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There’s a Perfectly Rational Explanation for Why I Was Doing Bourbon Shots Before Noon Yesterday
As the games media panel at the East Coast Games Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina kicked off yesterday, moderator and Epic PR manager Wes Phillips set shot glasses in front of each of the participants. Then he filled them with bourbon. Then came the cupcakes. In the early planning stages of the “Game Media: From…
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Talking Games Media at the East Coast Games Conference
Video game professionals and professional hopefuls attending the East Coast Games Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina this morning have a unique opportunity to watch me and several other members of the games media talk about balancing our love of games with our love of talking about journalism. The East Coast Games Conference is an annual…
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The Most Expensive Property in World of Warcraft Monopoly
The release of USAopoly’s World of Warcraft Monopoly is just around the corner, so let’s take an exclusive look at what’s on the most expensive corner of the game board. I showed you the money; I showed you what was in the cards. Now it’s time to show you the priciest bits of real estate…
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One Weekend Completely Changed My Mind About Tera
When I last left En Masse Entertainment’s upcoming MMO Tera I wasn’t exactly gushing with praise. The action-packed combat was there, as promised, but the rest of the game felt like the same old questing grind. Then open beta came around this past weekend, and I was so enthralled I nearly lost my children. What…
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With Skype on the PS Vita Nyko’s Speaker Stand is Doubly Handy
Available now at GameStop locations across the U.S. Nyko’s Speaker Stand for the PS Vita adds a little more oomph to the Sony portable’s sound, and transforms it into a handy mobile Skype solution. The Nyko Speaker Stand was one of the first accessories I went looking for when I picked up my launch Vita.…
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Preorder Customers Dress-Up With Gravity Rush‘s Physics-Defying Heroine
As if we needed more incentive to get our hands on one of the most anticipated PlayStation Vita games, players that preorder Gravity Rush will score a code for the Military DLC Pack, giving Kat a sharp new look to carry here through new missions and challenges. It’s not just a pretty costume; the Military…
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Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy is Like Having a Little Ace Combat in Your Pants
We’ve mentioned Namco Bandai’s Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy briefly during the launch of the new iPad, but we never got around to featuring it as a Gaming App of the Day. I don’t know about everyone else, but for me this was because I was too busy playing Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy. This is console-quality…
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Naked Snake and The Boss Have Never Been So Amazingly Lifelike
Hong Kong-based collectible company Hot Toys makes some gorgeous action figures, but none have impressed me as much as the recently-revealed sneaking suit Naked Snake and The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and it’s not just the gruesome chest scars. Okay, it’s mainly the gruesome chest scars, but also the skin texture,…
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Beautiful Things Happen When 151 Artists Take on 151 Pokémon
Back in January I told you about the Pokémon Battle Royale, an exhibit at the Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis, Minnesota featuring 151 artist, each tasked with portraying one of the initial 151 Pokémon. Now we have the results of that experiment, and they are glorious The exhibit opened on April 20 to an…
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Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battle: It’s Why Tails is Fighting the Murlocs That Matters
Sometimes it’s not the battle that really matters, but rather the events leading up to the battle. For instance, in 1monkeyfromhell’s “The Winter of Tails”, Sonic’s sidekick is on the run because everyone he knows has been murdered in horrible ways. Ouch. Cream the Rabbit? Raped and murdered by “some bizarre creature”. Knuckles the Echidna?…
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Winning Mario Party 9 by Doing Absolutely Nothing
How hard is it to win Mario Party 9 against computer opponents? If you set the AI difficulty to easy, you don’t even need to touch the controller. This video might be a month and a half old, but I’ve been watching it and laughing all morning, so I’d say that’s worth something. YouTube user…
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Nintendo’s President, Steven Spielberg, and the Dead Eyes of a Serial Killer
In a transcript for a never-before-seen installment of Iwata Asks unearthed by Nintendo Gamer, the president of Nintendo explains to legendary director Steven Spielberg why it would not be acceptable to put Mario in the fridge. Here at Kotaku we’ve become big fans of Nintendo Gamer‘s Iwata Asks parody series, riffing on Nintendo’s own interview…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Pokémon Hypno-Therapy
There are Pokémon that breathe fire; Pokémon that shoot electricity; there are Pokémon that warp the very fabric of reality. And then there’s the Pokémon that opens for comedy acts at Cerulean City’s Chuckle Hut. Psychic Pokémon have their uses, but I can’t recall one of them that I’ve actually wanted to keep in my…
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Great Moments in Video Game Humor: Devil May Laugh His Ass Off
One could liken a video game boss fight to a pair of actors on a stage engaged in a heated argument, trading overblown barbs instead of blows. In Devil May Cry 4, Dante and Angus take that comparison and run with it. The Devil May Cry series is known for its over-the-top action and tongue-barely-in-cheek…
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Mega64 Takes Skyward Sword Motion Control to the Streets
Normally comedy team Mega64 deploys just one of its members into public to act as a video game character. For The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword they sent two: one to be Link, the other to control Link. And you thought motion control looked silly in your living room. SKYWARD SWORDS AND SHIFTY SHIRTS!! [Mega64]
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I Am One of Those Horrible Neglectful MMO-Playing Parents
Whenever I post a story about a parent neglecting their children while playing a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game I can’t hide my disgust for that sort of person, so you can imagine how I felt about myself this weekend when my two ten-month-old children left the house in the middle of a boss fight. I…
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Marketing Survey Hints at a Rayman Origins Sequel of Mythic Proportions
Ubisoft’s critically acclaimed platformer Rayman Origins is going to get a sequel; it’s pretty much inevitable. What form that sequel will take might be hinted at in these screens taken from a marketing survey by one of our readers, hinting at a world filled with dragons, ghosts and Greek gods. Rayman Origins received rave reviews,…
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