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This is $450 Worth of Pure Twilight Princess Evil
Okay, technically this is $475 worth of evil, as this is the exclusive version of First 4 Figures’ 1/4 Scale “Master Arts” Ganondorf Center Piece, which comes with an additional laughing head, but you get the point. Now that First 4 Figures has gotten Wolf Link, Link with Epona and Zant out of the way,…
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Kotaku Hardware Battles: MMO Gaming Mice
Massively multiplayer online gamers have different needs than those of first-person shooter or real-time strategy fans. They need social interaction. They need extremely comfortable chairs. They need all of the Cheetos. But most of all they need buttons. So many buttons. PC peripheral manufacturers have sensed this need and have responded with specialized MMO mice…
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Amazon’s First Game is a Hallucinatory Minutiae-Spotters Wonderland
As mentioned this morning, Amazon.com is in the game development business. The first Facebook title from the newly-revealed Amazon Game Studios is a fresh take on the hidden object genre that’ll have you seeing things. WithinLiving Classics‘s colorful storybook exterior lies a twisted take on the hidden object puzzle games that are so prolific on…
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The Most Exciting (and First) Game of Snooker I’ve Ever Played
It wasn’t looking good. My erstwhile online opponent was sinking balls left and right. A red. A yellow. Some other color. After a seemingly endless run of the table he finally missed his mark, giving me the opening I needed. I lined up the green ball with the side pocket, pulled back my cue, and…
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LittleBigPlanet Karting Crosses the Finish Line in November
The coolest kart racer we never knew we wanted fires the starting gun on November 6, when creative types begin flooding the PlayStation Network with crazy tracks for the crazy racers of LittleBigPlanet Karting When ModNation Racers was first announced I was certain I would never need another kart racer for my PlayStation 3, but…
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Planters NUT-rition “Adult” Peanut Butter: The Evolutionary Snacktaku Review
There was a time that I’d spend at least a third of each week driving from grocery store to grocery store, hunting for the star of the next Snacktaku review. I’d walk the aisles for hours, making note of which items shoppers were putting in their carts. I’d measure stock density hour-by-hour. Sometimes I’d just…
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Airplanes and Monsters in the Week in Gaming Apps, I Could Really Use a Witch Right Now
Witch right now. Witch right now. I could use some spears or some monsters or a witch, or to get back to some gaming apps much simpler than this. Because after all the crashin’ and matchin’ and thrashin’, the monster bombin’ and the droppin’ and hack-and-slashin’… Okay, that’s enough of that. It’s the Week in…
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GameStop Secures Exclusive Skylanders Giants DLC the Hard Way
GameStop loves its retailer-exclusive downloadable content, but Skylanders Giants DLC all comes by way of toys. What’s the world’s largest dedicated video game retailer to do? Exclusive toys, of course! GameStop is now taking preorders for the Golden Dragonfire Cannon Battle Pack. a special package that contains the series 2 version of the Skylander Chop…
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Wait, They Were Serious About Rambo: The Video Game?
I know Reef Entertainment announced last year that they’d be making video games based on the Rambo series. I read it here. It registered in my consciousness. Last month, when the company announced the game would be making an appearance at GamesCom in Germany, my mind kind of skipped over it, like it wasn’t a…
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Leaking Early Code of the Pony Fighting Game is Not Magic
To call My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic a fan-made game is doing the tremendous effort by the Mane6 development team a great disservice. They’ve assembled an amazing team of programmers, animators, artists and musicians. They’ve recruited amateur voice actors. They’ve shown the game at the EVO 2012 Fighting Championships. What they are doing, really,…
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This is What Playing Mass Effect 3 on the Wii U Looks Like
Fresh from the EA Summer Showcase, here’s a quick and dirty look at how Mass Effect 3 leverages the screen on the Wii U control pad. A launch title for the Wii U, Mass Effect 3 will include all downloadable content, the online multiplayer experience, and a primer on what’s come before for fans new…
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The Ouya is an Android Tablet Without a Screen, But It’s Better Than That
No discussion about the exciting new open-source Ouya console passes without someone inevitably comparing the Kickstarter sensation to a mobile phone or Android tablet without a screen. Defenders rush to defend the great indie console hope, arguing that it’s much more than that. This is all-new hardware packed inside a small-but-sexy design by Yves Béhar.…
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How Guild Wars 2 Connects Its Servers in Bloody Battle
For years massively-multiplayer online role-playing game server communities have competed against each other, waging war with world first achievements and statistics. Guild Wars 2‘s World Vs. World battles allow the population of three different servers to bring the fighting to one gigantic persistent battlefield. World Vs. World combat is one of the four pillars of…
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A Monstrous Angry Birds Alternative for the Physics-Minded Gamer
When physics puzzler Monster Island first launched on Windows Phone 7, it featured an Xbox Live Achievement that required the player to purchase items from the in-game store in order to unlock it. This caused Microsoft to pull the game from the marketplace just two days after release. Four weeks later it returned, the achievement…
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The Red-Headed Killer Returns to the Nintendo Download
It’s an incredibly short week for the Nintendo Download, but that just makes Circle Entertainment’s follow-up to the compelling DSiWare action-adventure The Lost Town: The Dust more of a chance to shine. Stare into the eyes of the red-headed killer. It was a grave oversight on my part that I completely skipped over The Lost…
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I’ve Never Wanted to Buy a Virtual House More Than I Do Right Now
Phineas T. Rotostar is one hell of a salesman. It only took him a minute and a half to complete sell me on a floating sky house in the animated sci-fi MMO universe of WildStar Not that it was a particularly hard sell. I already had one foot in Carbine Studio’s pretty space opera. The…
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Okay, Maybe the Minecraft Creeper Plush Does Look a Little NSFW
Coming in September from official Minecraft online retailer Jinx, this huggable depiction of the game’s most familiar foe does, at first, resemble the Incredible Hulk’s junk. My younger sister Nadine was at my apartment watching my children when the UPS man arrived with the package containing the plush Creeper. Completely unfamiliar with Minecraft she was…
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