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The Mass Effect 3 Voice Cast is a Fine Collection of Actors, Actresses, and PSP Tasters
Get to know your Mass Effect 3 voice cast, which is a great deal like the Mass Effect 2 voice cast, only slightly older and just a tad bit more Chobot-y. Yes Jessica Chobot, the IGN reporter that made her big internet debut right here on Kotaku seven years ago (so far back the images…
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Do You Feel Comfortable Lending Out Your Games?
Are you the type of gamer that can let one of your favorites go long enough for a friend to give it a go, or do you guard your collection jealously? Commenter Pinacollata has transformed himself into a virtual video game librarian, and for good reason. Read all about it in today’s Speak Up on…
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Want to Play Resident Evil 6 Early? Buy Dragon’s Dogma
While Capcom’s open-world action game Dragon’s Dogma has attracted a fair amount of interest, it hasn’t generated even a fraction of the buzz of say, a new Resident Evil game. Capcom helps it along by slipping a token for access to the Resident Evil 6 demo inside every copy of Dragon’s Dogma To further demonstrate…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is the last day in January 2012 you’ll be able to discuss video games in Kotaku‘s official forum. Let’s make the most of it! Big thanks to Kaploy9 for his last-minute TAYpic, bring a month filled with turbans and cheetahs to a satisfying end. That’s right, it’s time for a new TAYpic base image,…
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Now Android Gamers Can Feel the Heavenly Pull of Osmos
That it took so long for PC, MAC, and iOS masterpiece Osmos to reach Android devices is a tiny bit of suck which absorbs smaller sucks until it’s the biggest suck of them all. The Ubersuck, if you will, master of all that sucks. Thank goodness Hemisphere Games got it out on Android this month,…
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Let’s Get All Prettied Up for the SoulCalibur V Launch
SoulCalibur V is in stores today across the U.S., where players are a lot less likely to dress up as a whip-wielding Ivy or Ezio Auditore de Firenze than the special gamers inhabiting the world of the SoulCalibur V launch trailer. Man, if I had to get dressed up as my favorite character every time…
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Game Critics Turn Back the Score Clock on Final Fantasy XIII-2
Tomorrow marks the second time in Final Fantasy history that Square Enix releases a direct console sequel to one of the numbered entries in the fabled series. Considering the first time around we got a trio of pop divas playing dress-up, this one has to be better, right game reviewers? We’ve seen how I feel…
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I Just Ordered SoulCalibur V From Amazon and a Tiny Part of Me Died
Though hundreds of thousands of gamers swear by Amazon.com when it comes to ordering new releases or old favorites, I’ve never once ordered a video game from the popular online marketplace. Despite the allure of free launch day delivery and bonus credit, I’ve limited my game spending to local retailers. I didn’t realize why until…
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Angry Birds Launches a Valentine’s Day Assault on Facebook
Filed under news I was too busy playing Final Fantasy XIII-2 to notice last week, Rovio’s pig-popping physics-powered sensation Angry Birds makes its Facebook debut on February 14, just in time to give the loveless something to do on Valentine’s Day evening. While I’ll likely be out getting my traditional Valentine’s Day tattoo on February…
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The Original EverQuest Goes Free-to-Play for Its 13th Birthday
After more than a decade of dedicated fans paying a monthly fee to adventure in the lands of Norrath, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game that got the MMORPG ball rolling back in 1999 is going free-to-play come March. While EverQuest wasn’t the first MMORPG on the market, it was the game that put the…
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Overcoming World of Warcraft Addiction, or Six Years Single
While doctors and psychologists continue to debate whether or not such a thing as online video game addiction exist, those of us that have been through it continue to chronicle our tales. Anthony Rosner’s short film IRL demonstrates what happens when World of Warcraft becomes your life. While the movie is a bit tongue-in-cheek in…
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Dear Game Developers, We’re Not All Idealized Androids (Some of Us Are Wizards)
You know how in many video games with character creation your attempts to make an older, wizened sort of character always result in the buffest old man you’ve ever seen due to their only being one body model for all male characters? In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter jacobgermain points out how ridiculous that…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
There’s no time like the present to gather around Kotaku‘s official forum and talk video games with your fellow interactive entertainment enthusiasts. Drat, we lost another one to Pan1da7, this time linking up our TAYpic with a little Zelda action. Thanks! Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your…
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ReviewsFinal Fantasy XIII-2: The Kotaku Review
In an epic tale of time-traveling heroism, Square Enix travels two years into the future to rectify the mistakes it made with Final Fantasy XIII. Have they found redemption with Final Fantasy XIII-2, or is history doomed to repeat itself? What ever happened to Lightning? Something horrible has happened to the main character of 2010’s…
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Because Nothing Says “I Love You” Like a Pearl Pink Nintendo Handheld
Put down those chocolates, son! Delicious candy should be an everyday gift. And you, in the lingerie store! Has he really seen you naked so many times that getting dressed seems sexy? Look, all you need for Valentine’s Day is a pearl pink Nintendo 3DS, available February 10. How can a pearl pink Nintendo 3DS…
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The Soul Still Burns for the Week in Gaming Apps
How does one of the greatest fighting games of all time wind up one of our least favorite gaming apps of the week? Was it the power of Chopin, the combination of Minesweeper and Minecraft, or the $11.99 price tag? I’m going to go with the price tag. If SoulCalibur for iOS was just a…
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Everybody Was Final Fantasy XIII-2 Fighting, Even Chase the Chocobo
Yesterday Square Enix released a video demonstrating all of the nifty things you can do instead of fighting in Final Fantasy XIII-2. Today? Today is all about the battles, which are arguably as entertaining. My favorite aspect of Final Fantasy XIII-2‘s battle system is definitely the ability to recruit monsters to your party. Every time…
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Developer Makes Disabled Gamer’s Wish Come True With an Arrow Click
When a commenter on the website of Legend of Grimrock asked about clickable on-screen arrow navigation for the upcoming indie dungeon crawler, developers said they had no plans to implement such a feature. When they found out why the commenter asked, they quickly changed those plans. Legend of Grimrock commenter HarpoonIPA is a disabled gamer,…
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Jimmy Fallon’s Most Consoles Played in One Minute Record Shattered
In July of 2010 late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon attempted to play ten different games on ten different consoles in one minute. He only played nine. Not ten, but still impressive, at least until Ohio’s Ryan Sullivan did 13. Recorded in the RecordSetter Book of World Records, Ryan Sullivan’s record-breaking feat took place…
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Best Buy Gets an Incredibly Boring Prototype 2 Preorder Bonus
In Prototype 2 Sgt. James Heller is infected with a mutagen that gives him access to an amazing variety of super powers. One would think Best Buy and Radical Entertainment could come up with a preorder incentive more compelling that vehicle armor. But no, placing five dollars down at Best Buy gets you Sgt. James…
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