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Crafting My Dragonborn Identity in Skyrim, Now Pronounced “Skrim”
Gather round, boys and girls, and I’ll tell you the heroic tale of the Dragonborn, the legendary Wood Elf, Redguard, or possibly Khajiit man or maybe woman…I suppose we’d better clear up the particulars before moving into the main story. Let’s make us a hero! A warning for those trying to avoid Skyrim coverage today:…
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Should You Buy The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Yes.
Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls series has been catering to gamers’ open-world fantasy fantasies since 1994, each new title dragging players deeper into the world of Nirn and its thick and hearty fiction. Now the fifth age of The Elder Scrolls is dawning, and Tamriel’s need for heroes has never been greater. Should you heed the…
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A Very Beginner’s Guide to The King of Fighters XIII
Charming, talented, and highly susceptible to flattery Atlus PR manager Aram Jabbari is joined by Dream Cancel community member Metaphysics in the first in a series of tutorial videos aimed at getting new warriors up-to-speed with the upcoming The King of Fighters XIII While I doubt the series will touch on my special method of…
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Now You Can Play Dead Rising 2 in Your Web Browser
Capcom has teamed up with those magical people at Gaikai to deliver a 30 minute timed demo of Dead Rising 2 that runs in your Java-enabled web browser. Ain’t technology a thing? Gaikai works by running the games you want to play on its own server, streaming the game via video to your browser, giving…
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CultureHalo Anniversary Edition Pizza Unboxed, Eaten, and Unappreciated
Why thank you, internet, for bridging the gap between two countries and giving those of us confined to the states a delicious look at the UK-exclusive Halo Anniversary Edition pizza from Pizza Hut. YouTube user Shadders1 spices up this pepperoni chicken monstrosity of a pizza with some appropriate music to create an unboxing far more…
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Take the Black in the First Screens from the Game of Thrones Action RPG
Winter is coming. A Lannister always pays his debts. Incest kills the little children. Whichever Game of Thrones catchphrases you prefer, it’s hard to not get excited about Cyanide Studios’ upcoming action role-playing game, especially after seeing the first screens. In development for years at Cyanide and due to be published in early 2012 by…
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Super Mario 3D Land Has Game Reviewers Loving the Extra Dimension
Up until now the best first-party Nintendo game on the 3DS was a remake of a 13-year-old Zelda game. If anyone can steal Link’s place at the top of the charts, it’s a fat Italian plumber. Super Mario 3D Land is almost here, an amalgamation of decades of Mario fun in one tiny package, ready…
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Man Threatens to Blow-Up the Best Buy That Ran Out of Modern Warfare 3
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years as a video game consumer, it’s that terrorists threats don’t speed up restock. It’s a lesson Colorado’s Loromin Sar missed, allegedly threatening to bomb a Best Buy and shoot its employees for not having his copy of Modern Warfare 3 in stock. According to authorities in…
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Which of These 27 Gamer Classifications Do You Fall Under?
In today’s extremely lengthy yet entertaining edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Nightram details 27 different types of gamers he’s observed over the years, and wonders where you fall in the list. I’ve been observing my real-life gaming friends for some time now and have drawn some conclusions. When gamers spot another gamer, most…
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Hey Kids, Cave Story is Now Out on the 3DS, and It Looks Like This
From NIS America and original developer Nicalis comes Cave Story 3D, a game that graphically overhauls a title that really needed no graphical overhaul. How’d that work out? Let’s take a quick look. There’s late to the party, and then there’s arriving there a couple of years afterwards with a party hat and a bottle…
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Pokémon Fans Cannot Escape Victini This Holiday Season
With a Victini-themed sweepstakes, the limited theatrical release of Pokémon the Movie: White-Victini and Zekrom, and a special December distribution event, players will be hard-pressed to elude the victory Pokémon this holiday, not that they’d want to. The Pokémon Company International is leading Victini’s victory lap this holiday, starting with the V for Victini Sweepstakes,…
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Settling Catan is Much More Impressive with 3D Pieces
I’ve seen plenty of 3D versions of the hit multiplayer board game The Settlers of Catan , but nothing quite as impressive as these 3D game pieces, ready to by 3D printed and shipped from Shapeways. When flat pentagonal pieces just don’t get the job done, smack one of these little bastards down on the…
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This is the World You’ll Be Fighting to Save in Skyrim
There’s so much I want to show you folks in The Elder Scrolls V, but I can’t; not yet, at least. In the meantime, here’s an official Bethesda look at the people and places of Skyrim I also wish I was curled up on the couch playing the game right now instead of typing about…
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Modern Warfare 3 Rises to the Challenge of the Game Reviewers
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 wants you. It wants your friends. It wants to chew you and spit you out a walking, talking, stalking killing machine, but to get to you it’s gotta go through the game reviewers first. In case you didn’t know what Modern Warfare 3 is, it’s the latest game in…
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This Modern Warfare 3 Building Looks Awfully Familiar
As Josh from FinalLevelGames was making his way through Modern Warfare 3‘s story mode, he noticed a particular structure that he was sure he had seen before — in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare‘s multiplayer. Game developers recycle older assets all the time, so it’s really not that odd to see a building from…
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Reviews
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North: The Kotaku Review
Why didn’t Gandalf have his giant eagle friends drop the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom and be done with it? This is a question I’ve jokingly put forth to fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy over the years, endlessly amused by the (often angry) responses it generates. “The…
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Getting to the Bottom of All This Nintendo Hate
Is there an inordinate amount of hate being projected at Nintendo lately? Commenter SageofMusic seems to think so, and he’ll tell you why in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. For some reason, people are starting to hate Nintendo. There are some valid reasons regarding their online practices and they’re recent 3DS debacle, but when it…
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The Windows Phone / Xbox 360 Cross-Compatibility You Crave in a Little Furry Package
If you eagerly snatched up a Windows Phone 7 when they launched last year, dreaming of a mobile applications that allowed you to extend your Xbox 360 games beyond the television set, then this is the app for you, only it’s Kinectimals Don’t get me wrong — Kinectimals is a fine game, easily one of…
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Jamil Moledina Bets on a Platform-Free Gaming Future with Funzio
Some believe the future of video games lies in the web-based streaming of triple A titles. Others feel that game consoles and PCs will one day be replaced with mobile devices. Game industry luminary Jamil Moledina sees a future dominated by social action games that people can play regardless of platform. That’s why Moledina has…
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Massive Cluster of Reimagined Asteroids Headed Straight for Earth’s iPhones
Tomorrow Asteroid 2005 YU 55 will pass the Earth closer than the moon, a 1,312 foot chunk of rock slipping by a mere 201,000 miles away. For scientists it presents an excellent opportunity to study near-Earth objects. For Atari it’s an opportunity to market their new free-to-play iOS game, Asteroids Gunner Asteroids Gunner takes the…
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