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Skylanders Wave Four Brings Fresh Life, Air, and Fire to Retail
The hunt begins anew as three more Skylanders figures make their way to retail shelves, filling out the Fire element and adding one each to Life and Air. The checklist nears completion! Electricity-hurling Lightning Rod and bazooka-wielding Zook are a pair of single-packed Skylanders bringing the grand total of Air and Life creatures available to…
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The Kinect Star Wars Dancing Mingame is Even More Horrifying Than I Imagined
Ignore the podracing and dueling portions of this Kinect Star Wars video and jump directly to around :50 in the video. I probably should have apologized first. Too late now. Whatever reasons I might have had to purchase Kinect Star Wars, this negates each and every one of them. I had heard of this dancing game.…
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ReviewsStreet Fighter X Tekken: The Kotaku Review
Worlds collide, battles erupt, and pink-haired transgendered beauties fight tooth-and-nail with freaking bears; Street Fighter X Tekken has arrived, pitting two of the fighting game scene’s favorite franchises into one sexy, riding-crop wielding package. Perhaps I’m a little obsessed with Capcom’s Poison, or maybe she/he merely represents the best of both worlds with a little…
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Femshep Takes a Stab at Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” Trailer
Mass Effect 3‘s “Take Back the Earth” trailer was lovely and all, but for many fans of the franchise it featured the wrong main character. Entertainment Weekly‘s PopWatch has an exclusive trailer that fixes that oversight. Go look! [EW.com]
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Show Some Respect, This is a Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist
Meet Wrench, the first fighter revealed for Kung Fu Factory’s upcoming downloadable fighting game Girl Fight. You know, like Bum Fight, only with girls. Now before anyone gets angry, keep in mind that this post is running during Kotaku‘s Off-Kilter humor block, which is quite frankly the only place I could imagine putting it on…
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Cloud Strife is a Hero, a Lover, a Woman, a Rabbit; He is All This and More
One of the most iconic figures in modern role-playing, Final Fantasy‘s Cloud Strife cuts a very distinctive figure, largely due to a combination of spiky blond hair and his ridiculously huge Buster sword. These features set him apart. They also make him ridiculously easy to twist into whatever form the fan artist so desires. Like…
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Great Moments in Video Game Humor: Now With More Horse Penis
Ah Disgaea, always going that extra step to make its turn-based strategy gameplay more exciting. Take this zombie, for instance. No one is scared of zombies anymore; they’re everywhere you want to be. If you saw a zombie on the street you’d more likely hug it than run screaming. At least until you saw the…
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The Dorkly Weekly: An Ode to Mortal Kombat‘s Crappiest Character
Let’s see who we’ve got representing Earthrealm in the Mortal Kombat tournament, in which the fate of the entire planet hangs in the balance. We’ve got a god, that’s always good. A cybernetic special forces commado; sure, I’ll take that. A mall cop? Pass. Okay, so officer Kurtis Stryker wasn’t a mall cop. He might…
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In 1985 “Real Gamers” Were a Completely Different Animal
When you hear the term ‘gamer’ these days it’s safe to assume that it refers to a person that regularly plays video games. Way back in 1985, however, “real gamers” carried leather dice bags, sat around paper-cluttered tables for hours on end and rarely possessed a pair of X chromosomes to rub together. At least…
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Assassin’s Creed III Brings a New Hero to a New Console with a New Engine
His name is Ratohnhaké:ton, but you can call him Connor. The latest Assassin’s Creed hero prowls the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC frontier on October 31, with work underway on a version for Nintendo’s Wii U. It’s a game so ambitious Ubisoft created an entirely new game engine just to power it. That engine…
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A Revolutionary Hero Takes to the Trees in the First Assassin’s Creed III Trailer
What kind of setting would Revolutionary War-era America make for an Assassin’s Creed game? See for yourself as the latest in a long line of professional killers does the tomahawk chop in the wintry war-torn Northeastern woods. When the setting was revealed for Assassin’s Creed III some fans thought it was a terrible choice, mainly…
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You Will Believe Four Young Boys Can Save the World from Redheads
Kenny, Kyle, Cartman, and Stan join forces to defeat Tenorman’s Ginger Army in South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge. How? Perhaps these latest screens can shed some light. Don’t worry, redheads. I realize cartoons are cartoons, and I still love all of you. Except for you, Frank. You’re a bit of a jerk. Sorry, had to be…
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The Quest for Worthwhile Facebook Games
Hardcore gamers like to point and laugh at Facebook games, but sometimes they’re all we’ve got. Commenter Faux Bravo wants to know if there are any Facebook games worth his valuable supposed-to-be-working time. I know this is blasphemy, but are there any Facebook games out there that are worthwhile? Do you guys play anything that…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Let’s all gather around the campfire, the only place it’s safe to spend the day discussing video games in Kotaku‘s official forum. Today’s TAYpic comes from Halfbeast, who figured this was the obvious ‘shopping choice, given the subject matter. You too can manipulate the hell out of “The Hunters at Rest”! Post your masterpieces in…
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The Colorful Cartoon Hack-and-Slash Adventure of Fable Heroes in Action
Xbox.com leaked the images last night, and now we’ve got the video of Fable Heroes, Lionhead’s candy-coated four-player co-op journey through the lands of Albion. What do we know about Xbox Live Arcade’s Fable Heroes? It’s a competitive / co-op adventure that sees up to four players exploring a reimagined Albion. Series fans will recognize…
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Control the Ultimate Weapon in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City‘s Xbox Exclusive Nemesis Mode
Launching exclusively with the Xbox 360 version of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City on March 20, the online multiplayer Nemesis Mode sees the USS fighting against the Spec Ops for control of one of the series’ most powerful enemies. It’s just a normal fight-for-points multiplayer battle until one side activates Nemesis. After that it’s all…
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Jinx Supplies Both Sides of the The Old Republic War with Fresh T-Shirts
Quick, what class do you play in Star Wars: The Old Republic? What faction? If it took you a moment to answer, you could probably do with one of Jinx’s new line of SWTOR-inspired chest coverings. So one of the guys I know at Jinx emails me the other day and asks me if I…
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A Box Full of Pizza-Flavored Gaming Apps, With Frogs on the Side
Including a game called Pizza Vs. Skeletons in this week’s lineup of featured Gaming Apps of the Day seemed like a good idea, until Friday afternoon rolled around. Now I’m so hungry I could eat a deep-fried frog. Hold the unhealthy flies; I’m watching my vitality. Seriously though, I’m going to have to have a…
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