Friday, January 9, 2009 - Page 2
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Government Agent Leaks Xbox Game Proposal Online

A government agent has accidentally leaked several gigs of personal, business and government files all over the internet, including business papers, possible insider schemes, horrid poems, pictures of ‘girlfriends,’ and an Xbox game proposal.


In Real Life

‘You Don’t Know How Many Games You Can Complete While You’re Alive’

Popular Japanese idol Shoko Nakagawa has varied tastes: Playing Final Fantasy VII, cosplaying Super Robot Taisen and putting her cat’s head in her mouth. She’s an otaku, but is she an otaku’s otaku?


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Blizzard Can’t Design A Starcraft II Unit, Want You To Decide

Blizzard are in a pickle! They’ve got two designs down on paper for the game’s Protoss Dark Templar unit. And just can not decide which one to use in the game. So they want you to.


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Wii-mote Originally Designed For GameCube

A Nintendo patent from March 2006 shows that the company originally intended a Wii-mote style device for the GameCube. A patent drawing shows how the Wii Remote could link with the GC.


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Half-Life 2′s Graphics Dragged Kicking & Screaming Into 2009

Half-Life 2? Only one of the best games ever. Sadly, it’s getting on in years. It’s not ugly, by any stretch of the imagination, but in 2009, it can look better.


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When’s All This Xbox 360 Stuff Coming to Australia?

Kotaku AU

Microsoft’s CES announcement of Kodu, its LittleBigPlanet rip-off take on the whole user-generated content craze, looks really cool. (Almost as cool as two hot chicks playing Xbox together.) Thing is, Kodu is part of the XNA Community Games Channel, which isn’t actually available in Australia. Also at CES, Microsoft revealed a launch date for Primetime, the Xbox Live game show channel where players compete with each other for real prizes in formats like 1 vs 100. Will we be getting any of these features in Australia? I put this question to Microsoft…


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World #3 Tennis Player Issues Wii Challenge

Kotaku AU

Australian Open tennis champion Novak Djokovic is looking for a fresh challenge for his sporting career. He’ll be back in Melbourne from Jan 19 to defend his title, but the real reason he’ll be there is to take you on at Wii Tennis.


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Killzone 2 Footage: Ragdolls, Bullets & Bugs

Couple of new Killzone 2 clips from the CES showroom floor (so excuse the quality). The first one, showing the game’s ragdoll death physics, is good for a chuckle. The second one? Shows some bugs.


Wii Fit Reminder For New Year’s Fatties

The holidays are all about eating, and Japan is no exception. During the extended holidays in The Land of The Rising Sun, people pig out. Nintendo knows this. Nintendo is no dummy.


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CES 09: Prototype Impressions: It’s Been A While, Alex

Radical and Activision brought a newly previewable build of the open world game Prototype to CES, showing it off in the THX booth. THX? Why? Well, Prototype is THX 7.1 certified on the Xbox 360.