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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss the joys and wonders of gaming all rolled up into one. Commenter Pan1da7 poured his heart and soul into today’s Katamari TAYpic. If you look closely you can probably make them out. More images now, dammit! I mean……
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The PS Vita is a Social Beast That Will Entangle Us All in Its Loving Tentacles
What the latest Inside PS Vita is trying to say is that by purchasing a Vita you’re becoming a member of a global gaming community connected by glowing threads of gaming-infused light, wrapping about you like a brilliant cocoon in which you’ll never feel lonely ever again. I might be reading a bit much into…
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My First PlayStation Vita Game, Courtesy of Walmart
Just because the PS Vita isn’t out for another ten days in North America doesn’t mean you can’t start picking up your launch games in advance. This poor little guy looked so out of place in Walmart’s PlayStation section I just had to take him home. I wasn’t specifically planning on picking up ModNation Racers:…
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Razer’s Game-Changing Blade Gaming Laptop in My Hot Little Hands
Last summer PC peripheral maker Razer introduced the world to the Razer Blade, a device CEO Min-Liang Tan boldly described as “the world’s first gaming laptop.” Well now the world’s first gaming laptop is in my dining room. Let’s open this baby up, shall we? Of course we shall. As the Blade’s promised Christmas release…
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Twilight in the Kingdom of the Week in Gaming Apps
This week we featured five different titles across several different platforms in our daily Gaming App of the Day posts, but that doesn’t matter to you, does it? No, you’re too busy playing Kingdom Rush You care not for the needless expense of classic shooter Rayforce, or the under-delivering action of One Epic Game. You’ve…
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You Might Catch Some Secrets in This Final Fantasy XIII-2 Monster Video
Join me as I take a trip through my favorite new feature of Final Fantasy XIII-2, monster recruitment, snag a couple of rare creatures, and witness the beginning of a legend that will never die. Well, probably never die. Since finishing the main story of Final Fantasy XIII-2 last weekend I’ve spent the majority of…
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These Are Not the Same-Sex Relationships The Old Republic Players Were Looking For
Riffing on the Family Research Council’s outrage over same-sex NPC relationships in Star Wars: The Old Republic, talk show host Conan O’Brien and team cobble together some footage of the science fantasy franchise’s most famous gay couples. Of course the actual footage has nothing to do with the actual situation in Star Wars: The Old…
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Deus Ex Lead Designer Honored With Game Developer Lifetime Achievement Award
With nearly 30 years in game development and a career spent crafting unique gaming experiences like Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, Warren Spector has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The annual peer-selected award will honor Spector’s many contributions to the science and art of…
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The Witcher 2 Dev Diary Might Answer Your Questions About the Xbox Version
In case Kirk Hamilton’s preview of The Witcher 2 on the Xbox left you with unanswered questions about the 360 remake, here’s CD Projekt with a professionally produced video filled with colorful lights, sounds, and people talking about making the game. Yep, nothing like a highly-polished marketing movie to show us exactly where a game…
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Minecraft Captures the Non-Stop Action of Rock’em Sock’em Robots
Two robots enter, both robots stay, only one has a slightly elevated head. Minecraft craftsman Sethbling has recreated the 1964 sensation that swept an easily-amused nation, Rock’em Sock’em Robots The classic two-player big robot battles comes to life in Mojang’s pile of virtual building blocks, using a rather ingenious little pressure plate mechanic to simulate…
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Sweet Naiveté Triumphs Over “Normal” Mass Effect PC Controls
Just because we’ve conditioned ourselves to play PC games a certain way doesn’t mean everybody else has to follow suit. In today’s charming Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Confirm4Crit tells the inspiring story of what happened when he handed his non-gamer girlfriend his laptop running a copy of the original Mass Effect. I am very,…
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Is More Than 200 Hours of Kingdoms of Amalur Too Much Reckoning?
Perhaps proving that you can have too much of a good thing, a recent total completion playthrough of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning clocked in at more than 200 hours, which has the lead designer wondering if maybe they might have overdone it a little. One would think more than 200 hours of content would be…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Come along, boys and girls. It’s time to let yourselves out of your shells and spend some time discussing video games in Kotaku‘s official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Yankton, America’s Sweetheartmade my day with a wonderfully stacked TAYpic. Wonderfully done! Join the party and create your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share…
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Gamer Dies in Taipei Internet Cafe, Nine Hours Later Someone Notices
Chen Rong-yu of Taiwan checked into an internet cafe in the city of New Taipei on Tuesday evening to play popular multiplayer PC game League of Legends. Wednesday evening a waitress found the 23-year-old sitting rigidly in his chair, hands outstretched towards the computer. He had been dead for up to nine hours. Intense levels…
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THQ’s 2014 Lineup is Alive and Well (On Paper, At Least)
Further distancing the company from rumors that its 2014 lineup had been canned, today’s third quarter 2012 financial results from THQ list inSANE, Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium Online, and several more unannounced core titles that should be showing up over the next couple of years. Warhammer 40k fans in particular should be pleased that the…
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Resident Evil: Revelations Claws Its Way To Impressive Review Scores
While it might not be quite as terrifying as the Circle Pad Pro add-on it helped inspire for the Nintendo 3DS, Resident Evil: Revelations seems to have scared some impressive numbers out of the assembled game reviewers. The eight games in the main Resident Evil series and the first to appear exclusively on a handheld,…
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The Nintendo Download is Itching for a Sword Fight
Only three actual games made it into the Nintendo Download this week, but when one of them is Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword of the 3DS you don’t really need much else. A sword fighting game that’s all about timing and strategy, Sakura Samurai tells the tale of a young boy on a quest…
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