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How The Xbox One Harnesses The Mighty Power Of The Cloud
The cloud — that’s a powerful term these days. If you release a product that doesn’t do something with the cloud, then you probably shouldn’t even bother putting it out. Snack foods, floor cleaners, maid services and even consumer electronics like the newly announced Xbox One use the cloud to do great and magical things. Like what, you ask? How about LIVING GAMES?
Watch This Australian Magician Walk Backwards Through Every Board Game Ever
Beat the Cheat is a magic show about games. All kinds of games: board games, old games, card games, video games. The tagline goes “[i]f you’ve ever stolen money from the bank in Monopoly, bumped the table in Jenga or peaked at your nanna’s cards while playing Go Fish, this is the show for you.” This promotional video for the show is brilliant. As a complete idiot, I’m still trying to work out how they pulled it off.
To Gimp Or Not To Gimp? A Competitive Gamer Playing Casual Magic: The Gathering
Welcome, brave adventurers of unknown ability, to the sadness that is my bedroom floor. If you’re well-eyed, or just very good at reading headlines, you’ll note these are cards from Magic: The Gathering, a collectible card game created by Richard Garfield in the 15th or 16th century. It feels that old, anyway.
Final Fantasy, King Of Fighters, And Magic: The Gathering Collide In This Arcade Game
Trading card games are big in Japan — from Yu-Gi-Oh! to Pokémon to Magic: The Gathering. And given the popularity of video games also, it’s really not surprising that video game makers figured out how to combine the two. Today, outside of fighting games and metal games, these card/video games are the most popular thing you’ll see in your average Japanese arcade.
Downton Abbey Meets Magic: The Gathering, And It Is Glorious
OK, yes, fine. This post is at least partly an excuse for me to finally tag something “Downton Abbey” here at Kotaku. But in this case, the tag is warranted — over at Kill Screen, writer Sarah Elmaleh (who some of you may remember as the voice of Aeris in that column I wrote about silent protagonists) and illustrator Daniel Purvis have put together a series of fake playing cards depicting a Magic: The Gathering-like Downton Abbey card game.
Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Helm In Might & Magic Heroes VI
We now have the culmination of last week’s tease-of-a-teaser. Here is the Gamescom 2011 trailer for Might and Magic Heroes VI, establishing the game’s appropriately epic struggle. We’ve got brother against sister, glowing undead and giant insectoid witches, even the Wilhelm scream.
If Anything Can Get Me To Play Battlefield Heroes, It’s Magic
I will play any game that pits the forces of magic against (relatively) modern military forces. Battlefield Heroes gets wizards today. I approve.
Why Sony’s Sorcery Moved Us
