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2011 Gamers Played Modern Warfare 3 the Most, Skyrim the Longest
Video game social network and stat tracking service Raptr has announced the winners of its 2011 Most Played Games awards, and while overall gamers spent more time playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 than any other 2011 title, it’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that walked home with the Most Played Game of 2011…
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Record of Agarest War 2 Bringing PlayStation Move Bathing Mini-Games to North America
Last year Aksys Games gave many Western gamers their first encounter with character pillow covers and breast mouse pads with Record of Agarest War. Unfortunately the game packed with these goodies wasn’t particularly good. Second time’s the charm, right? Aksys is gearing up to bring Idea Factory, Compile Heart and RED Entertainment’s Record of Agarest…
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Postal III Will Be Homicidal for Christmas
Do not fret, Postal guy fan! The third entry in the PC game series so over-the-top offensive that everyone pretty much forgot about will be ready in time for wrapping paper. Who’s excited? Show of hands! Okay, anyone not directly involved with developer Running With Scissors put your hands down. Oh. Well you’d better make…
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Sometimes You’ve Got To Make Up Your Own Rules
Video game developers take great care in creating rules and restrictions that define the gameplay of their virtual worlds, but sometimes those rules aren’t good enough. In today’s rule-breaking edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Pibbles explores the joy of playing under your own self-imposed strictures. You know how sometimes playing games properly just…
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This Nintendo Download Brought to You By Pushmo
There might not have even been a Nintendo Download post today if not for the brave efforts of Pushmo, Intelligent Systems’ endlessly entertaining block jumping game for the Nintendo 3DS. The rest of this week’s games can go straight to hell. With the big Nintendo 3DS system update dropping on Tuesday I really wasn’t expecting…
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There’s a Skyrim Arrow in the Knee Dubstep Remix, Can We Stop Now?
The fact that musician Rameses B has created an epic dubstep anthem celebrating the Skyrim “Arrow in the Knee” meme should convince everyone that it’s finally grinding to a halt. In case that doesn’t work, My Little Ponies Rameses B – Skyrim In The Knee (FREE) by Rameses B Ah, sweet freedom. It feels good,…
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Xbox Verizon FiOS Viewing Will Be Weighed and Measured by Nielsen
Later this month Verizon will be launching 26 channels of live streaming cable content through the Xbox Live dashboard for users of its FiOS TV service, a brand new way to watch cable made possible in part by the support of North America’s ancient television audience measurement system. Measuring television audience size since the 1950s,…
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You’ll Say the Darnedest Things When Scribblenauts Remix Meets Siri
The iPhone iteration of 5th Cell’s magical word puzzle game gains voice control on the 4S, integrating Siri’s voice recognition technology in Scribblenauts: Remix to make you say things like “Giant Flying Kielbasa” in mixed company. I always found the real joy of playing Scribblenauts in its various incarnations was doing completely horrible things on…
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Watching Dante’s World Get Torn Apart in DmC Gets Me All Excited
While I enjoyed the Japanese-developed Devil May Cry series and adore English developer Ninja Theory, I had absolutely no interest in this new DmC until I saw this video. And to think all it took was the world crumbling apart. The fighting gameplay video we posted earlier this month did nothing for me, mainly because…
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Dear Square Enix, Please Make Final Fantasy XV More Like Final Fantasy IX
In today’s fully Fahey-approved edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Paradox Me makes an argument for the greatness of Final Fantasy IX that’s more than just saying the name Vivi over and over again. Why is this game so amazing? These characters, world, music, etc. Shmowzow! That’s what XIII was missing. Characters and a…
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French Court Declares Namco Bandai the European Distributor of Xbox Witcher 2
Earlier this year Polish developer CD Projekt Red got into a legal scuffle with Namco Bandai over the distribution rights to the Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Now a French court has made it quite clear: THQ is out, and Namco Bandai is in. Despite having had Namco Bandai handle…
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The Adventures of Tintin and the Poor to Passable Review Scores
One of the most popular comic strips in Europe is now a major motion picture, and where there is a major motion picture based on a comic strip, there is a video game tie-in. Generally they aren’t very good. Can Tintin save the day? The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn tells the…
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The Plagues of Egypt Make An Encore Appearance in The Secret World
With all of Earth’s conspiracy, mythology, and theology at their fingertips Funcom has a broad spectrum of horrible things to visit upon the players on modern day MMO The Secret World. In the Scorched Desert of Egypt, things get biblical. If those are the locusts, I don’t want to see the frogs. Rather than leaning…
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Serious Sam 3: BFE Serves Pirates a Heaping Helping of Giant Immortal Scorpion
I’ve played quite a bit of the latest entry in Croteam’s twitchtastic first-person shooter series, but I never encountered the super-speedy giant unkillable pink spider creature in the first level. Know why? Because my copy isn’t pirated. In order to curb rampant pc game piracy, developer Croteam purposefully included a bug (hee) in Serious Sam…
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$100 Million Lawsuit Against Game-Bouncing Beyonce Proceeds
Attempts to have the $100 million lawsuit brought by game developer Gate Five against singer Beyonce for abandoning a project to create a music game featuring her work have been thwarted by judge Charles Ramos of the Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday. The singer’s pull out cost reportedly resulted in the loss of 70 jobs…
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Razer’s Combat Knife-Inspired Blade Gaming Laptop Will Be Home For Christmas
With only a few short weeks before Christmas, Razer prepares to take preorders on their dedicated gaming laptop, the Razer Blade. Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan explains what’s changed since the “world’s first true gaming laptop” was revealed in August, and talks about the Army origins of the laptop’s sleek and sexy design. Announced earlier this…
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Rift‘s New Instant Adventure Feature Lives Up to Its Name
Plenty of massively multiplayer online role-playing games attempt to fulfill the promise of easy-in, easy-out gameplay to appease folks that don’t have a great deal of time on their hands and just want a quick fighting fix. Rift might be the first MMORPG to deliver. If it works as advertised, that is. From the look…
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Requiem for a Skyrim Blacksmith
In today’s tear-jerking and slightly spoilery edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Firescorpio tells us about a special relationship he formed in Skyrim, and how he wound up ruining it. Today I think Skyrim for the first time made me care in a very strange way for an NPC, not even a very important…
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