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NBC’s Parenthood Demonstrates Why Parents Are Better Off Letting Kids Game
This clip from next Tuesday’s winter premiere of NBC’s drama Parenthood is really only delivering the sort of common sense knowledge every parent already knows: If you turn off the game before your son or daughter completes the level, you’re a total bitch. I’ve never watched Parenthood myself, preferring to learn my latest trade the…
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The Dragon Age Anime Looks at Least as Entertaining as Dragon Age II
The full trailer for the Dragon Age anime we spoke about earlier this month has been making the rounds. it’s 106 seconds easily as enjoyable as any 106 seconds I spent trudging through BioWare’s sloppy sequel. It’s all about the Gackt for me. Once the subject of Ashcraft-teasing jokes on my part, the girlish Japanese…
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VVVVVV Spells Victory for the Final Nintendo Download of 2011
The Nintendo Download ends the year on a high note with the release of Terry Cavanagh ‘s indie darling VVVVVV on the 3DS eShop, adding a 3D twist to the game’s already twisted gravity platforming. If the 3DS does nothing more than get a few indie PC greats into the hands of the masses, then…
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Skyrim is Filled with Memorable Characters, Like That One Guy
In today’s memorable edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Eatplaysleepmore thinks he’s found a major character flaw in Bethesda’s latest masterpiece. Do you agree? Just how forgettable are these characters? I just finally finished Skyrim, kinda had to deal with some massive issues to finish it though (one of the unlucky PS3 copies). Story…
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There’s a Special Gift Inside Every Launch Copy of Twisted Metal, and It’s Not Green Stamps
Twisted Metal co-director David Jaffe manages to make fans of the series extremely happy and me feel incredibly old in one fell swoop. Thanks for the free copy of PlayStation 2 classic Twisted Metal Black, Dave. If anyone needs me I’ll be down at Hardees with the rest of the elderly, stuffing horrible food into…
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Police Say Christmas Gaming Drove Woman to Attack Children with Butcher Knife
Allegedly enraged over her five-year-old son’s playing of a video game he received as a Christmas gift, Jutrina Tillman of Phoenix, Arizona, dragged the young boy into his bedroom and began to strangle him before threatening to kill him and his 13-year-old sister with a butcher knife. Around 10PM on Christmas night Phoenix police received…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Log Part Two: Some Sort of Jedi Mind Trick
What happens when a crazy Smuggler is joined by, a Jedi Consular, a Trooper, and a Sith Warrior in week two of Kotaku‘s Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Log? Opinions change, ideas form, and they all learn a little something about friendship (and possibly crafting). I spent my second week in The Old Republic…
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Paper-Rock-Scissors Tactics Spring to Life in Fire Emblem 3DS
This spring in Japan the swords, axes, and spears of Fire Emblem spring forth from the 3DS screen to pierce your eyeballs with varying degrees of severity depending on which sort of weapon you’re holding at the time. Check out the live stream of the game from the Nintendo Direct presser. One of the first…
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Swapnote is Much More Than a Fun Way to Send Your Boss Penis Drawings With Your 3DS
When the original DS launched Nintendo gave us Pictochat, a decent local wireless program for chatting and exchanging pictures with our friends. When the 3DS launched, casual chatting was nowhere to be seen. Swapnote fixes that. Available for download now in the 3DS eShop, Swapnote does exactly what the name implies, allowing users to swap…
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And the Winners of the First Annual Speak Up Video Game Awards Are…
Commenter GiantBoyDetective has posted the winners of the 2011 Speakys, the unofficial video game awards of our Speak Up forum community. Now all that’s left to do is vote for Game of the Year. Most Underrated Game of the Year Winner – Rayman Origins (Multi) Runner-up – Ghost Trick (DS) Best Indie Title of the…
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The Gaming Gifts I Gave This Holiday Season
As a gamer that regularly reviews big titles and otherwise has the means to procure his own video game entertainment, it isn’t often I get to experience the joy of a thoughtful video game related gift. Instead, I give things to my family and live vicariously through them. What did they get this year? Perhaps…
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Stranger’s Wrath HD, Splinter Cell HD, and All Zombies Must Die This Week in the PlayStation Store
While the final PlayStation Store update of 2011 might not be the overstuffed smorgasbord of new content Sony fans are used to, it makes up for its short stature with the star power of Sam Fisher and the Stranger The first three Splinter Cell games remastered in 3D plus the remastered version of my personal…
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Adventure? Hardcore Pornography? A Jedi Cares Not For These Things
A Jedi might not care about the sins of the flesh, but Google certainly does, replacing the still for a developer diary with a steamy porn thumbnail in the search results for Star Wars: The Old Republic While it might have changed in the time between the writing and publication of this post, the Google…
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Now’s a Great Time to Pick Up Those PlayStation 3 Add-Ons You’ve Been Eyeing
Have you purchased add-ons like controllers, headsets, or glowing balls-on-sticks for the PlayStation 3 in the weeks leading up to Christmas? Why would you do that? Didn’t you know Sony’s Play Days sale was coming? Well you do now. Between now and January 21, Sony has teamed up with select retailers to offer their hardware…
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These Are the Best PC Game Mods of 2011
Every year thousands of PC gamers around the world sacrifice some of their play time in order to make the games they play even better that the original developers, and every year the community at modding hot spot ModDB choose the very best. Who made the grade this year? This is the joy of PC…
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Please Do Not Arm Our Readers with Weapons, Especially Those with Cutting Edges
Commenter GiantBoyDetective poses here with the replica Master Sword he received for Christmas, a harbinger of dark times ahead in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) one and all! I had probably the best video game haul of my life this morning. A lot more than I was expecting. –…
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Dragonvale Captured My Heart and My Wallet in 2011
I never should have downloaded a free iOS game about breeding cute and colorful dragons; it was a tremendously bad idea on my part. Normally I’d have avoided such things. I blame Crecente for dropping a link to the game into our inter-office chat room with only the word “cute” as a descriptor. You can’t…
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What Starts With Ducks and Ends With Cheese? It’s the Week in Gaming Apps
Merry Duckcheesemas, everybody! It’s that special time of year in which the Week in Gaming Apps celebrates all things rubber duck and cheese related, along with three other games that have absolutely nothing to do with this theme. The week began with iDuck and ended with Cheeseman, a pair of games that make up the…
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A Slim Chance for a Free Copy of Mighty Switch Force, an Excellent Chance at the Soundtrack
Yesterday Wayforward Technologies unleashed the majesty of Mighty Switch Force upon the Nintendo 3DS eShop, and while I only have a grand total of three codes to give away for the game, the wonderfully funky soundtrack is now available as a free download. Game composer and sound designer Jake Kaufman dropped us a line earlier…
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Copying Your Character and Following You Around is the Sincerest Form of Creepy Flattery
Commenter KingKellogg the Waffle Haggler encountered a Single White Female situation while playing online the other day, and wonders if you’ve ever had the pleasure of attracting creepy online dopplegangers in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. So here I was playing Halo when one of the people who added me as a friend requested I…
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