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This Baldur’s Gate Teaser Sure Takes Its Time To Tell Us Not Much [Update]
Following up on last night’s Baldur’s Gate website tease, today a YouTube user named Beamdogger has uploaded a teaser trailer for…something, featuring voice clips from both Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II and the world’s longest logo reveal. Update: Looks like it’s fake. Beamdogger refers to the digital distribution platform / independent studio Beamdog, run…
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PCGamingWiki Wants to Solve the Biggest Problems with PC Gaming: Intimidation and Confusion
Have you ever had a problem installing the latest and greatest PC game and were forced to scour semi-helpful forum posts for hours looking for a solution? Andrew Tsai certainly has, and he created PCGamingWiki so no one else ever has to. If Tsai, who goes by the handle Andytizer on the PCGamingWiki site (and…
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The Custom PC of Yesterday’s Future, Today
PC case mods aren’t always about adding character and catching the eye. As this lovely design by Swedish artist Love Hulten demonstrates, it can also be about adding sophistication and capturing the hi-fi spirit of yesteryear. This particular case made the rounds last year, but the design is timeless. Well, perhaps timeless is the wrong…
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Tera‘s Frightening Spokesman Continues to Terrorize Innocent Role-Players
Last week Tera‘s mixed martial arts master spokesman pitched the game’s action-oriented combat to a room full of guild leaders from other massively multiplayer online games. This week he breaks into a player’s house. Oh those MMO-FOs. Last week’s viral MMO-FO video from En Masse Entertainment at least featured some actual gamers. This week sees…
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Deep Black: Reloaded is Worth Playing Just to Hear Men Die
Created by Russian independent developer Biart, Depp Black: Reloaded is a third-person shooter driven by a unique blend of underwater and land-based exploration and combat. Other than that there’s not much going for it, except for these gut-wrenching screams. Originally called Underwater Wars or U-Wars, Deep Black: Reloaded weaves a tale of suspense, mystery, terrorism,…
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My Commander Shepard Has a First Name, It’s…
What’s in a name? To the John and Jane Shepards out there, not much, but to those that prefer customizing their Mass Effect heroes picking the right name can make all the difference in the universe. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Salari wants to know how you name your role-playing game characters. With…
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Leap Day Talk Amongst Yourselves
We won’t be able to discuss video games in Kotaku‘s official forum on February 29 again for another four years, so make it count, people! Today’s TAYpic comes from rabid TAYpic creator Pan1da7, who reminds us that it’s time to select the new TAYpic image for March! That’s right, it’s time for a new TAYpic…
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The Latest Game of Thrones Screens Cover New Ground
While Cyanide Studio’s Game of Thrones role-playing game will take players to plenty of familiar locales, it also features original settings created to fit in with existing A Song Of Ice And Fire lore. Welcome to Castlewood. You might not find it in the books or television series, but Castlewood plays a key role in…
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The Not-So-Good Ship Fireflower Might Be the Most Triumphant LEGO Video Game Creation Ever
After months sequestered in his secret underground lair, LEGO artist Baron von Brunk emerges with a massive Super Mario Bros. 3 airship that rivals any other block-meets-pixels creation I’ve seen. Behold its glory. Okay, so he probably doesn’t have an underground lair (though you never know, he is based in Queens, New York). What Baron…
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Pac-Man Returns to Television in 2013, and He’s Bringing Friends
One of the most iconic characters in video game history gets another shot at small screen glory in 2013, when the Avi Arad-produced 3D animated Pac-Man: The Adventure Begins makes its Disney XD debut. So who’s this cute little round girl with the pink streaks? What took you so long, Avi Arad? We’ve been waiting…
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Baldur’s Gate Website Lurches to Life, Is a New Game Rising?
It’s been eleven years since PC role-playing gamers claimed the throne of Bhaal, Lord of Murder, bringing BioWare’s epic Baldur’s Gate series to a satisfying close, but has the entire tale been told? New developments at the game’s website suggest there’s still life in the old death god yet. With the recent news that a…
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Six out of Six Binary Domain Reviewers Agree: Shooting Robots Just Makes You Feel Good
You know, if Sega had simply marketed Binary Domain with the slogan, “Shoot some robots”, I probably wouldn’t have been so down on it all these months. That was all I needed to know. There’s something about a dystopian future where some sort of robots have gained sentience and you’ve got to blow bits of…
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It Takes Two Fingers to Save This Frog from His Own Bad Eating Habits
Hey, remember the iPhone’s multi-touch screen? Not many game developers seem to, limiting applications to allowing players to touch two virtual on-screen buttons at once. Blacktorch Games’ simple little fly swatter, Don’t Fry the Frog, serves as a simple reminder of how much fun you can have with two fingers at once. Despite glowing iTunes…
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Witness the Gloriously Annoying Marriage of Ocarina of Time and My Little Pony
How could The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time‘s Navi possibly get any more annoying? Don’t ask questions like that unless you want answers — pony answers. It never ceases to amaze me how well the mouth movements in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic lend themselves to other things. Things like StarCraft II, and…
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Is This Mostly-Forgotten Square Enix Game Worth Revisiting?
In today’s nostalgic Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Daemon_Gildas imagines a world where Square Enix’s The Bouncer didn’t bounce from the hearts and minds of gamers so quickly. Does anybody else kinda wish Square Enix would do something with The Bouncer? The game wasn’t a great game or anything, but I thought they actually made…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
We’ve beefed up security here in the official Kotaku forums, so grab yourself someone with a keen eye and get in here to talk about all things gaming. Mr Marsu forces his way into TAYpic history once more. That leaves just one day left in February, and then we move on. I’ll miss these guys.…
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Preorder This Game and Adolf Hitler Dies
In April of 1945 the dictator of Nazi Germany took his own life in order to avoid capture by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin. The move left millions feeling as if they were cheated out of an opportunity. The preorder bonus for Rebellion’s Sniper Elite V2 gives customers a chance to make…
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