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It's been a crazy few weeks here at Kotaku as we scrambled to cover the world's biggest game show in Germany, the largest Penny Arcade Expo in history and the first ever convention dedicated to all things Call of Duty. More »
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Each year a panel of game industry experts grant free floor space at Penny Arcade Expo to ten indie games they deem worth of the attention. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5819424&view=rss&microfeed=true Getting into Penny Arcade Expo's flagship show in Seattle, on Labor Day weekend, is notoriously difficult if you trek up there without a pass. The three-day variety for PAX 2011 is now officially sold out, according to the expo's official Twitter feed. They've been processing some refunds, freeing up stock incrementally, so there's an off chance passes still are available. But if you waited until now to get your money down, you're probably SOL. [Official_PAX Twitter] More »
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With the Penny Arcade Expo's habit of selling out far in advance, fans eager to attend next year's PAX East should probably register as soon as humanly possible. More »
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My friend N'Gai Croal and I have made a game out of choosing the 10 best video games of all time. This is a game, called Canon Fodder, that we invite game developers to play every six months or so. More »
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The organizers of Penny Arcade Expo have signed a three year agreement with the Massachusetts Convention Center to bring PAX East back to Boston for at least three more years, the Boston Herald reports. More »
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It seems like only five days ago that the inaugural PAX East came to a close, and now pre-registration for PAX...West? Just PAX? What the hell do we call it now? Anyway, you can buy tickets now. More »
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Mike Fahey and I (not pictured above) went to Boston last weekend to cover PAX East. More than 15 new game previews a chat with PAX's founders (pictured above!) and several adventures later, this is everything we did.... More »
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I've already written about one of my two favorite new games at PAX East. This is the other one. More »
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Halfbrick Studio's early 2010 Xbox Live Arcade Game Raskulls looks and plays like the kind of old-school platformer that surely someone must have thought of years ago. More »
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In 2002, Andrew Lum strapped a TV to his chest, a GameCube to his belt and crashed Sony parties. He was paid to do this, but, really, Andrew Lum loves Nintendo. Today, he's making a Nintendo game. More »
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At PAX East, geek hero Wil Wheaton decided to check which generations the thousands of people attending his keynote were from by testing some gaming one-liners. People roared for each one. More »
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Come hear the tale of how one video game journalist, driven by the love of the Slurpee, overcame tremendous odds to travel one and a half blocks in two hours. More »
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A brief hands-on with upcoming Xbox Live Arcade air combat game Snoopy Flying Ace at PAX East made me realize how badly I missed playing Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. More »
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For Dead Space 2 executive producer Steve Papoutsis, PAX East was an amazing opportunity to connect with the fans that could keep the franchise going for "eight billion years." More »
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This past weekend, N'Gai Croal and I launched an idea two years in the making: The Best Method Of All Time For Selecting The 10 Best Video Games Of All Time. Or, as we more humbly call it: Canon Fodder. More »
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Ska Studios' The Dishwasher returns in Vampire Smile, and he's not alone, as his previously dead sister Yuki takes up arms against an army of twisted enemies, Machine Girl style. More »
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In our svelte final PAX East cosplay gallery, we bring you the few, the proud, the amazingly-tall Bayonetta, the ex-Kotaku-editor-masquerading-as-a-cosplayer and the Ghostbusters (can you guess who there are protecting us from?) More »
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I ended my tour of PAX East 2010 with two games vying for the title of Stephen's Favorite New Game At The Show. This was one of them. More »
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Damn you Andrew Ryan! As seen in my carry-on luggage, which Logan Airport security looked at for a very long time. More »
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This is Grapple Buggy, shown here in Boston at PAX East by Nathan Fouts, the almost-solo developer behind Xbox Live Indie game Weapon of Choice. You can tell which classic Nintendo Entertainment System games he loves. More »
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On the third floor of the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, visitors to the Penny Arcade Expo East get to visit an actual arcade, filled with free-to-play arcade cabinets and pinball machines, just like mother used to make. More »
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Jacob Minkoff, game designer at Uncharted 2 development studio Naughty Dog and one of the main people behind the game's train sequence, sports the company logo on his back. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5503769&view=rss&microfeed=true Kotaku previewed new Xbox Live Arcade exclusive Hydrophobia this weekend. The game has some rough spots, but to help you understand this game's potential check out its water effects in this official trailer. More »
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We promised you more cosplay for the second day of PAX East, and we have delivered! Check out today's gallery for more Pokémon, Mario, Final Fantasy XIII, Fallout, The World Ends With You, and this uncanny Jerry Holkins cosplay. More »
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Dead Space's strategic dismemberment system was a lot of fun, but ultimately a waste of perfectly good limbs. Executive producer Steve Papoutsis tells Kotaku one way the sequel will keep the fun going even after someone loses an arm. More »
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Giant Bomb's Jeff Gertsmann, long-time reviewer of games, has a less than cheerful history with the first Kane & Lynch game. But at PAX East, all is well with Jeff, Kane and Lynch. (The fans here made him do it!) More »
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I got to spend a half hour this morning with Puzzle Quest 2, the sequel to a game I found so addicting that I'd rather play it than write up this preview. Is my life over come late spring? More »
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The best parts of Hydrophobia are, not surprisingly, wet. More »
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The creators of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers have finally named their new game and let us play it again. Here at PAX East I have played Battle Block Theater. More »
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The turnout at last night's Kotaku Pax East meet-up was nothing short of amazing. There was dancing, drinking, more drinking. After that, we drank a little. Wanna see what that looked like? Here you go. More »
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The air shimmers with heat as I survey the scrub plain laid out before me. Wild animals frolic. Horsemen go about their business. I whistle for my horse, saddle up, and take my first ride into Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption. More »
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Pen and paper role-playing game designer David Hill tasked a theater packed with PAX East attendees to create an RPG in sixty minutes, resulting in a thrilling game of journalistic intrique - with talking dinosaurs. More »
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Not everything the men behind the massive PAX East convention here in Boston told me this weekend is true. But most of it was funny and/or illuminating. More »
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As seen at PAX, a timeline of the work of the people behind Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers — with an important hint about the future. More »
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It's been a busy first day at PAX East, and we've only managed to capture a handful of cosplayers in our mad dash about the convention area, but what they lack in quantity they make up in quality. More »
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It's hard to get an accurate feel for the Rocket Tag online multiplayer mode for Crackdown 2 when every time I try to get a word in edgewise - oh dammit I'm dead. More »
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Not many words for you about PAX East in this post. Just pictures and captions of some of the things we spotted on our first day at PAX East. More »
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The last video game from Twisted Pixel was a ridiculous exploration of how good a game you can get out of a character who only explodes. Their new hero has a worse affliction. He stars in a bad comic book. More »
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