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There is Definitely Something Fishy About the Steam Version of Dead Island
Last night before I hit the sack I set up a download of the Steam version of Techland’s Dead Island. This morning I woke up to what many others discovered last night — this doesn’t seem to be the right version of the game. Is it an early build? Did some sort of debug copy…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Tuesday is the new Monday this week, as the Labor Day weekend kills a weekday and hides it in the air duct so the others don’t get suspicious. Talk amongst yourselves while we find a mop. Big thanks to JimThePea for this revolutionarily augmented TAYpic! Want to have your TAYpic featured here? If you think…
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An Army of Video Game Fans in the Dragon Con Day Three Cosplay Gallery
It’s the fourth and final day of Dragon Con 2011, but I’m not there. The final day of a convention like this is a sad affair. Instead, let’s revel in the glory of yesterday’s cunning cosplayers. Dragon Con isn’t a video game convention, though it’s trying to be. There’s a MMORPG programming track that consists…
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Reviews
The Rockus 3D 2.1 Speaker System Sounds Nice, But At What Cost?
When one thinks of quality computer speakers, several names come to mind: Logitech, Altec Lansing, Bose, and Creative Labs, to name a few. Soundscience isn’t a name that comes to mind. Neither is Antec. In fact, when one thinks of the name Antec, they think PC cases and power supplies. Hit up the company’s Wikipedia…
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Exhaustion Breeds Quality in the Dragon Con Day Two Cosplay Gallery
After three hours of baby-interrupted sleep, I trudged across town to Dragon Con 2011 again today, where I occupied a great many benches and attempted to stay awake. I was mostly successful. Being dead tired has its benefits, however. Were I full of energy, I would have run about the convention madly, taking shots of…
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The Woefully Inadequate, Apologetically Dramatic Dragon Con Day One Cosplay Gallery
My best camera lost its shutter button a year ago. My second best camera lost its button five shots into today’s Dragon Con day one cosplay harvest. My third best camera was purchased at Wal-Mart a half hour ago. I finally get the hang of my expensive Nikon camera, and it self-destructs on me. I…
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The Physical Warfare Pack is an Excellent Reason to Look at More Battlefield 3 Footage
Available as a preorder bonus at select retailers and EA’s Origin service, the relatively unexciting Physical Warfare Pack gives us an excuse to look at more Battlefield 3, which is always good. Folks that preorder Battlefield 3 at participating retailers will score early access to the DAO-12 semi-automatic shotgun, Type 88 Light Machine Gun, flechette…
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Fresh Fighter Jet Porn for Ace Combat Fans
It’s Ace Combat Assault Horizon Friday, boys and girls, and you know what that means: Project Aces is parading four sexy fighter craft players will be slipping inside when the game drops October 11. This week we’ve got stunning shots of the MiG-21bis Fishbed, MiG-29A Fulcrum, the Su-34 Fullback, and the Su-47 Berkut, just four…
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Who Was Your First Video Game Crush?
In today’s tell-all edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Mad-Hob reveals his first video game crush — Katt from Breath of Fire II — and asks us to reveal ours. Mine was a random woman from Artworx’s 1992 classic, Strip Poker. What’s yours? My first Video game crush (see Katt above). Surely I’m not…
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And Then Sonic Realized Tails Was Immortal
Miles “Tails” Prowler, an ordinary two-tailed fox on the verge of an extraordinary discovery, but great power always comes at a price in the Dorkly Zone. Click to view You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
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Checking the Pipes at Dragon Con 2011
It’s not every day you find a Kotaku editor in downtown Atlanta. Normally I’m about 10 miles north, but for Dragon Con 2011 I’m making an exception. I’ll be hanging out at one of the world’s largest science fiction and fantasy conventions this weekend, taking photos, taking names, and taking whatever gaming news might pop…
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Create Your Own Dragon Ball Z Character That Looks Like Every Other Dragon Ball Z Character
For the first time in any Dragon Ball franchise game, Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi lets players build their own custom fighters to battle online and off, proving once and for all that every Akira Toriyama character is the same guy with different hair and accessories. This is why I could never get into Dragon…
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The Coolest Feature of Dragon’s Dogma Is the Characters Other People Play
Built with single-player story and fluid action combat in mind, Dragon’s Dogma wasn’t a good fit for online cooperative play. Instead, Capcom came up with an all new way for players to share their play experience — the pawn system. What’s the pawn system? It’s essentially a way for players to collect, enrich, and return…
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What Do Vampires Want With inFamous‘ Hero Anyway?
In a cutscene for the upcoming downloadable standalone Cole MacGrath adventure, inFamous 2: Festival of Blood, we learn why bloodsuckers from fake New Orleans would go to all the trouble of kidnapping a guy with superpowers. It’s amazing how a being born of new technology can be the key to reviving an ancient evil like…
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Green Lantern’s Light Shines in DC Universe Online Next Week, Free of Charge
The first major dose of downloadable content for DC Universe Online, Fight for the Light goes live on September 6 in the U.S., with active subscribers donning green and yellow rings without having to pay a dime. Time to resubscribe!
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Red Dead Redemption‘s Myths & Mavericks Says Uncle September 13
Rockstar’s free thank you to the millions of fans that rampaged through the wild west in Red Dead Redemption drops September 13 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Now where’s my warm and tender embrace? The Myths & Mavericks pack adds a ridiculous amount of new content to Red Dead Redemption, including eight new…
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Dreaming of the Perfect Robocop Video Game
If ever there was a character that needed a fresh new video game, it’s Detroit’s finest, Alexander James Murphy. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Korio8 asks us to dream up a modern game that’s half-man, half-machine, and all awesome. I came across this Robocop image on a website the other day and I…
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This Soup-Style Gaming TV Show Will Not Be Appearing on Comedy Central
The Nerdist podcast co-host Jonah Ray wanted to create a Comedy Central show that was like The Soup, only for video games. Comedy Central said no, and now Jonah’s failure is complete, so he decided to share it with us. Poor Jonah. The concept is sound, and the formula has been proven time and time…
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Hey Kids, Don’t Eat Your Xbox 360; Eat Tim Schafer’s Instead
This promotional video for Double Fine’s Once Upon a Monster teaches children several important lessons. For instance, look how well cookies fit inside the Xbox 360 DVD drive. Bet they hadn’t thought of that. Not only is the Xbox 360 a handy place to store snacks, it also acts as a snack itself, it’s circuit…
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Madden NFL 12 Covers Game Reviewers’ Spread
If the assembled video game reviewers were a lazier bunch, they’d simply release a short blurb with each new Madden game calling it the best official NFL console game of the year. Luckily for fans of the Frankenreview, those game reviewers are made of sterner, more critical stuff. Instead of noting that Madden NFL 12…
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