretty popular since a popular song + sprites rockin’ out = forwarded to everybody you know and their loved ones. Kotaku pointed [...]

PSP sales not so rosy?

If you’re like me and you regularly drown yourself with video game coverage, both in the form of websites and forums, the PSP’s launch can’t seem like anything but an unqualified success. Reviews for most of the games are positive, the system itself is a stunner… how can it not do great? Conditions out in [...]

Wipeout Pure includes hidden web browser for the PSP

It certainly took far less time than anyone expected for a web browser to be released for the PSP – there’s already one included with Wipeout Pure, in fact. Uncovering it involved messing around with DNS settings and other geekery you probably don’t care about. Get all the juicy details on the hidden web browser [...]

Interview with the storytellers

Greg Kavasin at GameSpot has an interview feature with five of the biggest names in games storytelling:

What would you say to someone who told you that games have universally terrible stories?

Chris Avellone: I’d say game stories can be a little formulaic at times and a little unpolished, but then [...]

Experimental Gameplay Project

“There’s nothing new out there!” you say. The Experimental Gameplay Project at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center (right down the street from the Institute of Rainbow and Unicorn Research) says it doesn’t have to be that way: 1 semester + 50-100 games = … well, a lot of games, if nothing else, but I do [...]

Rockstar North not happy campers

Rockstar North, not to be confused with Rockstar Leeds who’d take such affrontery with a stiff upper lip, stormed out of the Game Developers Conference award ceremony after getting shutout, according to the Guardian’s Gamesblog . The subsequent whereabouts of Gabe Newell’s car is still unknown. [via]