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This Magic Box Transforms Your Electrical Outlets into Internet Connections
Over the course of several years I’ve painstakingly migrated all of my gaming and electronics equipment into a single area, an impassable tangle of wires and blinking lights, all in the name of making sure I had a stable, wired connection at all times. Once I got everything just right, Diamond Multimedia sent me the…
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This Ghost Recon Future Soldier Gameplay Trailer is All Synchronized Sniping and Stealth Kills
The most important thing I’ve learned from watching this premiere single-player gameplay trailer for Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier is this: Be sure to turn down your dubstep before attempting a stealth kill. Sure, dubstep and other heavy electronic beat delivery systems are invaluable to military operations of the past, present, and future, but there…
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A Strong Kick in the Face to People Upset With Online Passes
In today’s profanity and insult-laden Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Skeletal-Minion tells us exactly what he thinks about people that complain about Online Passes and other used sales-thwarting measures. I’m so sick of seeing people who buy used games bitching, most recently about Kingdoms of Amalur providing some extra content for people who buy a…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Let’s strut on in to Kotaku’s official forum and talk about video games, shall we? Walk this way. Our first official TAYpic of February comes from Pan1da7 of all people! Who’d have thought he had this sort of talent in him, except for those that noticed he did every other TAYpic in January. So come…
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A Pinball Role-Playing Game? Be Still My Shiny Spherical Heart
Coming soon to Pinball FX 2 and Zen Pinball platforms everywhere,. Epic Quest is a pinball table that merges the science of the silver ball with the loot gathering, experience points, and leveling of a role-playing game. How dangerous is that concept? I can’t load up Pinball FX2 on Xbox Live Arcade without spending at…
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Hyperdimension Neptunia MK. 2 Transforms Your Handhelds into Lovely Ladies Later This Month
The Japanese role-playing game craftspersons at Compile Heart and Idea Factory give us moe, moe, moe of the anthropomorphic video game hardware ladies we’ve been looking for (foe?) when Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk. 2 hits the PlayStation 3 February 28. What a handful! By what a handful I am of course referring to the difference between…
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The Force is 1.7 Million Subscribers Strong with Star Wars: The Old Republic
According to EA’s third quarter financial results report, BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic has generated more than 1.7 million paying subscribers since its December launch. One wonders if that number was recorded before the game’s PVP balance issues began
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SoulCalibur V Takes a Beating From Game Reviewers
With the past couple of years dominated by Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat-style 2D fighters, it’s nice to see the return of one of the big 3D fighting franchises. That is, unless you’re a game reviewer. Then it’s time to step into the critical ring. Picking up the story of SoulCalibur and the Soul Blade…
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Three New Skylanders Enter the Retail Ring
Battling their way out of the post-holiday shortage, Activision and Toys for Bob have unleashed a trio of new Skylanders at retail, including one that should be familiar to hardcore Spyro fans, should such a thing exist. It’s nice to see some new faces on retail shelves, isn’t it? Three new toys are hitting store…
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In the Official Darksiders Novel Tie-In the Hero’s Journey Doesn’t Just Symbolize Death
Death and his pal War team-up to save the day this year in Darksiders: The Abomination Vault, a series prequel that takes place a millenia before the opening credits of the first game. Death might be a new player in Darksiders II, but he’s been around as long as people have been dying, giving author…
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Going to Miss BlizzCon in 2012? Not as Much as This World of Warcraft Guild Will
Last month Blizzard announced that it’s annual fan convention would be skipping a year, returning in 2012 so the developer can focus on things like developing games. Some fans took this well. The Elysiam World of Warcraft guild on the U.S. Shadowmoon server took to song. Guild leader and lyricist Kayhettin pass along this video…
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At Least One Person Believes Final Fantasy V is the Best Game in the Series
With this week’s release of Final Fantasy XIII-2 reopening the franchise discussion floodgates, commenter deuxhero makes an empassioned plea for the Final Fantasy game he believes is the best, even if nobody else does. Let’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Finally Fantasy V is the best Final Fantasy of the main series, and here’s why. The…
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Lumines Electronic Symphony is a 34-Track Love Letter to Electronic Music
Years of playing games like the original Lumines, Harmonix’s Frequency, or Squid in a Box’s PC shooter Waves have left me with a voracious appetite for electronic music, which is why the 34 tracks included in Ubisoft’s Lumines Electronic Symphony have me drooling. Where else will you find music by Howard Jones and Art of…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves of Love
Love is in the air as we slink into February in Kotaku’s official forum, and what do you folks love? That’s right, video games. In fact you even love talking about video games, so here we are. A brand new month brings with it a brand new TAY image, this time discovered via a site…
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Rift Lite Has the Great Taste of 20 Levels With None of the Cost
Have you ever wished you could play the first 20 levels of Trion World’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rift with no time limit at no cost to yourself whatsoever? Damn, that’s a very specific wish. Also, you’re in luck, as Trion launches Rift Lite, which is exactly what you wanted. Launching today with the…
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Game Critics Tear NeverDead Limb-From-Limb
Great games often spring from a single brilliant idea, like a protagonist that can pull himself back together after being blown apart. Unfortunately this is also the case for many really crappy games. Where does NeverDead‘s mangled pile of people parts fall? If you’re any good at reading charts, you probably have already sussed the…
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The Story and Creature Collecting Goodness Continue in Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC
Along with the announcement that Final Fantasy XIII-2 is now available for purchase and play, Square Enix laid out plans to supplement the game with downloadable episodes and coliseum battles that could bring classic Final Fantasy foes into your party. You should all be pretty much done with Final Fantasy XIII-2 by February 7, right?…
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Before You Start… Tips for Playing Final Fantasy XIII-2 The Best Way
Used to being led about by the nose in Final Fantasy XIII? Final Fantasy XIII-2 is here, and it’s nowhere near as clear-cut as the game it’s making up for. Perhaps a little spoiler-free getting-started guidance is in order? Just let me slip into my Moogle suit. Ahhh, much better. Being not quite as straightforward…
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Scribblenauts Creators’ Gravity-Defying Xbox Live Shooter Hybrid is Back and Better Than Ever
After making a big splash during its first showing at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, 5th Cell’s dizzying cover-centric 3D shooter Hybrid was dragged back behind closed doors in May in order to make sure it was the “highest quality title possible”. Let’s see what changed the past eight months have wrought. What’s so special…
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