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I Should Be Much More Excited By a Live-Action Chun-Li Versus Cammy Battle
Dominique “Chun-Li” Vance and Lane “Cammy” Kwederis do a fine just looking and acting their roles in Eddie Lebron’s live-action ode to Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise. Unfortunately they battle like a couple of actresses brand new to fight choreography. For all I know they are just that, and that’s not their fault whatsoever. Like I…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
On schedule and on point, it’s time for Talk Amongst Yourselves, your official forum to talk about games, games, and also games. Did we mention games? With Minecraft 1.1 out it seemed like the right time to choose Pan1da7‘s blocktastic TAYpic today. Thanks! Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your…
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The Illuminati Party Hard and Fight Even Harder in The Secret World
Up until I saw this teaser trailer for the Illuminati in Funcom’s upcoming MMO The Secret World I was pretty sure I wanted to be in the Dragon secret society. Now I’m not so sure. The personality test on the game’s official website pegged me as a Dragon, but now I feel the urge to…
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In Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon Multiplayer Modes It’s You Versus Them Versus the Other Ones
In the second multiplayer trailer for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City to drop this week Capcom details the various multiplayer modes that will see your team versus their team versus hordes of biological weapons of your ass destruction. Looks like there’s a nice selection of online multiplayer mayhem coming March 20 from Capcom and developer…
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Indie Favorite RadianGames Launches Four New Games All At Once, All For You
After crafting some of the best games in the Xbox Live Indie Games program and branching out to both iPhone and PC/Mac development, RadianGames is ready to take the PC indie gaming scene by storm with the launch of not one but four brand new titles. Did I mention RadianGames is just one guy? Luke…
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Check Out Hi-Res Screens and Video From The Old Republic‘s Rise of the Rakghouls Update
Detailed last week and set to release next week, Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s first major update, Rise of the Rakghouls, looks pretty spectacular. It’s a pity it won’t look this good to players. Ah, Rakghouls, the zombies of the Star Wars universe. Folks getting attacked, getting infected, and turning into mindless (for the most…
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It’s Pinball Day on the Nintendo Download
This week’s Nintendo Download celebrates the silver ball with not one but two games to satiate gamers’ cravings for hitting metal spheres with paddles. First up we have 101 Pinball World, a quick and dirty little game that features 101 bite-sized pinball tables across four different worlds. It sounds like it’s perfect for a quick…
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Why Most Of Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s Hi-Res Graphics Disappeared at Launch
During the beta test for BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic players with high-end PCs enjoyed stunning high resolution graphics. Now that the game has launched those sexy textures have mostly disappeared. What gives? Take a look at the image I’ve posted here. On the left is my Bounty Hunter as he appears in cut…
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What Compels a Person to Trade In a Perfectly Good Video Game Console?
Perhaps angered by the large amount of used Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s sitting around his local video game store, commenter Uncle Jesse can’t help but wonder why someone would part with a perfectly good console in the middle of its prime. Let’s find out in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Why the heck would…
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A Video Game That Helps People Forge Stronger Relationships…With Pigs
We breed them, kill them, cook them. Millions of man-hours have been spent flinging Angry Birds at them, but has anyone ever tried playing video games with them? A team of livestock ethics researchers and game designers in the Netherlands is doing just that with Pig Chase The Playing with Pigs project, collaboration between the…
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It’s Time to Figure Out If You Give a Damn About Neverdead
The unkillable Bryce Boltzmann comes to life on January 31 in Konami’s Neverdead. Should you care? Megadeth hopes so. Owen Good didn’t seem to think so. Perhaps a new batch of screens will help? As novel the concept of being able to reconstitute yourself after being blown apart is, I’ve never really gotten excited about…
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Which of These Five Games Had the Best Writing of 2012?
Every year the Writers Guild of America awards a special Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing award to the team responsible for the most memorable interactive entertainment script. Which of these five titles will walk away a winner on February 19? You know what I love about the Writers Guild of America Video Game Writing…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Log Part Four: Revenge of the Sith
When it comes to epic battles between fictional forces, I generally find myself siding with the good guys. If I were a Transformer, I’d be an Autobot. I’d join G.I. Joe before Cobra. I consider myself more of a Plant than a Zombie. Time and time again I find my light side winning out over…
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Mapstalgia Explores the Strange and Wonderful Ways Memory Changes Video Game Maps
What you’re looking at is obviously not the official map of The Legend of Zelda; it’s what The Legend of Zelda’s map looks like to themadjuggler, one of the many contributors to Mapstalgia, a website dedicated to reproducing video game maps from memory. Mapstalgia‘s Josh Millard is quickly assembling an impressive archive of video game…
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Customize the King of Evil in Army Corps of Hell
Square Enix parades the troops and dresses up the King of Hell in his Sunday finest in the latest video for Army Corps of Hell, the PlayStation Vita’s most colorfully-titled launch game. In Army Corps of Hell you play as the King of Hell himself, leading an army of 100 goblins of various types in…
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Culture
We Fear a World Without Twinkies as Hostess Files For Bankruptcy Again
Being a comic book fan in the 80s I grew up thinking there was no problem that couldn’t be solved by golden flaky crust or delicious cream filling. Apparently that doesn’t apply to financial insolvency, as snack cake maker Hostess Brands files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time. It’s hard for me to…
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What’s Your Early 2012 Gaming Game Plan?
In today’s timely edition of Speak Up on kotaku, commenter Nyan Khajiit lays out their video gaming plans for the first three months of 2012. Do you plan ahead, or just play the games as they come and hope for the best? Gaming Plans for the First Few Months of 2012 JANUARY — Decided today…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Here comes Kotaku‘s official forum, bobbing and weaving between hits as its tiger stripe spandex rides up. Let’s talk about games, shall we? Thanks to pan1da7 for today’s great tiger TAYpic! Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share your own riffs on our January image to…
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