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Extravagant Collector’s Editions are Overwhelming Video Game Collectors
If you thought spending $149.99 for a massive collector’s edition is too much, what about folks like commenter Gemini-Phoenix, who feel compelled to purchase every limited collector’s edition that comes out. Let’s hear his desperate please to publishers in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. In the world of collector’s edition (CE) video game collecting, we…
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Driver San Francisco Races Back to the Dark Ages of Mobile Gaming
Before the Android and the iPhone mobile gaming seemed a hopeless endeavor, where every game released felt like a cereal box toy facsimile of a more complete console experience. Gameloft’s Android version of Driver San Francisco remembers those days all too well. Our own Stephen Totilo called the console version of Driver San Francisco “the…
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An Epic Adventure Inside the Box of the Gigantic Skyrim Collector’s Edition
Unleash the dragon! The collector’s edition of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has arrived, and I’m taking you inside a box so epic it takes two generations of Faheys to get the job done. While it’s much bigger than it looked on the internet, the Skyrim Collector’s Edition is actually rather light, thanks to the…
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Witness the Intense Player Versus Player Combat of The Old Republic‘s Voidstar Warzone
It’s Republic versus Empire, good versus not-so-good, and most importantly, player versus player onboard the legendary prototype Imperial ship, Voidstar. Sabers up, everyone! This is what happens when two sides clash in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. The Imperial players want the information located in the data core at the heart of the Voidstar,…
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This Live-Action Angry Birds Halloween Special Brought to You by Smashing Pumpkins
All you need is some painted pumpkins, a few two-by-fours, a couple cinderblocks and a makeshift slingshot and your Halloween celebration can be as exciting as these guys’ was. If only they had had access to a higher grade of explosives, this Angry Birds pumpkin spectacular could have ended with a bang instead of a…
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It’s a Massively Multiplayer Online Halloween Spooktacular
With fewer and fewer children donning costumes and hitting the streets every year to celebrate all things sweet and spooky, the Halloween tradition is alive and well in the virtual worlds of today’s massively multiplayer online games. The world’s a scarier place than it was when I was a kid. Back in my day parents…
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A Journalist and a Raccoon Are My Favorite New Characters in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
One’s a photojournalist that’s covered wars and zombie outbreaks. The other’s a sentient raccoon that acts as the guardian of an entire quadrant of galactic real estate. Together they are the latest two characters joining the roster of Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. What a crazy pair! You can’t help but love Dead Rising‘s Frank…
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Paranoia, Madness, Suicide and Cannibalism; Who Says 16-Bit Can’t Be Scary?
Nine students trapped in an otherworldly school building in which spirits are trying to kill them in grisly ways, if they don’t eat each other first; we don’t need high-quality 3D graphics where the downloadable PSP title Corpse Party is going. In a post on the PlayStation Blog Xseed localization specialist Tom Lipschultz talks about…
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Fresh Screens of the Free-to-Play Ghost Recon Online Deployed to Field
Ubisoft airdrops in a new look at its upcoming free-to-play online shooter Ghost Recon Online right into the middle of Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 territory. Incoming! These screens serve as a reminder that while we’re busy complaining over the latest full retail online shooter there is a fre-to-play alternative waiting to take the…
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When You’re Too Terrified to Finish the Game
In today’s spooktacular edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter God Hand BrynnFlynn wonders if they’re alone in being so terrified by a game that they just couldn’t go on. See, here’s the thing. I’m 22 years old. As a 22 year old, you’re not supposed to be afraid of the dark, you’re not supposed…
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Plants Vs. Zombies Composer Tries Her Hand at Magic: The Gathering Rap
It’s an indie game geeksplosion as the woman behind the Plants Vs. Zombies music teams up with the programmer for Xbox Live Arcade’s Spelunky to rap about their shared love of Magic: The Gathering This is the sort of video I would normally avoid, but the sheer indie gaming power contained within (coupled with Laura…
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The Week in Gaming Apps All Rolled Up Into a Giant Star-Sized Ball
You never have to worry about storage when the Week in Gaming Apps contains a Katamari game, only gravitational pull, intense heat, and the odd zombie. Katamari Amore kicked off a week of the best (or at least notable) gaming apps available for iOS, Android, and sometimes Windows Phone 7 (just not this week). After…
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This is How You Play Heroes of Ruin for the 3DS
There’s not much incoming to the Nintendo 3DS that I’m truly excited about, but after watching more than six minutes of this developer walkthrough of Square Enix’s Heroes of Ruin, the list might just get one title bigger. Having not attended any of the big industry events this year due to a pair of tiny…
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Why Yes, I’d Love to Play Wizardry on My iPhone
After receiving a rather lukewarm reception on the PlayStation Network, Acquire is bringing the Japanese-flavored old fashion turn-based dungeon crawling of Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls to iOS next week. Long before I was running through MMORPG dungeons in full first-person 3D, I was pointing and clicking my way through PC classics like Bane of…
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I Don’t Know What Project Hell Yeah! Is, But Sega Seems to Like It
Today Sega has revealed that they’re working with Big Bang Mini developer Arkedo on something called Project Hell Yeah!, a game so exciting it requires an exclamation point. All we know so far is it will have monsters, possibly a dead rabbit, and was originally developed for the Dreamcast 2. Oh wait, they lied. I…
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Lord of the Rings: War in the North Has Ten Days
With Skyrim-lust whipping fantasy role-playing game fans into a frothy puddle, perhaps November 1 is the best possible time for Warner Bros. to release The Lord of the Rings: War in the North As much as I trust Snowblind Studios to develop a compelling action role-playing game and as intriguing as the concept of an…
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How DUST 514 and EVE Online Bridge the Gap Between PC and PlayStation 3
In CCP’s DUST 514 for the PlayStation 3, battles are initiated by corporations in the PC-based space MMO EVE Online. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, CCP server architect Lin Luo talks about how much fun making that work is. First we need to understand the basic flow of a DUST 514 battle. First,…
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Kerrigan Shrute, StarCraft‘s Drag-Queen of Blades
I thought I was the most hideous Queen of Blades in StarCraft history during my session with Blizzard DOTA at BlizCon 2011 last weekend. Last night Dwight from The Office proved me wrong. I feel Dwight makes a valid argument in the second half of this clip from last night’s Halloween episode of NBC’s The…
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Bayonetta Teaches Our Children a Dirty Lesson
In today’s very special episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage warns of a very dangerous message lurking in the otherwise pure and innocent Bayonetta. What are we teaching our children? Oh my goodness I can hardly believe it! As I’m a monogamous gamer, I will only play or make comments on one game,…
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This Pac-Man Video Proves Children Are the Ultimate Video Game Peripherals
Not only did Nathan and Jen Glemboski use the lure of sweet, puffy marshmallows to lure their child into playing a real-life version of the arcade classic Pac-Man, they then sent the link into a gaming blog for our amusement. As long as you’re living under my roof you’ll eat those marshmallows! Why do my…
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