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Princess Peach Gets Her Own Damn Wii Remote Plus
I’ve managed to resist picking up the Mario and Luigi themed Wii remotes thus far, but the addition of a Princess Peach motion controller at the end of the month has the game paraphernalia collector in me twitching. Dammit, Nintendo. Showing up in stores later this month, the Peach Pink Wii remote isn’t just a…
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After Eight Years In Development, World Of Darkness Is No More
In 2006, Icelandic EVE Online developer CCP Games merged with White Wolf Publishing, announcing a massively multiplayer role-playing game based on the latter’s popular World of Darkness supernatural role-playing setting. Today that project has been cancelled. According to an official message posted on CCP’s website and distributed to the press via email, the cancellation marks…
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George R.R. Martin Is A Horrible Wedding Planner
A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, wedding planner. Guaranteed to make your special day an event to remember. No Game of Thrones spoilers here, but there are sure to be one or two in the comments, unless everyone pulls together in the spirit of cooperation and only comments on Martin’s beard…
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Ladies And Gentlemen, It’s Magician Randy Pitchford
Did you know Gearbox Software founder, president and CEO Randy Pitchford started out as a professional magician in Hollywood? He unleashed his magical powers at the Gearbox panel at PAX East earlier today, and the world trembled beneath his might. Like any good Hollywood magician, Pitchford stole this trick from a fellow magician — Penn…
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The Week In Games: Let’s Make Hero Babies
You can have your Trials Fusion and your Final Fantasy XIV for the PlayStation 4. This week I’m making babies in Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars. It’s part Japanese role-playing game, part dating sim, set in a society where teenagers branded by god visit church to sire children. It’s not nearly as suggestive…
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Doing The Dirty Simpsons With Family Guy‘s Quest For Stuff
Racism, sexism, homophobia, pedophilia — all the horrible things that makes Family Guy what it is are present in Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, plus some free-to-play mechanics some might find offensive. Noticing that EA’s The Simpsons: Tapped Out was making an incredibly exaggerated million dollars per second, executives at Fox tapped developer TinyCo.…
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The New Longest Arcade Game Run In History – Over 85 Hours
On the morning of Wednesday, April 9, Ohio arcade champion John Salter slipped a quarter into his Armor Attack arcade cabinet. By the time he finished playing late Saturday night, he’d broken two major video game records. In an event streamed live on the website of “Video Game Media Personality” Patrick Scott Patterson, Salter spent…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ninja Tongue-Twister
No one expected ninja tongue Pokémon Greninja to show up in Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U and 3DS. I’m guessing there are many other places no one would expect him to show up. I’m thinking our Photoshop Gym Leaders can demonstrate. You guys probably saw this coming. How could I possibly resist a…
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Homeworld Remastered Gets The Collector’s Edition It Deserves
During Gearbox Software’s PAX East 2014 panel this morning, fans got a quick peek at the incredibly limited starship that’s coming in the equally limited collector’s edition of the Homeworld Remastered. So pretty. Apparently this USB-powered statue is filled with so many bells and whistles the production process involves hundreds of hands, hopefully attached to…
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Sunday Comics: Dogmeat Was Killed.
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published April 7. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Hide The Megalodon: The Winners!
Last week I tasked our image manipulation experts with hiding an enormous prehistoric shark from the vengeful players of Battlefield 4. Judging by the volume of entries we received, there isn’t a single visible megalodon left in all of creation. Another week where there were so damn many good entries, and while Der-Kleine’s eventual triumph…
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The Cosplay Of PAX East, Day Two
Ah PAX, one of the few place you’ll find cosplayers like Sheena Duquette dressing up as pre-order DLC. It’s day two of PAX East, and many of our Northeastern contingent were there, playing games, talking to gamemakers, and proving once and for all that they really need better cameras. Along the way, they took these…
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Titanfall Expedition Map Pack Coming In May
At the PAX East Titanfall panel today, Respawn Entertainment announced Titanfall Expedition, a paid, campaign-continuing map pack coming to the Xbox and PC shooter. Expedition will contain three new maps, one of which changes the way the game is played, allowed pilots to wall-run from tree-to-tree. That’s “Swampland”, pictured above, littered with the ruins of…
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Double Bumblebee Is The Best Thing About Rise Of The Dark Spark
I don’t care which universe he’s in, plucky yellow Autobot Bumblebee always rocks. And hey, that’s two voice actors Activision doesn’t have to hire! SPOILER FOR TRANSFORMERS PRIME ANIMATED SERIES FOLLOWS If you don’t love Bumblebee for some reason — maybe you are a communist, which is okay — once you watch the final scene…
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PAX South Takes The Show To Texas In 2015
The Penny Arcade Expo takes another step towards global domination today, with the announcement of PAX South. The fourth installment of the massive fan celebration of gaming is set to debut in San Antonio, Texas January 23 – 25. Living in the South myself, making it to one of the two existing U.S. PAX events…
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Amir Hekmati, U.S. born one-time game developer jailed in Iran since 2011 for allegedly engaging in espionage for the CIA, has been given a 10-year prison termfollowing a secret retrial which took place in December. He had originally been sentenced to death, a ruling overturned in 2012.
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The Saturday Morning Stream: LEGO: The Hobbit (Stream Over)
Warning: Today’s Saturday stream may contain material that spoil the events of a fantasy book published in 1937. After last week’s Titanfall fiasco, I had a hankering for some lighter fare, a game where I can leisurely explore, even in mid-combat, without too much of a penalty. A game that allows me to talk to…
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