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Let’s Imagine the Ultimate Video Game Arcade
As video game arcades across the country blink out like lights on an artificial discount store Christmas tree, commenter Blessrok asks us to imagine the arcade of our dreams in today’s short but sweet Speak Up on Kotaku. I have an interesting question for everyone. Arcades, I love em, you love em, but they’re all…
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Rise From Your Graves, It’s Black Ops Rezurrection Day
It’s time to strap on your space suit, dual wield your space guns, and take out some space zombies on the moon, as Activision and Treyarch launch the all-zombie Rezurrection map pack for Black Ops on the Xbox 360. What you see above is perhaps the most bizarre Call of Duty screenshot I’ve ever posted,…
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Penny Arcade’s Decide-o-Tron 8000 Knows What Game You Should Play Next
Being the inferior meat-based life forms we are, gamers often get confused about which games they should be playing. A hardcore first-person shooter finds himself playing Bratz Ponies. It’s inexplicable. If only there were a robotic intelligence that could guide our purchases, perhaps from the creators of the most beloved gaming webcomics of all time?…
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Mad Catz’s Major League Gaming Controllers Can Change the Way You Play
With swappable thumb sticks and directional pads, a special compartment for adjusting weight, and a cable that unscrews from the base when not in use, the Mad Catz Official Major League Gaming Pro-Circuit Controller is a serious controller for the serious gamer. Mad Catz has teamed up with Major League Gaming to create a line…
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Remember When You’d Get Up Early Every Saturday Morning to Watch AwesomeNauts?
Every Saturday morning my little sister and I would bound out of our room, grab a big bowl of sugary cereal, and lose ourselves in the latest episode of AwesomeNauts. Man, those were the days that never really existed. No, AwesomeNauts isn’t a Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s, but it desperately wants to be…
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When GLaDOS Asks You To Marry Someone, You Say Yes
Gary Hudston commissioned three spectacular custom-built Portal 2 levels complete with fresh dialog from the voice of GLaDOS, Ellen Mclain, just to ask his girlfriend to marry him. After watching the glorious spectacle unfold, I’m ready to marry the guy. Over the course of this three-level marathon of pre-marital proportions, GLaDOS manages to find a…
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On the 8th Day Atlus Gave Us a Good Reason to Buy Devil Survivor Again
With only one more day before the 3DS remaster of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor comes out, Atlus gives fans one more day to consider replaying one of the best role-playing games of 2009 Asking fans to re-buy a role-playing game a mere two years since its initial release is a pretty tall order, even…
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Death of PC Gaming Scheduled to be Disproven on August 26
We’ve heard it said time and time again, PC gaming is not dead, but sometime just saying something isn’t enough. This Friday, PC peripheral maker Razer plans to prove it. As one of the world’s top manufacturers of high quality PC gaming gear, Razer has a vested interest in the future of PC gaming. One…
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s Review Scores Are Perfectly Natural
In the year 2000, Ion Storm unleashed the perfect marriage of futuristic shooter and skill-based role-playing in Deus Ex, a game so unique that even its own sequel couldn’t replicate its success. Can any follow-up possibly do it justice? Deus Ex: Invisible War took the award-winning formula established in the first game and dumbed it…
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Must We Compare Every Online Role-Playing Game to World of Warcraft? Yes, And Here’s Why
In today’s thrilling episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Vezroth explains why people need to stop getting angry when every other massively multiplayer online game in the world is compared to World of Warcraft. I am, and have been a consistent World of Warcraft player since the Burning Crusade expansion. Vanilla I played off…
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How to Play Your Xenoblade Import on a North American Wii
Xenoblade Chronicles is out in English right now, but Nintendo of America doesn’t seem keen to let North American’s play it, so they can’t. Not unless they import a copy from Europe and follow Joystiq’s guide for soft modding Nintendo’s Wii to play imports. Joystiq’s step-by-step guide takes Wii owners through installing the Wii Homebrew…
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Is The Old Republic Ready for Some Huttball?
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Direct your attention to the video at the top of this post for the most outrageous sporting spectacle in Star Wars: The Old Republic: Huttball! When the Sith Empire and the Republic get tired of shooting each other dead and hacking off limbs with glowing swords, they need to…
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Invisible Pony Rides, Bill Cosby, and Several Seconds of Borderlands 2 in Action
Earlier today thousands of Borderlands fans flocked to UStream for the chance to catch some gameplay footage of the popular game’s upcoming sequel. They got a little — very little — but first they got a whole lot more. Three days of no sleep and German spirits weigh heavily on Gearbox marketing and PR VP…
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The Stellar Space Age MMO That’s Played on an Android
After more than five years in development, Spacetime Studios has finally released Star Legends: The Blackstar Chronicles, a massively multiplayer online science fiction game for the Android platform. Wait, there was no Android platform five years ago! That’s right, Spacetime Studios first signed on with MMO publisher NCsoft to create The Blackstar Chronicles as a…
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Talk This Guy Into (Or Out Of) Buying a PlayStation 3
This week’s PlayStation 3 price drop leaves one question in the minds of gamers that have been avoiding Sony’s console: To buy, or not to buy? That is the question we’ll be helping commenter GiantBoyDetective answer in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Alright guys. Talk me in to or out of buying a PlayStation 3.…
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The Great Ubisoft Post-It Wars End With a Three-Story Assassination
They say that any war can be ended by a single, well-placed assassin. Ubisoft Paris proves this to be true with what is surely their final salvo in the ongoing Paris Post-It war. Sometimes you just have to think outside the window. For months, Ubisoft Paris and its neighbor, French bank BNP, have been firing…
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The Assassin’s Creed Team Always Takes the Best Screenshots
As proven by these Gamescom shots of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, the Assassin’s Creed series never looks quite as beautiful as it does through the eyes of the folks that make the screenshots. When you’re actively playing an Assassin’s Creed game you’re generally far too caught up in the beauty of the action to worry about…
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Why They Also Call Star Fox Tank Fox and Sub Fox
He’s not just for stars anymore. In Star Fox 64 and its upcoming 3D re-release on the 3DS, Fox McCloud proves himself worthy of the title Tank Fox. Sub Fox is just something Krystal likes to call him when they’re alone. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can…
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Prey 2‘s Stomping Grounds Are a Wretched Hive of Scum and Stuff
U.S. Marshal Killian Samuel goes from alien hostage to intergalactic bounty hunter in Prey 2, and these Gamescom screens show off his less-than-happy hunting grounds. Prey 2‘s premise is rather original, taking a helpless human from the original game and transforming him into a force feared by criminals across the known galaxy. You just can’t…
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Tera Online Rallies the Troops in This Triumphant Trailer
The Gamescom trailer for Tera Online sees the seven races (well, five of them) of Tera banding together to face off against impossible odds in order to keep a pair of titans from waking up and ending the dream that is reality. No pressure. That’s the story behind Tera Online, the action-packed South Korean import…
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