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Let’s Figure Out How to Make the Perfect Superman Video Game
With assets recently surfacing from a sadly cancelled Superman game, commenter Uncle Jesse wonders how anyone could make a game that does justice to the Man of Steel. Let’s figure it out in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. How do you even make a Superman game? The last Superman game I enjoyed was The Death…
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Just Talk Amongst Yourselves
What’s the name of this club? Oh yeah, the official Kotaku forum. Just talk amongst yourselves, it’ll be okay. Just talk about video games, baby. Thanks to lemonmanlemonman for today’s colorful TAYpic, proving once more that everyone that is anyone is playing Just Dance, dammit. Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please…
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Little Empire is a Massively Multiplayer Backstabbing Simulator
Camel Games’ high-polished “massively multiplayer online” empire building game Little Empires neatly demonstrates why we should never open ourselves up to the inevitable pain that friendship brings. Pretty heavy for a game with cartoon elves, right? While it may be one of the cutest little empire building games I’ve come across on my Android phone,…
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Nintendo’s Creepy 3DS Fatal Frame Spin-Off Gets an Equally Creepy April Release Date
If you thought the Fatal Frame series was terrifying, wait until you hold it in the palm of your hand. You’ll get your chance on April 13, when Nintendo releases the augmented reality-powered Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir for the Nintendo 3DS. Spirit Camera takes all the creepiness of Tecmo Koei’s terrifying horror series and…
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Soulcalibur Battles Its Way to the iPhone
With the success popular 2D fighting franchises like Street Fighter and The King of Fighters have had on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, it was only a matter of time before Namco Bandai got in on the action with 3D fighter Soulcalibur, due out for iOS January 19. According to the post on Japanese…
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Britney Spears’ Son Follows In His Mother’s Dance Steps
Well now we know where one of those 25 million copies of Ubisoft’s Just Dance games ended up: In Britney Spears’ living room, where the all-singing, all-dancing performance artist recorded her son Preston getting down to a little “Shake Your Groove Thing”. Ubisoft couldn’t pay for a better endorsement of Just Dance Kids 2. Spears’…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Kotaku Review
While dozens of video games have strived to capture the hearts of Star Wars fans through previously untold tales of epic space fantasy, BioWare’s massively multiplayer Star Wars: The Old Republic is the first that’s attempted to tell eight stories to thousands of people at the same time. From the early days of video games…
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Become the True Enemy in Dead Island‘s Ryder White DLC
Now that we’ve experienced the horrors of Banoi island through the eyes of Dead Island‘s four protagonists, it’s time to get a little antagonistic. Villain Ryder White steals the spotlight in the next installment of Dead Island downloadable content. Featuring an all-new story packed with hours of gameplay, the Ryder White downloadable content for Dead…
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The Nine Circles of Xbox Live Hell
Commenter Firescorpio takes us on a (somewhat misspelled) journey through the nine circles of Xbox Live hell, a path that transforms an innocent online gamer into a foaming, frothing, enjoyment-destroying fuckwit in today’s infographic-tastic edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku. Here’s something i have been working on today, guess i’ll share it with you guys. hope…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Monday in America, the perfect time to sit around discussing video games in Kotaku‘s official forum! It’s Dr. Fetus versus Bearded Dude in today’s Street Fighter-inspired TAYpic from DanimalCart. Thanks! Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share your own riffs on…
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Attractive Young Men Smiling at the PlayStation Vita
In case you were still on the fence about purchasing the new PlayStation Vita next month, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has released some photographs demonstrating how hip, happy, and attractive you will be when you own one. Look at these fine young fellows, enjoying on-the-go gaming wherever they please, with nary a care in the…
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Zombies, Muffins, Doodles, and Kangaroos? It Must Be The Week in Gaming Apps
We’re finally back up to speed after last week’s regrettable triple play, charging headfirst into 2012 with our mobile devices held up in front of our faces so we can’t see a thing. What might we be playing when we stumble into traffic? Speaking for myself, there’s a good chance I’ll severely dent someone’s Prius…
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This Could Be the Very Best Pokémon Art Exhibit, Like No One Ever Was
This April the Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis, Minnesota will be transformed into the ultimate trainer fantasy, when 151 artists take on the 151 original pocket monsters in an all-out Pokémon Battle Royale. Light Grey Art Lab co-owner Chris Hajny dropped us a line this afternoon to fill us in on what could be…
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Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising Does Away With Subscription Fees
In preparation for its eventual move to free-to-play, Heatwave Interactive’s Romanesque massively multiplayer online game Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising is ditching subscription fees and lowering its initial price to $9.99. Or you could just wait a few months and pay nothing. [Gods & Heroes]
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It’s Hard to Ignore a Franchise That Sells 25 Million Games, Even If It’s Just Dance
Go ahead, snicker and titter just like you do when you pass a display of Ubisoft’s dancing franchise games at Target or Walmart. With 25 million copies sold across six titles, odds are you secretly own a copy of Just Dance yourself. I’m probably one of the first guys to point and giggle at those…
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This Could Be Your Last Chance to See Retro Game Master
Last year Kotaku readers were enthralled by the daring exploits of Shinya Arino as he desperately attempted to finish a dozen of the most brutal retro games Japan has to offer. Now we’re giving you one last chance to watch before Retro Game Master goes away forever. It was a grand experiment, broadcasting weekly episodes…
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The Dark Souls PC Petition Has Namco Bandai’s Attention
Internet petitions are normally as effective in bringing about a desired result as closing your eyes and wishing really hard, but with more than 66.000 signatures accrued in just one week the petition for Namco Bandai to release uber-challenging dungeon crawler Dark Souls on PC seems to have gotten the company’s attention. Launched last week…
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Chatroulette Kinect! and Four More Games That Will Never Be Made
In today’s truly inspired edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter DunnCarnage shares with us five top secret video game concepts he might have completely made up. Through sources I’m unwilling to reveal (Brian Hetting is refusing to let me acknowledge him, he asked for anonymity in case he loses his job at EA) I…
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