Skeletor, Why Are Your Arms So Tiny? [He-man]

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

From a very, very old advertisement for Mattel's 1984 He-Man video game, taken from a very, very old copy of an X-Men comic.

The He-Man video game [Four Colour Promises]

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Hong Kong setting sold Square Enix on Sleeping Dogs

Brenna Hillier — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:52:39 +0000

Square Enix took one look at the game now known as Sleeping Dogs and fell head over heels in love, according to United Front Games.

“For Square, that proposition was exciting for them. They said ‘First time in Hong Kong; sounds amazing,’” senior producer Jeff O’Connell told AusGamers.

“There’s not a lot of cop games, so the original in that respect sounds amazing....

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Sony VP in UK and Ireland talks Vita pricing, says bigger memory cards on the way

Mike Schramm — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:45:00 +0000

Sony's Vice President and Managing Director from the UK and Ireland, Fergal Gara, talked with Eurogamer at the PS Vita launch last night in London, and said there's a lot more in store for the new handheld console.... The current pricing and memory concerns are the results of "early days."

On price, for example, Gara says that the system is priced as low as Sony could get it on launch day, "not a lot above an iPod and a hell of a long way below a good tablet." Given the hardware included, Gara says Sony "priced it as attractively as we could afford to, frankly," with an eye toward creating a lasting product over the next few years.

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Who Needs The Wizard When You’ve Got Surf Ninjas? [Video]

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:30:00 +0000

The Wizard, a 1989 movie starring Fred Savage, was little more than a 100-minute commercial for Nintendo's Power Glove.

Surf Ninjas, a 1993 movie starring Ernie Reyes, Jr., Rob Schneider, Leslie Nielsen (doing his best M. Bison impersonation) and Tone Loc, was much the same for Sega's Game Gear handheld....

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GDC 2012 details Moriarty, Della Rocca, ‘Rant’ sessions in Education Summit

Gamasutra News — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:24:00 +0000

For the latest update on the Game Developers Conference 2012, show organizers have detailed several sessions within the Education Summit, featuring adventure game veteran Brian Moriarty (pictured) on "sinister" game courses, a look at university based game incubation, and a series of rant sessions from the industry's leading educators. These sessions join a host of other talks within the show's Education Summit, which will explore experimental educational techniques and influential game research that educators can ......

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Sega Lost the Handheld Race Long Before it Lost the Console Race [Video]

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:00:00 +0000

People are still, a decade on, shedding tears over Sega's last home console. We get it, it's sad, but let's not forget that other Sega gaming machine that was killed off by stronger competition.

The Sega Game Gear.

When Nintendo released the Game Boy in 1989, arch-rivals Sega decided it had to have a dog of its own in the portable hunt....

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Engadget evaluates Razer Blade performance

Mike Schramm — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:45:00 +0000

Our fellow bloggers at Engadget have gotten their hands on the Blade laptop from Razer (the very first commercial fruits of that "Switchblade" concept... seeded so long ago), and the unit gets some high marks, despite some significant flaws. The worst issue with the laptop seems to be the audio (the built-in speakers are so bad that Engadget suspected their unit was broken somehow), but in general the problem with the Blade seems that it's tuned for a mix of portability and performance, which means neither gets to be perfect.

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Will Smith in High-Tops Playing an NES [Open Thread]

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Hello, Kotaku, and welcome to the mid-week evening open thread! Hope your wednesdays went splendidly. It was a beautiful day in San Francisco.

Here, from all around the web, are things for you to check out and maybe talk about.

TV sports announcer falls off a stool - It's hard to be cool.

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Study – World of Warcraft helps improve cognitive function among the elderly

Brenna Hillier — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:15:13 +0000

A North Carolina State University study has found World of Warcraft can help improve spatial awareness and attention levels in elderly players.

The study checked the cognitive function of two groups of volunteers aged between 60 and 77.

One group was sent off to play around 14 hours of World of Warcraft over two weeks, while the other served as a control....

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EA Pulls Battlefield 3 iOS App Due To Complaints About Quality

Phil Kollar — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:05:00 +0000

Battlefield 3: Aftershock, a single-map multiplayer-only iOS version of EA's popular shooter, was just released earlier this month, but as of today it is no longer available on the App Store.

IGN reports that EA pulled the game amid low ratings on the App Store and complaints from players about the controls and connectivity issues....

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