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You Can Play Street Fighter X Tekken Tomorrow… in PlayStation Home
Sony’s virtual playground turns bloody tomorrow, as the Street Fighter X Tekken Total Game Integration event elevates into violence. For the first time, PlayStation Home avatars will be able to beat the living crap out of each other. They’ve built a replica of one of the upcoming fighting game cross-over’s stages in PlayStation Home, and…
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Exploring the Ancient Top Ten Lists of Doom
id Software’s classic first-person shooter Doom is a part of gaming history, forever occupying a prominent place in the collective gaming consciousness. Let’s travel back to 1993, as PC gamers faced impending Doom the only way they could: with funny top ten lists. Harvested from an archive by one Hank Leukart located on the website…
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Triumphantly Hideous Dialog Makes Evil Zone One of the Funniest Games Ever
Crafted by Yuke’s and published by Titus Software in North America for the original PlayStation, Evil Zone is a fighting game that uses only two buttons for battle. I’m guessing they couldn’t afford more buttons after shelling out big bucks for this amazing voice-over work. “I’m gibbering nonsense!” Often cited in compilations covering the worst…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Shedding a Little Light on Limbo
Being chased through a black-and-white forest filled with blowgun-wielding natives, dangling corpses, and the gigantic silhouette of a spider sure is creepy. If only the hero of Limbo had remembered to pack a flashlight. It’s amazing what you discover when you turn the lights up a bit, isn’t it? For more sick and twisted video…
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He Screams at Gaming’s Most Terrifying Moments So You Can Laugh
YouTube entertainer PewDiePie likes to record himself doing scary things, like playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent or the Cry of Fear Half-Life 2. His reactions are glorious moments of pure panic. It’s like having a surrogate pants-pisser. What a lovely service this man is providing, taking the girlish screams upon himself, transforming them into laughter…
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Ten Ways to Make the Next Pokémon Games the Very Best, Like No One Ever Was
With Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 on the way, commenter Daemon_Gildas has submitted a timely list of suggestions for freshening up a franchise that hasn’t changed all that much in the past 16 years. Dear Nintendo and/or Game Freak, I’m going to give you a list that would make the Pokémon series kick SO…
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Pokémon Black and White 2 Catch All the Western Gamers This Fall
Announced this weekend for a June release in Japan, the first pair of main series Pokémon titles with the number two in the title will be hitting North America and Europe this fall. Fans can expect plenty of surprises in Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2, the tag-team sequels everyone was certain would be…
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Pack Your Preorder Bonuses, Dungeons & Dragons Online Goes to the Forgotten Realms June 25
Can you believe Dungeons & Dragons Online turns six-years-old tomorrow? They grow up so fast. Turbine celebrates with the release date and extensive preorder bonuses for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game’s world-hopping expansion pack, Menace of the Underdark In the six years since Dungeons & Dragons Online first launched (as Dungeons & Dragons Online:…
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Five Mobile Games Combine to Form Week in Gaming Appicus
Any one of this week’s Gaming Apps of the Day could easily crush you beneath their heavy metal feet. When all five of them join together, however, they’re one giant pissed-off strategic defense robot that’s got the Empire State in its sights. Will anyone survive? Worry not, fair citizens; the only thing this week’s apps…
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Princess Peach Does One Amazing Lana Del Rey Impression
With retooled lyrics, some sweet costumes, and a heavy application of lip makeup, the magical Jenny Bede transforms Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” into a tale of video gaming’s most heartbreaking love triangle. Sorry, Miss Del Rey, but if you’re going to name a song “Video Games” this sort of thing is bound to happen.…
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Next Week’s Rock Band Wonders: Do You Like Huey Lewis and the News?
Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in ’83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really…
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Why Do Text-Heavy Games Make Reading So Painful?
In today’s short-but-sweet installment of Read Up on Kotaku, commenter RevRain wonders why developers spend days filling their games with tomes of ancient lore without putting nearly as much effort into delivering a pleasant reading experience. A lot of games require you to read lots of text be it in a form of a mystic…
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This Is the Last Vita Game I Expected to Enjoy
When the shipment of Ubisoft’s Vita launch day games arrived, Michael Jackson: The Experience was set aside, along with Asphalt: Injection and Dungeon Hunter Alliance, three unfortunate side-effects of getting my hands on Rayman and Lumines Indeed I might not have ever gotten around to playing it if not for a random bout of OCD…
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There Are 100 Keys to This Weekend’s Tera Beta Test Hidden in This Post
Who wants to see if Tera‘s promise of action-driven massively multiplayer online role-playing combat rings true this weekend? I’ve got the beta keys, but you’re going to have to work for them. Might want to stretch first. Tera‘s closed beta test two runs from Friday, February 24 at 3PM Eastern to Monday, February 27 2:59AM…
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The Very Essence of Sonic the Hedgehog
This is What We Fell in Love With | A piece of Sonic the Hedgehog fan art that gets everything right (Photo Credit: Reddit User BansheeIndian via Imgur.) Learn How To Make Video Games With This Video Game Code Hero isn’t your basic first-person shooter. You’ll have enemies, and you’ll be “shooting” them, but it…
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How Much Better Does Max Payne 3 Look on PC?
Today’s Rockstar released the first images of Max Payne 3 running on PC, and while no exact comparison shots are available, taking a look at similar screens for the console version reveals substantial differences. Just look at the image above. On the left we’ve got two of the three PC shots released today. On the…
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DC’s Animated Young Justice is Old Enough for Its Own Video Game
Superboy, Robin, Kid Flash, Miss Martian, Aqualad, and Artemis are about to enter their second season as one of Cartoon Network’s most popular animated series, Young Justice. That calls for a video game, don’t you think? Little Orbit certainly thinks so. The small developer is hard-at-work on Young Justice: Legacy, the interactive entertainment tie-in to…
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Do Not Attempt These Painfully Awkward Video Game Pickup Lines on Other Living Creatures
“A lot of black girls, some of them are too light. Some of them are too dark. But you? You’re like the Perfect Dark.” When Bay area pickup artists Simple Pickup are tasked with getting girls’ phone numbers using lines incorporating video game titles, that was the best they could do. How can they possibly…
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Who’s Looking for Some PS Vita Friends?
There’s a new Sony handheld on the market, and one that makes better use of the PlayStation Network’s friend features than the PlayStation 3. Commenter Grizzly_Chin believes this calls for a Vita friend exchange post. Speak Up on Kotaku agrees. So I got my Vita today and I think it’d be cool to add some…
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