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A Sticky Sweet Taste of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Multiplayer
If you give me the option to make a pink and yellow Space Marine, I’m going to make a pink and yellow Space Marine. The Pink Lemonade Brigade is born of the highly flexible customization tools found in the online multiplayer portion of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. You can assign two different colors to each…
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From Play-Fakers to Music-Makers, Here Are Your Gaming Apps of the Week
Between vacations and major gaming events, we’ve spent far more time playing gaming apps than writing about them over the past few weeks. This week we bounce back with something old, something new, something NFL-related, and something oddly musical. Are you ready for some football? No? Then are you ready for a music creation app…
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All of the Life-Changing Power of Video Games
Video games cause depression. Video games cause violence. Video games are a waste of time. The next time someone pulls out one of these arguments against our favorite hobby, send them to read the stories at How Video Games Saved My Life, and hope they’re not sharp enough to refute them with cold logic. Created…
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EA’s Origin Prepares for Third-Party Content as Install Base Approaches Four Million
It may be inconvenient to users of more popular digital distribution platforms, but its picking up steam. During a UBS conference in London earlier today, EA chief financial officer Eric Brown set Origin install numbers at “about 4 million”, saying that third-party content was coming “very soon”. Millions have flocked to EA’s Origin since its…
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Another Mystifying Example of Uncharted Sand Art
Earlier this morning we posted a video of sand artist Natalya Netselya rendering a scene from Uncharted 3 using nothing but tiny pieces of silica. In case you couldn’t believe such fine art could come from a handful of sand, here’s another look. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected].…
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The Six Biggest Sports in the World in One Kinect Game
Why worry about which sports game to play on your Xbox 360 when you can get baseball, hockey, basketball, golf, football, and other football, all in one handy Kinect game? I guess if you wanted to completely immerse yourself in your favorite sport you’d just buy a dedicated title, but if you’re in the mood…
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Holds Its Ground Against the Reviewing Hordes
Relic Entertainment has proven time and time again with its Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise that it has a deep respect for Warhammer: 40.000. Does that respect extend to the third-person shooter? Warhammer 40,000is an entire universe dedicated to grand battles, massive armies, and strategic combat. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine strips away all of…
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The Helicopters, Bombers, and Gunships of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
It’s Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Friday once again, and this week Project Aces gives us a detailed look at what we’ll be flying when the fighter jets are grounded. The Ace Combat series has a strong focus on jets, and Assault Horizon is no different, with 25 different models to choose from. But sometime you…
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The iPhone Game You Can Only Play Once Gets a Sequel, Infinite Lives
Released earlier this year, One Single Life for the iPhone achieved a massive 2.6 million downloads based on one simple concept: When you die, you can’t play it again. Next week the sequel hits the iTunes store, but some of the magic is gone. At its heart, One Single Life 2 still features the same…
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A “Pair of Walking Tits” Brings Resident Evil‘s Direction Into Question
The recent revelation of Resident Evil‘s Rachel has commenter LordFlash questioning the direction Capcom is taking its popular survival horror franchise in. Share his worries in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Has anyone seen that Resident Evil Revelations trailer introducing a minor character, Rachel? (Editor’s Note: See the trailer here.) Massive spoiler alert: Rachel appears…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
A diplomatic intervention isn’t always enough. Sometimes you have to fight for your right to talk amongst yourselves. Not this time. Go crazy. Special thanks to SphessMahreen for setting back diplomacy several hundred years. Want to have your TAYpic featured here? If you think you’ve got what it takes, or even if you don’t, here’s…
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Now Feast Your Eyes on the First Trailer for the Persona 4 Fighting Game
You’ve drooled over the gorgeous screenshots, now take a look at the first official trailer for Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena, the welcome marriage of Atlus’ role-playing with Arc System Works fighting know-how. This is the first time I’ve gotten to write about Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena since it was…
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Punch a Fish Right in Its Smug Little Face with Rapala for Kinect
When your trailer depicts a young man delivering a furious rain of punches down upon a potential seafood platter and the words “Incredibly Fun Fish Battles” your marketing is pretty much complete. I’m almost completely serious. Having tried fishing at various stages in my life with the only constants being a complete failure to catch…
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Another Memorably Forgettable Week for the Nintendo Download
You didn’t think we forgot about the Nintendo Download, did you? Well we did, two weeks in a row, but now it’s back with a selection of less-than-memorable titles that semi-justify our oversight! Between the Virtual Console, the eShop, WiiWare, and DSiWare, one would figure that Nintendo could manage at least one truly exciting game…
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Travels Through Time to Fix Past Missteps
Was Final Fantasy XIII too linear for you? Square Enix has heard the complaints, and answers them with a mechanic that’s about as non-linear as they come: Time travel. How does it work? Director Motomu Toriyama has the answers. At the heart of Final Fantasy XIII-2‘s story and gameplay progression is the Historia Crux, a…
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The Missing Link Adds Three Strange Days to Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s Adventure
The Human Revolution continues in October, as Adam Jensen finds himself stripped of his augmentations in The Missing Link downloadable content. Adam Jensen disappears for three days during the course of Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s conspiracy-rich story. Where did he go? What did he do? What happened to his augmentations? The answer to that last…
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A Desperate Plea for Triple-A Game Delays
In today’s totally timely episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Mindsale would like to have a word with the publishers of this fall’s biggest video games. Hey there publishers, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DELAY SOMETHING. January is all yours if you do. People have a lot of extra holiday cash lying around in early January,…
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The Xperia Play 4G Brings Shitty AT&T Performance to the PlayStation Phone
Arriving in AT&T stores on September 18 for $49.99 with a two-year agreement, Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play 4G comes in an exclusive color pre-loaded with seven hot games. Unfortunately it also comes with AT&T service. AT&T customers have been clamoring for the Xperia Play since it hit Verizon earlier this year, perhaps yearning for something…
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Less Rock, More Talk Amongst Yourselves
When diplomatic intervention fails, there is only one alternative: rocking hard. Keep this in mind as you talk amongst yourselves. Special thanks to NotTheOtherBob for this rocking TAYpic! Want to have your TAYpic featured here? If you think you’ve got what it takes, or even if you don’t, here’s what to do: submit your images…
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