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Thief Slips Us Another Dark, Gorgeous, And Gameplay-Free Trailer
Recently revealed to (still) be in development for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well as the PC, the troubled Thief isn’t making me feel any better by releasing another incredibly pretty-but-pointless cinematic trailer on the eve of E3. Initially I thought it was the same trailer we posted back in April, what with…
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Can Your Network Handle The “Optimal” Xbox One Experience?
Along with today’s clarification of the online requirements of the Xbox One, Microsoft also gave us an internet speed target: “For an optimal experience, we recommend a broadband connection of 1.5Mbps.” That doesn’t seem unreasonable. Let’s see how we do! A quick trip to Speedtest.net will tell you how your network is doing, and while…
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Xbox One Kinect Privacy Concerns? Turn It Off. Pause It While Gaming.
Responding to worries that an always-on Kinect sensor recording camera and audio information would be a threat to user privacy, Microsoft offers a simple solution: the ability to turn the Kinect off, which they’d told us about. Better: pause it while gaming. You can also determine which personal data is or isn’t shared with others.…
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Xbox One Games Can Be Traded In, If The Publisher Enables It
After much waffling, Microsoft finally delivers a concrete answer on the ability to trade-in or resell your used Xbox One games — it’s not up to them. According to the “How Game Licensing Works On Xbox One” document released today by Microsoft, the console has been designed so publishers “can enable you to trade in…
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SimCity Disaster Watch Continues: Mac Version Pushed To August
Originally slated for a June 11 release — that would be this coming Tuesday — EA and Maxis have pushed back the Mac version of SimCity to an unspecified date in August because, as senior producer Kip Katsarelis tells it, “we do not believe it is ready for primetime yet.” Thank goodness for foresight. I…
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Brace Yourself For The Man Of Steel Mobile Game
Mobile is the place for movie tie-ins these days, and Phosphor Games Studio is the studio to do them. Fresh off a winning stint doing up the World War Z mobile game, Phosphor returns on June 14 with Man of Steel. It looks quite punchy. At least we’re not flying through rings, right? Man of…
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There’s Something Poetic About The Home Of The Norse Gods In LEGO Form
LEGO was born in Denmark, the home of the Vikings, so building the realm of the Norse gods in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes using the country’s number one export just makes sense. If you ask me, LEGO Asgard looks much better than the version that appeared in the live action movie a few years back.…
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Mobile’s Call Of Duty Closes On Consoles With Modern Combat 5
Unable to contain its excitement until next week, Gameloft rolls out the explosive teaser trailer for the next installment in the Call of Duty-aping Modern Combat series. I hope you like turrets. Sure, there are official Call of Duty offshoots on mobile, but if you want a ham-fisted story and a rich competitive multiplayer experience,…
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Incoming Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F Heads West In August
After a Facebook post poll of North American and European fans garnered 25,000 likes and 15,000 shares in less than three days, Sega has deemed the U.S. and Europe worthy of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F for the PlayStation 3 in August. Want more good news? There’s a demo coming next week. Despite Kotaku East‘scontinuing…
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The Epic, Full-Frontal Movie Trailer Saints Row IV Doesn’t Deserve
Man, that YouTube thumbnail has totally distracted me from whatever it was I was going to say about this. Oh yes! Pixelated presidential penis aside, this is the trailer for a game I wouldn’t need to be coerced into purchasing with a shiny plastic Dubstep Gun. With some fancy editing and the right voice actors…
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ReviewsThe Swapper: The Kotaku Review
The puzzle genre is the last place I expected to find a game that makes me feel guilty about killing. I’ve murdered myself a hundred times over in The Swapper, and it never gets any easier. “They aren’t really me,” I tell myself. “They aren’t alive.” Technically it’s true. The meat of Facepalm Games’ award-winning…
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How Wet Does Tegra 4 Make Dead Trigger 2? So Wet.
Madfinger Games’ ambitious follow-up to zombie shooter Dead Trigger is one of the poster games for Nvidia’s new Tegra 4 chip, the power behind the upcoming Shield handheld. Today the developer has released a video demonstrating how much moister the game will look on the powerful new tech. There are other effects in there as…
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Brian Eno, Of All People, Explains The True Beauty Of Retro Games
The appeal of 8-bit music, retro graphics and other art forms defined by their limits, beautifully explained by prolific musical artist and producer Brian Eno in his 1996 diary “A Year With Swollen Appendices.” Originally posted on volume xii, via Business Insider
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It’s The Wizard Of Oz Meets Pokemon? That Actually Makes Sense.
Coming June 19 to iOS from Little Box Apps, Monsters Invade: Oz gives Dorothy a little something to keep her occupied as she eases on down the road — collecting, battling and evolving monsters. I suppose in a way The Wizard of Oz is a lot like Pokemon. Dorothy travels the yellow brick road, picking…
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The Next Deus Ex Is A Mobile Game
Teased earlier this week, Square Enix has lifted the veil on Deus Ex: The Fall, a first-person shooter for iPhone and iPad that picks up where James Swallow’s novel The Icarus Effect left off. From the YouTube video description: We are back in 2027 — a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but…
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Free Copy Of Saints Row IV With Purchase Of This $99 Dubstep Gun
What an amazing deal! Not only do you get a 12-inch replicaDubstep Gun with lights and sounds for $99, you also get a Johnny Gat memorial statue, a Dubstep Doomsday Button and a copy of Saints Row IV for good measure. Neat! The coolest (and possibly cleanest) Saints Row collector’s edition in game history, ladies…
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Kinect-Enhanced Doodle Jump Lands On Xbox 360 This Summer
It’s been two years since Lima Sky announced it would be bringing mobile sensation Doodle Jump to the Xbox 360 as a Kinect-powered downloadable game, and the thought tickles me just as much today as it did back then, only now there are pretty screens to temper my amusement. They’re pretty sharp screens as well,…
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Together We Can Ace This 120 Question Nerd Equivalency Test
At last weekend’s Denver Comic Con, animator and syndicated cartoonist Rich Moyer assembled a team of 120 characters from games, comics, science fiction and fantasy, and challenged children to name each one. Are you guys going to let children show us us? Moyer provided a numbered answer sheet for this limeted edition poster, available now…
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