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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a Chinese historical fiction novel written in the 14th century, and it wasn't about romance at all—well not romance as in love. It is a story about the struggles of three kingdoms and their battle for power and dominance over China. The story is full of treachery and brotherhood and even some romance. 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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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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Virgin Media was told it can no longer run broadband ads claiming that their UK internet service is the best for online gaming. More »
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They invented the term, so why isn't deathmatch available in Rage? More »
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In today's very special installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Mark Vincent N. Cocjin waxes eloquently on the ghostly digital echoes left behind when a gamer passes on. 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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Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes mixes the player-versus-player combat of Warhammer Online with the champion system of games like DOTA to create a unique free-to-play competitive online experience. Meet Felicia. She'll be your Bright Wizard today. More »
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For over a decade Pokémon fans have been facing-off against one another in fierce trading card based battles around the world. Today those battles go online, and anyone with a web browser can play. 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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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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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 »
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I will play any game that pits the forces of magic against (relatively) modern military forces. Battlefield Heroes gets wizards today. I approve. 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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The countdown has ended and Sony Online Entertainment has pulled back the curtain on Planetside 2, the sequel to the ambitious 2003 massively multiplayer online first-person shooter. More »
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There's been a lot said about Duke Nukem Forever, not much of it good. More »
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Sucks to be a Heroes of Newerth player this week (or next week, or the week after), after the game's servers suffered what's being called "a catastrophic hardware failure". More »
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An open letter to my fellow developers and gamers who follow the industry. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5803598&view=rss&microfeed=true The closed beta test for the soon-to-be-revived Hellgate kicks off next month, and T3 Entertainment has your closed beta keys. Hit up the Hellgate website to secure one for yourself and relive the horror. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5804814&view=rss&microfeed=true Now that Killzone 3 players can get online and kill each other once again, Guerrilla Games and Sony gives them incentive to do so in the form of a double XP weekend running now through 10AM UK time Monday morning. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5804143&view=rss&microfeed=true A combined ten million Xbox 360 and PC kills in two weeks has unlocked Assault Mode for Section 8: Prejudice, in which two teams take turns trying to secure all Control Points on a map. Go play. More »
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Research suggests that family communication improves if the group are playing online video games together, but if a single member is gaming, it suffers greatly as the gaming becomes a substitute for healthy communication. More »
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Singapore's SingTel kicked off a subscription-based cloud gaming service called ESC, which allows players to play high-powered games over the net via desktops or notebook computers with Pentium 4 chips. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5793883&view=rss&microfeed=true Spiral Knights, the free-to-play Zelda-esque MMO from Puzzle Pirates creator Three Rings has gone live. Hit up the game's official website to begin exploring its strange alien planet's clockwork innards. More »
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Researchers trying to determine if getting dumped causes measurable, physical pain-and it apparently does show up on fMRI-needed a proxy experience for romantic relationships in their tests. (It wouldn't be polite to throw people who just got dumped in fMRI machines, I guess, but I still would like to see those results.) More »
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"…we shouldn't be having to hide online, and this is unfair. I should be able to tell people I'm female and not expect crazy to come out of it." More »
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Is commenter Cursed Frogurt alone when he says he enjoys multiplayer betas for games like Halo: Reach and Gears of War 3 better than full retail multiplayer? That's the subject we're testing out in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »
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In today's Speak-Up on Kotaku commenter CuttySark wonders why portraying women and men video games as physically or mentally superior is such a bad thing. More »
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From Sega and Puzzle Pirates studio Three Rings comes Spiral Knights, a colorful, candy-coated, free-to-play online multiplayer PC adventure to the center of a strange alien planet. More »
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Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Luke874 wonders if we aren't putting too much emphasis on online multiplayer and neglecting games that don't have it. More »
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Earlier this month at a supermarket in Japan's Kumamoto, 3-year-old Koko Shimizu went to the restroom while her mother paid for their groceries. Within minutes, the little girl was missing. Her body was discovered 500 meters away inside a large drain near a river. More »
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Diablo III might be coming to consoles, but it's still a long ways off. In the meantime, PlayStation 3 owners can satiate their dungeon crawling cravings with Dungeon Hunter: Alliance, coming in April to the PlayStation Network. More »
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Before there were virtual farmers in FarmVille and virtual shop owners in CityVille, there was Ultima Online. More »
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SOCOM is a series that's all about cooperation, and in SOCOM 4 Zipper Interactive hands control of cooperative online multiplayer missions to the players, giving them free reign to create custom co-op campaigns. More »
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What if Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy were playable online with other role-playing heroes? We'd have something like NEStalgia, the newly released multiplayer online RPG that looks old school, but plays modern. More »
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Kotaku commenter Goldwings is having problems connecting to mutliplayer games in Call of Duty: Black Ops for the PlayStation 3, so he voices his displeasure in video form in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »
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After more than 12 years of success in the real world the Pokémon Trading Card Game goes virtual this April with the Pokémon Trainer Challenge. Finally a way for older fans to play without looking completely creepy. More »
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Tag in the front yard, football in a field, hide-and-go seek in the neighborhood and, yes, sometimes video games online. More »
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From the message that Xbox Live user ralphy305 sent a female gamer, it's clear the time he should have spent on his spelling and grammar was instead put to keying in a text representation of an ejaculating penis. More »
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