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My How Marvel’s Mightiest Have Changed in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 isn’t just an additional twelve characters and a few new game modes, it’s a chance for Capcom to tweak the mechanics and balance of the original game in such a way that it requires four videos to detail the changes to just the Marvel side of the cast. Remember a…
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Battlefield 3 Sweepstakes Weekend Thanks Players (for not Playing Modern Warfare 3)
We’ve seen what Battlefield 3 can do, and now it’s Modern Warfare 3‘s turn, or is it? EA is hosting a special sweepstakes weekend for Battlefield 3 players, giving everybody that plays between November 11-13 a chance to win a trip to DICE’s Stockholm, Sweden headquarters, a game system of their choice, or $5,000 cash.…
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Frogger Pinball is a Surprisingly Entertaining Way to Waste Time on Facebook
While it might not be the first-person road crossing epic I crave, Konami’s Facebook version of Frogger Pinball is an entertaining way to break up the hours spent sending funny pictures to your friends on Facebook, plus you get to play with frog balls, always a plus. Accompanied by high-spirited banjo, fiddle, and accordion music,…
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Not Even Cable TV Male Prostitutes Can Resist the Call of Dance Central
In the latest episode of the HBO original series Hung, Thomas Jane’s latest paid-per-conquest introduces him to the joys of dancing in front of the Kinect sensor, and then spoilers happen. You hear me? Spoilers! Reader Chfuji tipped us off to this television show game cameo, introducing me to my favorite Thomas Jane role since…
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BioWare’s Next Big Thing Makes an Explosive First Impression
While fans occupy themselves waiting for the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic and the third Mass Effect game, BioWare is busy working on something new — something that looks like this. That’s right, BioWare is working on Rage. No wait, that can’t be right, but a little over a month since id Software’s…
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Has Call of Duty Driven Hundreds of Teens into Military Service?
In today’s installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Tony Danza suggests the Call of Duty series from Activision is responsible for countless teenagers deciding to join the military and be all that they could be in the games. If there’s one thing Call of Duty has done right, it’s trick hundreds of teenagers into…
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A Peek Under the Hood of All-Girl Fighter Skullgirls
Pretty pictures and adorably odd characters are nice and all, but when it comes to fighting game fans it’s the game mechanics that matter. This video primer for Skullgirls shows off some of the features that button mashers just won’t understand. With renowned fighting game champion Mike “Mike Z” Zaimont at the helm you better…
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The Good, The Bad, The Really Bad, and The Week in Gaming Apps
In the course of randomly selecting which mobile games we’ll be featuring in our Gaming Apps of the Day, sometimes we come up with a week’s worth of winners. This was not this week. While we did manage to drum up a pair of keepers with the iOS version of indie masterpiece Aquaria and the…
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Video Games Plant the Seeds of Creativity in Children’s Minds
I was under the impression that it took a creative person to fully appreciate everything video games have to offer. According to recent research conducted at Michigan State University, I may have had that backwards. Does playing video games make you more creative? Researchers surveyed nearly 500 middle-school students as part of MSU’s Children and…
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Modern Warfare 3 Now Available for Purchase and Pre-Load on Amazon
Amazon’s digital download service is serving up fresh copies of Modern Warfare 3 standard edition to all comers today, allowing players to purchase and pre-load for play at launch, with a $10 digital download coupon to sweeten the deal. [Amazon]
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The LEGO Universe Ends on January 31
Despite a strong brand name, positive early buzz, and the implementation of a new free-to-play model back in August, the massively multiplayer LEGO Universe will be closing its doors on January 31, 2012, the day imagination died. While the game attracted plenty of players, LEGO Universe‘s problem laid in turning its big numbers into big…
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Rainbow 6: Patriots‘ Tough Choices Brought to Life in this Proof-of-Concept Video
We’ve been telling you about the hard choices being put on the players of Rainbow 6: Patriots since June, now see for yourself in Ubisoft’s proof-of-concept video. Happy birthday to you. While the footage differs slightly from what was leaked to Kotaku earlier this year, it certainly demonstrates the ideas we’ve been discussing since yesterday’s…
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Kinect for Windows Coming Soon to Change the Way We Do Everything
The sinister phase two of Microsoft’s Kinect plan picks up steam as the company makes Kinect for Windows impeding arrival official. Are you ready to do everything six to eight feet from a computer screen? With hundreds of financial, educational, and commercial companies signed up to see what Kinect can do for them, next year…
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MinecraftEdu Distributes the Building Blocks of Games-Based Education to Classrooms Everywhere
Joel Levin at the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School used popular indie block building game Minecraft as a learning tool for his second grade computer class. Now he’s a part of the newly-launched MinecraftEdu, a program dedicated to spreading Minecraft-based learning to classrooms around the world. Earlier this year Kotaku took a field trip to…
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What Video Games Could Learn From Comic Book Continuity
Batman has his own stories but now and then runs into Superman. In Today’s Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Aikage imagines a video game universe filled with countless games linked by a single continuity. What an Oddworld idea. Video games need to take a cue from comic books. It’d be great if instead of endless…
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This Little Girl is the Key to Surviving the Horror of Amy
When the world’s population has been transformed into rampaging flesh-hungry monsters and the infection is spreading through your system a little psychic girl can make all the difference. Surviving the Horror of Amy: Salvation is Within Reach [PlayStation Blog] You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find…
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Game Reviewers Protest Middle-Earth’s Senseless War in the North
There once was a small hobbit that left the Shire on a grand adventure, performing brave deeds and overcoming impossible odds for the sake of all Middle-Earth. This is not his story. The Lords of the Rings: War in the North instead follows the story of a trio of adventurers going on a journey so…
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Get Swept Up in the Sound of Skyrim‘s Barbarian Choir
Back in 2006 Skyrim game director Todd Howard called up composer Jeremy Soule and told him he wanted the music for the game to sound like The Elder Scrolls theme as sung by a barbarian choir. Lacking barbarians, Soule just hired some men with deep voices. I am posting this video specifically so I can…
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And Now the 1950s Lawn Mowing Game You’ve All Been Waiting For
If you’re tired of the rash of high definition, modern-day lawn mower video games that have been flooding the market in recent years, get ready for a grass trimming simulation that takes you 60 years into the past. It’s the Nintendo Download, people! Maybe you didn’t know you needed a DSiWare game that combines the…
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