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Sure, some of you probably went for flowers or evenings out or something romantic. But for many, February 14 probably went a lot like this. As it damn well should have. More »
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Is that love in the air, or is it Energon? No reason it can't be both. Anything's possible when he, Grimlock, loves you. More »
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We all know that the "social" space has changed the dating scene. Facebook has thrown all sorts of new tools and little wrinkles our way. More »
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Aww, that is one adorable Valentine's Day card, custom-made by Adam Bing. Now if only Link could actually find Zelda to give it to her... More »
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The latest trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw reminds us that just one bite from a zombie is all it takes to spell doom. Unless, of course, you have a loved one nearby to cheerfully chop off your head and keep it animated… somehow. More »
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Put down those chocolates, son! Delicious candy should be an everyday gift. And you, in the lingerie store! Has he really seen you naked so many times that getting dressed seems sexy? Look, all you need for Valentine's Day is a pearl pink Nintendo 3DS, available February 10. More »
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Marriage, ladies and gentlemen. Marriage is a game mechanic, or at least it will be early next month when update 1.7 goes live for Trion Worlds' MMO Rift. They'll be celebrating the new feature on February 14 by attempting to establish the World Record for most in-game marriages in a 24-hour period. Where's that Divorce Paper vendor again? More »
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Uber Entertainment's "Steamy Valentine" update for Monday Night Combat is filled with features and fixes, but this steamy love song is what's really at the heart of the matter. More »
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Valentine's Day may mean chocolates and flowers for most, but for Valve — and fans of its spatial puzzler Portal — it means falling through orange and blue holes and tender moments with maniacal AI overlords. More »
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Aw, isn't that adorable? That Sims couple is celebrating Valentine's Day together, enjoying a sweet little snuggle on the couch. Meanwhile, next door... More »
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Today is Valentine's Day, and this past week Kotaku went wookin' pa nub in all the video game places. Below are special links to all our Love Week stories, covering love in all its forms, from lust to matrimony. More »
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Kratos Valentine's Day Cookies, as made by the girlfriend of God of War III's lead combat designer. Via submission to Kotaku. Here's another shot of them wrapped. More »
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Capcom celebrates Valentine's Day with a new trailer featuring Chun-Li, Cammy, and Juri from Super Street Fighter IV, beating the living daylights out of each other. More »
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Who needs an actual game to generate buzz? Certainly not Postal developers Running With Scissors, celebrating Valentine's Day with an adorable plush scrotum named Krotchy. More »
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With Valentine's Day creeping up on us, ax in hand, we've decided to take a moment here on Kotaku to examine all things Love. More »
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Atlus is gearing up for another World Tendency event for the PlayStation 3 role-playing game Demon's Souls just like it did for Halloween and the Christmas season. Since this one's for Valentine's Day, what will Atlus do? Whatever you choose. More »
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Pencel Games, the London-based developer of Xbox Live Indie game Gerbil Physics has a firm grasp on one universal truth - nothing says "I love you" like a heart-shaped box full of gerbils. More »
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Epic took more than 20 suggestions for experience bonuses in a Valentine's event and Cliff Bleszinski and Rod Fergusson chose three. Epic's Valentine's Day "date" with Gears of War 2 will run between Feb. 8 and Feb. 14. More »
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While announcing its early 2010 software lineup this morning, Nintendo also announced a February 14th North American release date for the pink and blue Wii remotes, giving the significant others of Nintendo fans the perfect Valentine's Day gift idea. More »
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It's Valentine's Day, the one day in the western world U.S. (sorry, forgot about you, Amsterdam) where it's legal to pay for sex. So here's a very NSFW video of gaming's top five couples. More »
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It wouldn't be Valentine's Day without half a dozen games celebrating the number two Hallmark holiday of the year. The Sims 3 jumps on the bandwagon with two new screens of sweet, sweet love. More »
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Sanrio Digital celebrates the season of love this Valentine's Day weekend by opening up the servers of Hello Kitty Online for a public stress test with their four-day Happy Hearts event. More »
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While other massively-multiplayer online games are busy celebrating Valentine's Day, Mythic takes Warhammer Online down a decidedly darker path with the launch of their Night of Murder live event. More »
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Want to express your love eternal to the Left 4 Dead-loving dork or dorkess this Valentine's Day? Say "I love you enough to print this out from the internet" with "special infected"-filled "Valventines." More »
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You may have seen these godawful Street Fighter II Valentine's Day cards before—they date back to 1992, when Gamepro paid people like this to do their "artwork"—but if not, I sincerely apologize. They're probably the most horrifically rendered interpretations of the classic Capcom fighters you'll ever see. So, download, print them out and give them to someone you despise. I highly recommend the horribly disfigured Chun-Li for the most deplorable Valentine in your life. He or she will surely thank you with a slap. Thanks and Happy Valentine's Day to reader Chris for the pointer. More »
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When one Floridian woman picked up some Pokemon valentines at her local Dollar General, her son spotted something peculiar sticking out from the bundled lollipops: razor-sharp chunks of box-cutter blades. Luckily he noticed the metal protrusion before he handed a lollipop to his sister for her tongue to go all Bulbasaur. More »
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Today is Valentine's Day, a day to celebrate love in all its many forms. Love is an ongoing theme throughout human history, from the age of myths to the information age. It's in our books, the television and movies we watch, and yes - it's in our video games. In honor of that sweetest of four-letter words, I give you my top five video game love stories. More »
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We featured artist Alexandria Neonakis' art last Valentine's Day, but her new series, bringing the best of romantic hokeyness to Team Fortress 2, is even more deserving of some special attention. If you've found yourself without a V-Day card to your name, fire up the old color inkjet and print out one of her five beautifully rendered cards that feature the Scout, Spy, Heavy, Pyro and Medic, famous for their appearances in Valve's The Orange Box. Amazing how Team Fortress 2 seems applicable to so many holidays. More »
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Fact: Mario is the master of love. Sure, his relationship with the Princess sometimes feels more innocuous than passionate—and the whole Bowser infatuation certainly kinks up the confusing sexual undertones—but no matter what the circumstance, he always wins back the Princess against overwhelming odds. So why not celebrate Valentine's with some free Nintendo valentines? From 4 Color Rebellion, these charming notes will only cost you some color ink or a few seconds of copy/pasting into an email. Beecause really, what potential lover can resist a good "bee" pun? More »
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In fear of letting the theme of "girls like video games too" fall by the wayside (because, y'know, you were all so concerned), I thought I'd let you know of my deferred Valentine's Day plans for this weekend: the boyfriend is taking me to see Video Games Live! While Kotaku writers have been to the show in the past, I thought it might be nice to let you know how the new 2008 tour compares, since Toronto will be the fifth stop on the tour of over forty cities. More »
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If sex doesn't sell games, then cookies just might. To promote Meteos Online a troop of girls in go-go boots barged in on the Famitsu offices and stuffed chocolate meteos (meteoses?) cookies in dude's faces. Hit the jump for exciting feeding pics! Brian Ashcraft More »
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Awww, how cute, but shouldn't Perrin be thinking of chocolate covered IGN staffers, not roses? Brian Crecente More »
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I know for many of you the countdown to Valentine's Day is an agonizing reminder of how lonely the world ultimately is, each minute like a tiny dart piercing your heart, but for most of us it is a happy time, filled with hearts and candies and stuffed animals that are oh-so-cuddly-wuddly. For the latter group, 4 color rebellion has created some Nintendo-themed valentines suitable for download a print, which in my opinion are much better than the other Nintendo-themed valentines suitable for download or print I posted earlier. No offense to those, but these just show the love better somehow. More »
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Microsoft is playing Cupid this year for lonely gamers who have no one to spend Valentine's Day with. Who does MS think your perfect match is? Why, The Xbox 360, of course! Xbox Live is offering some exciting Valentine's activities for the single gamer including last night's "Lost Planet All Nighter" and Wednesday's thrilling Viva Pinata trade off. The Xbox crew also have advice for the lovelorn in the form of some top ten lists and suggestions of some games that will take your mind off your lonely, miserable life and perhaps most disturbing, how to get your Pinatas to get biz-ay. More »
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TriXie says Microsoft has a "hot" PR girl named Jen set up to play Perfect Dark Zero tonight from 6-8 EST. That gives you guys enough time to play PDZ searching for the mystery gamer and then you can still take your own V-Day sweetie out for dinner. More »
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Japanese Valentine's Day is backwards. Unlike the Western holiday, men do not give women chocolates, but vice-versa. A month later, males return the favor by giving women chocolates on White Day. Check out Japundit's interesting article detailing the holiday. The kicker: nothing quite says romantic like online RPG Ragnarok chocolate (pictured above) or naughty anime (after the jump). More »
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I'm not talking about CheapyD and crew, I'm talking about you and your inability to prepare for the most commercial of holidays, Valentine's Day. Celebrate the day of overwhelming significant-other guilt, with no real merit, gamer procrastination-style. Is it clear yet that I'm single and angry? More »
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The sometimes clever folks at AOL have an entire video game meets Valentine's Day theme up at the AOL gaming site. There's a feature on sexy cheats, which includes (gasp!) some more GTA codes and reminds gamers how to get Meryl from Metal Gear Solid back in her skivvies. The best feature of the bunch might be the Dating Tips for Gamers. This is where I'd usually make a Crecente or an Ashcraft joke, but since they're married, I guess I'm just going to get to memorizing the dating tips. More »
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Oh man, where's the "We belong together" card? That's OK, these are still very cool Tetris-themed Valentine's Day cards. More »
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