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Modern Family Is Already Enjoying Nvidia’s Shield
Mere days after the announcement of its $350 price tag and June release date, Nvidia’s Shield Android handheld is already showing up in the background of popular television shows. Look what Modern Family‘s Luke Dunphy has traded in his Nintendo 3DS for. As spotted over at Game Usagi, Lucas brings Nvidia’s new portable along for…
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What To Play While Waiting For Plants Vs. Zombies 2
Chilean developer Syrenaica’s Evilot may look a lot like Plants Vs. Zombies, with the whole lane-based defense thing, but it’s significantly more than that. It’s an evolution. Instead of just placing your defenses and watching them get beaten down, Evilot incorporates match-three puzzle mechanics. Set down three rats and boom — much bigger, strong rat.…
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Google Play Games Services Bring A Little Xbox Live To Android
Today Google officially announced Google Play game services, a suite of features aimed at making Google Play a real cohesive game platform rather than a just a random pile of titles in no particular order. Top developers like Glu Mobile and Gameloft are lining up to enhance their Android titles with achievements, cloud saves, leaderboards…
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Valve Launches Steam Trading Cards, So Much Better Than Achievements
Launching today in beta across a selection of popular titles, Steam Trading Cards are collectibles Steam users gather while playing their favorite games, with sets tradable for game badges, profile backgrounds, emoticons, coupons, and more. As if hunting for achievements wasn’t enough. They’re a means of rewarding players for playing the games they love, while…
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Screw It, I Can’t Wait To Tell You How Good Bombcats Is
Luke Schneider of Radiangames has created some of the coolest bite-sized shooters I’ve played, starting with Xbox Live Indies and then graduating to mobile platforms. Just check out the Radiangames tag here at Kotaku and see how much well-deserved love we’ve given him. Radiangames latest doesn’t hit iOS until tomorrow, but I can’t wait for…
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Okay, This Is A Rather Cool Way To Link Defiance Game and Show
I’ve been skeptical about the extent that SyFy’s Defiance television show would be interacting with Trion Worlds’ Defiance MMO, but this is pretty cool. This is Tiio Horn as Rynn, a member of the Irathient race that found herself in hot water in the TV series over the past two episodes. She’ll be spending a…
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Now We Can All Be Kitty Girls And Boys In The Old Republic
In case you just hopped on the MMO bandwagon with the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, it’s not a massively multiplayer party until the anthropomorphic animals arrive. The original EverQuest had the Vah Shir, World of Warcraft has Worgen and now Pandas, and The Old Republic has the Cathar, a race of intergalactic…
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Pac-Man Returns This Fall In Another Pac-Man Game That’s Not Pac-Man
If you, like me, are the sort of person that instantly begins to worry when the first image you see of a new Pac-Man game is not a dot-filled maze, then… yeah. Coming this fall from Namco Bandai, it’s Pac-Man and Ghostly Adventures. Based theanimated series of the same name, in which Pac-Man is a…
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Nvidia’s New Gaming Handheld Is Out In June For $350
Announced in January as Project Shield, Nvidia’s intriguing new handheld now has a price, a June release window, and the promise of Double Fine’s Broken Age. Who’s ready to spend $350 on a dedicated Android gaming device? Now simply dubbed Shield, Nvidia’s Tegra 4-powered Android portable / streaming PC game device will start accepting preorders…
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Life And Loss Converge Beautifully In Spry Fox’s Road Not Taken
Triple Town developer Spry Fox has surprised and delighted me at every turn, from their clone-attracking mobile masterpiece to browser-based strategy game Highgrounds to the completely charming co-op of Leap Day. So when the developers tell us they are crafting a moving, personal tale of love and loss within a roguelike puzzle game, I don’t…
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ReviewsIf You’re Into Endless Running, Might As Well Be Running With Friends
With its growing focus on mobile gaming and its penchant for trying to out-popular already popular games, Zynga was going to get around to stepping on Temple Run‘s toes eventually, and what better way than to combine the joy of endless running with the trusted …With Friends brand? The result is a combination I’m finding…
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Where Do These 48 Video Game Fonts Come From?
Typography plays an incredibly important role in establishing video game brands, to the point where a single letter torn from a title can evoke an entire franchise. Paul Brown, creator of the free Font Quiz app (available oniOS and Windows 8) assembled 48 of gaming’s finest in font form, suggesting such an arrangement be an…
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What Happens To World Of Warcraft Bosses When The Raiding Stops?
With subscriber numbers declining and top-tier raid guilds disbanding, we’re getting to a point where the army of powerful boss creatures Blizzard has assembled will find itself unemployed, but don’t worry — once a boss, always a boss. SlightlyImpressive shows us a world where WoW bosses are real bosses, and it is indeed slightly impressive.…
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Your Weekend Is Going To Be Horrible. Bring Some Gaming Apps.
Look, I am really sorry you are heading into the worst weekend of your life. I’d try to warn you, tell you what sorts of people, places and things to avoid, but fate doesn’t work that way. You’ll either ignore me completely, thinking I’m some sort of psycho, or you’ll adjust your plans and fate…
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Defiance The Show Gets A Season Two. That’s Not Good For Me.
SyFy and Trion World’s crossmedia experiment seems to be a hit in both intereactive and non-interactive form, with more than a million active accounts in than a million registered accounts for the MMO and nearly four million viewers tuning in for the television series premier. Today Syfy has announced that it’s renewed the TV series…
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Only One Batman Movie Can Surpass Nolan. Here’s The First Clip.
What’s LEGO Batman: The Movie – DC Superheroes Unite got that Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight triology doesn’t? How about the entire DC Universe? See how many character you can spot in this all-too-brief clip of May 21 direct-to-video feature. Then scroll down for some fresh screens!
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ReviewsIt Only Took A Legendary Developer To Make Strategic Air Battles Fun
When I’m in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft, the last thing I want to do is slow down — I certainly don’t want to wait my turn. I need a joystick in my hand, a first-person view and buttons for machine guns and/or missiles. I was pretty sure Sid Meier of Civilization and Pirates!…
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