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In Real Life

One Man Getting Hit By A Bus Is Another Man’s Frogger Flash Game

At the University of Texas “every Friday before finals there’s a thing called ‘Foam Sword Friday’,” writes Austin H., a computer sciences major at the university. Students go to the university district’s main drag, cross the street during a red light, and then battle it out with foam swords.

January 26, 2012
Mobile

Tiny Tower Rips Off A Flash Game — and Electronic Arts

Earlier today, the makers of mobile gaming blockbuster Tiny Tower published the kind of open letter loved by video gaming’s instantly and constantly angry fuck-the-man constituency, not least because it can be disseminated by imgur. It alleged that Zynga, the popularly despised maker of Facebook McGames, stole Tiny Tower‘s idea and was reaping a dishonest profit from it.

December 23, 2011
PC

Kotaku’s Christmas-Time Waster

Kotaku AU

Over the weekend you might find yourself without your consoles or beefed-up PC. You might be staying at a relative’s house or keeping your grandmother company. She might have a computer that runs Vista. Just as you’re ready to claw your eyes out after your second cousin suggests for the sixtieth time that you join in on a game of Jeopardy!, you decide that unless you play a video game immediately, you might actually explode. This is where Kotaku steps in.

November 29, 2011
PC

Culmination Is A Flash Game I Can Get Behind

Culmination is a smooth side-scrolling action game with an ambiance that is both eerie and calming. The controls feel solid (with only minor hiccups during combat) and I find myself zoning out while I play. Maybe I’m not a Flash game aficionado, but I am loving how polished this game feels.

September 18, 2011
PC

New Video Game Delivers The Immersive Realism Of Waiting 5 Hours In Line At A Museum

A year ago, the contemporary artist Marina Abramovic held a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, at which patrons waited in line for a very, very long time just to meet her. The excitement of that encounter is now chronicled in a recently launched free-to-play online game.

July 18, 2011
PC

VVVVVV Creator Makes Super Meat Boy A Tad More Impossible

Super Meat Boy is no joke. That’s a hard game, and that’s part of its appeal. Put it in the hands of the maker of another, harder game, and it collapses into a singularity of motherfucker-what-do-you want-me-to-do difficulty.

July 12, 2011
PC

The Captain America Game You Can Play For Free

Remember that free Thor game that was pretty great? Well, there’s one for Captain America. It’s also got old-school 2D platforming and some totally cute sprite art.

May 6, 2011
Mobile

iTunes Flash Game Ripoffs Get More Brazen With Canabalt Clone

Last week, the outright theft of a Flash game, republished for sale on the iTunes App Store with Apple’s approval, jarred the Flash development community. Though the app later was removed, anecdotal reports of similar ripoffs came trickling back.

April 7, 2011
News

Here’s An Unlicensed Game Featuring Tiger Woods At The Masters

The Masters Tournament, which graces Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters (duh), begins with its opening round tomorrow at Augusta National. Hecklers and disturbances are either unanticipated or flat impossible thanks to the golf club’s otherworldly security – in this flash game’s case, a sniper ready to take out any troublemakers.

March 11, 2011
PC

Bioshock As A Point And Click Flash Game?

Kotaku AU

This is quite impressive. 1up has commissioned a point and click adventure style game based in the Bioshock universe, and it actually plays pretty well.

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