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Xbox One’s Kinect Can Turn Off, Microsoft Says, Noting Privacy Worries
The state of confusion around the new Xbox One console is such that we’re delighted to bring you the news that Microsoft’s next console has a power button. What’s more: its watchful new Kinect sensor that must be plugged in for the console to run can be turned off.
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Sony Wants To Make a PS3 Controller That Gets Hot Or Cold
OK. My mind is blown. Sony published a patent this week for a video game controller that heats up or cools down as you’re playing a game. It sounds kind of dangerous. And it sounds kind of awesome.
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Continuity 2 Would Make Super Mario One Paranoid Plumber
What if Super Mario was locked in a room and the walls kept moving around him?… [Kotaku]
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First Amendment Trumps California In Supreme Court Battle Over Violent Video Games
The Supreme Court sided with the video game industry today, declaring a victor in the six-year legal match between the video game industry and the California lawmakers who wanted to make it a crime for anyone in the state to sell extremely violent games to kids.