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Mass Effect 3 “Take Back the Earth” Trailer Extended Cut Doubles the Excitement
First there was the teaser. Then the full trailer. Now BioWare has unleashed an even longer version of the excellent Mass Effect 3 “Take Back the Earth” video, with nearly 90 seconds of additional footage. At the rate this thing is growing I give it a week before this transforms into a full two hour…
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If You Could Play Games From Only One Developer the Rest of Your Life…
It’s hypothetical question time for Speak Up on Kotaku! Today commenter Deakor asks us what one developer we would pick if we were cursed by some vengeful wizard to only play games from one studio for the rest of our miserable lives. So a friend of mine and I were discussing game developers the other…
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These Sexy Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC Outfits Are Completely Justifiable
Arriving next week alongside the “Sazh: Heads or Tails?” story pack, these two new outfits for Final Fantasy XIII-2 main characters Serah and Noel might seem like a pair of extravagant attempts to acquire $2.99 from players, but they make perfect sense in the grand scheme of things. Take Noel’s Spacetime Guardian outfit, the main…
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Spec Ops: The Line Deploys June 26, Preorders Get FUBAR’ed
Cheer up, soldier! 2K Games first foray into the military shooter genre hits retail on June 26 (June 29 internationally), and preorder customers receive a free upgrade to the premium edition in all its FUBAR glory. Man, look at that screenshot. You’d think they were in the middle of an emotionally charged military shooter, desperately…
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How Not to Do PVP in Guild Wars 2
After spending the weekend playing Guild Wars 2 with select members of the press, I felt I had gather enough knowledge to create a video guide to the game’s standard player-versus-player combat. Then I played this round. The more hardcore alternative to Guild Wars 2 highly-accessible world-versus-world combat, the PVP in ArenaNet’s upcoming MMO is…
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You Know You Play Too Much EverQuest When These Jokes are Still Funny Ten Years Later
These days you can tell you play too much of Sony Online Entertainment’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest by the simple fact that you play it at all. Ten years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people played the game on a regular basis, there were different standards of measurement. Ten years ago we…
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The Dorkly Weekly: The Horrible Fate of the Leftover Pokémon
The folks at Dorkly pride themselves on the ability to solve gaming’s great unsolved mysteries. For example, if Ash chooses Charmander and Gary chooses Squirtle, what happens to Bulbasaur? Oh. Oh. That happens to Bulbasaur. I always suspected, but I guess I didn’t really want to know. At least it’s not animal cruelty; Bulbasaur is…
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Great Moments in Gaming Humor: He’s Good in the Dark
Dialog-heavy Japanese role-playing games don’t often make the journey westward with their wit intact. Tri-Ace’s challenging role-playing shooter Resonance of Fate proves itself one of the rare exceptions, nailing both the text and the timing of this hilariously steamy scene. I’d give equal credit to the localization team and the voice actors on this one.…
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The Very Last Face I’d Expect to See on an Arcade Stick
I’ve seen many a custom arcade joystick in my days, but none moved me quite as much as the world’s first and only Michael McDonald Arcade Fighting Joystick, now available on eBay. Not possessing a joystick featuring former Doobie Brothers front man and five-time Grammy award-winning singer / songwriter Michael McDonald might be the one…
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The Guild Wars 2 Charr Character Intro, Unintentional Commentary Edition
Once I finished recording the voice over character creation video for my Guild Wars 2 beta article that ran this morning, I turned off my microphone to capture the story the game generated based on the decisions I made while building my Charr thief. Or I thought I turned off my microphone. I stopped the…
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ReviewsLumines Electronic Symphony: The Kotaku Review
Every time I fire up a Lumines game and am not instantly greeted by the mellow beats of Mondo Grosso’s “Shinin” from the franchise’s 2004 PSP debut, I can’t help but feel a little disappointed. That song will forever be linked with the magical feeling of the first game, when Q Entertainment’s simple and sublime…
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Can You Catch All the Puns in This Adorable Pokémon Love Song?
“I wrote a love song using only Pokémon puns,” reads the Reddit entry for YouTube user HelloIamDanica’s pocket monster-stuffed ukulele ballad. There are several words in that sentence I would normally avoid, but her music has moved me, and I think it could move Mewtwo. Oh god, it’s infectious! Sure it’s incredibly corny, but there’s…
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Who Cries for the Non-Player Characters?
We see them every day, but do we really look at them? When a nameless, faceless non-player character stumbles into your line of fire, who sheds a single tear? Commenter Sol does, and he wonders if you do as well in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Does anyone else feel sorry for NPCs? Strange question,…
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The Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Ends in Crash-Causing Chaos
To celebrate the successful press beta weekend for Guild Wars 2, the nice folks at ArenaNet gathered us all together in the main courtyard of Divinity’s Reach and killed us over and over again. The lag was bad enough with somewhere around a hundred members of the press and assorted ArenaNet staff bunched together in…
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Ten Things I Learned From the Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend
Of the more than a dozen hours I spent playing in the Guild Wars 2 press beta event this past weekend, seven involved actively battling enemies, three and a half were spent exploring, and a half hour was dedicated to creating my four different characters. The final hour involved trying to throw myself into a…
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Mass Effect 3‘s Spectacular “Take Back the Earth” Trailer Gives Us All a Reason to Fight
If last week’s teaser trailer for Mass Effect 3 got your juices flowing, you might want to grab a towel before watching the full 90 second version that aired during tonight’s episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead In case you were curious about the fate of the young girl in last week’s teaser, it doesn’t…
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ReviewsArmy Corps of Hell: The Kotaku Review
Into the midst of the PlayStation Vita’s launch lineup drops a fiery comet, crashing through the Earth’s crust and plunging into the mythical underworld below to amass a massive force of evil with infernal domination in mind. The Army Corps of Hell is recruiting. Should you join up? The King of Hell is back in…
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The Best Use of the Vita’s Rear Touch Panel So Far
One of the best uses of the PS Vita’s rear touch panel comes from the FIFA folks at EA Sports, who realized that the back of the Vita and the back of the goal aren’t that different after all. I’ve purchased two different versions of FIFA 12 in an attempt to learn a sports game…
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The New and Improved Week in Gaming Apps, Now With 50 Percent More Flavor
It’s a brave new Week in Gaming apps as Kotaku’s fresh new faces take a crack at the millions of smartphone and tablet titles available for purchase and download. Guess what? A couple of them are Android-exclusive. Gives you shivers, doesn’t it? I meant the writers, of course. Not Android exclusive games. Not this week…
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