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Aliens: Colonial Marines is everything I'd want in an Aliens game starring tragically overconfident space Marines. It is spectacular with sprays of gunfire, acidic green blood, and horrific death. More »
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These photos (and they are genuine photos, not a photoshops), of Grand Moff Tarkin, were taken in 2011. Yet the man who played the Star Wars villain, screen legend Peter Cushing, died in 1994. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5804478&view=rss&microfeed=true The funniest character from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Paul isn't the little gray alien — it's Jeffrey Tambor's Adam Shadowchild. We interviewed Pegg and Frost and got the backstory on Tambor's arrogant science fiction author. [io9] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5783377&view=rss&microfeed=true You're a nefarious supervillian and you want to transform this city into a hive of mind-controlled minions. But you also need the element of surprise. Two new scientific studies offer a possible solution: behavior-changing proteins in sperm! [io9] More »
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A new therapy, called cognitive-bias modification, has allowed people to relieve anxiety and the strain of certain addictions. It doesn't involve a doctor or medications, just a few minutes a day on a computer performing some simple tasks.… [io9] More »
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Since there aren't many (living) people around in Dead Space 2, you're left with more time than usual to admire the architecture of Titan Station. And what better way to admire it further than with this concept art. More »
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Finishing off Giganta in D.C. Universe Online this week, I was treated to this scene, and a reminder that no matter how much the medium matures, comic books' emotional attachments are made in your youngest and most vulnerable years. More »
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This is either a new, possibly leaked trailer for Batman Arkham City. Or is this just a fan mod of the first game? Either way, who needs Robin, when the Joker can help Batman beat up the bad guys? More »
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This week I found myself doing something I've never done before with an iPad. Playing a game, not to pass time, but because it was fun, frightening and I wanted to see what was going to happen next. More »
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We've seen the Xbox 360 Kinect control robots before, but never robots with tasks this important. A group of graduate engineering students at the University of Washington are using Microsoft's device to guide the actions of surgical robots. More »
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Ever wonder what those amazing cosplayers you see at video game and anime shows get up to when the crowds of photographers aren't around? More »
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The people running the video game League of Legends knew they had a problem. They had the same problem that makes much of the Internet unpleasant. Too many people were being jerks online. They're hatching a novel solution: citizen justice. More »
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THE FORERUNNER STORY-the history of my people-has been told many times, with greater and greater idealization, until I scarcely recognize it. More »
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I primarily use my iPad for video games, but I realized recently that it could be perfect for reading comics, something I enjoy doing. But then I tried to buy some. More »
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Trey Ratcliff runs the most popular travel photo blogs in the world, he is also the first person to have an HDR picture hang in the Smithsonian. His photos may feel familiar to gamers, perhaps because Ratcliff himself is one. More »
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It was a controversial year for gaming. The past 12 months saw the in-game assassination of Castro, playable Taliban, a Freedom of Speech shaking Supreme Court case and the call for a ban on Blood Minerals in gaming consoles. More »
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Why is Angry Birds such an addictive game? According to University of San Francisco psychology professor Mel Joseph Ciena, it's a combination of repetition and a "false impression you're competitive and achieving something." Oh come on, we're saving eggs! More »
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The zombies are here! The zombies are here! More »
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Here's the demo reel for A.J. LoCascio, whose dead-ringer Marty McFly voice highlights the Back to the Future game now out for PC. LoCascio gets into character by remembering how he'd ask a girl out in high school. More »
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Nothing ruins a perfectly good fantasy world like an enormous angry dragon tearing through the surface of the planet, destroying everything in its path. How does Blizzard's ridiculously popular online role-playing game fare in the face of this Cataclysm? More »
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A former Wizards of the Coast employee from Burien, Washington stands to lose a lot more than his job as King County prosecutors file felony theft charges over the theft of $45,000 worth of rare Magic: The Gathering cards. More »
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Winter used to be the worst time of the year to look for great new video games. Not anymore. Here are some of the most promising and most interesting video games slated for release between now and late March 2011. More »
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A listing for Mass Effect 3 popped up on the EA online store today, and a plot description describes a fight to take back planet Earth. More »
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It's that time of the year. Time for you to crack open the wallet for someone other than yourself. More »
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With Sony revealing yesterday that all PlayStation Plus subscribers are getting a download of the DC Universe Online beta for Christmas, it's probably a good time to show you how character creation works in the super heroic MMO. More »
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This is our first look at Telltale's upcoming Back to the Future series of adventure games. If you enjoyed any of the three films, even in the slightest, you must watch this clip. More »
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There's no faster way to somebody's heart than to buy them a great PC game. With that (and this week's Black Friday sales) in mind, here are our picks for PC games to stuff in that special someone's stocking. More »
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Game developers, please stop making zombie games when you stop making good ones. The PlayStation 3-exclusive Dead Nation is allowed. It's a good one. More »
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The people who make the games you either love or love to hate on Facebook have a new one coming out in a few weeks. It's called CityVille, which looks like Sim City without the tornadoes or FarmVille with skyscrapers. More »
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Microsoft is spending half a billion dollars to make sure that when you hear the word Kinect you think "the future of video games." More »
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Roger Ebert has said that video games cannot be art. Similar judgments have been made over the decades and centuries about novels, plays, movies, television, comic books, and of course science fiction. More »
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Science fiction takes another step closer to reality today as scientists discover a way to delete traumatic memories from the brains of lab animals. Your fear of Kotaku's regular science posts may soon be a thing of the past! More »
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The United States Supreme Court hears its first ever case about video games this week. The stakes are high. Here's what is happening and why it's happening. More »
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When the text-heavy fantasy worlds of multi-user dungeons first invaded the mainframes of Essex University and the dial-ups of Compuserve, there were few rules in place and even fewer ways to enforce them. More »
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Star Trek - Infinite Space gets its first trailer today, giving us a glimpse of what the free-to-play game hopes to deliver. More »
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II drops us back in control of Darth Vader's disobedient apprentice Starkiller as he searches for his love, the rebellion and himself. More »
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Every year, Blizzard holds a contest to see who can dance the most like one of the World of Warcraft races. This year's Undead male dancer learned that real life bones aren't quite as sturdy as video game bones. More »
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Wife dead, daughter infected, motocross superstar Chuck Greene is forced to compete on nationally televised zombie killing show Terror is Reality to earn the cash to help keep his daughter from turning. But then things go sideways. More »
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There is a man named Monkey and a woman named Trip. New York City is in shambles, its landmarks collapsed or covered in ivy. What looks like a new co-op game is a single-player epic, gaming's new sci-fi original. More »
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Fall is supposed to be the best time of the video game year, the entree and the dessert after the first nine month's meager salad and interactive appetizer. But in 2010, the winter and spring were bountiful and fall is at risk of seeming pathetic. Could it be? These are your fall games of 2010. More »
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