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Here’s Another Problem With Retailer-Specific Preorder Items, Best Buy
Twice has Best Buy lured commenter I.Q.1 to its door with exclusive preorder goodness, and twice has he been denied. A cautionary tale, courtesy of Speak Up on Kotaku. I just want to share how as a gamer I am extremely disappointed with the service Best Buy has provided me in my last couple orders.…
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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Review Scores Steadily Gain Altitude
For nearly two decades fans of arcade-simulation jet combat have found safe haven in Namco Bandai’s Ace Combat series, so the developers decided to change everything. Yay? While Ace Combat‘s quirky storylines and fictional setting kept fans happy for years, there were those out there that didn’t want to fight over the skies of fictional…
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You Don’t Need a Badge to Play With Nintendo’s Pokémans at the 2011 New York Comic Con
While you will need a badge to check out Nintendo’s holiday line-up on the show floor, down the street on Saturday the Pokémon Gaming Lounge will be servicing the public’s pocket monster-related entertainment needs. While con-goers flood booth 1538 on Saturday afternoon to get their hands on Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, and…
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Ugly, Brutal, and Strangely Satisfying, The Cursed Crusade Hits Me Where It Hurts
Necessary roughness A little-known title from an unproven developer being released at the budget price of $39.99, The Cursed Crusade doesn’t seem to have a lot going for it, but in the ringing of an iron mace against an enemy’s plate-covered head, I found promise. Set in the time of the fourth crusade, The Cursed…
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Does This Video Answer Your Mass Effect 3 Co-Op Multiplayer Questions?
In this very special episode of BioWare Pulse, Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson explains the game’s co-op multiplayer system just like he did on Monday, only with pictures. Who doesn’t love pictures? In case the text was too hard for you to absorb, BioWare threw together this episode of their internet video series…
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Here Come the 8-Core AMD Bulldozer-Powered Gaming PCs
AMD launched its new FX line of processors today, and two gaming hardware builders have already jumped at the chance to provide the world’s first gaming rig powered by a native 8-core desktop processor. Utilizing AMD’s Bulldozer multi-core architecture, the new FX series of AMD CPUs sets its sights on high-end PC gaming, with up…
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There’s One Sure Way to Get Into the Tribes: Ascend Closed Beta
If you’re anything like Joel and I, you’d really like to get into next month’s closed beta for free-to-play online multiplayer shooter Tribes: Ascend. If camping out in front of Hi-Rez Studios until they let you in isn’t an option, you can always drop $30 for the beta-guaranteed VIP preorder package. My plan is to…
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This is What Three Generations of Sonic Look Like on PC
Yesterday Sega finally confirmed the long-rumored PC digital download version of the era-crossing Sonic Generations, and this is what that looks like. The PC version of Sonic Generations, like its console counterparts, will support 1080p graphics and full stereoscopic 3D. It will also support sitting at your desk, alt-tabbing between hedgehog goodness and Excel spreadsheets,…
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The Legend of Zelda Hops to the iPhone, At Least Until Nintendo Finds Out
The chances of Nintendo ever bringing The Legend of Zelda series to iOS are slim to none, so iTunes seller Scott Avy brought Link to the iPhone himself. Ultimate iZelda Climb, available now on iTunes for $.99, is actually two rip-offs in one. First we’ve got the direct Nintendo swipe of what looks to be…
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Admit It, Some of the Games You Love Are Complete Shit
Commeter GeshGa is willing to admit he really loves Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis if you’ll admit to loving similarly crap games in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. It’s very easy to come up with ‘Games that everyone likes but I hate’ lists – for example: Final Fantasy, Halo, Gears of War. See? What’s more difficult…
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Look Everyone, It’s the Hero of Legend: Zelda!
Why is it called The Legend of Zelda when Link’s the one doing all the work? Just wait until Metroid hears about this; she’ll be pissed. And for the record? I am the Contra You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and…
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There Seems To Be a Little Confusion Between Origin and Origin
While plenty of folks have a beef with EA’s Origin, one Florida-based builder of custom gaming PCs has a particularly unique problem with the digital delivery service: People keep mistaking them for it. Origin PC is not a digital delivery service. They are not affiliated with EA. They make quality gaming PCs and laptops, like…
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Comic Book Legend Marv Wolfman Lends His Writing Talents to PlanetSide 2
Behind every massively multiplayer online first-person shooter there is a story, and in PlanetSide 2‘s case that story will be written by the man who taught the Teen Titans about the ravages of drug abuse. Whenever I think of comics great Marv Wolfman, the Teen Titans drug abuse series is what immediately springs to mind.…
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Oh Good, the Duke Nukem Forever DLC is Here
Today’s the day 2K Games delivers the “Hail to the Icons Parody Pack” downloadable content for Duke Nukem Forever, featuring new game modes and maps that parody much better games. Along with the new Freeze Tag, Hail to the King, and Hot Potato game modes, the “Hail to the Icons” pack adds four new maps…
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$170 Seems Like a Reasonable Price for a Spiny Anteater
You never forget your first big guest star. Quality collectible crafters First 4 Figures certainly haven’t, commemorating Sonic the Hedgehog‘s original rival with $170 worth of Knuckles the Echidna. The first non-Sonic figure in First 4 Figure’s Sonic line (they’ve done Sonic, Metal Sonic, and Super Sonic so far), Knuckles crouches a menacing 10 inches…
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Gran Turismo 5 Gets Much Better, Just in Time for Forza 4
While we’re still a week away from the big batch of downloadable content for Gran Turismo 5, the free 2.0 update drops today, delivering car interiors, 2011 NASCAR racers, and tons of fixes and tweaks, just in time to turn racing fans’ heads away from Forza 4 Available today as a free downloadable update, version…
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It’s Not Easy Being a Video Game Equestrian
A horse is a horse, of course; of course, unless that horses is ridden by commenter markandrovich1, in which case it becomes something of a liablity. Share your video game horse woes in today’s equine edition of Speak Up on Kotaku. Equine Trouble… As someone who has played thousands of video games in the arcades…
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Felicia Day Goes LARPing in Dragon Age: Redemption Episode One
While the production values are fine, the acting solid, and the writing passable, the first episode of Felicia Day’s Dragon Age: Redemption web series still feels like a bunch of friends spending the weekend in the woods role-playing. Felicia can’t help it. It’s part of her charm that she comes across as the sort of…
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