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Sucker Punch made a very interesting, very good choice in choosing to set their follow up to inFamous in a fictional recreation of post-disaster New Orleans. The first game had a lot going for it—I've always thought it was underrated—but, its setting was not one of them. Our own Evan Narcisse has described inFamous as the "first post-Katrina video game," and I think he's right—so it made sense that Sucker Punch would take the logical leap and set the sequel down in their version of The Big Easy, a town called New Marais. More »
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One of the PS3's best franchises gets an infusion if fresh blood this week with the Infamous: Festival of Blood DLC. The standalone add-on changes things up considerably for Cole McGrath, turning the lightning-throwing hero into a bloodsucking vampire. This individual offering doesn't tie back into the main game, so is the Festival of Blood worth your time and money? More »
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The creators of the enjoyable open-world Infamous games nto their super-hero cities. They've done it before, and, hey, we like when developers make jokes. More »
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I'm in the middle of playing the new Infamous: Festival of Blood DLC, which gives series hero Cole McGrath all sorts of new powers by virtue of his getting in turned into a vampire. I talked a bit about the Shadow Swarm flying ability in my hands-on preview and when I was demoing the game, I mentioned that it reminded me of my favorite power in this year's electric superhero sequel was the Lightning Tether. Lightning Tether lets Cole zip around the city of New Marais via electromagnetic tendrils, kind of like Spider-Man's webs. More »
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One of the things that's always a challenge in superhero games is giving the character new powers as they go. Infamous 2 got to bypass Cole McGrath's origin story, and as a result introduced new powers while presenting a faster-moving, more enjoyable story than the first game. More »
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The two big releases this week on the PlayStation store are Infamous 2's bloodsucking "standalone add-on" Festival of Blood and the highly-anticipated-by-Stephen-Totilo Pixeljunk Sidescroller. More »
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Once a game comes out, some game developers may go to tropical locations or re-acquaint themselves with families who they barely get to see during crunch time. Sucker Punch did something a little different during their summer vacation: They turned Cole McGrath-the electrically-powered hero of the development studio's best-selling Infamous games-into a blood-sucking vampire. More »
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In a cutscene for the upcoming downloadable standalone Cole MacGrath adventure, inFamous 2: Festival of Blood, we learn why bloodsuckers from fake New Orleans would go to all the trouble of kidnapping a guy with superpowers. More »
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The new $299.99 pricing for the PS3's 320GB configuration has already been spotted at Amazon. You can get the console bundled with inFamous 2 for $299.99, free shipping. NewEgg also is listing the bundle. [Dealzon] More »
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Later this year, Infamous 2 fans will be able to download Infamous 2: Festival of Blood, a standalone adventure for Sucker Punch's open-world superhero PS3 game. More »
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Sony Computer Entertainment has acquired Sucker Punch, the studio behind titles like Infamous and Sly Cooper, the Tokyo-based game giant revealed today. More »
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Wesley Burt is a professional concept artist who works for Massive Black, one of the world's biggest and most successful concept art studios. More »
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Infamous protagonist Cole is joining Street Fighter X Tekken. Capcom showed off gameplay featuring Infamous' Cole MacGrath. More »
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It's Wednesday. There are new comic books in comic shops. Only some of them are worth your time and money. As always, I have some suggestions…. More »
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Wednesdays are new comics days at comics shops in North America. Every week, I recommend some of the new comics to get at the shop or on an iPad. This week is huge for Superman and general DC Comics fans, not so huge for fans of video game comics. More »
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New comic books are released every Wednesday in comics shops across North America, as well as on the iPad (though those aren't always so new). Every Wednesday, I recommend a bunch that are worth your dollars. More »
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The selection of video game comics this week is thin, but a couple of major stories launch in the world of super-hero comics, one of the best graphic novelists in the world releases his first book in over a decade, and the iPad gets probably its best release of recent classics ever. This is a good comics week! More »
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It's more than just blue lasers versus red lasers in our Monday installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, when commenter KingKellogg the Waffle Haggler ponders the eternal question: Why is being evil more exciting than being good? More »
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Game Developers Conference blocked me from recommending comics to you last week, but nothing stands in my way this time. More »
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Sucker Punch's inFamous for the PlayStation 3 was a comic book superhero origin story without a comic book. Thanks to DC Comics, there is now a comic book series on the way, with Doug Mahnke cover art to boot. More »
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Some of those at PAX over the weekend got to see a new gameplay clip of Infamous 2. Since that likely wasn't you, here it is! More »
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Cole MacGrath, hero of Infamous and bike messenger, wasn't the best-looking game character in the world. His redesign for the sequel was even worse, though, so it's good to see developers Sucker Punch reverting to something a little more familiar. More »
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A new firmware update for the PlayStation 3 ushers in the age of PlayStation Plus, Sony's new premium subscription service. Let's take a look at what your money buys you today! More »
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Sony's June 2009 PlayStation 3 disc-based video game inFamous is now Sony's June 2010 downloadable game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5575315&view=rss&microfeed=true This might - might - be a teaser for Infamous 2. Thin, we know, but that's what teases are! More »
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I think it means the sequel to Infamous is gonna be called Infamous 2: The Game Dot Com! More »
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Confirming last night's Walmart ad, Sony has announced ten new titles joining the PlayStation 3's budget-priced Greatest Hits line, with inFAMOUS, God of War Collection, Killzone 2 and Resident Evil 5 and more now available for $29.99. More »
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Poor Infamous. It's a good game, though one that's been overrun these past few months by titles demanding more of people's time/attention. So Sony figure, maybe some DLC will get you spinning the disc back up? More »
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With at least one potential game of the year exclusively nesting on the Playstation 3 and a price drop under its belt, the PS3 has had a pretty darn good year. More »
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Sucker Punch's PlayStation 3 exclusive hero/anti-hero hit Infamous—are you ready for this?—may already have a sequel in the works. Hardly shocking, I know, but what might unsettle fans of the possible recasting of super-powered protagonist Cole McGrath. More »
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This is the first in a series (maybe) of posts labeled "Hindsight" that discuss games you may have thought we were done writing about. More »
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Sony Pictures is working out a seven-figure deal with producers Avi and Ari Arad and screenwriter Sheldon Turner to bring the PlayStation 3 exclusive inFAMOUS to the silver screen. More »
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Not content to let Marvel's heroes be the only super-powered super-beings in LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule will be releasing Sackboy costumes based on its own super-dude, with a Cole MacGrath—star of inFamous—costume set due next week. More »
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EA finally gets the Wii, and not in a way that will excite hardcore gamers. Ghostbusters goes missing. PSP jumps. And more observations you can use at cocktail parties from today's June NPDs. More »
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In a recent Zero Punctuation review, Yahtzee couldn't declare which blockbuster game "about super-powered assholes" was better, but would give the honor to the studio that best drew the rival game's protagonist in drag. More »
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Swimming is something you and I can probably do — and will do more this summer. But swimming has long been an ability less common to video game characters than running, jumping or shooting shotguns. I asked top developers why. More »
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The promised PlayStation Home space for Sucker Punch's inFamous goes live tomorrow, allowing visitors to leave their mark with both electricity and spray paint. More »
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There's been an Uncharted 2 multiplayer demo going on. Those who picked up a copy of inFamous, or one of the thousands of promo codes, have been enjoying it. Not among them? You soon could be. More »
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Snuck in at the very bottom of a post on important inFamous facts and figures, Sony has announced that Sucker Punch's free-roaming superhero game would soon be getting its own home in PlayStation Home. More »
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In the first minutes of the T-rated Infamous, players will hear the curse commonly associated with manure and stepping in it. A new report examines how much profanity makes it into T-rated games. More »
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