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Your PC Must Be This Powerful to Run Skyrim
And now the figures you’ve all been waiting for! Bethesda’s Pete Hines has tweeted the minimum and recommended PC specs for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and they’re rather reasonable. First off we’ve got the minimum specs, which are just enough to get you playing the game without all the bells and whistles that come…
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Attention Digimon Masters: Your Massively Multiplayer Online Game is Ready
The real world and the Digital World collide once more (in English!) as Joymax officially launches Digimon Masters, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game in which 38-year-old game journalists can live out their secret Digimon fantasies. Well now, that was a bit more specific than I planned. What I meant to say is anyone capable…
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You Know What the Pokémon Franchise Really Needs? Your Fresh Ideas
Commenter Balmung of the Azure Sky has been thinking about Pokémon lately, and believes it’s high time the franchise gets the modern-day makeover it desperately needs. How would you folks bring Pokémon up to date? Speak Up on Kotaku, I choose you! So I have been thinking a lot about Pokémon lately. These games need…
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Our Giant Monsters Used to Rampage; Now They Sit, Spit, and Burn the City
What’s happened to the monster work ethic in North America? There was a time when a giant fire-breathing lizard wasn’t afraid to get up to their elbows in urban renewal. Now they relax at a safe distance, destroying buildings with fiery physics. They say they’re using their minds to solve problems instead of their fists.…
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Dr. Robotnik Just Didn’t Think Things Through
What do you do after you’ve turned every animal in the world into a robot? Don’t ask Dr. Robotnik; he’s got no freaking clue. If I were Dr. Robotnik I’d totally dress them up in little outfits. Click to view You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
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Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Isn’t Fooling Game Reviewers
On November 1, Nathan Drake ventures into the hidden depths of the Earth to capture the most elusive treasure he’s ever sought — the heart of game reviewers everywhere. Some think they’re just a myth. Personally I don’t think such a thing even exists, but if they do, than Nathan Drake and Uncharted 3: Drake’s…
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Won’t World of Warcraft‘s First Neutral Race Cause Player Vs. Player Pandemonium?
With Pandaren players able to choose either Horde or Alliance in the Mists of Pandaria expansion pack, World of Warcraft‘s arenas and battlegrounds will soon see an outbreak of panda-on-panda violence. I asked the game’s senior game producer Ray Cobo how players will tell Pandaren apart once the fur starts flying. As new Pandaren players…
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The Solo StarCraft II Player Thanks You For a Shorter Heart of the Swarm Campaign, Jerks
During BlizzCon 2011 this weekend I got to ask Starcraft II senior designer Jonny Ebbert what was in store for the solo player in the upcoming expansions and why Heart of the Swarm‘s campaign is nine missions shorter that Wings of Liberty‘s. You whiny bastards. Not you folks personally — well, not all of you…
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Zombies Do Not Understand Pumpkin Carving, But Damn Can They Dance
It’s Pumpkins Vs. Zombies as PopCap’s zombie temp worker tries his hand at gourd gutting and cutting. Then a rave breaks out. It’s great to see the folks at PopCap having a great time preparing for Halloween this year, and any video that starts with the undead and ends with dancing is an instant classic.…
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A Cube of Cubes, or a Perplexing Way to Play 16 GameCube Games
Blessed with a surplus of ancient Commodore 1702 monitors and a handful of GameCubes, Personal Computer Museum curator Syd Bolton stacked them all together to form a pleasantly confusing cube of cubes. After debuting his cube of cubes at a recent Game Night held at his Ontario, Canada museum, Bolton took a little time out…
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A More Official Look at the Sights and Sounds of BlizzCon 2011
After spending the entire weekend trying to get good shots and video on a dimply lit show floor with a mobile phone, Blizzard walks in, drops a load of professionally shot official BlizzCon 2011 photos and a small video on my desk, and then disappears in a puff of smoke. Jerks. Oh look, they’ve even…
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Why Not Just Do Away With Boss Fights Altogether?
Some people love boss fights; others dread them. Commenter TheBlackHole25 is in the latter camp, and he’ll explain why in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku Does anyone else here really dislike boss fights? I don’t know why this is the case, but I always enter boss fights with a feeling of dread. And the dread…
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The Queen of Blades is No Match for the New and Improved Blizzard DOTA
Kerrigan. The Queen of Blades. The most feared woman in the known universe, destroyer of worlds, and murderer of millions. The greatest leader the Zerg has ever known. Kerrigan is one of the twelve heroes recruited by the Blue and Red gods to battle in the Blizzard DOTA arena for their amusement, chosen for her…
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How StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm‘s New Units Will Balance Multiplayer
The huge multiplayer update coming to StarCraft II with the second installment, Heart of the Swarm, gives Blizzard an excellent opportunity to balance the three races and take advantage of missed opportunities. Let’s see what holes the new multiplayer units plug. It’s not that the balance in StarCraft II is currently completely ruined, but it…
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An “Everlong” Ending to a Two-Day Blizzard Celebration
This is pretty much exactly how I imagined BlizzCon 2010 would end when I first heard that Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters would be playing us out. Just about the same time the Foo Fighters took the stage at the BlizzCon 2011 closing ceremonies, I realized I was incredibly hungry and would likely collapse…
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Let’s Talk About the 1,700 Pound Orc Shaman in the Room
Lording over the Mega Bloks booth at BlizzCon 2011, Doomhammer held high, World of Warcraft’s Thrall would have been much more impressive in block form if it wasn’t for the long line of people waiting to get their picture taken with him. He’s the savoir of two worlds, people! Mega Bloks ran a contest during…
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I Wield the Mighty Doomhammer
Does this make me Warchief? Weighing in at 18 pounds and forged from steel, Epic Weapons’ Doomhammer replica is one mighty meat tenderizer. If I can scrape up $300 we might have a new banhammer on our hands. The Doomhammer is the weapon of the Orc warchiefs in World of Warcraft, passed down from father…
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One Hour in the Paws of a World of Warcraft Pandaren Monk
Join me as I go on a mystical journey on the back of a giant turtle, learning the ways of the new Monk class, the ways of the Pandaren race, and how strange it is to play a melee character in World of Warcraft without an auto attack. Blizzard may take forever to finish their…
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What the Discerning Diablo III Fan is Wearing at BlizzCon 2011
Every year geek clothing companyJinx uses BlizzCon as an excuse to roll out their latest and greatest Blizzard-inspired fashions. This year’s Demon Hunter coat and Tyrael hoodie make me want to be a better, thinner man. Over the years Jinx has grown from a company that made licensed t-shirts to a company that designs and…
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