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When a show's been around as long as the Simpsons, it'll periodically touch on the cultural ripple effect generated by the video games industry. Last night's episode of the long-running cartoon—"The Food Wife," which deals with Marge's obsession with foodie culture—took Homer and art to a fictionalized version of video games' biggest trade show, with pitch-perfect parodies of some familiar franchises. One really dead-on bit has a developer lamenting the months he's lost on a game that Bart manages to finish in a few minutes. A GameTrailers interview about the episode with Simpsons writer Matt Selman appears above and you can head over to the Simpsons official site to watch clips from the episode. More »
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With the Tokyo Game Show having just wound up, I thought today would be a good time to look back to 1996, when for the first and only time it wasn't the only major gaming event held in Tokyo. More »
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In the third gameplay video from the E3 demo of Metro: Last Light, our protagonists find themselves speeding down what looks to be a pretty deep tunnel. Dark and fast-paced, the video mostly shows the player shooting bad guys on a train, in classic shooter form. More »
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How long ago was E3? Until yesterday, it was the day after I last did a laundry. And that's a hell of a long time. I sat there in the laundromat with my 3DS, looking at the 134 people I met at E3. I've not had a StreetPass notice since. More »
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Sony's new handheld, the Playstation Vita, stole the show this year at E3 according to the Game Critics Awards. Even though it was formally announced in January, the handheld still out shined Nintendo's new home console and current portable in the annual awards. More »
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About a year ago, PAX sought to ban booth babes (pardon me, "costumed booth representatives,") using a number of tests to determine booth babe-iness (as opposed to garden-variety sexy cosplay). One of them was a lack of familiarity with the product represented. More »
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Jamie Kennedy, star of Son of the Mask, Malibu's Most Wanted and Wii game Real Heroes: Firefighter doesn't always deliver brilliantly inspired performances. See his E3 2007 Activision press conference hosting gig, for example, which he's still really really sensitive about, according to a recent Twitter tirade. More »
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Hopefully you are not on the edge of your seat waiting for the next Tomb Raider. Warning: even if you are an Olympic athlete, you should consider inhaling and exhaling a few times between now and the release of Mass Effect 3. Never mind their 2011 hype. They're next year's games. More »
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I haven't had a good scare since 2005, at least not at the hands of Resident Evil. More »
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"You don't want to play as Rayman?" the Ubisoft demonstrator asked. "Most people go right for him." I explained that I identified more with his shambling, big-mouthed galoot of a partner, Globox. More »
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Gameplay impressions are difficult to form under the lights, sights and cacophony of E3 in full swing, where you never have enough time to see all of what you want, and there's always an appointment five minutes from now. It's even more difficult to get a good read on a sports game. More »
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This year, I came home from E3 with a Kinect Sports shirt, a Jurassic Park-inspired fake Barbasol shaving cream can to hide stuff and a Cooking Mama 4 oven mitt. Everything else I chucked, including my press pass and lanyard. Maybe I should have considered selling it on eBay. More »
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Multi-media collective iam8bit knows how to advertise itself: slyly, theatrically and with neat, removable swag. More »
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You've seen the best E3 2011 had to offer. Now see the worst. The very worst. Oh good Lord is some of this bad. More »
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At E3, I visited the 2K Games booth every day of the show. Every day I went there, I saw these two guys from High Voltage Software in the 2K "Sports Bar," sitting in easy chairs, playing Nicktoons MLB. As far as I know, it was all they did all day. More »
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In video games, death is anything but final. We've been playing games with some form of immortality or reincarnation for decades, whether that's gamesaves, extra men, whatever. NeverDead enforces the concept in gameplay itself. No matter what grisly mishap befalls your hero, he will not die. More »
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Katsuya Eguchi, creator of Animal Crossing and producer of the next game in that series, mostly talked to me about Wii U at E3 last week. But surely he had some news about Animal Crossing's forthcoming 3DS installment? More »
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During the same Nintendo developer roundtable where we were given a Tanooki suit history lesson, Nintendo godfather Shigeru Miyamoto discussed the new control scheme for Star Fox 64: 3D, and how the they may have provided the solution for a long-standing source of stress for him. More »
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They call it E3, which isn't that cool a name. More »
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"Xbox," I say, "Streak 20," and the huddle breaks. My quarterback trots up to the line. I instinctively half-squat and reach out my hands, placing them under the giant rear end of an invisible lineman. "Hike!" More »
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EA Sports president Peter Moore brushed off the suggestion that the PlayStation Network outage did particular damage to his label, which has in the past two years seen significant revenue growth through its downloadable content, especially in its popular Ultimate Team offerings. More »
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With the license to make a Jurassic Park game in hand, Telltale Games had to find the perfect starting point for a story that would fit into the film's canon without upsetting or reimagining the events of the first film. More »
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The WIi U will have better, more impressive online functionality than any Nintendo console before it, we learned last week at E3. What does that mean? More »
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Of the many, many violent shooters on hand at E3 2011, one of the few I chose to play was Sega's Binary Domain. It is not as awe-inspiring as BioShock Infinite or Battlefield 3, but it did at least two things that made it memorable. More »
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If there's one thing I don't want to talk about regarding E3, it's video games. More »
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Nintendo has a habit of being especially uptight about the press' use of imagery from E3. Nintendo sent a message along with the screenshots they distributed at the show, stating that the enclosed images were "prioritized", and that magazines and blogs like ourselves should try to use the higher rated images if you had to choose. More »
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A couple of years ago, in the summer before the release of the second Assassin's Creed I found myself discussing the many things that were wrong about the flawed first game in the series. More »
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Prey 2 had me at intergalactic bounty hunter. More »
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Things were getting weird last week when the cheerful game developer and digital media artist Hye Yeon Nam started gluing a sensor to her tongue, weirder still when she had me glue one to mine. More »
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Gears of War's developers certainly didn't invent "Horde Mode." But Epic Games, creator of Gears, is lucky in that every other game developer who copies their popular multiplayer mode gives the studio credit for it when showing off their own take on Horde. More »
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I've never killed a man. Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi says he's never killed anyone either. Despite that inexperience, he is confident that his next game, Ninja Gaiden 3, accurately explores what it means to stick a Japanese sword into another man's body and extinguish his life force. More »
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On the final day of E3, Kotaku intern Michael Epstein and I were running on fumes. I couldn't hold a camera still and he couldn't z-target. Nevertheless, we endeavored to play all three parts of the E3 2011 demo for this year's big Wii game, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Please forgive the shakes; I think the game looks quite nice despite them. More »
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I didn't give Brooks Brown, Lucast Arts community manager, much time to dig into the Kinect-enabled Star Wars game before I began peppering him with questions. More »
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We've been playing the same old Wii since 2006, which makes the calls for Nintendo to create a new Wii—Wii HD! Wii 2? Wii-As-Powerful-As-The-Xbox-360!?!—about... four years old. As recently as last November, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime was telling Kotaku that it wasn't time to talk about a new Wii yet. More »
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The announcement last week that AT&T will be the exclusive 3G provider for the hot new PlayStation Vita did not go down well. More »
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E3 2011 is over. Kotaku already showed 3,444 blinks from Kotaku's E3 2011 photographer, Isaac Viel. More »
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The most interesting thing about Hitman Absolution isn't its new disguises or ways of killing people with a bit of cord. It's not the decision to open the historically stealthy game up to a bit of action gameplay. It's the insight the game's mechanics are meant to give us into a character we've long controlled but known little about. More »
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No, he can not tell you anything about the Rush Hour. Sorry! More »
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Website Cracked ran the same joke last year, but this year, it's even funnier. Or, depending on your point of view, sadder. More »
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