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Milla Jovovich’s New Hairstyle is Video Game Inspired, But Not the Game You’re Thinking
Known for her starring role as Alice in her husband’s Resident Evil films, actress Milla Jovovich is sporting a new look these days, torn from the graphics of one of her favorite games. Which game inspired that asymmetrical undercut? Proving that she’s not a one-game girl, Milla admitted her “strange addiction” to The Sims to…
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Why Steal Game Consoles When You Can Get a Six-Year-Old Girl to Do It For You?
On Monday employees at a Super CD in Johannesburg, South Africa realized two PlayStation Vita systems were missing from the store’s inventory. That was shocking, but not nearly as shocking as what they saw when they reviewed the closed-circuit television footage and discovered the culprit was a five or six-year-old girl. What happened is pretty…
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The True Ending of Asura’s Wrath Drops Next Month, Followed by Street Fighter
Today sees the release of the first of five rounds of downloadable content for Capcom’s interactive anime epic Asura’s Wrath, the beginning of a five round cycle that ends with a pair of Street Fighter grudge matches. The Asura’s Wrath DLC spectacular kicks off today with the release of Episode 11.5: Forging Ahead, followed next…
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Are Massively Multiplayer Games Too… Massively Multiplayer?
What’s better, a game with thousands of complete strangers, or one in which up to 100 of your closest friends can play together whenever they want at their own pace? Commenter IncrediBurch makes a compelling argument for the latter in today’s massively multiplayer edition of Speak Up on Kotaku. I think MMO’s try too hard…
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Anarchy Online Puts on a Fresh Face After 11 Years
Perhaps the most compelling and original science fiction setting in massively multiplayer online gaming, Funcom’s Anarchy Online has been in operation since June of 2001. About time for a facelift, wouldn’t you say? Let’s take a look at the changes being made to this elder statesman of the sci-fi MMO scene. To the layman it…
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Turn-Based Role-Playing Fans Find a Safe Haven in Chaos Rings II
Final Fantasy fans seeking to relive the glory days of the series when enemies were on one side of the screen and waited their turn have a new champion on the iPhone in Square Enix’s Chaos Rings II. As with Chaos Rings and Chaos Rings Omega before it, Chaos Rings II is a turn-based role-playing…
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Horrible Food and Video Games Used to Date Back in the 80s
Video game historian Patrick Scott Patterson writes, “Anyone who claims video games cause child obesity might had more of a case in the 1980s.” Here’s more than eight glorious minutes’ worth of commercials that explain why we were fat in the 1980s. Video game food tie-ins are alive and well today, of course. The difference…
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Saudi Arabia Banned This Shoe Shopping Game for Sounding Too Sexy
Shoe Wars is a simple little iPhone jumper about a woman looking for shoes at the mall, an activity many would consider a blissful experience. A little too blissful if you ask Saudi Arabia. The relatively harmless free iPhone app features a woman carrying a shopping bag jumping from platform to platform in a never-ending…
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Preorders Begin for Old School Dungeon Crawler The Legend of Grimrock
The first-person grid-based PC dungeon crawler rises again on April 11, when indie developer Almost Human releases The Legend of Grimrock on Steam and GOG.com. Act now and it’s far cheaper than it should be. You might recall The Legend of Grimrock from a story I posted about the developers changing the game to accommodate…
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Skyrim is the Wrong Place to Look for Dragon Age III Inspiration
Commenter Tony Danza stars in today’s newly-rescheduled episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, giving us the skinny on a Dragon Age III that won’t be the glorious return to glory fans hoped it would be. You’d think we would have changed time slots on a happy note. So, for those of you who aren’t aware,…
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CultureMcDonald’s Fish McBites: The Snacktaku Review
In all my 38-plus years on this great spinning dirt ball of ours I’ve never once heard a person exclaim, “Hooray, fish nuggets!” Can McDonald’s Fish McBites make that happen? Of course not. No single corporate entity possesses that much power. The best the fast food giant can hope to achieve is assuaging the powerful…
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The Dorkly Weekly: It’s Pronounced “Fee-null Fon-tisy”
Do you have problems pronouncing the people, places, and things of Final Fantasy VII? Just follow this simple rule and you can’t go wrong: the way I say it is always correct. This is a problem I’ve never encountered, at least not in a Final Fantasy game. The language Square Enix’s story-crafters use is my…
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Great Moments in Gaming Humor: Fallout Talks to You Like You’re Stupid
Since the early days of the RPG, role-playing video games have allowed players to sacrifice intelligence points to further some more important statistic. Fallout is one of the only ones that treats you like the moron you’ve made. The Fallout series is a wealth of side-splitting humor, or at least it was until recently. What’s…
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Lady Gaga’s Flaming Piano Dive Was No Accident
When performing artist Lady Gaga fell off her flaming piano during a concert last month in Houston, TX , the media were far too willing to accept that it was a mere slip. Here’s what really happened. Obviously faked; knocking down Lady Gaga is an instant three star level score. Angry Gaga [2 Bad 2…
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Fake Gamers of the Week: Bored Blonde Teenagers with Mismatched Controllers
If only I were younger. If only I were more bored and more blonde. If only I didn’t have this damnable compulsion to make sure my controllers match not only each other, but the system I am playing on. Perhaps then I could be one of the bored blonde gaming teenagers. I need not play…
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The Gentlemen’s Guide to Arcade Fighting Stick Etiquette
Think you can simply saunter into your local gaming establishment without a care in the world and deliver sound trouncings to the local ruffians? Well think again, my friend. The fine young fellows of Fighterpedia have utilized the latest in moving picture magic to create a survival guide for today’s rough-and-tumble fighting game scene. There…
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Pretending to Use the Force Works Better with Kinect Star Wars
We’re just a week away from the April 3 launch of Kinect Star Wars, the game you get when you buy that sexy new Star Wars Xbox 360 bundle. While my hopes aren’t particularly high for the game, at least it gives pretending to Force Choke someone important context. Kinect Star Wars stands to play…
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Ten Officially Sanctioned Guild Wars 2 Screenshots
As I mentioned in my questions and answers post, I’m not allowed to share my own screenshots of the Guild Wars 2 beta weekend with you folks, so Arenanet and NCsoft provided me with ten official screens vaguely connected to this weekend’s experience. How vaguely connected? The top shot here shows an Asura thief, a…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Guild Wars 2
Last month I shared what I learned during the first Guild Wars 2 press beta weekend. Now the student becomes the master as I tackle the questions Kotaku posed had about the eagerly anticipated massively-multiplayer game after spending another beta weekend adventuring in the world of Tyria. The second Guild Wars 2 beta weekend has…
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