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Hello everyone, welcome to the Kotaku Game Club. Today will be our last meeting discussing Portal 2. After covering many aspects of the single-player experience in our last few meetings, today we'll be talking about the co-op missions, which offer a whole new set of surprises and challenges. More »
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Welcome everyone to week 3 of the Kotaku Game Club's look back at Portal 2. In our third meeting we'll be talking about the game's story and characters. More »
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Howdy folks, welcome to week two of the Kotaku Game Club's discussion series looking back at Portal 2. This week we're going focus on the game's mechanics: The building blocks that come together to make the game's puzzles. More »
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Welcome back everyone! Today is our first Kotaku Game Club meeting of 2012, and the opening discussion of our series on Kotaku Game of the Year Portal 2. More »
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Welcome back to the Kotaku Game Club. Today we're wrapping up our discussion series on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and 2011. Since we've all (hopefully) completed the game, let's talk about the game's final dungeons and the ending. More »
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Welcome to the Kotaku Game Club! Today will be our third meeting to discuss The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. More »
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Welcome to the second week of the Kotaku Game Club's series on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. This week, we're talking about the events from where we left off last week, the end of the Earth Shrine up through the Ancient Cistern dungeon. More »
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Welcome, Kotaku Game Club, to the multiplayer edition of our Uncharted 3 talks! Thank you everyone for showing up a day early. I hope that you're as excited as I am to get a healthy gaming discussion in before the holiday. More »
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This is it, folks! Here at Kotaku Game Club, we're talking about the final chapters of Uncharted 3. Right now, in the comments section below. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5860574&view=rss&microfeed=true Guess what? We'll finally be discussing the finale of Uncharted 3 during tomorrow Kotaku Game Club. Check it out at 4pm Eastern. More »
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Howdy folks, welcome to week two of Kotaku Game Club: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. (Extra colons are extra fun.) We're going over the middle leg of the Uncharted 3 adventure today. More »
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Welcome, Game Clubbers, to our first discussion of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. Today we're going to tackle the action-packed opening chapters of the story. There are plenty of amazing moments to discuss, so let's get to it! More »
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Gather up people. It's week four of our Gears of War 3 talks at the Kotaku Game Club. In our final discussion, we're going to see what everyone thinks about the overhauled Horde mode and its counterpart, the brand new Beast mode. More »
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I hope you're ready, ladies and gents. It's Versus mode week here at the Kotaku Game Club. Today we'll be sharing our experiences playing the competitive multiplayer modes of Gears of War 3. More »
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Welcome back everyone! During today's meeting of the Kotaku Game Club, we'll be discussing the later three acts of the Gears of War 3 campaign. Warning: For all you Gears players who haven't finished the campaign yet, there will definitely be spoilers below. 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, 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 »
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Welcome everyone to the next edition of the Kotaku Game Club. We're going to do a little experiment this month, playing CivWorld, the sophisticated social version of Sid Meier's Civilization. In case you're new to the group, our mission is to play video games together as a group, discussing the narrative, mechanical and human aspects of a game as we experience it. Every week, there will be a column about the section that we just played, and we'll come together and share our thoughts. To be clear, you guys don't need to respond to the column; everyone can bring their own topics to the table. We'll have an official "meeting" during the hour or so after the post is published, so we can have a real discussion. More »
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Welcome back, Game Clubbers! Today, we're moving forward to Act 3 of Shadows of the Damned. More »
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Ok everybody, it's finally time. Lets talk about Shadows of the Damned. Today we're going discuss acts One and Two (Sorry about the short notice on that.) Anyways, we're all here now. I'm just going to throw out a few questions, which will hopefully serve as a jumping off point for you if you didn't have an idea you were burning to put out there. If you do have something else to talk about, please feel free to completely ignore these. More »
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I'm not a fit guy, partly because I eat like crap and drink like a carp. But I go to the gym, if only to burn off the bad calories. And January is the worst month for going. More »
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The amount of video-games related content on Wikipedia is staggering; I can't recall the last time I entered a title into its search and could not find a complete entry. As Wired writes, however, not everything passes moderation. Should it? More »
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Rep. Tim Murphy discussing the Tucson shootings. We have a Constitution that prohibits government restraint of most creative works, and guarantees a right to own firearms. Both can be called problems as well as values. Thanks truthtellah for the pullquote. More »
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Today I got a new credit card. It's actually the same credit card I've had for 14 years. But now it's called the "Chase Freedom" card, which sounds like some piece of shit good only at your participating Family Dollar. More »
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Ultimately, the challenges the "uncanny valley" poses to motion capture and animation will be overcome by technology. But suspension of disbelief is just as important to a game's storytelling, writes the actor who portrayed Ethan Mars in Heavy Rain. More »
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A week ago, we pondered the chance of living to 100 and still playing games at that age. But even as the gamer demographic trends older, many feel like the time will naturally come when they'll put down the controller. More »
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Rather than ponder games' artistic merit, Brian Hertler tackles a question that's a little more lighthearted, yet no more answerable: Just why do we find video games - even the simplest ones - so fun? More »
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Every adventure requires an antagonist, someone or something corrupting the world you're in. It's a basic need. Yet why do so many games serve up foes whose evildoing provides more of a chore to be undone than a memorable struggle? More »
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The Chicago Sun-Times film critic has finally revisited his old contention that games can never be art, to defend it "in principle," and to dispute about that which cannot be disputed. More »
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No matter who is brought in to write a story or dialogue, the industry still treats the written word in such a utilitarian way that it has a second-class citizenship among the other art forms comprising a video game. More »
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In a culture so infused with irony, the appreciation of campy works - outrageous movies, terrible art, worse music - is absolutely mainstream. Does it apply to games? Can games strive to be campy? Or are they already so? More »
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I have a fear of horror films, and by extension horror games. I'm just too attenuated to suspense and having the hell scared out of me. But what I'm really experiencing, argues one writer, is just that: scary, not horror. More »
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It's there, and you know how to use it. It's an exploit or a glitch or some imbalance in the AI. Morally, it's wrong. But what if everyone else is doing it? Or just the potential for them doing it? More »
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In the past year, 70,000 men and women enlisted in the U.S. Army. Sixty-seven times that amount - 4.7 million - played Modern Warfare 2 on a console or PC, released one day before Veteran's Day. More »
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It is hard to read of a young man, essentially homeless, spending Christmas alone in a games store and not feel a twinge of sadness. But it's a memory more sweet than bitter to someone who considers games a lifesaver. More »
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Many have praised Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for its story and cinematics almost to the exclusion of its gameplay. But the latter is chiefly why it was one of 2009's finest games, argues one writer. More »
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Steve Gaynor, a designer at 2K Marin, understands that he works in an entertainment field, and provides a product nonessential to basic human needs. That doesn't mean video games - and their makers - have no obligation to the public. More »
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