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So, Are The Haystacks Of Assassin’s Creed II Any Bigger?
12:00PM Owen Good | Doesn’t look like Ubisoft learned their physics lesson. Matt, who helped the Kotaku Bureau of Weights & Measures calculate the cushion Altair would need in reality, thinks the haystacks are bigger in ACII. They still look puny to me. More »
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Bringing A Little MMO To The Real World
9:00PM Luke Plunkett | With the real world lacking in loot, Marc Owens set forth on a project to make it appear more like an MMO, by crafting himself a suit that would look more at home in WOW than on the BUS. More »
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AI Convention Features StarCraft Competition
1:40PM AJ Glasser | The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) is hosting a StarCraft competition where contestants craft bots to pit against one another in four different tournaments. More »
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Study Finds Wii Fit Produces “Underwhelming Results”
4:00PM Luke Plunkett | Anyone who does proper exercise could have pointed this out, but it’s always nice to have it in writing; the American Council on Exercise have claimed that Nintendo’s Wii Fit produces “underwhelming results”. More »
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Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller
6:40AM Michael McWhertor | Welcome to Bobby Kotick’s nightmare, a world in which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless, a world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air guitar future! More »
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Gamer Kid Leads Study Showing Connection To Joint Pain
11:00AM Owen Good | A St. Louis fifth-grader, with help from his father (a rheumatologist) and researchers from New York University, led a study showing kids were more likely to complain of joint pain the more they played video games. More »
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How The Wii Can Help Fight Terrorism
3:00AM Brian Crecente | The war on terrorism can be a real hassle, just ask anyone who has flown recently. Fortunately, science and the Wii have joined forces to try and cut-down on those mammoth airport security lines with the Fidget Monitor. More »
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Study: Gamer Aggression Mimics That Of Warfare
12:00PM Owen Good | A study involving Unreal Tournament players, given a cash incentive for winning, found that gamers’ testosterone levels spiked noticeably after pwning complete strangers. When defeating friends, they produced even less testosterone than their vanquished teammates. More »
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Measuring The Time It Takes Between A Button Press And On-Screen Action
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Digital Foundry’s long-running blog on Eurogamer often throws up some interesting technical studies on games, but few have ever been as interesting, or as comprehensive, as this piece on controller latency. More »
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