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Why Can’t Male-Centric Sports Games Let the Ladies In?
The football players in the NFL are male. The baseball players in the MLB are male. It stands to reason that custom characters in video games based off these sports should be male, but Kotaku commenter Seoul Sister makes a valid point: When has reason ever stopped a video game? Someone posted in response to…
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The Real Stars of Prototype 2 Have Spinning Blades on Their Heads
You know what sold me on the original Prototype? Protagonist Alex Mercer leaping onto a helicopter and punching his way inside. I’m sure Prototype 2’s James Heller is a compelling new hero, but what about the whirlybirds? Ah yes, here they are. Radical Entertainment and Activision, keen on the importance of proper helicopter destruction and…
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“Just For Kids” Comes to PlayStation 3 Netflix, Still Waiting for “Just for Adults”
The menacing black box lurking within your entertainment center just got a bit less menacing, as Netflix adds the bright and colorful “Just for Kids” to the PlayStation 3 version of its streaming video app. For those of you unfamiliar, the picture above depicts the Backyardigans, a group of singing, dancing and imagineering young animals…
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Blizzard Tables Diablo III PVP in Favor of a Timely Release
In its continuing quest to release Diablo III sometime before the rabid fanbase burns the building down, Blizzard has decided to drop the game’s player-versus-player arena combat feature for release, adding it into the game via patch at a later date. Diablo III maestro Jay Wilson made the announcement earlier today via the Diablo III…
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One of the Worst Features of Mass Effect 3 Is in this Week in Gaming Apps
It’s Mass Effect 3 week, and BioWare’s latest is so powerful and compelling it even made it into a Gaming App of the Day post—and a fairly negative one at that. Oh well, at least we’ve got Snake Mass Effect 3 tie-in Infiltrator did not make a good impression on Evan Narcisse, so much so…
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Barbara-Freaking-Gordon Proves How Clever She is in this Batgirl #7 Preview
Back in action years after being crippled by the Joker, Batgirl’s biggest problem in DC Comics’ New 52 reboot seems to be all the men in her life worried about her getting hurt again. Batwoman doesn’t have to deal with this crap. After a tense confrontation with Batman in issue #6, writer Gail Simone explores…
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Five People Playing the Tetris Theme on One Guitar? Sort Of…
Either these five people look amazingly similar, or there’s some brilliant digital trickery going on. Either way, this clip is bound to remind you of a video game you used to play. Of course there’s video trickery going on here, but you’d be surprised how many people in the YouTube comments for this splendid little…
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Mass Effect 3 Has Serious Intimacy Issues
Don’t get commenter KillerIri5h wrong; he loves Mass Effect 3. He just wishes the game would love him back just as accurately. What does that mean? Find out in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Could someone ask Mass Effect 3 to stop looking away from me? Mass Effect. This series is one of the reasons…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Gather around, friends. We have the finest surgeons ready to take care of your every medical need, or we could just discuss video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Your choice! Pan1da7 makes his triumphant return to the TAYpic spotlight with this startlingly accurate commentary on American healthcare. You too can mix video…
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Tribes: Ascend‘s “Llama Island” Trailer Is Heartbreakingly Familiar
Tribes: Ascend officially launches on April 12, a day when llamas will rain from the sky, filling multiplayer maps with fresh corpses until they’re nothing but islands of dead… oh! See what they did there? For those of you confused about llamas (we’ve all been there?), that’s what we call a Tribes player that rushes…
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There Will Be No Open Thread Post Tonight
Sorry folks, no time for Open Thread tonight. We ran out of internet. And colors. In its place, I give you a solid black 960×540 image, suitable for printing and framing (click on the enlarge button in the bottom right-hand corner for a larger view). Why not just use HTML code to color the square…
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Building a Better Mech in Armored Core V
You can never have too many giant killer riding robots. Thanks to Armored Core V’s customization options, you’ll soon be able to put that ancient wisdom to the test. Customizing your own ride is one of the best features of an Armored Core game. I might have spent more time putting my mech together in…
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‘We Can Bring Back the Best’ of Tony Hawk, says, uh, Tony Hawk
We caught up with Tony Hawk, pro skater, to ask him about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the high-definition update of everyone’s favorite levels from the first two Pro Skater games. Here the skateboarding legend tells us his favorite levels, and why they deserve a remake in the first place.
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From Metal Gear Solid to Portal 2, Every Video Game Sounds Better in German
Why would you ever want to play a video game in a language you don’t understand? Once you hear Half-Life‘s G-Man, Metal Gear‘s Psycho Mantis, and Portal 2‘s Space Sphere speaking German you’ll understand completely. Our German-speaking audience might be scratching their heads right now, wondering what the big deal is. Well, the big deal…
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Video Games Are a Harsh Mistress to Players with OCD
Presented with a vast array of collectibles and achievements, most gamers have no problem skipping the items and accolades and moving on. Gamers with obsessive-compulsive disorder, on the other hand… I’ll just let commenter Daemon_Gildas explain in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. God, I fucking hate being a gamer with OCD. I just finished Super…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
When the last enemy gives his life for whatever pointless cause he was defending, we’ll push the bodies aside to make room for a little video game discussion in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Snufkin seems to think that his mashup of this month’s TAY art and Skyrim was a bad idea. I don’t…
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Fighting, Revenge, and a Double Dose of Fun!? It’s Nintendo Download Time
Two fighting games, a PopCap puzzler, and a minigolf game that’s trying way too hard to catch your attention? There’s only one place such a diverse lineup could thrive. No WiiWare this week? What am I to do? I already own The King of Fighters ’97 in various forms, so the Virtual Console version holds…
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Ultima Online, EverQuest and World of Warcraft Earn Their Place in the MMO Hall of Fame
The MMO Hall of Fame was created to recognize massively multiplayer online games from 1996 on up for bringing “years of excitement to millions of fans”. Which games made it into the inaugural class of 2012? Those first three come as absolutely no surprise to anyone. Ultima Online put MMOs on the map. EverQuest took…
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I Had to See This, and Now You Do Too
And then Luke got eaten by spiders. That’s the town of Wagga Wagga, where recent floods have made millions of arachnids that would otherwise remain safely hidden underneath your bed or in your shoes take to the skies in a majestic display of oh god, I am going to throw up in fear. Luke is…
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