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Stan ‘The Man’ Lee Soaring Gracefully Over New York Might Be the Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Ever Seen
I was initially skeptical about Stan Lee’s cameo appearance as a playable character in The Amazing Spider-Man. Now that I’ve see this video, I might be persuaded to buy an entire Stan Lee game. Stan’s mission to save his script pages, likely written by someone else, is an Amazon.com exclusive preorder bonus for Beenox’s The…
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Any MMO Can Take You to Hell. The Secret World Takes You to an Amusement Park
My first guided tour of Funcom’s upcoming paranormal MMO The Secret World saw me descending into the depths of hell. Many massively multiplayer online role-playing games go there; it’s a popular spot. But only The Secret World follows up hell with a visit to a demented theme park. Funcom’s Craig Morrison escorted a group of…
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It’s Almost Impossible to Solo World of Warcraft Monopoly
After months of teasing us with reveals of colorful money, plastic towers and murloc-infested cards, World of Warcraft Monopoly is finally available ready for public consumption. Want to see what’s inside? I’ve been sitting on an advance copy of World of Warcraft Monopoly for weeks now, eager to rip open the game and get my…
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ReviewsPokémon Conquest: The Kotaku Review
Since the release of the first Pokémon role-playing game in 1996, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have attempted to capitalize on the success of the core series by overlaying its colorful cartoon characters on other genres. Thanks in no small part to the power of the brand, Pokémon pinball, puzzle, turn-based dungeon crawlers and more…
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Pokémon Conquest Poses Triumphantly Over the Battered Bodies of Game Reviewers
Collecting all the Pokémon in a normal installment of Nintendo’s beloved role-playing series is a daunting enough task for your average game reviewer. Pokémon Conquest asks them to conquer an entire continent while they do it. Man, Nintendo, cut some critics a little slack. Pokémon Conquest combines colorful cartoon creatures of joy and wonder with…
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How a 375-Pound Lazy Gamer Lost 80 Pounds in Six Months
In December of 2011 I was not a healthy person. I was eating crap, drinking crap, and the life of video game journalist not located in a major city isn’t exactly rife with opportunities to do healthy things like running, walking… getting up out of your office chair. At my heaviest I weighed 375 pounds.…
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This Game Could Start a Global Thermonuclear War. I’m Okay with That.
If the “game” Mathew Broderick played with the War Operation Plan Response computer in the 1983 movie WarGames were half as engaging and addictive as WarGames: WOPR for Android and iOS, we’d all be dead right now. “Shall we play a game?” The line that nearly launched a thousand nuclear missiles in the classic film…
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The Most Amazing Collection of Marvel Vs. Capcom Art the World Has Ever Seen
Just in time for next month’s San Diego Comic-Con, UDON presents Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works, 192 pages of art from every collaboration between the comics company and the Street Fighter people, from the Punisher arcade game to Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 This comprehensive tome, due out in November in softcover format, is a…
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Celebrate 25 Years of Final Fantasy With One Insane Free Remix Album
I’ve heard plenty of Final Fantasy music remixes in my time, but OCRemix’s 35th free album release, Final Fantasy Random Encounter, is the first one I’ve heard that combines metal guitars with vocals in the style of “Airplanes” as made famous by Haley Williams of Paramore. Project director Brandon Strader sent us a link to…
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Persona 4 Arena Plays as Good as It Looks, But I Don’t
These sweet new screens of the Arcade Mode in Atlus’ upcoming Persona fighter jogged my memory of the time two weeks ago I would have beat the publisher’s PR master had he not surely cheated terribly. How did Atlus’ Aram Jabbari cheat during our Persona 4 Arena session during E3 2012? Well, first off we…
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Reviews
Golden Oreos: The Snacktaku Review
Oreo. In the snacking world there are few words more powerful than that glorious combination of three vowels and a consonant. Since 1912 Nabisco has dominated the cookie market with this marriage of chocolate and cream, the unassailable king of its domain. As recently as 2003 no serious snackologist would have dreamt of attempting to…
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What’s the Fine for Necrophilia in Cyrodiil?
Great moments in gaming humor finally makes it to The Elder Scrolls! Just because series stars a silent protagonist doesn’t mean it has to be a dour, humorless affair. It can be an affair with a corpse as well! Falanu Hlaalu, alchemist of Skingrad, puts the dark in Dark Elves in this brief exchange from…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Death Comes to RollerCoaster Tycoon
Witness as the Dorkly folks bravely attempt to squeeze a little humor out of Chris Sawyer’s classic amusement park sim. You’d think it’d be easy. Kudos to those stalwart comedy video craftsmen for looking in the most obscure places possible for inspiration. Of all the games I consider ripe with comedic potential, RollerCoaster Tycoon doesn’t…
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The Breast Cancer Battle is a Boon to Pink Peripheral Lovers
In 2007 my older sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. She went through hell fighting against the malignant neoplasm — radiation, chemotherapy, a mastectomy, follow-up surgeries and reconstruction. She won her battle eventually, but the process was painful for the entire family. It’s safe to say I hate breast cancer. I am, however, a big…
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Australia’s Long Struggle for Mature Video Game Ratings is Over
Legislation passed in Australia’s Federal Parliament adds a R18+ rating for video games on January 1, 2013, ending years of mature games being censored, banned, or simply unreleased due to lack of age-appropriate classification. [News.com.au]
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Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM Might Be the Best Incarnation of the Card Game I’ve Played
What has always fascinated me about the colorful kid-focused card game Yu-Gi-Oh! has been the way the card statistics morph with each new skill and spell introduced to the play field. Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM captures the essence of that numerical dance in a fast paced Facebook game. Frima Studio has taken the traditional five-card-wide Yu-Gi-Oh! playing…
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It’s a Good Weekend to Try Tera for Free
Now that my review of En Masse Entertainment’s slightly game-changing MMO Tera is in the can, you might find yourself wanting to give the game a try. And like magic, Tera is now offering a seven day free trial. What can you do in seven days? With Tera‘s newly-launched seven day trial you can play…
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This is Only a Launch Trailer for Heroes of Ruin If You’re in Europe
Square Enix’s four-way online multiplayer Diablo-esque action role-playing game Heroes of Ruin is out today in Europe and the UK for the 3DS, so they can enjoy this launch trailer. North Americans are free to ignore this until next month.
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