Starcraft Course opened for College - earn credits

Students in UC - Berkeley can take up StarCraft studies for college credits. Something we’ve never imagined would happen.

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Batman’s Best and Worst Games

we recognize there’s a whole lot of Batman love being spread about. To quench your thirst for the masked vigilante, we’re bringing you a look back at every Bat game ever made.

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10 Cancelled Games We Wish Were Released

Sometimes budgets get slashed, timelines shift, milestones slip, the publisher just doesn't see it as a fit in the market at the time. Whatever the reason, some games just get canceled, here's ten games we most regret never having had the time to properly experience. They range from MMOs to RPGs to…well, lots of other acronym-friendly genres.

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Battle Rage: The Robot Wars

It all begun in 2036 with invention of The Drive. After nearly a century the humanity turned it’s eyes at the stars again. First the Moon and then Mars, so unwelcoming and mysterious, had to submit to mankind’s expansion. Space became swarmed with shiny hulls of ships.

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Gaming equals poorer relationships with friends, family

Researchers at Brigham Young University have conducted a study which finds a connection between young adults' use of video games and poorer relationships with friends and families along with a greater frequency of risky behaviors, such as drinking and drug abuse.

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iPhone - the ultimate platform for Alternate Reality Games?

ARGNet has uncovered The Analog Resistance, an Alternate Reality Game described as "the Amazing Race meets The Game" taking place in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York & Chicago. It uses a new iPhone app called Urban Sleuth & the company behind it is encouraging others to use it for their own ARGs as well (offering prizes to the best).

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Video: Holocaust Survivor Shares Her Story In Second Life

With some help from her daughter's Second Life avatar, Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr met with a group of the virtual world's citizens to share her personal experience of the horrors of genocide.

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Ten Signs That You're A Grumpy Old Gamer

10 ways to tell if you're a grumpy old gamer...

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The Videogame Bosses' Guide to Success

So you aspire to be a roadblock in the path of every hero, a hulking shadow that ominously hangs over the hopes and dreams of normal people, the guy that makes babies squall at your very approach. I know you. You've turned many a pleasant gaming experience into objects being hurled at the TV and flurries of muttered obscenties. You, the videogame b

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A Hands-on Preview with GTA 4 DLC: The Lost and the Damned

A first look into new content from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 4, featuring new music, weapons (auto-shotgun, grenade launcher, pipe bombs), characters, television programming, Internet, and minigames, as well as new multiplayer modes and "superpeds". Motorcycles have also been tweaked so that they’re much easier to ride and harder to fall off of.

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The Biggest Unfulfilled Promises in Gaming

This whole new-President thing got us thinking about gaming promises that were made by large companies that have gone tragically unfulfilled. From small game features to hefty hardware claims, these are the promises that never came to fruition...

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10 Trends That Are Saving Videogames

If the last feature could be seen as a guide on how not to make a game, perhaps this is best viewed on the things to look out for in games for 2009 and beyond. Maybe it's appropriate, then, that this is the bigger of the two articles. There's a lot to look forward to and a lot to love about the games industry – and this is just some of it.

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A Hands-on Preview with GTA 4 DLC: The Lost and the Damned

A first look into new content from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 4, featuring new music, weapons (auto-shotgun, grenade launcher, pipe bombs), characters, television programming, Internet, and minigames, as well as new multiplayer modes and "superpeds". Motorcycles have also been tweaked so that they’re much easier to ride and harder to fall off of.

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The 3 biggest fears about Starcraft 2 and why not to worry

The original masterpiece that is Starcraft is still played 10 years later to this day among tens of thousands of players, and with that, comes skepticism that Starcraft 2 won't be able to match the greatness. Innovation, price, and multiple-building selection top the list of worries, but here are reasons why you should keep the faith in Blizzard.

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Guitar Hero: Metallica full tracklisting revealed

The full tracklisting for the upcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica game has been revealed, with songs such as Battery, One, Creeping Death, Master of Puppets, Orion and Seek and Destroy being included. Slayer's "War Ensemble, Mercyful Fate's "Evil", Mastodon's "Blood and Thunder" are among the Non-Metallica songs to make the cut.

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Don't Blame the Recession, Blame the Developers

News of game developers slashing thousands of jobs this week and shutting down studios, seems to dispute the notion of a recession-proof video game industry. But video games are indeed recession proof, it’s the developers and publishers who aren’t.

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Obama in Fallout, Moon, and industry drama.

This week in gaming brought us the inauguration of the 44th president Barack Obama as seen from Fallout 3, the release of an unexpected first-person gem for the DS in Moon, and more industry drama as Microsoft and Sony trade words.

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PS3 gets "B" on IGN Network Online Report Card

The PlayStation 3, despite having one of the rockiest starts in gaming history, is constantly being improved, expanded and retooled. Still, things do need to change

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10 Last Generation Games That Will Kick Your Ass

Are games today easier than they used to be? Has the skill curve declined as technology has advanced? Here are ten old-school and previous generation games that are the source of millions of broken controllers.

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Walmart Sells Blank Disc Labeled "Redneck Sh*t" As Madden 09

When Michael's son used his Christmas money to buy a copy of Madden 09 from Walmart, he though he was buying a copy of Madden 09, not a blank disc that said "Redneck Sh*t."

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Snake Makes a Solid Tat

There seems to be no shortage of the impressive art gamers are both willing to pay for and have etched into their skin. Kotaku reader Aaron S. sent in this one, which he says is a picture of his friend. Not him. Because that's a lady that sat in a chair while Solid Snake was rendered up and down her midriff. Wow.

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Video Games Are Bad For You In So Many Ways

A study published today in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence maintains that video games - including the non-violent kind - are linked to a variety of negative findings among college students.

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Zack & Miri game (stick figure sex SFW / Audio NSFW)

My hand got tired on level 8. how far can you get?

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Why Hitler Hates Valve So Much

This is just too funny. Hitler really hates Valve.

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The Best Video Game Beginnings

These games blow you away right from the start!

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10 Videogame Scenes in Mainstream Movies Part 1

From Swingers to Superbad, Back to the Future II to Terminator 2. 10 clips of videogame scenes in mainstream movies and why they are there.

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PSP2 is real, touch screen-enabled, and coming soon

IGN has learned from several credible sources that the PSP 2 is indeed on the horizon, and will be packing multi-touch technology. According to our sources, the PSP 2 will feature a widescreen multi-touch interface comparable to that of the iPhone for both in-game control and menu navigation.

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Batman’s Best and Worst Games

we recognize there’s a whole lot of Batman love being spread about. To quench your thirst for the masked vigilante, we’re bringing you a look back at every Bat game ever made.

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Sony denies touchscreen PSP 2 rumours

Sony has flatly denied that a PSP mark 2 is in the works, despite usually-credible news source IGN claiming otherwise this week.

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10 Cancelled Games We Wish Were Released

Sometimes budgets get slashed, timelines shift, milestones slip, the publisher just doesn't see it as a fit in the market at the time. Whatever the reason, some games just get canceled, here's ten games we most regret never having had the time to properly experience. They range from MMOs to RPGs to…well, lots of other acronym-friendly genres.

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