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I've not played any of Sega's upcoming sci-fi shooter Binary Domain, so it could be the best game ever created by human humans for all I know. I'm having an incredibly difficult time mustering any excitement at all for the title, and this new multiplayer trailer isn't helping at all. More »
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It was kind of surprising that Mass Effect 3's multiplayer looked better than expected. But this trailer makes it look like must-play content. You'll see the various races of BioWare's sci-fi universe playing through skirmishes as several classes, with missions that appear to happen all over the galaxy. Does this make you more excited or less for Mass Effect 3's multiplayer? More »
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In the second multiplayer trailer for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City to drop this week Capcom details the various multiplayer modes that will see your team versus their team versus hordes of biological weapons of your ass destruction. More »
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Commenter Seivewright has completely fucking had it with online multiplayer games, and he isn't going to take it anymore. Find out why in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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Commenter KingKellogg the Waffle Haggler encountered a Single White Female situation while playing online the other day, and wonders if you've ever had the pleasure of attracting creepy online dopplegangers in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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Welcome, Kotaku Game Club, to the multiplayer edition of our Uncharted 3 talks! Thank you everyone for showing up a day early. I hope that you're as excited as I am to get a healthy gaming discussion in before the holiday. More »
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If you have last year's Halo: Reach and aren't interested in the Halo: Anniversary high-definition remastering of the original game, you still can get up the four classic multiplayer maps shipping with it. More »
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How do you create a competitive driving game with only one car? Bernhard Handler's Roadeo offers a simple and elegant solution. Player one drives the car, and player two steers the road. More »
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Commenter Valeria got more and less than she bargained for in her copy of Battlefield 3 for the Xbox 360. It's a picture perfect Speak Up on Kotaku! More »
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The backstabbing multiplayer of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood returns next month in Revelations, bigger, bloodier, and more customizable than ever. Live producer Andreane Meunier explains what's changed, what to expect, and makes me want to mispronounce the word "beta". More »
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The video of Harrison Ford playing Uncharted 3 last week was clearly meant to communicate some kind of blessing from Indiana Jones to Nathan Drake. And Indy's a professor who taught lessons with his fists. This video features Naughty Dog's Robert Cogburn talking about how you can do the same in the studio's hotly anticipated threequel. Even though Dr. Jones didn't fire off quite as many rounds as Nathan Drake does, I think he'd approve. More »
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The huge multiplayer update coming to StarCraft II with the second installment, Heart of the Swarm, gives Blizzard an excellent opportunity to balance the three races and take advantage of missed opportunities. Let's see what holes the new multiplayer units plug. More »
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Earlier this week we posted a Speak Up on Kotaku in which a commenter condemned the practice of online passes. Today commenter Odin plays devil's advocate, explaining how online passes may actually help the industry. More »
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When Hi-Rez Studios contacted Kotaku about giving away 100 codes good for entry to the Tribes: Ascend beta test, I thought long and hard about the most efficient and fair way to distribute those codes to our readers. More »
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Finally, the chance to watch DICE's shiny Frostbite 2 engine get put through its paces in nearly two minutes of multiplayer mayhem. The clip showcases action from all the multiplayer maps shipping on the disc. The game's massive destructibility looks like it's going to radically change the experience of online warfare. One minute you're in a building taking cover, the next, the building's on you taking your life. More »
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In this very special episode of BioWare Pulse, Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson explains the game's co-op multiplayer system just like he did on Monday, only with pictures. Who doesn't love pictures? More »
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Via the official BioWare Twitter account and that of Bio-exec Casey Hudson comes confirmation of earlier reports as to the existence of multiplayer in the developer's upcoming sci-fi action RPG threequel. More »
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They invented the term, so why isn't deathmatch available in Rage? More »
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I hope you're ready, ladies and gents. It's Versus mode week here at the Kotaku Game Club. Today we'll be sharing our experiences playing the competitive multiplayer modes of Gears of War 3. More »
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I'm not above a good multiplayer betrayal every now and then. I use my color-blindness as an excuse the way a good forum troll uses Asperger's or agoraphobia. But this guy, UnstoppableLuck, takes it to the next level. More »
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Good ol' commenter Uncle Jesse returns to the Speak Up on Kotaku spotlight today, wondering if any of you actually use those convenient microphones they attach to today's newfangled headsets. More »
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If you give me the option to make a pink and yellow Space Marine, I'm going to make a pink and yellow Space Marine. More »
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In March, Canadian gamers were upset to learn that World of Warcraft traffic was being throttled by Rogers Cable and Telecom, the country's largest broadband provider. Now the company has admitted that other games' online traffic might trip its pipeline monitors and result in their throttling, which Rogers called "inadvertent." Canadian gamers do not accept that answer. More »
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In the online multiplayer era of sports gaming, I have been a Grinch-like hermit, rarely venturing forth into it except to ragequit and rant that none of what they do reflects reality, and to get off my lawn. Madden, which has a culture of elite play spanning about a decade, television shows celebrating it, and a cottage industry of strategy advisors supporting it, is one of the more intimidating environments for a newcomer. Brutal experiences early on can kill not only fun, but a desire to return. More »
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Mark Strong, the actor who voices Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine's Captain Titus, is new to the Warhammer world. After getting a taste of Warhammer, he says he want to "take a big swim" in the universe. More »
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You heard that right: Modern Warfare 3 will support dedicated servers on the PC, just like your daddy's multiplayer shooters did. That's the kind of stuff we like to see—and the kind of stuff you get when the king of pop shooters has a challenger to the throne. More »
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I have played Tribes: Ascend. If that statement doesn't make you jealous, provoke salivating, or awaken tense memories of last-minute flag captures that you can physically feel in your shoulders and mousing hand, this probably isn't going to be the article for you. More »
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Earlier today, a post on the official forum for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine said that cooperative multiplayer for the game would not be available at launchand would be added into the game 30 days after launch "give or take." The post has since been removed, but publisher THQ has yet to confirm any plans or availability for the feature. More »
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While Resistance 3's single-player story sees players traipsing across the U.S., multiplayer is a trip around the Chimeran-infested world, with stops in Bogota, Colombia, Glamorgan, Wales, Africa's Republic of Chad, and this latest map, which takes the battle to the second largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. More »
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I just want to play Driver: San Francisco to try and figure out how taxi drivers take those hills without launching their vehicles into low Earth orbit. Other crave a little competition. This video is for them. More »
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If the text flashing by in this trailer are to be believed, Relic Entertainment has managed to cram 1.8 billion different ways to customize Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine's six multiplayer classes, a number at least 1,000 times larger than the amount of people likely to care. More »
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Activision sweetens the pot for fans considering attending the first-ever Call of Duty XP convention in Los Angeles next month, revealing additional details on what fans can expect to get out of the show, including a free copy of the Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition. More »
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Commenter DeapGalaxy isn't an online multiplayer shooter fan, but he'd sure like to be. Help him find the perfect game in today's thrilling episode of Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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In today's laser-targeted edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Petey 2 Kold has an issue with Crysis 2 on the PlayStation 3, and would like to make developer Crytek aware of it. Have at them, Petey 2. More »
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As the first season of competition comes to a close, League of Legends developer Riot Games celebrates by dropping some incredibly impressive player statistics for the free-to-play online action strategy title enjoyed by more than 1.4 million players a day. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5824865&view=rss&microfeed=true 1.9 billion kills, 48 billion shots fired, and more than 362 years worth of matches later, the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta was the largest ever held on PlayStation Network. More fun facts can be found on the PlayStation Blog, or check out McWhertor's detailed impressions of his time spent in the beta. More »
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Naughty Dog pulled the plug on the Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception multiplayer beta this Friday. I was online, jumping from one round of Team Objective to another when those multiplayer servers went dark. I'll miss you, Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta, because I learned a lot during our three weeks together. More »
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With hundreds of thousands of players online at any given moment, how can a gamer ever feel truly alone? Commenter Salari tells us in today's very special episode of Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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Last night on the way back to my apartment in New York's Lower East Side, I saw a crowd of men standing around two motorcycles. I'm a fledgling rider myself, as well as newly returned to the city. I'd spoken to these guys a few times before and did what I typically do when I see a guy on a hot bike: walk up and ask him how he likes it. More »
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