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You Didn’t Think Fall of Cybertron Would Come Out Without a Grimlock Toy, Did You?
Revealed today during the Transformers product panel at Comic-Con 2012, the terrible lizard of Transformers fame jumps from High Moon video game onto my computer desk, eventually. You know I love Grimlock. High Moon knows I love Grimlock. Hasbro knows i love Grimlock and, as it turns out, they know you love Grimlock too. So…
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Epic’s New PC Game Is Their Most Exciting In Years
Epic Games’ latest title, Fortnite, is a shooter in which players wait until nightfall for their fortress to be attacked, or venture outside of the safety of its walls to take the battle to hordes of colorfully creepy creatures. Fortnite is a defense game, in which players carefully bolster their home base against the oncoming…
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The Nintendo Download is All About Playing Cards and Finding Love
I don’t know who is responsible for deciding which games make it onto the weekly Nintendo Download list, but whoever it is deserves a raise, as long as they keep packing it with games like Kirby’s Pinball Land, Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition and Sweet Memories – Blackjack, a game about playing cards and discovering true…
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Comic-Con 2012: The Swag So Far
The 2012 San Diego Comic-Con officially starts today, following a preview night filled with the sweating of backs and the exchanging of cash for pretty things. Let’s see what I’ve picked up so far. I’ve tried to follow my wish list closely, but some items weren’t available last night, and some were unexpected goodness. In…
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Riddle Me This: What’s an Expensive Video Game Collectible That’s Really a Video Game Collectible?
Now that you’ve spent dozens of hours collecting the virtual Riddler Trophies in Batman: Arkham City, why not spend several hundred dollars collecting a real one? By far the most novel video game collectible I’ve seen at San Diego Comic-Con so far, the Riddler Trophies from Project Triforce, creators of fine video game weapon replicas,…
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Just When You Thought Yo Gabba Gabba! Couldn’t Get Any Cooler
My first purchase at San Diego Comic-Con 2012 was not an expensive action figure, a sexy statue or a pretty pony. It was a simple set of six buttons based on a children’s television show. And they are so cool. I mean hell, it says it right there on the packaging: I am cooler than…
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I’m in Love With the Sexiest Woman at San Diego Comic-Con
So Sideshow Collectibles’ half-scale Catwoman statue isn’t technically alive. I’ve dated worse. She’s not available for preorder. She’ll likely cost you or me an arm and a leg once she is up for sale, but when you’re dealing with Batman’s finicky female counterpart, a certain amount of financial loss is to be expected. You pay…
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LEGO Brings Fresh Hobbits, Heroes, Jedi and Ninjas to San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con is where science fiction, fantasy, comic books and toys collide, so what better place for LEGO to show off their upcoming building sets? The four days of Comic-Con equal four days of huge LEGO reveals across every major nerd-relevant product line. What’s in store for brick fans? Each day at 2PM Pacific,…
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Fine, I’ll Buy Your Damn Transformers Prime Game
But only because Arcee looks halfway decent in the screens for the game, coming to 3DS, DS and Wii this October. I know I gave you guys shit earlier, but you have found my weakness. I’m in the middle of reading through IDW’s excellent run of Transformers comic books, which might account for my soft…
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What Ever Happened to Starhawk?
In today’s lost in space edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Golwar is concerned about the fate of Starhawk, the PlayStation 3 exclusive online shooter that showed so much promise up until it became a real product. I’m wondering, what happened with Starhawk? During the beta this game had been a hot topic around…
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This Year’s San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives Are Gonna Break Me
Now that my wallet has finally recovered from Comic-Con 2009, it’s time to venture forth once more into the land of must-buy exclusive toys and shame. Rather than surprise my bank account this year, I’ve compiled a shopping list containing the logical, illogical and not-embarrassing-at-all items I’ll be bringing home this weekend. And then I…
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The Secret World has Plans. Big Plans. Secret Plans. Monthly Plans.
Funcom’s supernatural real-world MMO The Secret World launched last week, and I’d rather be playing it than telling you about the developer’s plans to release new content on a monthly basis, including what sounds like the first online raid of New York City, yet here we are. I’ve been playing the hell out of The…
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Welcome to the Jungle, Medal of Honor: Warfighter Multiplayer
What could possibly be more exciting than a new multiplayer trailer for EA’s Medal of Honor: Warfighter? Look at those explosions! Check out that air strike! Did you see that bridge crumbling? Let me catch my breath. *breathes* This multiplayer footage takes place on the Tungawan Jungle map, situated along the Philippine Coast. You can…
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ReviewsSimCity Social: The Kotaku Review
Facebook has been very good to the city-building genre. Every day millions of people wake up, log in and click away the day placing buildings, upgrading facilities and incessantly bugging their friends for help in titles like Zynga’s CityVille or Game Insight’s My Country. Now the legendary franchise that inspired these games has come to…
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Let’s Play San Diego Comic-Con Bingo!
The 2012 San Diego Comic-Con kicks off on Wednesday night! Are you going to be there? If not, illustrator Mike Yamada and his lovely wife Victoria Ying have crafted a special Comic-Con Bingo card so you can play along at home. Only problem is it might be too easy to fill. Looking at only the…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Mario’s Ghosts Just Can’t Handle the Real Thing
In the colorful world of Nintendo’s Mario franchise even the tortured spirits of the undead are cute and cuddly. Let’s see how they react to a real restless torture spirit. Well that didn’t go well. This is why you never hire someone supremely overqualified for the position. They’ll do the job so well it never…
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Fake Gamer of the Week: I Sure Hope There’s Not a Sexy Cyborg Standing Behind Me
You’ve all been there. You’re sitting there against a black backdrop, playing Call of Honor or Medal of Duty or whatever, when all of the sudden you’re struck by the sneaking suspicion that there’s a sexy machine woman standing right behind you. Ha, if I had a dime for every time I got that feeling!…
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Guild Wars 2‘s Next Beta Weekend Brings Plant People and Tiny Little Freaks
There are five races in Guild Wars 2, but up until now we’ve only been able to play as three – the humans, the cat people, and the bigger humans. ArenaNet rectifies this the weekend of July 20-22, when the Asura and Sylvari finally get their chance to shine. It ain’t easy being green, and…
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