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The Walking Dead Game Leaves Rick in a Coma to Explore Other Survivor Stories
Don’t expect to see Deputy Rick Grimes make an appearance in the first episode of Telltale’s comic-based The Walking Dead video game series. The hero of the series will be sleeping away the first installment in a coma while creators explorer what supporting cast members were getting up to at the time. Deputy Rick gets…
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Love is a Fresh New Etna Tattoo
In what is quickly becoming a Valentine’s Day tradition for my family, last night I hit up Psycho Tattoo in Sandy Springs, Georgia to add another role-playing icon to my growing (and until yesterday Final Fantasy-centric) party. Why are all the Prinnies running away? Etna of Disgaea fame now resides permanently on my left forearm.…
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Twisted Metal Sets Game Critics’ Skulls Aflame
After a decade of lurking in the darkness just outside of gamers’ views the evil clown rides back into town, guns blazing, engines roaring, and game reviewers rarin’ for a shot. In the world of car combat, Twisted Metal has reigned supreme since the original game hit the PC and PlayStation back in 1996. Potential…
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Skullgirls Picked Just the Right Day to Reveal the Deadly Nurse Valentine
You just know the team at Reverge Games have been giggling to themselves for the past week in anticipation of today’s reveal of Nurse Valentine, the Skullgirls fighter with a prescription for pain. Body bags, scalpels, and other implements of clinical destruction mark the repertoire of Nurse Valentine, continuing the 3D fighter’s habit of mixing…
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Beat Hazard Ultra is the Game Photosensitive Seizure Blurbs Were Warning You About
Until now your iTunes music library has remained passive, patiently waiting for you to allow it to waft delicately to your eardrums. With the release of the iOS version of Beat Hazard Ultra your music is now a deadly predator, lurking in your playlist, awaiting the call to be transformed into explosive levels of eye-melting…
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See Curt Schilling Shilling Kingdoms of Amalur on Jimmy Fallon
38 Studios founder Curt Schilling uses tales of baseball triumphs past to hook Late Night host Jimmy Fallon and then brings Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning in for the kill. While Schilling comes across as completely excited about the release of his company’s first major game, Fallon himself looks like he’d much rather talk baseball for…
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Stop Copying World of Warcraft, Start Making a Better MMO
Commenter Kinecticdamage tries to shock massively multiplayer online game developers out of their World of Warcraft-fueled haze and on track to create something truly unique and beautiful in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. “In case of Doubt, copy WoW“, a message to MMO devs. I don’t know if there are any MMO analysts, business angels,…
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Child Left in GameStop Leads to Neglect Arrest
Attention parents of the world: GameStop is not a babysitting service. That fact was made abundantly clear to 21-year-old Kethia Dagrin-Francois of Florida when police arrested her for child neglect after her five-year-old son was found wandering the parking lot of Boyton Mall. According to authorities shoppers discovered the young boy wandering the parking lot…
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Masters of Their Domains
Binary | TOKYO, JAPAN: Via tipster Jinah comes these photos. (Photo: Game Watch) Active Duty Marine is Making a Video Game About Zombies Zombies, man. Everyone loves killing zombies. 22 year-old Marine Sergeant Jacob Way is betting that video game players love killing zombies enough to make room in their libraries for one more zombie-slaying…
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Culture
Find Retro Atari Classics on the Back of Specially Marked Boxes of General Mills Cereal
It might not be the video game-branded cereal Lisa Foiles craves, but the Atari-classic branded General Mills cereal boxes popping up at Target stores across the country might have you bringing the box back to the breakfast table again. Five different cereals, five different games. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of video game pioneer…
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How to Justify Putting a Video of Your Babies on a Major Gaming Website
While it may seem like a video of me singing to my two children as they bounce along to a song Will.I.Am did for Sesame Street a few years back, this is a video about SoulCalibur V Or possibly frog butt. As the proud father of twin eight-month-old boys, I am constantly looking for ways…
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Ten Nine Games That Never Get Included in Top Ten Lists
Since the dawn of gaming there have been top ten lists. Lists of the best games; lists of the worst games; lists of the sexiest, most offensive, most family friendly, most humorous; there are top ten lists for nearly every game under the sun. And then there are the games that lurk where the sun…
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The Dorkly Weekly: The Geekiest Role-Playing Game of Them All
The might warriors circle each other warily, keen eyes searching for the slightest chink in their foe’s armor. The tightness of an overtaxed muscle. The telltale twitching of an over-eager sword arm. An over-reliance on purple gems. We’ve a great fondness for the work of video game humor site Dorkly here at Kotaku. I’ve featured…
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Great Moments in Video Game Humor: Let’s Make Out!
You want to know how Tim Schafer and Double Fine managed to generate more than a million dollars in Kickstarter cash? Look no further than this hilarious exchange from twisted platforming classic Psychonauts. Sometimes you just gotta make out. Expect to see plenty of Schafer and friends in our weekly Great Moments in Gaming Humor…
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Sonic the Hedgehog as You’ve Never Wanted to See Him Before
Welcome to the first weekly installment of Freaky Fan Art, an exploration of the peculiar, bizarre, and downright peculiar places gamers’ imaginations take them after the end credits roll. This week, Sonic the Hedgehog gets stuck in the toilet, cuddles the prince of the beasts, and finally grows a pair. Of breasts. Why do fan…
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Why Prolong the Inevitable? A New Dune Game is Life
Is anyone doin’ a new Dune? Commenter Nameloi thinks it’s about time we revisited the sands of Arrakis once more as the video game players of Dune in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I…
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