Nintendo Patent Suggests New DS Cartridge Design (via 1up) -
It's time once again to play everyone's favorite news game: Boarderline-Irresponsible Patent Speculation! On this episode, we have Nintendo filing a patent for what appears to be a new cartridge design for the Nintendo DS. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 1287 | 5 months ago
Kotaku Off-Topic: Oh, Hell, When is Daylight Saving Time Again? How Is This News? (via Kotaku) - Surprise, it's not today. Made you look! Which I had to do because, once upon a time, we had these things called "newspapers" and on the day of the switch, if all else failed, the front page reminded you.Instead it is next week, March 14. That's when you take that bonus hour of sleep that feels so good and put it in the bank for October. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 939 | 5 months ago
Sunday Comics Webcomics (via Kotaku) - Penny Arcade
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Digital Unrest
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EXTRALIFE
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GU Comics
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Dotgif
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Dueling Analogs
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Nerf NOW
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Rooster Teeth
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Blur Devs Promise Massive DLC Strategy, Just Not at Launch Dlc (via Kotaku) - Blur's developers do have plans for DLC but they don't intend to put any out at launch. In fact, no dates have been set, and they've made clear they're not going to tackle DLC until the main game's finished.Bizarre Creations is still putting the final coat of polish on the arcade racer, which entered a closed beta last week and releases May 25. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 873 | 5 months ago
Scribblenauts 2 Coming to DS this Fall (via 1up) -
Scribblenauts was one of 2009's breakout hits, so it's no surprise to see a sequel already in the works -- and it's coming pretty soon, too. The latest issue of Nintendo Power reveals Scribblenauts 2 will be released on the DS this fall, just a year after the first game's release. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 624 | 5 months ago
Apple to update Safari 4.0.5 with Flash plugin crash protection (via After Dawn) - AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is in the midst of updating Safari, QuickTime and Pro apps, each with significant updates.
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Safari 4.0.5
People familiar with the seedings say one of the primary focuses of Safari 4.0.5 is to fix a regression in the browser's JavaScript engine that manifested with the release of Safari 4. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 522 | 5 months ago
Javelins, Zerg Rushes, Ninja Looting and Other Social Dilemmas Weekend Reader (via Kotaku) - It's there, and you know how to use it. It's an exploit or a glitch or some imbalance in the AI. Morally, it's wrong. But what if everyone else is doing it? Or just the potential for them doing it?Jamie Madigan, well known as the gamer with the Ph.D in psychology, tackles an adaptation of the classic "Prisoner's Dilemma " by applying it to glitching. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 501 | 5 months ago
Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Hard Times Edition Photoshop (via Kotaku) - Some recent weekend screengrabs of Sonic and Mario engaged in vice and loansharking supply fodder for the latest edition of Kotaku's 'Shop Contest.Three weeks ago, reader Aaron S. sent us that picture of a pawn shop on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Sorry, Mario, but our hunting knife, stereo and moped are in another person's home!
Two days later, reader 2MON sent along this picture of Sonic hawking smokes on a Russian storefront. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 498 | 5 months ago
Video Daily: The Internet Explorer 6 'funeral' (via After Dawn) - Earlier this week we reported on the "funeral" of Internet Explorer 6, hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Colorado.
The service had a coffin with a dummy inside with an IE6 logo for its head. Anyone who attended was welcome to eulogize the browser with memories, good or bad. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 480 | 5 months ago
Portal 2 definitely gettin Mac'd (via QJ) -- Mac gaming fans now have a reason to rejoice! Portal 2 has been confirmed to be headed to Apple's hardware. This much is confirmed in this week's issue of Game Informer Magazine.
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New Kyocera Android phone to have DVR abilities thanks to Cox? (via After Dawn) - AndroidAndMe is reporting a new interesting rumor today, that cable company Cox is teaming up with phone maker Kyocera to bring a new Android phone to the market, one that will have TV/DVR capabilities.
Says the article:
"Worked on a quick short-term sub-sub-sub contract where I wrote an app for Android, to be run at a trade show. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 441 | 5 months ago
iPad Safari to have Wikipedia added as a default search engine (via After Dawn) - According to new digging from 9to5Mac, Wikipedia is likely to be added as one of the default search engines for Safari on the iPad as well as upcoming versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The code is seen in the iPhone 3.2 SDK, and will be the third default behind Google and Yahoo. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 405 | 5 months ago
Look Ma, Sudoku Night Note (via Kotaku) - To: Luke
From: Owen
Out for a jog on the Willamette today I was passed by a kid, riding no-hands on a BMX bike - and doing Sudoku. If that's not multitasking, I don't know what is.
I'm off in about 10 days. I'll be in here next weekend though. Here's some highlights of this one:
MLB 10 The Show Review: The Game for All America
Major League Baseball 2K10 Review: Pitching With Two Strikes
Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Next-Gen Cereal System Edition Winners
Nintendo Power Reveals Scribblenauts 2, Due Out This Fall
Tinker to Chance: Game Makers Rethinking an Orthodoxy?
The Case of the Indie Devs and the Medical Marijuana Mixup
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A-Ha ESRB Outs Lips: I Heart the '80s Esrb (via Kotaku) - Yes, yes, simmer down, I know you were all dying for another installment of konsole karaoke. Happily, the ESRB issued another of its fabulous spoiler alerts, letting us know we'll be wailing along with one-hit wonders sometime soon.It's rated T for "Lyrics, Mild Violence, Sexual Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco," but any objectionable content seems to come from the accompanying music videos. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 402 | 5 months ago
Well, You Always Need an Extra Button Screengrab (via Kotaku) -- Billboard for Southern Polytechnic State University of Marietta, Ga., as seen by reader Ant just outside that city. The school, however, is not one of the top 50 game design programs recently ranked by the Princeton Review.
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Disney blacks out ABC channel for Cablevision subscribers (via After Dawn) - Disney has blacked out the broadcast channel ABC for Cablevision's 3 million subscribers, the day of the highly-anticipated Academy Awards.
Cablevision says it's willing to restart negotiations with Disney, along with a third-party arbitrator, to end the spat over transmission fees. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 396 | 5 months ago
UPDATE: Cablevision and ABC make a deal (via After Dawn) - Update to our previous article (reposted below):
Cablevision and ABC have come to a deal, 45 minutes after the start of the Oscars. More word on the agreement when it is finalized.
Original article:
Disney has blacked out the broadcast channel ABC for Cablevision's 3 million subscribers, the day of the highly-anticipated Academy Awards. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 393 | 5 months ago
O2 iPhone feature list adds video calling (via After Dawn) - In a strange discovery this weekend, an O2 tariff list reveals that video calling has been added to the "key features" list of the plans for the carriers, and that it will cost as much as the current voice-only plans.
The listing could mean a possible leak into future video chat capabilities of any iPhone, however, current hardware could obviously not allow for such capabilities. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 390 | 5 months ago
MLB 10 The Show Review: The Game for All America Review (via Kotaku) - The game of baseball was brought to video game consoles long ago. The total experience - the Pastime - represents the next frontier of simulation, for a public delighted by every stat and detail, no matter how small.This is the direction in which MLB The Show now strives most noticeably. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 390 | 5 months ago
File sharer-targeting law firm under investigation for harassment (via After Dawn) - Davenport Lyons, the notorious law firm known for going after alleged file-sharers on behalf of large game publishers such as Atari, is now under investigation for harassment and bullying by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, an industry watchdog, says GI.biz.
The consumer group Which? has been complaining about the firm since 2008, when the law firm first began sending out letters accusing citizens of unauthorized file sharing. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 384 | 5 months ago
PlayStation Ar button configuration detailed (via QJ) -- Interested in finding out what the button configurations are for the PlayStation arc? Neogaf poster Ichinisan is claiming that he's seen the latest pictures of the Arc and proceeds to describe them in full detail.
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Ubisoft's New DRM System Falls Down, Locks Out Paying Customers PC (via Kotaku) - Hey, Ubisoft: when you force users to maintain an internet connection even when playing a singleplayer game offline, you'd damn well better make sure you hold up your end of the bargain.
Having recently implemented a wildly unpopular new form of digital rights management for its PC titles, over the last few days Ubisoft released two key games for the platform, Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter V. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 369 | 5 months ago
