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This Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition Trailer Celebrates the Folks That Waited
Did you forego picking up Fallout: New Vegas and its downloadable content in the hopes that Bethesda would release some sort of Ultimate Edition featuring everything rolled into one? Then February 7 (10 in Europe) is your day to reap your patience’s reward. As someone that only played about an hour of Fallout: New Vegas,…
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Permanent Consequences Up BioShock Infinite‘s Difficulty Like It’s 1999
Today’s gamers crave choice. Choice in how they progress through a game; choice on how they develop their character. The gamers of 13 years ago needed not these things, which is why Irrational Games is including the punishing 1999 Mode in BioShock Infinite In 1999 Irrational Games released System Shock 2, a game that began…
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Today’s Best Use of Unauthorized Video Game Footage
Chinese songstress Yang Yuying couldn’t have chosen a better video game to accompany a live performance of her song “I’ll Be Waiting For You In The Spring” than ThatGameCompany’s PlayStation Network masterpiece Flower, though she probably should have asked permission first. Something being bootlegged in China? No way! I can understand why Yang (or more…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.1 Breaks High-End PVP
Before Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s 1.1 patch went live early this morning, player-versus-player combat on the level 50 world of Ilum was slightly broken, with more players focusing on completing non-PVP goals than fighting. After patch 1.1 the zone has been transformed into an Imperial PVP wonderland. There are plenty of non PVP-related issues…
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Atlus Makes Tactical Role-Playing Fans’ Wishes Come True with Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time
Despite being considered by many to be the finest entry in the Growlanser series of Japanese tactical role-playing games, Growlanser IV: Over Reloaded for the PlayStation 2 never made it to this side of the globe. Atlus fixes that oversight this summer with the release of Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time for the PSP. A renamed…
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Prinnies and Ponies Invade PlayStation Home
If ever there was a reason to sit in front of your PlayStation 3 waiting for PlayStation Home to load it’s today’s North American debut of the prinny-powered Disgaea 4 Home Space. And for everyone else, there’s pet ponies. While plenty of people visit PlayStation Home on a daily basis (really lonely people; people that…
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Time Travel Opens Up Worlds of Possibility in Final Fantasy XIII-2
One of my favorite features of Final Fantasy XIII-2, time travel allows the player and their party to jump back and forth between different eras in the game’s history, small self-contained ‘What If?’ scenarios filled with stories to experience and items to collect. For fans of the Final Fantasy XIII setting, XIII-2‘s different time periods…
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3G or Not 3G? That is the PlayStation Vita Question
With the North American release of Sony’s next generation handheld a mere month away, commenter Yoshi Salcedo is wondering who is going with 3G and who is opting to purchase the less expensive Wifi-only version. We’re kinda curious too. So we’re getting close to the PS Vita launch and I’ve always been wondering. Which of…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s time for Talk Amongst Yourselves, Kotaku‘s official forum where you can talk about video games until the referee expels you from the game. Damn referee. Today’s TAYpic is brought to you by the incomparable Mr Marsu. Thank you, fine sir! Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your…
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The Colorful Chaos of Super Crossfire Turns the Tables on Invaders From Space
Last October I was excited to announce that former Xbox Live Indie Games developer Radiangames was getting into iOS gaming business with the frantic 2D shooter Super Crossfire. Then my iPad screen cracked. And my iPhone got dropped out of a speeding car. Someone did not want me playing this game. So I spent a…
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Come for SoulCalibur V‘s Story, Stay For the Screenshots
With 17 years separating SoulCalibur V from SoulCalibur IV, Project Soul has near two decades’ worth of explaining to do. Could this be the most story-driven SoulCalibur yet? I swear there’s more plot and dialog going on in this short video than I recall seeing in any other game in the Soul series. Not that…
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Would You Let Hissing Cockroaches Crawl On Your Face for a PlayStation Job?
Season three of Sony’s The Tester sees competitors doing completely ridiculous things for a chance at a production associate at PlayStation’s Santa Monica Studio. What sort of ridiculous things? See for yourself. I’ve gone through a great deal of shit in the pursuit of gainful employment over the past several decades, but I can honestly…
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Bury Yourself in Soft and Cuddly Plush Worms
After spending the past 17 years trying to kill them it’s a lovely change of pace to be able to cuddle them. Team17 has just launched a new line of plushies based on one of the most adorable war game franchises ever, Worms With such iconic character designs it’s a wonder we haven’t been buried…
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Star Trek Online Free-to-Play Now Open To Everyone
Set your phasers on stupid Trek reference, as Cryptic’s Star Trek Online opens its free-to-play docking bay and invites the world inside following a brief subscriber-only period. To see what players get for free, hit up the official Star Trek Online web page
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Six New Challengers Appear for Street Fighter X Tekken, Plus a Vita Version Surprise
With Street Fighter X Tekken due out in early March, now is not the time for a tight trickle of new character reveals. That’s why Capcom has dropped six new fighters on us today, three from their team and three from the opposition. Has your favorite character been confirmed? Well that all depends, now doesn’t…
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Action-Driven MMO Tera Hits North America on the Best Day of the Year
After a couple years of teasing screenshots and videos, En Masse Entertainment is finally ready to unleash its massively multiplayer online action role-playing game Tera on a lovely day in May. May 1, to be exact, the same day that several decades ago saw my heroic escape from the clutches of my mother’s womb. While…
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Wield the Power of the Dragonborn With Voice-Activated Skyrim Shouts
It’s time to stop imagining you have the power to knock folks over with your voice and start putting it to practice. From modders DeadlyAzuril and PsychoHamster comes Thu’uMic, a completely free standalone mod for the PC version of Skyrim Voice control for Skyrim isn’t exactly something new. There was the whole Skyrim Kinect thing,…
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