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What happens someone who grew up on the N64 makes art? You get Cammy, Sub-Zero and G.I. Joe rolling up on Mario's stomping grounds in tanks. More »
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What are you doing on Thursday evening? If you're in New York City or the surrounding area, consider going to Cosmic Cocktails and Space Arcade, an event at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space. More »
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Not content with merely streaming live matches leading up to the March release of the Street Fighter X Tekken fighting game crossover, Capcom has teamed with iPlayWinner and Team Spooky to create Cross Assault, a live week-long $25,000 tournament masquerading as an internet reality show. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5878563&view=rss&microfeed=true What's next for Markus "Notch" Persson now that he's stepped away from Minecraft? Find out during the 22nd Ludum Dare game development event next weekend, where Notch will stream creating a game in just 48 hours. [Twitter] More »
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Nintendo packed New York City's Time Square with colorful platforms, warp tubes and piranha plants to celebrate the weekend's release of Super Mario 3D Land. More »
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Capcom and gaming pub Kill Screen spent the night treating the downtown NYC area to "Fright Club", a gathering for people to come out and play two new Resident Evil games and one new take on Dead Rising. More »
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Batman descends upon streets of Gotham on October 17, when Warner Bros. brings Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy, comic artist Jim Lee, and game director Sefton Hill to the Toys"R"Us Times Square launch event, with 500 advance copies of the game in tow. More »
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Japan may not be the birthplace of video games, but it is the heart of video game culture. More »
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Kanye West isn't the only musician performing at the first-ever Call of Duty convention, Irish-punk rockers Dropkick Murphys will be closing the first night of the show, Activision said today. More »
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Those of us who live in New York City are guilty, daily, of thinking that our city is terrific and deserves terrific things. But we in New York City don't have any awesome big gaming expos nor any whip-smart game design gatherings to make the rest of the world envious, at least not until we get one of the latter in October. More »
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We've talked about the games, about the cosplay, the camping and the crowds. But no single story or set of photos can truly encapsulate all that is the world's biggest video game show. More »
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In case you've been waiting patiently for The Legend of Zelda Symphony Concert, good news! You'll only have to keep waiting until October...unless you're not in L.A. More »
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Join Kotaku contributing columnist and owner of some of the largest earrings in the industry Leigh Alexander tomorrow evening at Babycastles' new arcade exhibition space in Williamsburg for the debut of Bad Bitches, a new exhibition of games featuring themes of alternative sexuality. How can that not be a good time? More »
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This fall Call of Duty fans will be able to shoot up their friends in real-world, life-sized replicas of two of the game's maps, grab a bite to eat at the game's fictional burger joint and get their hands on Modern Warfare 3 months before its release as part of a video game convention designed to celebrate the franchise and its fans. More »
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Blip Festival 2011 starts... tonight! Never mind that it's almost tonight. If you like chiptunes, if you want to hear music that bleeps and bloops rather than hums and sings, if you like lo-fi electronica, or if you just want to increase your odds of bumping into Kotaku columnist Leigh Alexander, go to the festival. More »
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Portal 2 co-writer Erik Wolpaw is coming to New York University next month to present a "brief guided play-through of Portal 2", according to the event's organizers at NYU. More »
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Heather in St. Louis appears to be obsessed with playing the ocarina. She's got a hit YouTube channel full of dozens of videos of her playing Zelda songs, along with Donkey Kong songs, Final Fantasy songs, and even a Nelly song. (She manages to have a different ocarina in just about every other one of these videos.) More »
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Trion Worlds' fantast MMO Rift has gathered quite an audience since its launch last month, and those loyal fans are now being rewarded with a full-scale invasion from the plane of death. Just their way of saying thanks, now die. More »
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We're just a day away from Kotaku's final Denver fundraiser, a party we're throwing to raise money for those in need following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. More »
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I spent the past week or so going through all of the loot sent me from a variety of video game publishers and developers over the past year. As always, I collect this stuff to give away during a once-a-year fundraiser. More »
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With less than a week till kick off, the Kotaku Japan Earthquake Relief fundraiser continues to grow. More »
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Chessboxing is an activity that combines the physical demands of boxing with the mental discipline of chess. Competitors alternate between rounds of chess and rounds of boxing, kicking things off with a four-minute round of chess and alternating with fisticuffs until 11 rounds have passed, or one competitor jams a rook in the other's eye. More »
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Forget Red Rock or Caesar's Palace. The only true indicator that you've made it as a band is when Nintendo asks you to play the launch of its new Pokémon game in New York. Welcome to the big time, Presidents! More »
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The big Game Developers Conference happens next week in San Francisco. Then it ends and people who care about video games will have nothing to do but discuss all their great new ideas for video games and attend an art show in the area. More »
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It's been five years since Turbine opened the port of Smuggler's Rest to adventurers heeding the call of Dungeons & Dragons Online, and to Smuggler's Rest they'll return for the new quests and special gifts of a special anniversary event. More »
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With the annual Game Developers Conference set to kick off next month, we're starting to learn much more about the talks, including one that promises to walk us through the creation of the Nintendo 3DS. More »
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Guinness is handing out the video game world records left and right, and now it's Sony's turn. They've assembled a crack team of LittleBigPlanet 2 players to take down fabricated records next week, and you can watch. More »
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While the church downstairs prepares to celebrate the Christmas season, Tripwire Interactive has been busy creating an expansion for Killing Floor that lets you kill Santa Claus, along with a special present for fans of Valve's Team Fortress 2. More »
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If you're in New York City this Thursday, you can play Chris Hecker's incomplete but already-excellent two-player game Spy Party. More »
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There are more things to do in New York City than go to the Nintendo store to watch speedruns. Starting tomorrow, you can go to the revamped PlayStation store. All we need after that is a Dreamcast store, right? More »
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The Nintendo World Store (and former Pokemon Center) hosts a grand-re-opening on Sunday — several days after re-opening — in New York City. They're having a 25th anniversary party for Super Mario Bros., with the promise of Super Mario cake. More »
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Pokémon and Nintendo celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pokémon Gold and Silver by releasing the original secret Pokémon into the wild for a limited time. Here's what you need to do to score Mew. More »
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Los Angeles people get Indiecade this weekend. New Yorkers get Babycastles, the upstart art arcade group that kicks off its biggest event tonight. More »
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"Bring out your undead!" cried Capcom to London Dead Rising fans, urging them to dress in their zombie finest for an early launch event at HMV on Oxford Street. The fans answered. More »
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And I thought the press-conference-packed day leading up to the kick-off of the Tokyo Game Show was exciting. Just look at all of the games and news that came out during last night twin press conferences by Sony and Microsoft. More »
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We like playing video games. You like playing video games. Don't you think we should try playing together sometime? More »
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People were already starting to line-up this morning in New York's Times Square for the official launch of Bungie's Halo: Reach. More »
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How did nobody get pistol-whipped at Capcom's Dead Rising 2 Los Angeles party? More »
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Do you live in Los Angeles and have an interest in slaying zombies? Then you're in luck! More »
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GameStop, Microsoft and pro-gamer Tom "Tsquared" Taylor will be showing off some new Halo Reach footage and sharing some tips and tricks for the game at an event this Friday. More »
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