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Hoard Your ISK and Dock Your Ships. EvE Players Are Going To War Like Never Before
First off you should know that everything you see in an EvE gameplay video looks roughly 9000x cooler than it does in real life. The video you’ve just seen above is in regard to a war that’s a-brewin between some 50,000 players in the EvE universe in the star system of Delve. I’m not going…
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This Playstation Move Steering Wheel Must Be Seen To Be Believed
If I were to ask you what the one thing was that it would take to get you to dust off your Playstation Move, my guess is that you wouldn’t say a steering wheel attachment. Well, too bad! The fine folks over at Sony will be rolling out this bad boy in the hopes that…
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SOG Teams Up With Medal of Honor to Create Bad Ass Blades for Charity
SOG makes knives, Danger Close makes video games featuring men who use knives. Seems like a perfect fit, no? SOG’s latest line is both inspired by and featured in Medal of Honor: Warfighter. It features a knife, multitool and a tomahawk designed specifically for the game – the Voodoo Hawk. All proceeds from sales of…
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Brotaku West Starts Now!
Just kidding. Well, kinda. Dave Oshry here. You may remember me from when I filled in for Owen back in January or you may have seen me hanging around the likes of VG24/7, PC Gamer, Gameranx or my old homestead, RipTen. Perhaps you know me from Twitter? Or maybe you have absolutely no idea who…
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Alan Wake: Now With The Sweet Horde Mode You Never Asked For
Yes, you read that right. Alan Wake now has a horde mode, and a rather good one at that. It seems that every game has one these days. However, is this something that Alan Wake fans want? I got to sit down with the new “Fight ’til Dawn” mode in Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, and…
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Hitman: Absolution Rips Off Red Dead Redemption in the Coolest Way
Last week, my friend and colleague Matt Cabral wrote up an excellent preview of Hitman: Absolution for Kotaku. I was given the same demonstration by IO Interactive and Square Enix this week at CES and couldn’t agree with him more – the game is going to be bloody fantastic. However, one small reason for this…
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Remedy Says What Rockstar Has Done With Max Payne is “Brilliant”
It’s never easy taking over an IP from somebody else. Especially when that IP is so iconic. Luckily, Rockstar Games is the sort of company who rises to a challenge and rarely lets us down. Although Max Payne has been in development for what seems like an eternity now, the closer we finally get to…
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This is How Nvidia Wants You to Play Racing Games… if You’ve Got $32k
When it comes to sim gamers, nothing is too expensive or too out of the ordinary. They will pay any price to have an experience that is as close to the real thing as possible. Meet the VRX iMotion. Nvidia was showing this bad boy off at their booth at CES this year, so I…
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Razer’s CEO Says He is “Sick and Tired” of PC Giants Not Innovating and Taking Risks
Last week at CES in Las Vegas, I was invited to test out Razer’s “Project Fiona” behind closed doors. What I didn’t know is that I would be given a private demonstration by Razer CEO and co-founder Min-Liang Tan. As you may already know, Tan is no absentee CEO. He is deeply involved with the…
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Sign Up for the TERA Beta Now!
If you’re an MMO fan and you haven’t heard of TERA yet, then you’re missing out. A beautiful and fluid MMORPG that features real time combat, it’s the kind of game that even hardened MMO vets like me have been waiting for. North American and European beta signups have finally begun, so do yourself a…
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Square’s Scarygirl is Anything But Scary, All Sorts of Fun
What if I told you Square Enix and Tik games were coming out with a game based on the celebrated and psychedelic characters of Nathan Jurevicious next week? What if I told you I’ve played it and it was a ton of fun? What if I told you it reminded me of one of my…
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Someone Got Duke Nukem in My Minecraft!
Hail to the king of Minecraft, baby! No, not Notch. Duke Nukem! Thanks to Mutt’s World we now know what a day in the life of the Duke is like in Minecraft With videos like this making the rounds, it’s no wonder Minecraft has 20 million registered users Carry on.
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XCOM FPS Pushed to 2013, Firaxis Strategy Reboot Still Set for 2012
As someone who was quite fond of what we saw of the re-imagined XCOM at E3 this past year, but who’s also excited about the Firaxis strategy reboot of the franchise, I am somewhat conflicted by this news. We haven’t heard much about the XCOM FPS as of late, but have seen and heard plenty…
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This is What Razer Thinks of SOPA
Earlier today we reported that Bungie and even The White House came out to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act better known as SOPA. Well, now you can count Razer among the opposition. They’ve even created a lovely visual representation of their feelings on the subject. Classy. They’ve also released this statement on their Facebook…
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Notch Says Minecraft Now Has 20 Million Registered Users
That’s right. 20 million. Dang. Notch released this information not long ago via Twitter So what have we learned here today? When he’s not busy opposing SOPA, Notch is raking in the dough. Want to see what all the fuss is about? Head on over to Minecraft.net
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Fallout Wiki Founder Banned From Wikia for Promoting Curse
Anyone who’s anyone in the Fallout community knows Pawel “Ausir” Dembowski. Founder of The Vault wiki which contains over 15,000 pages of Fallout lore, Pawel is a human encyclopedia of gaming’s favorite post apocalyptic franchise. Let me put it this way. When Chris Avellone has a question about Fallout, he asks Pawel. Moreover, if you’ve…
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Bodycount Developer Details “Unlawful” Working Conditions, Codemasters Responds
Semi Essessi, who was unfortunate enough to have worked on Codemasters’ abysmal first person shooter Bodycount, says that wasn’t the worst part of his job. Essessi spilled the beans to Eurogamer earlier this week, detailing what he claims were “unlawful” working conditions. He says that he was not compensated for over 400 hours of overtime…
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Surprise Surprise, Mass Effect 3 Requires Origin, Won’t Launch On Steam
In today’s edition of, “News You Saw Coming a Mile Away”, BioWare’s Community Coordinator, Chris Priestly, has told Mass Effect fans that Commander Shepard’s epic quest to save Earth from the Reapers will not take place on Steam due to the set of “restrictive terms of service” which also led to EA pulling titles like…
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Want to Play Skyrim on a Tablet? There’s an App for That
This past week at CES, Nvidia and ASUS teamed up to show off The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim running on ASUS’ latest and greatest tablet – the Transformer Prime How’d they do it? There’s an app for that. An app called Splashtop THD. Splashtop THD is the new and improved (but not yet available) version…
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