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Your First Look at Resistance: Burning Skies on the PlayStation Vita
The announcement of Resistance: Burning Skies for the PlayStation Vita at Sony’s Gamescom 2011 press conference today was immediately followed by a live demonstration of the game in action. This is that demonstration. It’s not looking too shabby. I like that the Vita makes up for the original PSP’s lack of sufficient controls by adding…
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You Sell Those Kingdoms of Amalur, Ken Rolston
Legendary The Elder Scrolls designer Ken Rolston proves himself one amazing combination thespian and salesman during his Gamescom presentation of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It’s “an enemy-pounding fun-fest!” 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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The Secret World Steps Into the Light Next Spring
Funcom’s massively multiplayer supernatural conspiracy game for the PC gets an April 2012 target today at Gamescom, along with a new trailer and news about how you can sign up to participate in beta testing events. Intriguied? I passed intruiged long ago when it comes to The Secret World. Now I’m bordering on obsessed, and…
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Ninja Gaiden 3 Could Be the Hardest PlayStation Move Game Ever
Today at Gamescom in Germany, Tecmo’s Team Ninja revealed that Ninja Gaiden 3 was getting physical with the PlayStation Move, finally allowing the player and Ryu to commiserate over how difficult it is to slash at enemies for hours on end. Sword combat isn’t easy, and historically neither is Ninja Gaiden. Combine the two and…
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Want to See Some Battlefield 3 Co-Op? 3, 2, 1, Shoot!
Making it’s debut at Gamescom 2011 in Germany, Battlefield 3‘s co-op mode is every bit as intense as single player, with 100 percent more synchronized shouting. DICE showed off a level of co-op during EA’s Gamescom press conference earlier this morning, demonstrating what happens when two men team up to help a foreign national defect.…
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Watch Eight Imperials Fail to Breach The Old Republic‘s Eternity Vault
During EA’s 2011 Gamescom press conference, eight Imperial players attempted to take on one of the game’s first major level 50 instances, the Eternity Vault. The end result? I feel much better about my decision to play on the Republic side. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can…
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Rick Perry’s Idea of American Ingenuity is a Canadian Video Game
Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is as wholesome and American as they come. He believes in hard work, patriotism, faith in god, and good old American ingenuity, even if we have to import it from Canada. Rick Perry’s first web video since joining the presidential race is mostly as generic a political ad…
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Let’s Get Ready For Gamescom!
Gamers from around the world descend upon Cologne, Germany this week for the world’s largest public celebration of gaming, and Kotaku will be bringing you live coverage starting tomorrow and lasting until the last Euro-cosplayer washes the color from their hair. Festivities kick off tomorrow with a series of pre-show press events thrown by the…
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This is How Spider-Man: Edge of Time Does Mary Jane
Clark Kent’s Kryptonian cousin Laura Vandervoort crosses the DC / Marvel line this October in Spider-Man: Edge of Time, trading her Supergirl undies for the damsel-in-distress role of Mary Jane Watson. It’s nice to see Laura cast as a more down-to-earth character for once. The problem with possessing otherworldly beautiful is you soon get typecast…
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Seven Minutes in Hard Reset‘s Cyberpunk Shooter Heaven
Earlier this month I took a good hard look at Hard Reset, the upcoming single-player shooter coming out next month from Polish developer Flying Wild Hog, telling you all about my favorite parts of the game. Now I can show you. Thanks to Hard Reset‘s experimentally short public relations campaign, only a week and a…
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Esports
These Are the Best Pokémon Trainers in the World
Thousands of fans flocked to San Diego, California this weekend to determine which six trainers were destined to be the very best at the 2011 Pokémon World Championships. You wanted more eSports coverage, we’re bringing you more eSports coverage! Over the weekend more than 400 players from over 27 countries came together in San Diego…
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He Can’t Play Half-Life 2 Without Getting Sick
Commenter Make.Sense gets sick while playing Diver: Deep Water Adventures, which makes perfect sense. He also gets sick while playing Half-Life 2, which is reason enough to appear in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Kotaku, have you ever played a game that made you feel ill? Not the “Oh this game is so bloody awful…
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League of Legends Season Two Flaunts the Largest Prize Pool in eSports History
In case anyone was looking for motivation to get involved in League of Legends‘ second season of competition, Riot Games has just presented five million convincing arguments in the form of the largest prize pool in eGaming history. The Defense of the Ancients-inspired arena battles of League of Legends will definitely heat up in the…
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A Tiny Slice of LEGO Universe Goes Free
Bright, colorful, and charming, the massively multiplayer LEGO Universe has attracted droves of players willing to spend $10 a month to experience everything the block-built world has to offer. For everyone else, there’s LEGO Universe: Free to Play Kicking off today, LEGO Universe: Free to Play gives new players the ability to download the client…
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From Snot-Shooting to Eyeball Eating, The Best Gaming Apps of the Week
Shooting your own mucus at phlegm-hungry monsters? Destroying ice sculptures with multicolored bombs? Attacking a dolphin-headed mad scientist from the inside? It’s definitely time for this week’s Gaming App of the Day round-up. It was a week filled with the sort of touchy-feely games you’ll only find on today’s advanced mobile gaming devices, otherwise known…
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Does This Sound Like the Year 2027 to You?
To capture the sound of the year 2027 for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Eidos Montreal recruited a man with hair so glorious the music composer had to be bald to balance it out. While the graphics folks are busy working on textures and such, the sound folks are busy trying to create the aural identity…
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Is Iron Wolf the Next Call of Duty?
A pair of hackers that gained access to the Xbox account of a Treyarch employee believes they’ve stumbled across the next entry in the Call of Duty series, code named Iron Wolf. Are they on to something? The Iron Wolf speculation comes after hackers gained access to the Xbox Live account of an internal PartnerNet…
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The Next Katrina Could Make You a Winner
Every year between June and November the North Atlantic is subjected to some of the harshest weather on the planet. Hurricanes and tropical storms takes lives, ruin homes, and have been known to commit large portions of poorly-fortified cities to the briny deep. Predicting these destructive forces of nature is no game, only now it…
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It’s Moogle Magic Time in Final Fantasy XIII-2
As far as I’m concerned it’s always Moogle time, but the phrase takes on new meaning in Final Fantasy XIII-2 When a monster appears on the playfield in Final Fantasy XIII-2 a Mog Clock pops up on the screen, granting the player various bonuses based on how long it takes them to make contact with…
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What Will Your Gotham City Impostor Look Like?
Why play the Batman or Joker when you can create your own? Check out the ridiculous customization options that will be available in the downloadable online multiplayer shooter Gotham City Imposters When opposing street gangs take up the mantle of Gotham City’s Dark Knight or Clown Prince of Crime, insanity ensues. Imposters will let players…
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