Ah good old JavaScript. Not thought of too fondly by game developers, but, web developers sure like to put it to good use to recreate games within your browser. Case in point, Jacob Seidelin is a dedicated hacker who is putting his talent with JS to great use. How you ask? By hacking together a prototype version of Super Mario Kart in Javascript! Or, Super Mario Kart JS, if you will.

Complete with two courses (Mushroom Cup Round 1 and 2), opponents and soundtrack, SMKJS runs on FireFox 2 and 3, Opera 9.27+ and Safari 3.1.1+. IE users miss out, as they should for now upgrading to a real web browser. It uses the canvas element to do most of the rendering and the code (available here) weighs in at a nicely minimal 11 Kb.

At the moment, there is no lap count and the AI is a bit crude, but there is basic collision detection, which at least holds you back long enough to determine where you can cut corners.

Halo 3 gods Bungie have launched a new version of their community site, Bungie.net, improving usability and navigation in one fell swoop of the mighty sword of fandom. RSS feed, new ticker, easy access to everything in the Bungie universe and all the Halo 3 news you can shake a stick at.

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Bored at work waiting for the next meeting to start? Pass the time by playing some of the greatest classic video games ever released. As part of their web expansion, Atari is offering registered users (it’s free) the chance to play classic video and board games online as part of it’s “Atari Play” section. From classic board games like Battleship, Monopoly and Sorry!, to classic arcade titles like Centipede, Lunar Lander and Asteroids, it’s free to enjoy the arcade games of your youth AND show those young interns at work a thing or two about retro gaming.

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As many already know, I’m all about the Wii and most definitely about Wii web browsing. The things that people are doing with Opera on the Wii are already exciting as hell and things just keep getting better. From the crew behind Warp Pipe comes Wiiminder, an extremely nifty tabbed browser interface for your Wii browser, giving you access to tabbed browsing (how could this be left out of Opera Wii!?), nifty little home and favorites tools and a more pleasant user experience while surfing the ‘net.

Watch Wiiminder in action after the jump..

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We’re such a sucker for Wii web-browsing, so naturally we’d be all over this. Clusty, the web browser from Vivisimo which performs a monster metaquery of your search term from the top search engines, combines the results and then generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. Blah blah blah, we know, we know. Basically, all you need to know is that it’s optimized for the Wii Opera browser with hot web 2.0 bells and whistles and that it’s approach to searching the web puts your best results at the top and pushes many spam results wayyyy down to the bottom. Expect the Playthrough Wii-optimized version, coming soon-ish.

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Rupture, the social network for World of Warcraft players run by Napter-founder Shawn Fanning has gone live, allowing users to meet with real life people who play the most popular MMO in the universe. Rupture allows you to automatically publish your character and guild profiles to your profile page, as well as share pictures, chat with friends and recruit new people into your fold.

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One of the few exciting things about the Wii Internet Channel is the freedom it’s allowing home brew experimentalists in the creation of their web applications, specifically geared to the Wii Opera browsing experience. One such application is SofaTube, a new web application allowing Wii surfers the ability to stream YouTube and Revver videos using an interface which has been optimized for widescreen televisions and longer viewing distances. Featuring large, easy to drag and drop elements, SofaTube is PERFECT for those Wii couch surfers looking for an easy way to watch someone setting themselves on fire while replying to Lonelygirl15.

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It’s only a matter of time before the benefits of web 2.0 are recognized and adopted by the games industry, and those times they are a coming. Kongregate is a flash games hub with social networking-style community features allowing game developers to connect and interact with players and players to easily connect with and play against their friends. Developers are free and welcome to add their own games to Kongregate (great for online RPG, RTS and casino games developers)and are even compensated via shares of any microtransactions or advertising revenue while keeping full rights to their games. A great start to the future of casual social gaming.

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No I haven’t gotten my frickin’ Wii yet. Argh! But oh well, I’m already having fun reading all the reports of overzealous Wii-heads who are going about tearing their homes apart thanks to slippery hands, flimsy safety cords and way too much adrenaline pumping through those Wii-hands. Never one to turn down taking advantage of a new market-opportunity, enterprising bloggers and self-confessed Wii fanboys, have created Wiihaveaproblem.com, a community blog focusing only on the newest trend in video gaming violence. Flying Wiimotes.

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From the title I hope you all realize that the link below is beyond NSFW, so don’t even try it, unless of course you are the boss and can do whatever you want or need to perform, uh, “research”. An interesting meeting of industries occurred recently with the launch of Whores of Warcraft, a porn site featuring professional porn stars who also happen to be fans of World of Warcraft, recreating characters and scenes from World of Warcraft, mainly some of the unofficial, um, ’scenes’ that we all know happen in WoW alllllll the time. Come on all you Night Elves, you know what we’re talking about. Each episode is available for digital download, selling for around $8 a pop, with the second episode being released soon. Er, so I’ve heard…

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