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The Horrific Spawn of Diablo and a Murloc Unleashed at BlizzCon 2011
What do you get when you cross World of Warcraft‘s fiendish aquatic foes with the undisputed Lord of Terror? Behold Murkablo, the stuff of nightmares and BlizzCon 2011 goodie bags. Each year at Blizzard’s annual fan celebration of all things related to it, the company likes to hand out special in-game murloc-related items to thank…
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Don’t Miss Tonight’s Kotaku-Filled Episode of GameTrailers TV
Tonight on Spike TV, Joel Johnson, Stephen Totilo, and Brian Crecente spend several minutes chatting with GameTrailers TV‘s Geoff Keighley on the roof of Kotaku‘s New York City headquarters about the big fall game releases, and not one of them ironically plummets to the street below. If you happen to be up and about tonight…
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More Painfully Pretty Screens From Studio Ghibli’s PlayStation 3 Game
Now that the PlayStation 3 installment of Level-5’s Ni No Kuni has a release date, Japanese gamers know exactly how long they have to drool over the gorgeous visuals before diving into Studio Ghibli’s video game adventure. With the Nintendo DS version a fading memory, Level-5 is hard at work making sure the console debut…
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Now Everyone Can Play the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online
For over a decade Pokémon fans have been facing-off against one another in fierce trading card based battles around the world. Today those battles go online, and anyone with a web browser can play. Today marks the launch of the open beta of the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, where Pokémon fans of all shapes…
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Portal Designer’s Dimension-Hopping New Game is a Quantum Conundrum
While Valve busies itself thinking with portals, Portal designer Kim Swift let her mind wander to newer, fluffier dimensions. Quantum Conundrum is the result of those wanderings, and it looks amazing. Quantum Conundrum shares many similarities with the series Swift left in Valve’s capable hands. Both are first-person puzzle games. Both involve mad science. Both…
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Are You Going to PAX?
Today’s very special installment of Speak Up on Kotaku presents our readers with a way to connect with each other during PAX 2011, kicking off with commenter Jekku, the Flemeth bodyguard. Let everybody know who you are and what you’ll look like! Welp, I’m heading to Chicago in the morning and then I’m flying to…
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GameStop Pulls PC Deus Ex: Human Revolution From Shelves Following OnLive Debacle
After getting into hot water earlier today for opening new PC copies of Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution and removing codes for a free OnLive version of the game prior to sale, video game retailer GameStop has pulled the games from its shelves pending recall. According to an email forwarded to Kotaku from an…
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How To Turn a PlayStation 3 Theft Into a Drug Bust
17-year-old Bobby Lee Huffman of Hickory, North Carolina, called the police to his home on Monday after he discovered his PlayStation 3, controllers, and games had apparently been stolen. Then Bobby Lee did something incredibly stupid. Officers responded to the Huffman residence on Monday, where Bobby Lee showed them where the alleged criminals had torn…
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I Was Only One Bloody Ground Slam Away From Loving Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Proof positive that pre-release demos can make or break a game, my interest level in Relic Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine went from zero to must-buy within 30 minutes of try-before-you-buy gameplay. As far as Games Workshop’s most popular franchises go, I’ve always been more on the Warhammer Fantasy Battles side of things. One would…
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Kinect Star Wars Won’t Be Home for Christmas
What might have been the perfect Christmas gift for the Star Wars gamer will have to find another special occasion to be gifted on, as Microsoft confirms that Star Wars Kinect and the Star Wars themed Xbox 360 have been pushed back indefinitely. It started off bad and got a little better, but Star Wars…
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Twenty Different Faces For Each of Skyrim‘s Races
Not only are the faces in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim the most gorgeous the series has ever seen, they’re also the most customizable. Check out 20 variations of each of the game’s 10 races and see for yourself. Since the dawn of The Elder Scrolls, creating a character has been an exercise in crafting…
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Soon Your PlayStation 3 Controller Can Look Like a Robot Ninja Octopus
It looks crazy but it just might work. N-Control has opened up preorders for the PlayStation 3 version of its Avenger controller cover, adding levers, pulleys, and other odds and ends to a controller design that’s worked perfectly well for over a decade. The Avenger is meant to improve controller reaction times, giving players of…
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Don’t Miss This Week’s Kotaku Trailers TV, Guest-Starring Geoff Keighley
Gawker’s New York City headquarters is on fire in this week’s episode of GameTrailers TV, as host Geoff Keighley shows the world how good three Kotaku editors look standing on a rooftop with the wind rustling their shirts. Aside from miss earthquakes, not working out of Gawker’s New York City office means I also don’t…
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Building Need For Speed Mega Blok by Mega Blok
Who would want to buy Need for Speed-branded Mega Bloks construction sets? That’s the question I asked myself when I first heard the LEGO competitor had taken on EA’s racing game license earlier this year. Now that the sets are hitting store shelves, I have an answer: Me. The Need for Speed Mega Bloks are…
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Didn’t Feel the Earthquake? Here Are 5.9 Games That Let You Recreate It
Earthquakes are great and terrible forces, destroying homes, claiming lives, and reminding humanity as a whole that this planet we crawl across isn’t as solid as it seems. The east coast of the U.S. found that out today. For the rest of us, there are video games. While the rest of Kotaku‘s east coast crew…
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Creator Commentary Makes This Final Fantasy XIII-2 Trailer a Learning Experience
You’ve seen this Final Fantasy XIII-2 trailer before, but you’ve never seen it with informative commentary from a pair of Japanese gentlemen. Let’s see what producer Kitase Yoshinori and director Toriyama Motomu have to say! That is, of course, if you understand Japanese. Otherwise you’ll just have to sit here with us slow kids and…
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These Gaming Glasses Have Modern Warfare 3 Written All Over Them
Modern Warfare 3 is going to sell millions of copies when it hits gaming retailers this November, and those millions of players are going to need quality gaming eyewear. Or at least that’s how gaming glasses maker Gunnar Optiks sees the world, and they’re prepared for those lens-craving gamers with the limited edition Call of…
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Everyone Can Hear You Scream at the Aliens: Colonial Marines Debut Trailer
When a handful of Colonial marines face-off against a never-ending swarm of acid-blooded xenomoprhs, the ending is never pretty, and rarely happy. Here’s the debut trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines The terror of the original films comes flooding right back as this trailer unfolds, lending creedence to Luke Plunkett’s observations from Gamescom last week. This…
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