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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Can you paint with all the colors of De Blob? No? Well then just discuss video games here as much as you want. Thanks to reader Brian H. May for today’s image, and remember, when Fahey’s doing the TAY, De Blob always wins. Take a crack at being featured atop TAY some time this month…
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Mega Mash is the Seven Best Retro Arcade Games You’ve Played All At Once
When you first start Mega Mash, the latest flash masterpiece from the folks at Nitrome, it seems like you’re about to play a 7-in-1 game cart filled with clever homages to classic games. Then everything goes wonderfully haywire. The screen fills with error messages, and then it fills with the simple joy of Mario Bros.…
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These Five Toys Come To Life This Weekend in Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure
We’re only a few short days away from the Sunday release of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, Activision’s ambitious melding of video game and collectible action figures, two of my favorite things. Let’s take a look at five of the 32 plastic heroes taking up arms this weekend. Having collected action figures since I was old enough…
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The Powers, Persecution, and Prostitutes of The Darkness II
With the New York City Comic-Con just a few days away, 2K Games gives fans of the comic book-based The Darkness II a little show of its own, with videos of Jackie Estacado’s powers, the evil organization he’ll be using them against, and the odd slice of cheesecake. With his girlfriend from the previous game…
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Dungeon Defending is Much Easier With a Portal Gun
Trendy Entertainment’s tower defense action role-playing game Dungeon Defenders hits Steam next week, and Valve has packed the game a little care package, filled with tiny Team Fortress 2 dudes and an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. What, no snacks? Built especially for Dungeon Defender‘s Huntress class, this special version of Valve’s Portal gun functions…
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My Favorite Xbox Live Indie Dev Makes His Big iPhone Debut
Last year Luke Schneider of radiangames released seven gorgeous shooters via the Xbox Live Indie Games program, each one better than the last. Then he stopped making Xbox Live Indie games, and I was sad. Come October 13, I’ll be happy again. Thursday, October 13 is the date when radiangames transitions from being a moderately…
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The Combaticons Combine to Form Bruticus in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
What could be bigger than a new Transformers game featuring Grimlock, king of the Dinobots? How about five robots combining into one mechanical titan? According to GameStop, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron finally gives us combiners. Despite featuring several characters named after members of the Aerialbots and Stunticon teams, High Moon Studios has shied away from…
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If 10 Million Preorder This Game for $1, Charity Loses (But Still Wins)
Indie developer Nicolas Games wants to make a splash with its upcoming third-person post-apocalyptic survival horror title Afterfall: Insanity, so it’s devised an ambitious preorder system in which gamers can purchase the entire game for one dollar, as long as 10 million people preorder. This is how it works. Afterfall: Insanity can be preordered at…
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It’s Time to Flaunt Your Video Game Message Board Cred
In today’s historic edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Hongo details his extensive video game website message board history, and asks that you do the same. Where’ have you been? What is YOUR history when it comes to video game sites and boards? I started on a site called Nintendo Village as a member…
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Can the Creepy, Crossbow-Wielding Dark Meadow Beat the iPhone’s Greatest at Its Own Game?
At first glance Phosphor Games’ The Dark Meadow looks like nothing more than a clone of award winning iPhone eye-candy Infinity Blade with a ranged weapon twist, but delve deeper into its madness and you’ll discover a character the sword and sorcery epic lacked. Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade showed the world the sort of graphics…
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Build This Woman a Minecraft Palace and She’ll Live With You Forever
If you build it, there’s a chance you might meet her. Actress / comedian Kristen Schaal wants you to show her how beautiful Minecraft on the Xperia Play can be. In exchange, you might just get to find out how adorable she is up close. And suddenly I wish I had an Xperia Play. The…
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Perfect Chaos Reigns Over Sonic Generations‘ Modern Era
The third and final era represented in Sonic Generations is the modern era, represented here by the Crisis City, Rooftop Run, and Planet Wisp levels, and since there hasn’t been a particularly compelling rival character in years, here comes Perfect Chaos. And thus the holy trinity is completed, with classic, Dreamcast, and modern all represented…
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Check Out MDK2‘s Sexy HD Makeover
Overhaul games lives up to its name next week when the HD version of classic PC platform shooter MDK2 is released on Beamdog.com. Check out how far Kurt Hectic and friends have come over the past decade in these exclusive before-and-after screens. The MDK series (created by Shiny Entertainment) provided countless hours of silly shooting…
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Let’s Go On a Musical Week in Gaming Apps Adventure
Gather round, take my hand, and we’ll journey to a special place, where mobile games roam and people tend to groan because we never have any games for Android. Don’t worry, they’ll eventually be Android games too! Did you like the song? I’m not sure what tune to set it to, but perhaps one of…
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What Are We Supposed to Do With These Old Republic Companion Characters?
No matter which profession you choose or how much of a dick you are, BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic loads players up with colorful companion characters, ready to fill any hole that might come up. Not like that — well, not like that officially. You can keep your sexy Old Republic fan fiction to…
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These Battlefield 3 T-Shirts Promote Class Warfare
The world is a dangerous place, especially with all of these Battlefield 3 players running about. What if you run into one in an alley? Will he charge? Will he hang back and snipe? Will he repair your car? There’s only one sure way to know: The official Battlefield 3 class t-shirts. Now available for…
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Game Reviewers Redline Forza Motorsports 4
As the proud owner of a 1995 Nissan Pathfinder in dire need of a new manifold, I feel unqualified to say much more about Forza Motorsport 4 than the reviewers seem quite taken with it. You will not find the 95 Nissan Pathfinder on Forza 4‘s expansive roster of high-performance machines. What you will find…
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New Battlefield 3 Screens Put the Campaign in Perspective
While you’re all busy running all over the place shooting each other, Battlefield 3‘s campaign mode sits quietly in the corner, dark, lovely, and full of secrets. You can keep your competitive multiplayer; I’ve not had a braggable online showing since Unreal Tournament first came out. I’m all about the single player experience, and that’s…
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Spider-Man: Edge of Time Talks Me Into Enjoying It
What defines Spider-Man? Is it his special powers? His great responsibilities? His Jenga prowess? No, true believers. Spider-Man’s most definitive trait is his witty banter, and double the Spider-Man means double the snappy patter right? Thank goodness Edge of Time had Peter David. When I heard Peter David was attached to write the story and…
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Arkham City Arrives Early at the Times Square Toys”R”Us
Batman descends upon streets of Gotham on October 17, when Warner Bros. brings Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy, comic artist Jim Lee, and game director Sefton Hill to the Toys”R”Us Times Square launch event, with 500 advance copies of the game in tow. It’s only a day earlier than the game’s October 18 street date,…
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