But I wonder how much this new look will endear itself to fans of the old, dark, crowded hallway the old CF was known as? Either way, I have a feeling that if they bring the 2D fighters, the games will come back.

A Gaming Landmark, Transformed [Video]Kotaku

  

This morning, Kotaku video editor Chris Person and I took a trip to New York’s Chinatown Fair, which reopened last Friday following a sudden closure last December. It doesn’t look very much like the old Chinatown Fair. More »

I’m pretty sure in order to prove defamation of character in court, you have to prove that you had character to begin with.

Ocean Marketing’s Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character [Paul Christoforo]Kotaku

Paul Christoforo, best known as the man who set off an Internet firestorm after a spat with a customer went public last December, has filed a lawsuit against the company he worked for then. More »

I’m not a big fan of G4. I appreciate the effort they put into the programming, but in all honesty I’ve never been able to overlook the brazen pandering the network makes to the stereotypes of its audience. It bugs the hell out of me that G4 feels that in order to maintain its audience it needs to lower the bar, not raise it. What if ESPN had taken that approach to legitimizing sports broadcast journalism? Conversely, what if instead of putting so much emphasis on objectifying women and emulating l33t-speak on-air, G4 focused its creative efforts on real investigative journalism, and on lifting the veil off the secretive and enigmatic industry they’re supposedly covering?

Don’t get me wrong- I understand the need for ratings, and the need to fill programming slots with more than just Cops reruns and hard news segments. But there aren’t ANY real news segments on G4. At all. That’s a world of difference from a network like ESPN, which has struck a fine balance between news programming like SportsCenter and less serious content like SportsNation and Pardon the Interruption. That’s why ESPN isn’t just watched by sports fans- it’s respected by sports fans.

Maybe if G4 respected its audience more, it would stop trying to grab the low-hanging fruit and put more of its energy into actually winning the respect of the 18-34 year-old gamer audience it tries so hard to capture.

Kevin Pereira Also Out At G4 [Blip]Kotaku

Two weeks ago, we reported that Adam Sessler had parted ways with television network G4TV. Today, popular Attack of the Show host Kevin Pereira said he is also leaving the network. [G4TV] More »

How to Make XBMC Easier to Use (Especially for Non-Geeks) [Xbmc]Lifehacker

So you’ve created a kickass, play-anything media center with XBMC, but it’s a too hard for your less tech-savvy friends and family members to use. Here are a few ways to make your home theater PC so easy that your four year old could use it. More »

I would rip tracks off Sega Saturn discs and record them onto tapes (I didn’t have a CD burner back then). Wouldn’t mind adding those blasts from my past to my iTunes library.

Turn Your Rare and Homemade Cassette Tapes Into MP3s with Audacity [Music]Lifehacker

Cassette Tapes aren’t exactly the highest quality audio, but if you have a few rare tracks that you can’t buy on CD (or a few homemade cassettes you want to back up for posterity), CNET shows us how to easily record them to an MP3 file with Audacity. More »