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Should the Kingdom Hearts Games That Suck Still Count?
In today’s continuity-shattering installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Yoshi Salcedo wants us to settle an argument he’s having with his girlfriend over Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts series. Should we disregard the DS games because they suck? My girlfriend and I are both Kingdom Hearts fans, and as usual we argued over who was…
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The World of Darkness MMO Flirts With Permanent Death
In the World of Darkness series of pen-and-paper role-playing games, when your character dies there’s no coming back. According to a panel run by the developers at last weekend’s Grand Masquerade, permadeath will carry over to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game as well. MMO players are not used to permadeath. Generally when you die…
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The Toys”R”Us 2011 Holiday Hot Toy List Has a Video Game Ringer
While a set of Angry Birds plushies made it onto this year’s Hot Toy list, the only proper video game to make the cut is an Activision game that has Toys”R”Us as a marketing partner. Earlier this year when Activision announced Skylanders: Spryo’s Adventure, Toys”R”Us was right there at the game publisher’s side. The press…
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What’s a Blob Without His Boy?
How about a productive member of society? Splitting up the dynamic duo from A Boy and His Blob seems to have worked out for at least one of them. Would you trade the ability to transform into a ladder, a rocket, a trampoline, or any number of helpful objects for a chance at a normal…
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Would You Pay More Than $400 for a Link Statue? What If They Threw In a Horse?
High-end collectible creator First 4 Figures continues its love affair with Zelda fans’ money with its most expensive statue yet, the Twilight Princess Link on Epona statue. Standing 17 inches tall and cast in high-quality poly-stone, this hand-painted, hand-finished piece truly captures the spirit of the hero of Hyrule and his best lady, Epona. The…
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PC Arkham City Slips to November, Still Looks Gorgeous
Bad news for PC gamers, as Warner Bros. and Rocksteady push the non-console version of the eagerly anticipated Batman: Arkham City to an unspecified date in November. Perhaps some sexy screens will help ease the pain? While console owners will be playing Arkham City on October 18 in North America, the version they’re playing won’t…
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In Your Most Terrifying Video Game Nightmares
Any activity you perform often enough has a tendency to invade your nightmares, even video games. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter GiantBoyDetective shares his Zelda-fueled nightmare, and you share your own. I had a dream I was in a Zelda game last night, but it was some terrible survival horror version 🙁 I…
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An Augmented Reality Japanese Pop Star of Your Very Own, Courtesy of Toyota
Japan’s beloved virtual pop goddess Hatsune Miku, star of her own video game series and hundreds of thousands of user-create YouTube videos, is now the voice of the 2011 Toyota Corolla, and you can hold her in the palm of your hand. Created by Crypton Future Media, Inc., Hatsune Miku is one of the world’s…
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The Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Trailer Got No Game
Direct from this weekend’s Tokyo Game Show, the bullet-time heavy, completely gameplay-free trailer for Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Why no gameplay? Well hell, you’ve already seen what Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 looked and played like, and you’ve seen videos of the new combatants in action. Let Capcom’s random CG department have some fun for…
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Here’s a Guy Playing Wii on an Android Tablet with an Xbox 360 Controller
YouTube user obiwan222222, the king of making Wii games run on other devices, shows us how to play Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the Android-powered Asus Transformer tablet using a bit of software trickery and a wireless Xbox 360 controller. What he’s basically doing here is using a Dolphin emulator on his PC to run…
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World of Warcraft 4.3: Dragon Soul Ushers in a New Age of Casual Raiding
The culmination of the Cataclysm saga, World of Warcraft‘s epic patch 4.3, now subtitled Dragon Soul, brings about an end to the tyranny of Deathwing, but more importantly an end of casual players not being able to experience raid content. I recently spoke to World of Warcraft lead producer J. Allen Brack, who walked me…
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Disney Universe Talks and Walks Like the Most Adorable Damn Pirate You’ve Ever Seen
The upcoming cooperative action game Disney Universe gives players the ability to “suit-up” as characters from their favorite Disney properties. What better day to introduce the Pirates of the Caribbean themed area than international it’s-beginning-to-get-old day? A decade ago I was all over every scallywag’s favorite faux holiday. Four Pirates of the Caribbean movies and…
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These People Want to Be Sony Testers, Self-Respect Be Damned
The third season of PlayStation Network reality show The Tester is coming, and Sony has whittled down the list of shitty-job hopefuls to 100. Now it’s time to vote. Now don’t head over to The Tester 3 page and start voting willy-nilly. First off, no one does anything willy-nilly anymore, and if you do they’ll…
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Dive Deeper Into Drake’s Story With Uncharted Reading Materials
Sony is sandwiching Uncharted 3‘s November 1 release between a brand-new novel and a six-issue comic book series, delving deeper into Drake’s fiction than ever before. Drake’s new adventures begin on October 4 with the release of Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth, a novel by Christopher Golden, the ridiculously prolific writer suspense, horror, and fantasy writer.…
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How Could Anyone Dislike The Legends of Zelda: Twilight Princess?
Surely commenter Daemon_Gildas isn’t the only one that wasn’t completely in love with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It’s time to step forward and be heard in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. We promise Nintendo isn’t looking, much. Does anyone else dislike Twilight Princess? I honestly felt like is was all of the worst…
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Even DC Comics’ Assembled Heroes Can’t Resist the Allure of Free-to-Play
It doesn’t matter if you’re a starship captain or one of Earth’s mightiest heroes; once you go massively multiplayer it’s only a matter of time before free-to-play finds you. Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online breaks free of subscription fees next month. Starting in October anyone with a PlayStation 3 or a gaming PC will…
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Stand Back Everyone, It’s the Week in Gaming Apps
Five games in five days! After several weeks of four or less, we’ve finally made it back to five whole days of condo-eating, caterpillar-tilting, war-waging mobile goodness. Huzzah! And of course our first week back is a week filled with iPhone apps; I’ll say it so you don’t have to. It wasn’t for lack of…
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