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It’s a Steep Climb to the Top for El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
With a striking art style and a story based off of an ancient Jewish religious work, Ignition’s El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is the sort of game that could go in any direction review-wise. As it turns out, it did. El Shaddai tells the story of Enoch, a priest seeking out seven angels in…
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Shinobi 3DS Is Losing Beauty Contests to Metal Gear Solid 3DS
If you thought Metal Gear Solid 3DS looked ugly, get a load of what Sega and Griptonite are doing to Shinobi. Maybe they’ll look better in 3D? Wasn’t the 3DS supposed to be a powerful machine capable of pulling off console-quality graphics? Why are developers pumping out games that look like they’d be right at…
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This is Flight Control to the Nintendo Download
When the most exciting downloadable title in Nintendo’s weekly lineup is an air traffic control sim game, it’s either an excellent air traffic control sim game or a very slow week. Perhaps it’s a little of both? Firemint’s Flight Control finally brings the frantic route-tracing action of the hit iPhone game to the Wii, following…
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And Now a Very Bloody Message from Call of Duty Zombie Labs
At Call of Duty Zombie Labs, the worlds’ top scientists are working around the clock to familiarize themselves with the undead inside and out. And inside-out. Ew. In this exceptionally gory advertisement for Black Ops’ Rezurrection DLC, due out on August 23 for the Xbox 360, we’re given a sneak peek at what happens when…
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Do You Remember the Very First Video Game You Played?
Commenter UnstableArk has trouble recalling the very first video game he played, and wonders if there are more people out there like him in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Every now and then I tend to stalk some gaming forums, as a gamer would. And every now and then I come across a common question:…
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There Are Two Hedgehogs and Four Tails in This Sonic Generations Trailer
There’s only two Tails, but each Tails has two tails, making it four tails. See, I used the capitalization of the headline as misdirection! Just watch the video. Old and new versions of Miles “Tails” Prowler (or M.P.H. to his friends) join Sonic and Sonic in the Gamescom trailer for Sega’s generation-hopping hedgehog adventure later…
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Now Anonymous Has Hacked The Secret World — Nevermind, False Alarm
Sorry, I see a guy in a modern-day setting wearing a white face mask and jump to conclusions. Still, the conspiracy-laden Earth of The Secret World seems like a great place for Anonymous to hang out, doesn’t it? I’d say developer Funcom should talk with the Anons, strike up some sort of deal to use…
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Goldeneye 007: Reloaded Special Missions Make You Roll Like MI6
Like MI6, like MI6; aside from the single player campaign and online multiplayer, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Goldeneye 007: Reloaded will feature standalone missions that will task players with assault, elimination, stealth and defense objectives — like MI6. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You…
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I’m Falling in Love With WildStar, and I Don’t Care Who Knows It
It’s not the stunning CGI movie quality trailer for NCsoft and Carbine’s WildStar that has my heart beating so hard. Nor is it these forty-four screenshots, covering the races, combat, and environments of this gorgeous space born adventure. It’s not even the bunny girls (though they certainly help). So what is it? It’s the concept…
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The Black Cat and Katee Sackhoff in One Video? Is it My Birthday?
I know Spider-Man’s on-again, off-again lust interest is supposed to have bad luck powers, but with Battlestar Galactica‘s Katee Sackhoff voicing the 2099 version of the Black Cat, I can’t help but feel like my luck’s taken a turn for the better. Katee Sackhoff’s charm lies in the fact that she reminds most guys of…
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You Picked FemShep’s Look, Now Pick Her Hair Color
When fans picked the blonde version of female Commander Shepard to appear in the ads and videos for Mass Effect 3, they weren’t voting for a hair color; they were voting for a hair style. Now we’re voting for the hair color. I wasn’t a particularly big fan of the blonde Shepard recently voted in…
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Blizzard: Mists of Pandaria “Could Refer to Anything”
It’s been an eventful Gamescom for Blizzard so far, with fresh details on Diablo III and the end of Deathwing in the works, but what about the question on every World of Warcraft player’s mind? What is Mists of Pandaria? “We don’t comment on rumors or speculation,” was the initial answer World of Warcraft lead…
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The Latest Aliens: Colonial Marines Screens Are a Study in Sticky Situations
When dealing with an infestation of acid-blooded insectoid aliens, you’re bound to run into certain situations that require extra care and consideration on the part of you and your Aliens: Colonial Marines buddies. Let’s take a look at some of these. First off, there’s the alien popping out olf the floor and dragging your buddy…
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How Could One Sweet Little Cheerleader Ruin the Image of Females Everywhere?
In this back to school edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Paradox me wants to know what the big deal is about a scantily-clad high school cheerleader flashing her panties while taking out zombies with a chainsaw. Kind of surprised that folks are upset about Lollipop Chainsaw. Well, not really surprised, but still. Sure,…
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Takes Flight in November
It would have been a blue Christmas without a new Zelda title under our Christmas Wii, but Nintendo comes through in the nick of the time, announcing a November 20 release date for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword The largest Zelda adventure yet and the first designed solely for the Wii (Link’s Crossbow Training…
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It’s Doctor Strange Vs. Nemesis in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
The latest pair of fighters in Capcom’s long and somewhat embarrassing reveal square off in this Gamescom edition of Yes, We Already Know About the New Characters in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 In one corner we have Nemesis, a biological weapon created by the Umbrella Corporation during their white hot “Let’s Fuck Up Everything”…
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The Art of Steel Battalion‘s Heavy Metal War
Capcom’s Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor for the Kinect paints a grim picture of a future U.S. blasted back to the Industrial Age and plunged into war. These striking images tell the story of the brave men fighting for our future freedom. When I first saw the original trailer for the new Kinect-driven Steel Battalion I…
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Val Kilmer in His Greatest Role (and Hat) Since Real Genius
When film legend Val Kilmer sinks his teeth into the role of the main villain in Spider-Man: Edge of Time, someone’s got to die. Walker Sloan is a scientist from the future that travels back in time to found mega-corporation Alchemax before its time in Spider-Man: Edge of Time. Changing the future affects the past,…
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The PS Vita Goes Social With Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, and Skype
Along with a series of Sony-built applications for keeping players playing together, the PlayStation Vita will come fully equipped to keep them connected to their favorite social networks. Wow, it’s like a mobile phone that plays games! During today’s Sony press conference at Gamescom, the company’s Jim Ryan (who we kept mistaking for James Bond…
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This High-Flying Uncharted 3 Footage Will Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat
Even those of us in Kotaku Tower relatively unenthused by the Uncharted franchise sat up and took notice of the Uncharted 3 gameplay demo at Sony’s Gamescom 2011 press conference. Witness action movie cliché at its finest! The Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception gameplay you’re seeing here is the same segment our own Stephen Totilo saw…
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