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One Could Easily Mistake This for The Week in Console Games
They’re good enough for a console but made for a mobile; at least three out of this week’s five Gaming Apps of the Day could pass for at least previous generation console games. The other two…well they’re real pretty. What a Week in Gaming Apps it has been, what with the release of the eagerly…
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Celebrate Xenoblade Chronicles‘ Impending North American Release With a Trailer
Are you ready to help Shulk and friends combat the mechanical Mechon using the power of the Monado blade? Perhaps this official trailer will help you prepare for the North American release of Xenoblade Chronicles this April. Or maybe the fact that you’ve already imported it (or worse) will help you prepare. Either way it’s…
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Are Your Defense Grid: The Awakening Towers Powerful Enough to Survive GLaDOS?
What happens when one of the world’s best tower defense games meets one of gaming’s most beloved power-mad robotic villains? Fans line up to pay $4.99 or 400 Microsoft points for the Defense Grid: You Monster expansion, that’s what. Coming December 7 to Xbox Live Arcade and Steam, Defense Grid: You Monster is the first…
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What Does Your Saints Row: The Third Gang Leader Look Like?
In today’s gang-related edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Nameloi wants to get a good look at the face of your Saints Row: The Third gang leader. What hath the game’s character customization wrought? Fellow Kotakus, are you playing Saints Row 3? Let’s see your custom characters, and don’t forget to post why it…
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Xenoblade Chronicles Coming to North America as a GameStop Exclusive Update
Despite heavy fan demand for Monolith Soft’s role-playing masterpiece, Nintendo of America still hasn’t revealed plans to bring Xenoblade Chronicles to North America. Who will step in and save U.S. role-players from missing out on what is arguable one of the best RPGs of this console generation? Would you believe GameStop? Update: Now available for…
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Pink Chocobos and the Phoenix Down Woman of My Dreams in the Latest Final Fantasy XIII-2 Screens
Oh Chocolina, with your modest demeanor and your adorable Phoenix Down outfit; who cares what the other 27 new screenshots have on them, as long as you’re here with me. I don’t know wehy Square Enix decided that a Vegas showgirl was the appropriate choice for a shopkeeper in Final Fantasy XIII-2; I’ve stopped asking…
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World of Warcraft‘s Deck Building Game Delivers the Joy of Cards Without the Pain of Collecting
Coming this spring from Cryptozoic Entertainment, World of Warcraft: Clash of Champions is 423 cards worth of tabletop raiding fun for two to four players in one sexy $45 box. The deck building game has saved my wallet. See, I love card games, and I love the colorful artwork and unique rules of trading card…
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Assassin’s Creed Recollection Brings Deep Card-Based Strategy Assassination to the iPad
As promised, Ubisoft has unleashed Assassin’s Creed Recollection on the iPad just in time for the holidays, giving more strategy-minded assassins plenty of numbers and bits of artwork to screw around with. I’m just as puzzled as Stephen was when he first revealed the coming of Recollection back in October. I have absolutely no idea…
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This GameStop Trolling Brought to You By Best Buy
There are certain disadvantages to locating your game-centric retail store next to a big box electronics outfit, as this lovely Best Buy sign so aptly demonstrates. It’s enough to make a guy trade in all his games for a refrigerator. It’s also a bad idea to have your corporate logo rendered in an easily accessible…
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If the New Syndicate Has to Be a First-Person Shooter, It Better Have Awesome Weapons
The shooting might be less tactical, but that doesn’t mean it has to be less entertaining. Let’s take a look at the arsenal Starbreeze Studios has cooked up for next year’s Syndicate reboot. Sure, I’ll miss the sublime combination of shooting and real-time tactics from the Bullfrog original, but I have faith in Starbreeze Studios,…
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Steam is Making Your Wishlist Dreams Come True This Holiday Season
Steam has just launched the Daily Wishlist Giveaway, with ten lucky winners each day receiving the top ten games in their wishlist. Make sure your list is current, and click on the daily featured deal to be entered! [Steam]
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This Week’s Nintendo Download is So…Awww, Kitty!
Another week, another handful of games you may or may not give a damn about coming to Nintendo’s download ready devices, including Xmas Puzzle, a WiiWare game about…oh my god it’s so fluffy! Awww, look at him, all curled up in the holly. Are you dreaming of sugarplums, my little tiger-striped friend? I just want…
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How Does the First Quad Core Tegra Tablet Handle Gaming?
Having spent an extensive amount of time playing games on a dual core Tegra 2 Android tablet, I can only imagine how much better gaming must be on the new quad core Tegra 3-powered Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Why? Because I don’t have one. Joanna Stern at The Verge does, however, so we’ll let…
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Batman: Arkham City‘s Creators Would Make a Lovely Matrix Game, Wouldn’t They?
In today’s completely topical edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Ｓｏｕｌｓ feels he’s found the perfect developer to make the next Matrix game. Does anybody still care about The Matrix? Rocksteady. What a wonderful studio, bringing the Batman license games it rightfully deserves. They did something else though. They’ve created arguably the best hand-to-hand…
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I Want Its Plumage, I Want Its Suspense, My Game of the Year Could Be a Bird Romance
If you’d asked me yesterday morning my pick for Game of the Year, I would probably have said The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Now, having witnessed Quarter to Three‘s Angie Gallant play through the English translation of bizarre bird-based visual novel Hatoful Boyfriend, I’m not so sure. While you can certainly find a Japanese copy…
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Limbs and Heads Fly Free In Total War: Shogun 2‘s Rating-Changing Blood Pack
While Total War: Shogun 2 does an excellent job of depicting the titanic clash between two warring factions, it’s always been missing a little something to make the experience complete: Majestic arcs of spurting crimson lifeblood, and the odd severed head. All this and more can be yours for $1.59. Available now on Steam and…
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The Gritty Adult Mario Game You Want But Will Never Get
Earlier this year Splash Damage character artist Jon Fletcher crafted a magnificently twisted take on Mario for Polycount‘s Brawl contest. Now he gives us his twisted take on Mario’s lanky brother and a splash screen for a game we’ll never play but desperately want to. With a full 3D model of large and in charge…
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What If Arkham City Were a Suburb of Springfield?
Artist Dean Fraser of Springfield Punx fame is up to his old tricks again, giving the heroes and villains of Batman: Arkham City a Simpsons-style makeover. Mmmmm, Springfield Catwoman. Both Fraser and his fans have been posting Arkham City sketches over the past week, depicting the sort of horrible idea Mayor Quimby might come up…
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A Tantalizing Glimpse of Transformers: Rise of Grimlock
You can call it Transformers: Fall of Cybertron all you want. This brief teaser for the trailer airing during the Spike TV Video Game Awards shows who the star of this show really is. Starscream, Ironhide, Optimus, Bumblebee, and Cliffjumper are all well and good, but none of them stack up to a giant robot…
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Does Choplifter HD Really Need Zombies and Duke Nukem?
Coming this winter to Xbox Live Arcade, inXile Entertainment’s Choplifter HD takes the classic rescue chopper gameplay of the 1982 PC original and “amps it up” with zombies, explosions, and the odd cameo. Fingers crossed for a classic mode! First spotted in a 2009 trademark filing, Choplifter HD is now officially official, descending upon Xbox…
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