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BioWare Hosts 24-Hour International Dragon Age Competition
3:20AM Mike Fahey | BioWare has gathered 10 teams from across the globe to compete in the Dragon Age: Origins Warden’s Quest, a 24-hour competition to determine which players are worthy of $US12,500. More »
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People Try Harder When Gaming Against Humans
3:20AM Brian Crecente | A recent study on brain patterns shows that people who think they are playing against real people try harder, then when they believe they are playing against computers. More »
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Serious Games Competition Is Serious Business
11:20AM AJ Glasser | Whosegame is right in the middle of their first annual Serious Games competition which runs from Dec. 8, 2008 to Mar 31, 2009. More »
Outgrowing Games: The Rebuttal and Challenge
7:00AM Maggie Greene | A few weeks ago, designer Brice Morrison talked about how a game designer outgrew games; since kicking off a flurry of discussion, he’s returned to GameSetWatch with some in-depth answers to common questions and a challenge. More »
Win PS3 Penny Arcade Codes With Evil Avatar
8:20AM Stuart Houghton | Evil Avatar have snagged 5 Digital Download codes for (deep breath) Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One on PS3. More »
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X3: Terran Conflict Video Competition
5:20AM Stuart Houghton | Any budding George Lucases (Lucai?) out there who enjoy a bit of X3? Fancy winning a.. thingy.. that will let you play games in Super Duper Widescreen? More »
Win our Penny Arcade Expo Swag For Pennies A Day
5:00AM Brian Crecente | Those of you who have been around on the site for awhile know that I am a cruel craftsman of contests. I like to include site scouring scavenger hunts, math problems, arcane historic knowledge in my quests for free swag. But I’m also in the midst of planning trips to New York and Tokyo over the next few weeks, so I don’t have time to be cruel. Instead, I’m going to allow you to be creative. We have, at Adam’s house, a backpack of Penny Arcade Expo swag that need to get into the hands of a faithful reader but quick. When I asked around in Kotaku Tower for ideas for a contest, Fahey was quick to come up with something equal parts diabolical and fun. Recreate a scene from a video game with pennies. I think he may have been joking, but I’m not. Make sure to include, when you snap your picture, something that says Kotaku on it in the image, so we know you’re on the up and up. Deadline is Sept. 26. Mail all entries to KotakuContestATGmailDOTcom with “PAX” in the subject line and the photo in the body. We’ll announce the winner that Monday. Here’s what you have a chance of winning: More »
Too Human comp winners!
5:49PM Seamus Byrne | So, Logan was too lazy in his final days to tell you who won some Too Human action. But winners were indeed picked and I’ve been passed the conch of knowledge to share the names amongst names. Did that make sense? What I meant was… winners after the jump!
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First Album Recorded Using DS KORG Emulator Released
6:00AM Stuart Houghton | ..and by ‘Released’ we mean ‘put up on a website in a Zip file’. Say what you like about the democratising power of the internet – it does rather suck the glamour out of album launches. Anyway, what we have here is a cracking little collection of musical experiments created using the KORG DS-10 emulator for the Nintendo DS, for a competition at MP3Death.us/diplodocus. I listened to all twelve tracks on the way home tonight and it is mainly what you would expect – squirly, twiddly synth sounds and squelchy beats. Some tracks have quite an 8-bit soundtrack feel — Aliceffek’s ‘Toneworks‘ is great fun and would not sound out of place on a Commodoure 64 platformer — while the brilliant ‘DSTennis‘ by A Rival is reminiscent of Hexstatic’s ‘Bass Invader‘
