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Mistakes happen all the time in the world of reporting news. That's what you get when dealing with humans telling you stories. It's one thing to make a mistake, though, and another to completely make shit up. More »
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Irony of ironies, here as we are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III terrorizing parents everywhere, IGN has shuttered What They Play which analyzed video games from the perspective of parents concerned about violent and sexual content. More »
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Now that EVO 2011—the world's biggest and best fighting game tournament—has come to a close, it's time to look back at the best moments. Many of which have been thoughtfully compiled into this lovely video. More »
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New in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is the option to choose a "Battle Focus" for Kerrigan, the hero character of the campaign. Up to four Battle Focuses, each with five special abilities and attributes, will be available. Only two, Spec Ops and Corruption, were playable during a recent hands-on preview event. More »
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If new media of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 makes you feel like doing a jig with your panda pals, this is the gallery for you, Kotaku reader. Namco Bandai gives us a visual update on the next Tekken right here, right now. More »
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Do you like your giant mech games dark, grainy and gorgeously lit? Then you may want to eyeball these new screens of FromSoftware's Armored Core V, the next entry in the long-running and prolific series of mech-versus-mech games. More »
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You're slowly creeping along the darkened halls of a haunted mansion, waiting for the next zombie to come shambling around the corner. It's a familiar situation, and you're not afraid. Sensors convey this information to your game console, and suddenly an ear-piercing shriek fills the air behind you. Your heartbeat elevates, your fingertips sweat. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5781759&view=rss&microfeed=true Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media empire has bought into the gaming business, purchasing not a global powerhouse, but...a tiny social games developer called Making Fun. More »
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First Star Software teams up once again with Catnip Games to bring the robotic Rockford back for another round of diamond-digging in Boulder Dash XL for Windows PC and Xbox Live Arcade. More »
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Media coverage of violent video games spikes twice every year in the same months, April and November, according to "data journalist" David McCandless. More »
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Cover of Business Today, Taiwan's leading financial publication, spied by reader Howard C. I've no idea what the headline in fact says, but yes, hitting a coin box repeatedly is a sound financial strategy. More »
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Bask in the glory of Gears of War 3's new offerings: bushier beards, prettier hair (we mean Anya Stroud, of course), the Lambent, the heavily mutated Locust Drones, and new locations in which to chainsaw the torsos of bad guys. More »
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What does Namco Bandai's new action game Knights Contract have that its competitors don't? Good question. The just-revealed PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game appears to share a common trait with many upcoming games. More »
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So, you enjoyed last night's boisterous Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer, but you wanted something even bigger, but running at a slower pace? A half dozen super-sized screens from the follow-up to Modern Warfare 2 might scratch that itch. More »
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We're still a good six months (or more) from the release of Dead Space 2, so a slow trickle of screens from Visceral Games' sci-fi horror adventure feels more like teasing than anything else. More »
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Painkiller developer People Can Fly are loading Bulletstorm for a 2011 release, promising "outrageously large guns" and "hordes of mutants and flesh eating gangs in an abandoned paradise," all of which one can clearly see in brand new screen shots. More »
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Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory has already proven that they can make "post apocalyptic" pretty with Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. But can they do explosions as well? New screens of Enslaved let you be the judge. More »
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When it hits May 25, UFC Undisputed 2010 will introduce three new fighting styles - karate, greco-roman wrestling, and fig-leaf gourd sambo. In this video, UFC coach Mark Laimon compares them to the existing styles in the MMA series. More »
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Just because this ... whatever it is has no practical application (yet) doesn't mean it's not awesome. But it does need a use. Cuckoo clock? Alarm clock? Piggy bank? More »
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The Netflix discs enabling streaming video over the Wii are already in the mail and one reader's uploaded this video, showing us what we can expect - in this case, 30 second loading times to browse the catalog. More »
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Here's video of two of the six games available in Sports Champions for the PlayStation Move, a table tennis game and a gladiator competition. More »
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Experience the thrill of social networking and casual gaming convergence with Tweet Defense, an iPhone zombie tower defense title that boosts your units' power based on your Twitter activity. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5489188&view=rss&microfeed=true Why does a man play Mario? This brand new Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer of the May 23-dated Wii game is may be the ideal answer to that question. More »
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Last week, Square Enix released new screen shots of Final Fantasy XIII in both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 flavors, sparking a bit of console-centered controversy, due to their clearly doctored nature. Now we're getting a proper comparison. More »
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Valve released new details on the first downloadable add-on for Left 4 Dead 2 today at Microsoft's X10 event, explaining how "The Passing" will handle the meet up with the original Left 4 Dead survivors. Now, let's have some media. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5469949&view=rss&microfeed=true Some reasonably sharp gameplay renders in this one-minute teaser for MLB 2K10. The worm's-eye view tracking shots of the baserunning makes me reach for the Pepto, but the animations are sound. More »
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Though MAG and Mass Effect 2 dropped today, it's still t-minus 2 weeks to BioShock 2's release, and 2K wants you to watch this teaser trailer in anticipation of the plasmid powers awaiting you. More »
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To satirize self-styled guidos (and guidettes) who better than Mario and Luigi? Dr. Coolsex, the group behind Mario Kart: The Movie, give us this send-up of TV fad Jersey Shore, and introduce to our lexicon the phrase "star-stealing koopa f***er." More »
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Half of this seems about as hamfistedly hip as a Mentos ad, but a team of design students at a Milan university identified five top global trends - guerrilla gardening, couch-surfing, carpooling - and used Mario to illustrate them. More »
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Mass Effect 2 trailers! (*fires shotgun*) Mass Effect 2 trailers here! (*fires shotgun*) Get your Mass Effect 2 trailers! Who's ready? (*fires shotgun*) Mass Effect 2 trailers! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5435781&view=rss&microfeed=true As we'll get into on Christmas day in a little more detail, video game trailers are big business these days. But did you ever stop and wonder where they actually come from? More »
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I haven't had to worry about a bad hair day in years. Bayonetta's however, can summon demons that will drag you down to hell. And since her hair is also her clothing, well, no one said it could multitask. More »
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These two minutes come from the opening cinematic of Halo: Reach, establishing the story of Noble Team, assigned to defend the planet. An accompanying press release announced the multiplayer beta - invitations included in Halo 3:ODST - begins Spring 2010. More »
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Correction: I misidentified this as a trailer from the 2009 Video Game Awards. While it is new, it is from the IGN Ultimate Video Game Gift Guide, which aired on Fox before the VGAs. More »
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Not sure if this is the "biggest surprise premiere in VGA history" we've been promised, but MTV put up a "Green Day: Rock Band" video dated three days into the future, then pulled it. Embed code still works, though. More »
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In this video, you can get a look at the in-game bonuses for preordering Mass Effect 2 from GameStop: the Terminus Assault Armor, which does more than look good, and the Blackstorm Heavy Weapon, which does more than look bad. More »
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Machinima just can't help itself. We've seen Castlevania, Mario, Contra, and now here we are with Battletoads as reenacted within Half-Life 2. More »
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Here's a virtuoso piano performance of the Super Mario Bros. theme - using one hand. If I'd remembered anything from my piano lessons beyond playing Old MacDonald on the black keys, I could probably describe how difficult this is. More »
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Machinima put this up last week, following the Castlevania and Mario reconstructions in Half-Life 2. Anyone who's ever played Contra - that should be all of us, right? - will want to watch this start to finish. More than once. More »
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This is now the second When Pissed Off Girlfriends Attack Consoles video that's crossed my inbox in the past week. The first one was obviously staged. This, however, looks good. Is it legit? YOU MAKE THE CALL! More »
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