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When Does a Game Console Go Retro?
Commenter GiantBoyDetective wonders when video games and their consoles make the transition from recent to retro in today’s nostalgic installment of Speak Up on Kotaku. How old does a game have to be to be considered “retro”? I would definitely consider anything Super Nintendo or older as retro…at least in my eyes. I suppose the…
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GameFly Sweetens the Pot with PC Game Downloads
For nearly a decade GameFly has been the Netflix of video games, delivering console and handheld titles to eager gamers across the United States, but where’s the PC gaming love? It’s coming later this year, when GameFly rolls out an online client featuring more than 100 free PC game downloads. Launching next month in closed…
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How Do You Make a Race of Intelligent Plant People Sexy?
ArenaNet character designer Kristen Perry was presented was presented with a thorny task when asked to cultivate the plant-like sylvari race for Guild Wars 2: Finding the balance between green-skinned humans and tentacle monsters. When you imagine plant people, those are the two images that immediately come to mind. Either you’ve got green elves with…
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If You Were a Video Game Console, Would You Be As Cool As Ellen?
“If you were a video game console, what would you be?” is not the sort of question one would expect to find on the Facebook page of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, yet here we are. We might not be Ellen’s demographic, but sometimes she really speaks our language. No wonder Portia de Rossi married the…
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How to Play Your Android Games with a PlayStation 3 Controller
Answering the call of Android gamers frustrated by virtual joysticks, Dancing Pixel Studios’ Sixaxis Controller can grant your PlayStation 3 controller power over your mobile games, as long as the device is right. Don’t get too excited just yet; there are some pretty strict requirements for running Sixaxis Controller on your Android-powered gadgets. First off,…
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LEGO Universe Raises Level Cap from Zero to 40
When LEGO Universe launched in October of last year it was a breath of fresh air in the stale MMO market. Putting an emphasis on exploration and creativity, it didn’t need standard MMO mechanics like leveling to entice people to play. Today LEGO Universe adds a leveling system to entice people to play. Along with…
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Be a Part of Zelda‘s 25th Anniversary Celebration with Flipnote Studio
Nintendo wants fans to help them celebrate 25 years of Hyrulian adventure by creating their own Zelda-themed animations in Flipnote Studio, with the winners publically judged by the creators of the beloved series, including one Mr. Miyamoto. Using templates and music made available by Nintendo, fans can use the free Flipnote Studio on their DSi…
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Mega Man Might Not Have a Game, But He’s Got a Portal Gun
The folks at Dorkly have been mighty free with those Portal guns lately, but Mega Man has to work for it. Enter Aperture Man! Maybe if Rock had gotten his hands on one of these sooner we wouldn’t have to deal with the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3. He could have just opened up…
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The World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse Gets a Legendary Downgrade
In World of Warcraft a legendary item is a piece of equipment of extreme rarity and power, a virtual status symbol for those that harness its powers. In SteelSeries gaming mouse parlance, legendary means cheaper with fewer buttons. The original and Cataclysm editions of the World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse were lovely devices, large, bulky,…
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Should We Just Wait for the Game of the Year Edition?
In today’s award-winning edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, cold-hearted commenter Monsieur.Froid wonders if other gamers are beginning to catch on to this whole Game of the Year trend. So with Fallout 3, I discovered the advent of the gaming industry’s newest conception: the ‘Game of the Year’ edition. Sure, it comes in other flavours,…
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Watch a Master Modder Split an Xbox 360 Controller in Two
In the latest episode of The Ben Heck Show, master video game console modder Benjamin J. Heckendorn creates an Xbox 360 controller for folks that can’t bring their hands together in front of their bodies. How does he do it? Well I figured he would split the damn thing in half, but I guess there…
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Minecraft Developer Gives Off a Not-For-Sale-To-EA Vibe
In a recent interview with Develop, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson discusses EA CEO John Riccitiello’s visit to the Stockholm headquarters of Mojang, saying that any acquisition hopes Riccitiello might have had were quashed by the independent studio’s vibe. It’s no surprise that the highly successful independent developer behind a game that’s now sold more…
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Let’s Try Not To Fall Asleep During The Old Republic‘s Jedi Consular Video
Known for their epic feats of stoicism and understanding, the Jedi Consular class in Star Wars: The Old Republic is sure to have even the most caffeinated MMO players waking up in a puddle of drool with their keyboard imprinted on their foreheads. I’m sure it’s not as bad as it looks. Not all MMO…
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The Lavish Skyrim Collector’s Edition Costs Much More Than $29
Soaring high above the $29 price point suggested by Bethesda’s Todd Howard on the wings of a 12 inch PVC statue of Alduin, the World Eater, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim collector’s edition seems like overkill for an indie card battle game. My mistake! I seem to have mixed up The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim…
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No One Needs to Know You Downloaded Tap Tap Glee
You’re not into musicals; I get that. It’s a silly show that definitely didn’t make me cry multiple times during the first season alone, and I wouldn’t be caught dead playing Tap Tap Glee, now available on the iTunes App Store. If I were to download the free app, hypothetically speaking, I’d end up with…
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From Flick Rocket to Roboto, The Best Gaming Apps We’ve Played This Week
It was inadvertently games that bring to mind other games week here at Kotaku, featuring four mobile games reminiscent of past and present hits and one game about nuts. We looked at a mix of Asteroids and Geometry Wars, what the free-running Mirror’s Edge might have been on the iPhone, a robotic love affair that…
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Get the Music of Bastion Today, the PC Version August 16
The news that the PC version of Bastion wasn’t coming out on Steam until August 16 might have upset the hopeful player, until he realized the gorgeous game soundtrack was available for purchase, tiding him over until the big day. Yes, Bastion‘s first stop on the PC digital download highway is Steam, where $14.99 will…
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Twenty Minutes of Tribes: Ascend in Glorious Shaky-Cam-O-Vision
Direct from QuakeCon 2011, here’s twenty minutes of Tribes: Ascend in action, filmed during a demonstrations of Hi-Rez Studios’ revitalization of the beloved franchise. Makes me want to play it all over again. I got in a good hour of Tribes: Ascend the other day during my visit to Hi-Rez’s Atlanta offices, so you folks…
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If You Could Eat Any Video Game Animal…
Yes, commenter GeshGav returns to Speak Up on Kotaku for the second day in a row, this time asking one of the most important questions you can ask about a video game character — would you eat it? Without getting weird about it – which animal in gaming looks the most delicious? I’d have to…
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A Triumphant Tale of Skateboarding Skill and Mechanical Romance
It’s been said that there’s no force in the universe more powerful than the love of one robot for another, especially when said robot is in possession of a rocket-powered hoverboard. Perhaps it’s only been said by me, but it’s a statement that may one day prove disastrously true. Until that dark day we have…
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