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San Francisco Welcomes Reckless Multiplayer Drivers
I just want to play Driver: San Francisco to try and figure out how taxi drivers take those hills without launching their vehicles into low Earth orbit. Other crave a little competition. This video is for them. Give me a large city to roam about in my vehicle, and that’s just what I shall do,…
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This Spectacular Rage Trailer Gives Us Something to Fight For
Just in time for the kickoff of QuakeCon 2011, the epic new trailer forRage sheds new light on the forces aligned against humanity’s remnants in id’s post-apocalyptic shooter. As if we needed any more motivation to play what might be the best thing to come out of id since Quake, this intense look at the…
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Hard Reset is a Sexy Cyberpunk Shooter That Took Me By Surprise
It’s okay if you’ve never heard of Hard Reset, the new single-player cyberpunk first-person shooter coming next month from Polish developer Flying Wild Hog. Up until a couple of weeks ago, no one had. It happens. It just doesn’t happen often with a game this good being released this soon. Evolve PR is calling Hard…
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They Don’t Even Bother Coloring WiiWare Games Anymore
I can understand leaving Mario Picross for the original Game Boy in black and white, but in this day and age a WiiWare game needs to be completely filled with vibrant splashes of color. Shame on you, Monochrome Racing I suppose it’s okay to make your game mostly black and white when it’s a design…
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What Makes Guild Wars 2 Sound So Good?
The answer to the question posed in the headline is a simple one: the Guild Wars 2 sound team. It’s how they do it that’s a little tricky. I’m not going to say that creating the sounds for a regular game isn’t a daunting task. It’s just that normal console and PC games have a…
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Nintendo’s Problem Isn’t Hardware — They Stopped Making Killer Bongo Games
Yesterday Stephen Totilo posited that Nintendo’s problems stem from a lack of killer games. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter GeshGav agrees, though his idea of killer games is a little bit different. If I’m known for anything (gaming-wise) in my circle of friends, it’s that I’m a rabid fan of Donkey Konga. The…
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Black Ops’ Rezurrection DLC is One Small Step for Zombie-Kind
Nacht der Untoten. Verruckt. Shi No Numa. Der Riese. These names strike terror in the hearts of anyone that dared venture into the undead playgrounds of Call of Duty: World at War. The zombie story started there. It ends on the Moon. Due out on August 23 for the Xbox 360, the Rezurrection donwloadable content…
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Serves Up Multiplayer Marines 1.8 Billion Ways
If the text flashing by in this trailer are to be believed, Relic Entertainment has managed to cram 1.8 billion different ways to customize Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine‘s six multiplayer classes, a number at least 1,000 times larger than the amount of people likely to care. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this…
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Everybody at the Call of Duty Convention Gets a Free Modern Warfare 3
Activision sweetens the pot for fans considering attending the first-ever Call of Duty XP convention in Los Angeles next month, revealing additional details on what fans can expect to get out of the show, including a free copy of the Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition. $150 is a lot to ask fans to spend on…
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Tribes: Ascend Revisits the Series’ Glory Days
I first played Starsiege: Tribes at the 1998 E3 Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. A relative newcomer to the multiplayer first-person shooter, I fondly recall ignoring whatever objective our team was supplied with, instead spending my time whooshing about the map with my jetpack, giggling to myself. Eventually I got a copy of the game for…
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Forget Quake, It’s Cake Team Arena Time
In celebration of this weekend’s QuakeCon and the 20th anniversary of id Software, id and Bethesda sent me the most hideous cake I’ve ever had sitting on my coffee table, and I shop at the Publix bakery. The Strogg make great arena fighters, but their freakish alien visage doesn’t exactly scream “eat me!” That’s the…
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TERA Online‘s Massive Monsters Make a 2012 Play Date
You know that action MMO TERA Online I can’t stop talking about? You’re going to have to deal with it for at least another seven months, as En Masse Entertainment opens up a Spring 2012 release window. I played TERA Online at GamesCom 2010, and it will be playable again at GamesCom 2011, but not…
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Confessions of a Beta Testing Addict
Commenter gametr4x loves hunting for bugs in PC games so much, he’s got multiple email accounts set up so he can apply to beta tests to his heart’s content, but it only took one account to be featured in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Does anybody else here apply to beta programs a lot? I…
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Angry Birds, Infinity Blade, Fruit Ninja, and Pan’s Labyrinth Converge in The Dark Meadow
Combining the slingshot controls of Angry Birds, the swordplay of Fruit Ninja, the gorgeous Unreal Engine-powered graphics of Infinity Blade, and the dark fairytale them of the film Pan’s Labyrinth, The Dark Meadow is the sort of iOS game nightmares are made of. Last seen working on ambitious super hero games, the ex-Midway staffers at…
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This PlayStation Move Knock-Off Completely Misses the Point
Hong Kong electronics distributor FirstSing claims to have the world’s first third-party PlayStation Move controller for sale, and it might; I just don’t see anyone actually purchasing it to find out. A cursory glance of the FirstSing FS18156 First Third-party Move Motion Navigation Controller suggests that it is exactly what people look for in a…
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There’s Very Little Time Left to Catch These Pokémon
How do you fit all 151 original Pokémon in one pokéball? Graphic designer Deanlord shows us how in one amazing t-shirt design, available for only a few more hours through TeeFury.com. The humble artist captures the spirit of the original Pokémon games in this gorgeous gathering of 151 pocket monster pals, tastefully silhouetted against a…
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