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Might we be seeing soldiers cry—or, at least get very pensive—in Spec Ops: The Line? Maybe. It may be set in the architectural wonderland of Dubai but bad shit's going to down in 2K Games' upcoming military shooter. These screens and concept art shots show the shattered steel and glass of Dubai festooned with bodies of lynched soldiers and one firefight that looks like it might be happening in front of what might be a playground. Emotional manipulation needle's in the red, captain! More »
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As someone who was quite fond of what we saw of the re-imagined XCOM at E3 this past year, but who's also excited about the Firaxis strategy reboot of the franchise, I am somewhat conflicted by this news. More »
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Here's a new trailer for 2K's upcoming Spec Ops: The Line. Hrm. More »
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Somewhat lost in the shuffle with Thursday's announcement of NBA 2K12's "Legends Showcase" DLC is the unique visual style the extension will carry. More »
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XCOM is no X-Com. More »
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I'm not a scientist, so I can't tell you exactly how much of this new BioShock Infinite trailer (commission for the Tokyo Game Show) is actually new. So let's just guess and say "some". More »
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A "Game of the Year" edition of Sid Meier's Civilization V, featuring six packs and the digital soundtrack, hits stores on Sept. 27 for $50, 2K Games said this morning. More »
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A former tester at Visual Concepts, the developers behind 2K's NBA and MLB games, is trying to take the pair's parent company Take-Two Interactive to court, accusing them of a number of workplace violations. More »
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Welcome everyone to the final discussion about CivWorld for the Kotaku Game Club. So we've now played two games back to back: I imagine that some of you are, like myself, beginning to feel a bit "Cived out". I hope, however, that some of you have stuck with it. More »
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So here we are again, folks. Another week, another CivWorld discussion. Hopefully, most of you decided to either play in the new Kotaku game or a public one. Regardless of what game you're playing, I'm sure you all have a lot to say about how the game is treating you. More »
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Welcome back everyone! As you may have guessed, we're here for round two of the Kotaku Game Club's discussion of Sid Meier's CivWorld. More »
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Welcome, folks, to the first meeting of the Kotaku Game Club, CivWorld edition. I hope everyone's been enjoying the game so far. For those of you who are having trouble getting into our game, I apologize; we're working on getting everyone in. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827816&view=rss&microfeed=true Hey Everyone! The Kotaku Game Club's special game of CivWorld is starting right now on Facebook. Want to play? Click here to find out how. More »
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Hello Game Clubbers! More »
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Artist Stefan Petit has spent the last six months working on a pet project: recreate all the posters featured on the walls of Rapture, the decaying city-state featured in 2007 shooter BioShock. He's now done! More »
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I've finished Duke Nukem Forever. There are a lot of things wrong with it, which I'll get to next week in my review. One thing I want to talk about today, though, has as much to do with the game as it has the game's publishers. More »
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Never mind that cheerleading is dangerous and lots of young women get injured, somebody's making a cheerleading game for Kinect. More »
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2K Games has released an initial, stand-alone gameplay trailer for The Darkness II, sequel to 2007's under-appreciated gem The Darkness. The title will pick up where the last left off, with mafioso protagonist Jackie Estacado wielding an assortment of grotesque powers, including the ability to summon impish "Darklings" and to pilot yucky, stretchy tentacles and tendrils. More »
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"I'm sorry. I never should have left. I never should have left. Take me back. Take me back. Take me home... please." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5804280&view=rss&microfeed=true Today, Take-Two inked a deal with South Korea's XLGames to make one of the U.S. game company's titles into an MMORPG. Take-Two owns Rockstar Games (Grand Theft Auto) and 2K (BioShock). [via 4Gamer] More »
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We gave you a brief rundown on how Civilization World, the upcoming Facebook version of the classic PC strategy series, worked the other day. Now you can see for yourself in this trailer. More »
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Baseball, the National Pastime. For 141 years, it is a game whose numbers and names need no introduction. Mantle. DiMaggio. .406, 755. Ren. Stimpy. More »
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Hey, chumps, if you're not dropping the hundy on Duke Nukem Forever's "Balls of Steel" special edition, you can still get your hands on its macho-iest component, that being the papercraft. More »
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I'm thinking of a famous, very touching monologue by Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager of the Baltimore Orioles, talking about cutting players during spring training. More »
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It's funny, for a game based on history and real things, Civilization has always had a strangely fictional unit at its core: the "Settler", who can make towns and later cities just appear. More »
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We have four finalists in our 2010 Game Of The Year awards. All worthy contenders, but as has been pointed out, all are also either sequels or continuations of older series. So let's take a look at how far they've come. More »
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Sports titles just aren't supposed to be game-of-the-year contenders. Their annualized nature sends the message that this year's game, no matter how great, won't be worth owning in 365 days. If anything could rise above that, it is NBA 2K11. More »
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The game formerly known as CIvilization: Network - now more appropriately titled Civ World - is coming later this year. But if you're lucky, you can play it this month. More »
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We're surprised it's taken this long, but somebody has finally gotten around to recreating World of Warcraft's land of Azeroth in PC strategy game Civilization V. More »
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Two more mighty empires rise in Civilization V come October 25, when 2K Games releases the once Digital Deluxe-exclusive Babylonians for $4.99 and unleashes the Mongolian hordes for free. More »
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I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Civilization V, but like any game, it wasn't perfect. It was a little buggy, and there were some AI missteps. Hopefully, those two issues will be fixed in the game's first major patch. More »
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The Protector Trials and Minerva's Den, two downloadable content packs for BioShock 2 on the Xbox 360 and PS3, are still not available for PC owners of the game. And now, they never will be. More »
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Civilization V is a different beast to Civilization IV. There are lots of new things, and the things that were kept have been changed. To help keep your feet on the ground, here's our guide to the new stuff (and don't forget to read our review!) More »
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Previous games in the long-running Civilization series have been, ironically, prisoners of the past. Forced to improve the series via baby steps, for fear of upsetting an apple cart twenty years in the making. Civilization V doesn't do baby steps. More »
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2K's Grace answers MTV's question with surprising candour. [image] More »
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Like BioShock's Rapture, BioShock Infinite's Columbia has some "different" ideology propping up its fancy tech, which is celebrated in these propaganda posters. More »
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Gore Verbinski, director of Pirates of the Caribbean, was signed up to do a BioShock movie. It turned out to be too expensive, and now there's a new director. Shame. The expensive one sounded awesome. More »
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We've known since E3 that NBA 2K11 would be playable with the PlayStation Move. Today, 2K Sports gave the first details as to how the game will be played with the new motion controller. More »
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BioShock Infinite looked pretty great from what we saw in its cinematic trailer. Now let's now see how the in-game shots stand up. More »
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