Much better! Week two of Kotaku’s ‘Shop Contest went more smoothly than our debut, with several dozen entries conceiving of what games on the iPad would be like before we found out on Wednesday. Our alternate source image, of Pyramid Head and a vacuum cleaner, produced fewer entries. Here’s a gallery of the 20 best, [...]

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Rumors that Halo: Reach might be Natal-enabled were close to flatlining of late, but the subject never got a flat-out “no.” Well, now it has. The studio says emphatically that it is not a Natal title. That’s the newsy news out of a fun-filled “mythbusters” post Bungie put up about Halo: Reach’s development. Natal rumors [...]

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admin on January 31st, 2010

While third party publishers are having trouble selling in big numbers on the Wii EA has found a series that moves on Nintendo’s systems. The MySims games are plenty popular and when a series gets popular leave it to mega-publishers like EA to milk it over and over. While this news might not interest most [...]

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admin on January 31st, 2010

Dragon Age: Origins wasn’t much of a looker, especially the console versions of the tech-handicapped RPG, but BioWare is doing the work required to make the next Dragon Age visually impressive, or “super hot” to be just a tad more specific. “I can confirm that we’re doing a lot of work on the Dragon Age [...]

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admin on January 31st, 2010

It’s been a long time coming, and it’s still coming, but you’ll finally be able to get your hands on Capcom’s MotoGP 09/10 at some point this February. The publisher recently made it known that it plans to release a demo version of the game — for the PS3 and Xbox 360 — in the [...]

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admin on January 29th, 2010

NIH Director Francis Collins today announced that he has approved the 43rd line in the NIH stem cell registry, which includes cell lines approved subsequent to the Bush deadline of August 2001. The new line, widely used by researchers, was…

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