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With Street Fighter X Tekken due out in early March, now is not the time for a tight trickle of new character reveals. That's why Capcom has dropped six new fighters on us today, three from their team and three from the opposition. Has your favorite character been confirmed? More »
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In today's memorable edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Eatplaysleepmore thinks he's found a major character flaw in Bethesda's latest masterpiece. Do you agree? More »
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Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 isn't just an additional twelve characters and a few new game modes, it's a chance for Capcom to tweak the mechanics and balance of the original game in such a way that it requires four videos to detail the changes to just the Marvel side of the cast. More »
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You've seen the video, now take a look at the character selection screens for Blizzard DOTA, showing off the four classes and iconic heroes taking up arms in Blizzard's official StarCraft II mod. More »
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It's commenter Aikage's turn to play Speak Up on Kotaku again, or should I say Commander Aikage? He wants to know what video game character you relate to the most, and you're going to tell him. More »
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While the story of Capcom's upcoming DS adventure Okamiden is that of tiny wolf god Chibiterasu, it's the characters the young deity meets that paint the picture of a Nippon worthy of being saved from rampaging demons. Let's meet some! More »
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You want a piece of Big Bull, the latest competitor unveiled for PlatinumGames' Anarchy Reigns? Oh he's got a piece for you, and you're not going to like it one bit. More »
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New weapons, new maps, new characters. Gears of War 3 has them all. More »
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"The world lies on the brink of destruction. Only a select few may be able to save it." More »
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Activision confirms the downloadable content details leaked earlier this month for Transformers: War for Cybertron, with five "new" characters and four new multiplayer maps coming in the first character and map pack, due out next week. More »
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A lot can (and has) been argued against the use of cut-scenes in games. They are broadly seen as an archaic film mechanic that stumbled into gaming convention in an age when games were too young and naïve to put forward any other alternative. More »
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Yesterday we asked you to tell us who you wanted to see in Capcom's upcoming fighter Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. That was the easy question, now the hard one. More »
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Blizzard has revealed the male model of Diablo III's wizard class, sporting a look that many late 70's, early 80's rock stars would have given all of their chest hair for. More »
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Every Final Fantasy must have its Cid, and for Final Fantasy XIII it's Cid Raines. More »
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The Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 website's VIP section updated yesterday, revealing that Carol Danvers, better known as Ms. Marvel, will making a return appearance in the sequel. More »
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Stealing a page from Jezebel (and GameSpy), I'd love to hear which game character would play you in the video game of your life. More »
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There's an interesting essay over at the Vorpal Bunny Ranch (a blog worth visiting for the name alone) on the issue of the dandy in video games, a character known for a few different things: 'his impeccable sense of fashion, his wit, and his distaste for rough physical activity.' They're also exceedingly untrustworthy, giving rise to an interesting stereotype of 'the dandy' as crafty (and with suspect morals) or an outright villain (e.g., Kefka): More »
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In a poll marking the launch of this year's London Games Festival, more than 500 UK gamers voted for their favorite video game character of all time, and the results may shock you. Or they may not. Sonic the Hedgehog came out on top in the poll with a whopping 24%, which isn't all that surprising really. After all, despite his rash of bad games lately, Sonic is still a rambunctious little scamp, and if there's anything the UK likes it's rambunctious little scamps. Hell, they pretty much invented them over there. More »
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This week's Aberrant Gamer is an interesting look at sex/sexuality in games, from ICO to Mass Effect: Leigh Alexander has previously defended the busty and scantily—clad video game girl, but this time takes a different look at the subject. The mature vs. juvenile divide seems to be especially prominent in games, where it can seem like it's either improbably perky cleavage stuffed into space age materials or sweetly innocent hand holding with little in between: More »
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The already rocky launch of Hellgate: London in Asia has gotten even rockier. After several weeks of server crashing issues, a patch known as Patch0 was created to help solve the problem. After numerous attempts to apply the patch to the servers it was discovered that the only way to make it work would be to perform a complete character wipe. Needless to say, Asian players of the game who have spent hours leveling up their characters are furious and in an attempt to appease them, IAH Games is offering players a months worth of free play time. Now at least they won't have to pay for all the time they will have to spend grinding back up to where they were before the wipe if they choose to continue playing. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=321249&view=rss&microfeed=true With BioShock and Halo 3 behind us, the next big epic game (not to be confused with Epic Games) is Mass Effect, set to hit shelves on Nov. 20, just in time for Thanksgiving holidayers to have something to play whilst trapped at various relatives homes. (Don't forget to bring your 360) More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=307872&view=rss&microfeed=true One thing that's been missing for me from what I've seen of Perpetual's Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising is a sense of flavor. You know how you can have two different games portraying the same scenarios and feel wholly different due to the handling of the subject matter? That's flavor. Answering the call for a little flavor for G&H is design director Stieg Hedlund, who narrates a series of class profiles for three of the game's startinng classes: the gladiator (above), the soldier, and the scout. Hedlund provides insight into what makes each class tick, their roles in an adventuring party, and even what gods they can worship. The videos certainly have a flavor to them, helping clarify the picture of the game I have in my head. Still not too impressed with the graphics, but graphics aren't everything. Hit the jump for the scout and soldier videos! More »
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Did everyone have fun making their Toro papercraft the other day? Well, get your scissors and your glue sticks ready because one mondo-big site full of Nintendo paperdolls is coming your way. There are 21 characters in total ranging from Pikmin to Pikachus, sprinkled with a couple of Mario friend favorites like Bowser and Toadstool. If you can't choose which one to make first, you can also download them all in one convenient package and go nuts this weekend. More fun than most things you can do with paper and it's free. Let's get printing! Kim Phu More »
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One thing I haven't really been clear on is what Rule of Rose is actually about. The plot synopses I've seen are all vague and full of innuendo. More »
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Feast your eyes and nuts on this glistening new character selection screen from Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. According to hot tipper David, it just got dropped onto the Midway forums by one of the mods. More »
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The official Super Smash Bros. Brawl site has updated with some new screenshots. Hop on over to the site and click through the characters to check out the new images. Brian Crecente More »
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