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Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure Could Be the Most Expensive Game You Ever Buy
While at least two of us at Kotaku enjoy Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure enough to recommend a purchase, that doesn’t mean we’re oblivious to the costly downsides to a game that sells its downloadable content on toy store shelves. To experience everything Skylanders has to offer as of this writing would cost roughly $225. Merging physical…
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There’s a Little Thrall in Everyone’s BlizzCon 2011 Bag, Courtesy of Mega Bloks
In celebration of their upcoming World of Warcraft and StarCraft II lines, Mega Bloks is hitting BlizzCon 2011 big time, with a tiny Thrall for every convention attendee, a limited edition StarCraft II Battlecruiser, and much, much more. I’ve become a bit of a Mega Bloks fan ever since I picked up one of their…
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Come Party With Kotaku‘s Tallest at BlizzCon 2011
It’s a party in the Anaheim, C-A this Friday when Kotaku‘s most prominent figures host an evening of drinks, snacks, Samsung, and StarCraft. Won’t you join us? What would a BlizzCon be without a Kotaku party? Why, it would be the past five BlizzCons. This year things are different. Kotaku and Samsung are throwing a…
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Surely the First Console Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Wasn’t This Bad
Dorkly’s rewritten the theme song to Konami’s 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the NES to reflect the overall quality of the title. Oh come on, it wasn’t that bad, was it? This was the first game I bought (or had my parents buy) based solely on the licensed property represented, and if I…
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The Uncharted 3 Fortune Hunters’ Club Is Your Ticket to Discounted DLC
Eschewing the generic Season Pass label many games are using to package together downloadable content, Sony and Naughty Dog opt for the much classier Fortune Hunters’ Club to give Uncharted 3 fans a discounted price on upcoming DLC. Available now for preorder on the PlayStation Store and at select video game retailers, the Uncharted 3…
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A Prime Example of an Exciting New Massively Multiplayer Sci-Fi Epic
Three races vie for control over the one planet in the universe that contains an abundant supply of the element necessary to further technological advancement in Prime: Battle for Dominusm an upcoming science fiction MMO I really should have told you about sooner. What we’re looking at here is actual beta footage of Prime, a…
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You Know What Video Games Need? More Wise, Witty, and Lecherous Old Men
Commenter Paradox Me believes there’s plenty of room in video games for more wise, experienced, and humorously nostalgic old men, leading the charge or just kicking back and telling us all about how Speak Up on Kotaku was better when they were kids. Video games need more old-timers, like the three gentlemen you see to…
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The Sims Team Definitely Got the Idea for This Video from Herman Cain’s Tax Plan
While comparing Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s “9-9-9” tax play to the default settings for a SimCity game was an amusing diversion, no one actually believes Mr. Cain borrowed his ideas from a video game. No one except the video game’s creators, that is. That fun-loving bunch over at EA’s The Sims Studio flex their…
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Should You Buy Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure? Yes.
Mixing together video games and collectible toys, Activision? How very Captain Power of you. As many will no doubt remember, the good captain and his soldiers of the future wound up defending clearance aisles from evil until fading into obscurity. Should a simillar fate befall Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure? It’s time for a Gut Check. Evan…
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From Blank Wall to Guts Tank Epic in Seven-and-a-Half Minutes
A building in Dallas, Texas gets a Mega Man-flavored makeover courtesy of graffiti artist Kid NES and the fine folks at Oink, the official distributor of Sabotaz brand paint products. With a little help from timelapse and the music of the Minibosses, the Guts Tank from Mega Man 2 comes to life before our very…
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How to Play With Your Skylanders Toys on Console, 3DS, and the Web
Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure hit game and toy store shelves, resulting in thousands of children and adults learning a new way to play together. There are many different ways to squeeze fun out of these shiny lumps of plastic; let’s take a look at three of them. There’s the game console version of Skylanders, in which…
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It’s Modern Sonic’s Turn in the Sonic Generations Demo Spotlight
Classic Sonic got his chance to sell folks on Sonic Generations with his demo back in June. Tomorrow it’s modern Sonic’s time to shine, and he’s a lean, mean, generally screwing things up in 3D machine! Oh, and classic Sonic is coming along for the ride too. Back in June Sega treated fans to a…
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Exploring The Secret World‘s Most Mysterious Secret Society
Of the three secret societies vying for domination of the world’s hidden side in Funcom’s upcoming supernatural MMO The Secret World, none are quite so secret as the Dragon, orchestrating change through the stealthy generation of chaos. While the Illuminati make a mad grab for power and the Templar strike out at the world’s hidden…
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A Man Named Knucklez Doubles the Space Invaders World Record
On October 7, 2011, Flemington, NJ’s Richie Knucklez catapulted himself into the video game record books by racking up 110,510 points in the original 1978 arcade hit Space Invaders, more than doubling the previously held record. How did he do it? Owning his own arcade certainly didn’t hurt. Richie Knucklez Arcade Games isn’t just a…
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There is a Devil May Cry HD Collection in the Works, and This is What It Looks Like
Having long been the subject of rumors, speculation, and ESRB ratings, the Devil May Cry HD Collection is now a real snow-haired, demon-slaying boy, and we’ve got the comparison shots to prove it. The collection brings together remastered versions of the first three titles in the Devil May Cry series, from Dante’s big debut to…
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Who’s Ready for Some Game Cube and Wii HD Remakes?
Commenter Brixish points out that with the enhanced graphical power of the Wii U console, we could very well be in for a flood of HD remakes of classic Game Cube and Wii titles. Tell us what you’d like to see made shinier in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Considering the power of the Wii…
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Turn-Based RPG Alphadia is So Old School They Tore the School Down
Teaching children that battles were fought by standing on opposite sides of the screen, taking turns, and that any obstacle could be overcome by spending hours baiting random encounters; what were they thinking? Today’s role-playing gamers know the score. To truly succeed in battle you need to program your AI companions with the appropriate commands,…
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Culture
The Taste of Modern Warfare in a 12 Ounce Can
Me and Johnson crept through the underbrush like we’d be born there, natural predators in our element, the scent of blood luring us further into enemy territory. Further into a trap. One minute the jungle was quiet, the next it erupted in the roar of gunfire and the triumphant shouts of the enemy platoon as…
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Should You Buy X-Men: Destiny? No.
X-Men: Destiny has been out on store shelves for a couple of weeks now, so for many of you this comes too late, but in case the New York Comic-Con gets you craving a little mutant-on-mutant violence, Multiple Fahey and his sidekick, Owen, are here to save the day with an untimely Gut Check. Michael…
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