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Sony Finds Twelve More Freaky People That Want to Compete for a Crap PlayStation Job
Season 3 of the show so outrageously specific it only airs on a video game console kicks off next month. Let’s see what sort of quality folks Sony’s dredged together for the third season of The Tester As you may recall, we’ve gotten into the horrible habit of live blogging watching episodes of Sony’s reality…
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This Week’s Nintendo Download is Colorful, If Nothing Else
Four games I’ve never heard of form a giant robot of borderline apathy in this week’s exciting episode of the Nintendo Download. Having done the Nintendo Download post for nearly five years now I’ve learned that sometimes Nintendo just has to throw some random crap out into the interwebs to make room for fresh new…
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The Rift Mobile App is Packed With In-Game Items and Chatty Guildmembers
Massively multiplayer gamers that haven’t taken a break from Trion World’s Rift to go play The Old Republic are a special sort of people. Now you can stay in touch with them via Rift Mobile, a free iOS app that allows players to chat with their friends and win fabulous prizes on the go. Rift…
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Batman? Cole Phelps? Bah! Give Us a Real Detective Game
While games like L.A. Noire and Batman: Arkham Asylum put on a good detective show, are we really detecting anything? Commenter Soleyu describes what a true detective game should be like in today’s elementary edition of Speak Up on Kotaku. I just read about the Sherlock Holmes Series and I’m reminded about my greatest gripe…
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You’ll Find Hidden Chronicles To Be a Decidedly Different Sort of Zynga Game
Launching today on Facebook, Zynga’s Hidden Chronicles ditches farming and building in favor of unlocking the mystery of your uncle’s death via hidden object games. Okay, there’s a little building too. I didn’t even realize my uncle had died, but here we are in Hidden Chronicles, rifling through his stuff and travelling the world rifling…
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The Sins of The Naked Gun Are Visited Upon Frank Drebin’s Son
White-haired action comedy hero Leslie Nielsen may have passed, but his legacy lives on in The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P., an episodic adventure series coming to iOS and Android devices in the next few months. Let’s check out the first trailer, shall we? Rather than spend the millions of dollars it would take to resurrect Nielsen…
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Zen Pinball Makes Its 3DS Debut Next Week
After successful silver ball outings on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and iOS and Android devices, Zen Studios brings their plucky brand of video game pinball to the 3DS next week with the downloadable Zen Pinball 3D, complete with support for downloadable tables. It’s no secret that I am slightly in love with the way…
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What’s Wrong With Exploiting Design Flaws in Online Games?
With players dancing their way out of trouble in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic, commenter Raso719 wonders what’s the big deal about taking advantage of sloppy programming to gain an advantage in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku Back in Star Wars Galaxy me and a friend use to kill level 80 Krayt Dragon as…
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Wins the First Annual Kotaku Community Game of the Year Award
While Portal 2 walked away with Kotaku‘s official game of the year award for 2011, Kotaku commenters held their own damn awards this year and they ended with a resounding chorus of “FUS ROH DAH”. Yes, this year a committee of readers that frequent our Speak Up forum decided to set up their own game…
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Pokémon, Digimon, What’s the Difference?
A situation that’s surely played out at hundreds of birthday parties over the years gains new life courtesy of the fine folks at Dorkly. I spent countless hours in toy stores during the early oughts explaining the difference between Pokémon and Digimon to confused parents. Usually the explanation would boil down to Pokémon making better…
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It’s Not Star Wars Without Slavery, Torture, and Forced Voyeurism?
Meet Vette. She’s the loyal Twi’lek companion character to my Star Wars: The Old Republic Sith Warrior. Or at least she’d better be, if she knows what’s good for her. Beware, spoilers ahead. Vette is my character’s slave, gifted to him by his dark master. She comes complete with a convenient high voltage shock collar,…
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Is This Quantum Levitation Powered Real World WipeOut Track Too Good to Be True?
Reeking of amateurish CG and released by the seemingly nonexistent Japan Institute of Science and Technology, this video depicting a pair of miniature hover cars ripped straight out of Sony’s WipeOut series sure gets me hungry for some futuristic racing. While quantum levitation is a very real phenomenon, the likelihood of the demonstration above being…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Log Part Three: Force-Feeding Myself Evil
It’s too bad there’s no option to just settle down and retire in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. After hours of questing amidst the tranquil sands of Tatooine, I’m ready for a lengthy break. Having played massively multiplayer online games for more than a decade, I’ve developed an extremely low tolerance for boredom, and…
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America’s PremierPokémon-Playing Family Enter the Guinness Book of Arbitrary Gaming Records
Meet the Arnold family of Frankfort, Illinois, a five-person powerhouse of pure Pokémon battling power. This championship winning team stars in the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2012 as the Largest Competitive Pokémon Video Game Family. I should really say re-meet the Arnold’s, as the family was the subject of a feature I wrote after…
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It Only Takes 30 Games and 80 Movies to Get the Full Kingdom Hearts Experience
Does playing every game in the Kingdom Hearts series qualify you as a true fan? Commenter zombie711 thinks it might be a little more involved than that in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I love the Kingdom Hearts series. It remains today to be my favorite series of all time. What I don’t like is…
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Portal 2 Takes Kotaku’s 2011 Game of the Year Award for Science, You Monster
After several weeks of debate, discussion, and deliberation, Kotaku‘s 2011 Game of the Year Award came down to a simple vote, and the majority voted for science. We voted for Wheatley, the delightfully ditzy but well-meaning artificial intelligence that unwittingly guided us to our potential doom. We voted for GLaDOS, the power-hungry robot with a…
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A Multiplayer Role-Playing Game You Can Play in Swapnote
Savannah College of Art and Design game design student Ben “MNC Dover” Gray saw more than just a chance to draw dicks with Nintendo’s free Swapnote program for the 3DS. He saw a chance to draw +4 vorpal dicks. What Ben is proposing in this video is a nifty variation of good old play-by-mail Dungeons…
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These Are the Best Indie Games of 2011
Just as its sister site ModDB picks the top PC gaming mods of the year, IndieDB rounds out the year with a countdown of the top independently developed games of the year. Think of it as a shopping list to help establish your indie gaming cred. How many of the top ten have you played?…
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One Very Good Reason to Be a Nintendo-Exclusive Gamer
Tired of being picked on and looked down upon for being a Nintendo-exclusive console owner, commenter ClaudioIphigenia speaks up on Kotaku about the rather reasonable reasoning behind his brand loyalty. So after having just replied to three different comments on why I only own a Nintendo console, I figured it was time for a Speak…
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Wipeout 2048 Was This Close to a Beautiful Zombie Apocalypse
For some odd reason Wipeout 2048 lead designer Karl Jones and game director Stuart Tilley decided it was a good idea to explain in detail just how cool the futuristic PlayStation Vita racer was before they scrapped the terror-inducing Zombie secret game mode. How can a futuristic racing game possibly add zombies? I know it…
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