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Break in Your iPhone 5 With Lili, Most Delightful Game on iTunes
We’ve seen how Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 can be used to create dark, gritty and realistic games like The Dark Meadow, Horn and Infinity Blade. Bit Monster’s Lili takes the powerful mobile game developing toolset in an entirely new direction, resulting in a whimsically magical experience that easily earns a spot among our iPhone Bests…
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Torchlight II and the Seven Game Reviewers That Can’t Stop Saying Diablo
Torchlight II is an isometric dungeon-crawler role-playing game in which players, alone or in groups, battle fantasy creatures in order to amass more powerful equipment, with which they can then use to fight even more powerful fantasy creatures. See how easy that was? I got through the entire Frankenreview introduction without mentioning Diablo Oh come…
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Skyrim‘s Dragonborn is Freakishly Cute in Vinyl
Introduced at QuakeCon last month and now shipping to all the good little Dovahkiin boys and girls, Symbiote Studio’s Dragonborn vinyl figure now guards my computer desk from low-flying reptilian threats. Let’s unmask this tiny hero! The Dragonborn is the preview figure for the Symbiote Skyrim line, though I’m not sure what other stand-out, iconic…
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Power A’s Attractive Android Controller Solution Drops October 21
Android gamers craving unified console controls have been following the progress of Power A’s ambitious MOGA controller solution since its debut at E3 2012. Come October 21 it’s time to stop following and start playing. The MOGA is more than just a clip on controller for your Android phone (and a stand-alone 360-style controller for…
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Touchy Assassin’s Creed, Social Metal Gear Solid and More Excitement from Tokyo Game Show’s First Day
While the western hemisphere slept, over in Tokyo our Kotaku East team swarmed the first day of the 2012 Tokyo Game Show, gleefully carrying off the latest news, previews and rumors from the show floor. I woke up this morning completely overwhelmed by the amount of stories our eastern contingent published last night. Here’s a…
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You’ll Never Believe Where This Gorgeous New Building Game Comes From
If someone sat me down and presented me with this gorgeous Technicolor dream of a world building-game called Patterns and then asked me what company was responsible for creating it, I could have guessed for hours and never gotten it right. Now, if there’d been a unicorn penis in the trailer… It’s a little sad…
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The Most Diabolical Aspect of Square’s Demons’ Score is the Hellish Hidden Cost
Released today for the iPhone and iPad, Demons’ Score is a rhythm action game from iNiS, the creators of DS classic Elite Beat agents, so the decision to spend $6.99 for a chance to play it was a no-brainer. I’m just not sure I want to fork over the additional $37 I’d need to purchase…
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They Bleed Pixels is a Pleasurably Painful Way to Break In Steam’s Big Picture Mode
The day Valve announced the availability of the television-friendly Big Picture Mode for Steam I hooked up my laptop to the PC, dug out my Bluetooth game controller, and began downloading Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. I soon realized that download would take forever, and grabbed a 319 megabyte copy of Spooky Squid Games‘ beat-em up/platformer…
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The Tilt-tastic GridBlock Might Be the Best Thing That’s Ever Happened to an Accelerometer
I’m not generally a big fan of tilt-control in my mobile games. Over the past few years only one mobile game that used the accelerometer as its primary means of control has really grabbed me, and that’s One Man Left’s Tilt to Live. 2K Play’s GridBlock makes it two. Gridblock is a game about matching…
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This Wii U Ninja Gaiden Trailer Begins With a Sexy Massage and Ends in a Blood Bath
And that’s really what the Ninja Gaiden series is all about, isn’t it? In this trailer for the Ayane-riffic Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge for the Wii U, someone actually says “What the hell’s a girl flying in here for?” Maybe she’s here to punch up the script?
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Catch a Glimpse of Cel-Shaded Zombie Slaying in the First Trailer for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
Mega Man co-creator Keiji Inafune is taking a stab at the Ninja Gaiden series with Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, and by “taking a stab” I mean actively attempting to stab the star of the main Ninja Gaiden series in the throat with a sword. Teased earlier this month and revealed last night during the Tecmo…
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New PS3, New Inafune Game And More of Last Night’s Big Tokyo Gaming News
Last night Sony kicked off the 2012 Tokyo Game Show with the announcement of the tiny top-loading PlayStation 3.3. We learned of a brand new Ninja Gaiden franchise from Mega Man‘s Keiji Inafune. We got new PlayStation Vita colors. It’s a lot to take in, but that’s what round-ups were made for. Sony stole the…
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The Two Superhero MMOs Not Facing Imminent Death Are Doing Just Fine
As fans gather in a desperate attempt to save the doomed City of Heroes from its announced closure, DC Universe Online unleashes mystical forces with its latest expansion and Dr. Destroyer’s army of Destroid robots rises in Champions Online in celebration of the game’s third anniversary. It’s sad to see City of Heroes go. I…
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BioWare Building a Universe Beyond Mass Effect and Dragon Age
In the wake of the retirement of two of its founders, BioWare assures fans that there is life beyond Doctors Muzyka and Zeschuk, including the eventual birth of a whole-new fictional universe. Star Wars aside, the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises are BioWare’s bread and butter, but a massive development studio under the watchful…
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There’s a Digital Version of the Talisman Board Game Coming, For Real This Time
Stop dragging my heart around, Games Workshop. After teasing us with a Capcom-developed version of the fantasy board game that devoured my soul in the early 90’s that never came to fruition, the Warhammer folks hand the property over to Nomad Games, who plan to create a series of Talisman games for PC and mobile…
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This is a Mobile Panzer Dragoon Game in Everything But Name
Microsoft Studios might be calling it Crimson Dragon: Side Story, but this incredibly deep and stylish shooter for the Windows Phone 7 is pure 2D Panzer Dragoon Side Story is the mobile companion to Crimson Dragon, the Kinect-powered Xbox Live Arcade shooter that last I heard was still in development limbo. The team creating that…
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LittleBigPlanet Vita Understands How You Feel About Online Passes
And the crowd roars! Except it’s more of an “aww man” than an “aww yeah.” A warranted reaction when you’re required to have a network pass to access the community options on LittleBigPlanet Vita Make that nine things you should know about the game, especially noting Kirk’s interest in community-made levels. Thanks for the empathy,…
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Lieutenant Worf is Playing a Werewolf in the Castlevania Movie. Wait, What?
In the latest episode of Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist podcast, Michael “Worf” Dorn discusses his role in the big screen adaptation of Castlevania, a movie I had absolutely no idea was in production. In between discussions about piloting airplanes and the challenge of sticking to his vegan diet during film shoots, the actor known for portraying…
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LittleBigPlanet Vita is an Excellent Reason to Pick Up a Nyko Power Grip
With LittleBigPlanet Vita utilizing the touch controls of Sony’s latest handheld to make creating and sharing levels more accessible than ever before, budding creators will need a lot of juice to bring their vision to life. Enter Nyko’s battery-enhancing Power Grip, making Sony’s dream of a batarang controller a reality. Nyko sent me the Power…
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