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What’s the Best Game for a Multiplayer Shooter Noob?
Commenter DeapGalaxy isn’t an online multiplayer shooter fan, but he’d sure like to be. Help him find the perfect game in today’s thrilling episode of Speak Up on Kotaku. Okay, I need help with getting a game. I’ve never really gotten into the whole multiplayer shooter scene, I’ve never even owned a single Call of…
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Groove Coaster is a Finger-Tapping Musical Space Invaders Masterpiece
Just when I was certain there was no new way to combine tapping fingers and music on the iPhone, Reisuke Ishida marries the aesthetic of his award-winning Space Invaders: Infinity Gene with an equally gorgeous collection of tracks in Groove Coaster I initially purchased Groove Coaster from the iTunes App Store yesterday simply because it…
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Expert Says Blaming Massacres on Video Games Smacks of Racism
When tragedies such as the recent massacre in Oslo, Norway occur, the first place many look to lay blame is in the video games the perpetrators played. According to clinical psychologist Christopher Ferguson, when white males kill and games are blamed, there may be racism at play. While there is concrete evidence that accused Oslo…
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When Two Fighting Game Producers Go To War, Asses Get Punctured
Yesterday Owen teased us with tales of the series of bizarre challenges that led up to the epic Street Fighter X Tekken battle between Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono and Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada at Comic-Con 2011. Turns out it’s even stranger than he made it sound. Remember, this may seem odd to video game…
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Lose Hope for Wesley Snipes’ iPhone Game in Two Lines of Dialog
“I live in the shadows. Shadows are dark places.” I’ve only seen one minute of footage from Wesley Snipes’ Julius Styles: The International, and already I’ve learned an important lesson about darkness. Thanks, Blade. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and…
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Apparently I’m Not Allowed to Sell My Children for Online Gaming Money Either
The internet is abuzz with the story of a Chinese couple that’s gotten in trouble for selling their three children for money to spend on online games. As it turns out, that’s not the sort of thing people take kindly to no matter where you live. According to Sanxiang City News, young couple Li Lin…
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GameStop Brings the Convenience of Digital PC Game Delivery to Retail
Not everyone that purchases downloadable PC games does it because they prefer shopping at home. Some of them just hate discs and boxes. Maybe it’s an environmental thing. Perhaps their father was killed by a DVD. Whatever the case, GameStop’s in-store digital PC game purchase method is perfect for those types. It makes sense, I…
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Magic: The Gathering Creator’s New Kard Combat Won’t Kill Your Wallet
As the father of Magic: The Gathering, Richard Garfield is the man responsible for countless crazed gamers spending their savings on tiny bits of colorful card stock. With Kard Combat Garfield and Hothead Games deliver card-based strategy as deep as Magic, and it doesn’t cost players one penny (unless they want it to). Originally conceived…
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Nobody Shoots Things Quite Like Ratchet & Clank
Once you get past the irresistible Lombax /robot dynamic, the most appealing aspect of any Ratchet & Clank game is the creative ways Insomniac Games comes up with for blasting enemies into their component nuts and bolts. Let’s look at four fancy new weapons coming in Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Insomniac capitalizes on…
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Now That We Feel Bad About Our Early 3DS Purchase, Let’s Golf!
So you spent an extra $80 on the 3DS than folks picking it up next month. You’ll be getting 20 free games eventually, and you can play Let’s Golf 3D right now. Who’s the winner now? I’d say it’s still the folks that waited, but Let’s Golf 3D does look rather fetching, what with its…
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Rage Enemies Have Personality, At Least Until You Kill Them
In the latest behind-the-scenes video for Rage, the folks at id Software explain how they created hordes of lifelike, realistic, thinking and feeling enemies for you to tear into little pieces. That’s why they build them up, buttercup. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him…
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Dear Crytek, Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong
In today’s laser-targeted edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Petey 2 Kold has an issue with Crysis 2 on the PlayStation 3, and would like to make developer Crytek aware of it. Have at them, Petey 2. Dear Crytek: As you read this, I am conducting an experiment. I’ll tell you about it at…
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Whenever Well-Endowed Anime Women Trap People in Their Cleavage, Catherine Fan Art Will Be There
The box art for the newly-released Catherine is sexy, striking, and apparently easy to replicate using whatever large-chested anime woman you happen to have lying about. It’s not copying, it’s a tribute! Kayris from 8BitFix has gathered together some of the better Catherine cover inspired works from around the internet, representing everything from Hellsing‘s Seras…
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Take a Look at the Social Side of Resistance 3
In case your curiosity hadn’t gotten the better of you after Owen posted about Resistance 3’s social networking tie-in over the weekend, here’s the trailer for Global Resistance, a way to play a Resistance-like not-Resistance while not playing Resistance 3
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Resident Evil 4 and Code: Veronica HD Remakes Get Prices, Dates, Screens, and Trailers
The downloadable HD remakes of Resident Evil 4 and Code: Veronica X look even better once you know that they’re coming to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network in North America and Europe in September for 20 bucks a pop. I suppose it’s too late for you to look at the latest screenshots and gameplay…
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This is Your Final Free Dose of Red Dead Redemption DLC
Rockstar puts a name and a date of the final free installment of downloadable content for its award-winning western, Red Dead Redemption We knew Rockstar planned one last batch of downloadable content for Red Dead, but we didn’t know that it was called the Myths and Mavericks Bonus Pack, nor did we know it was…
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MapleStory Oozes Its Sweet, Sticky Goodness All Over Facebook
Admit it, you’ve been playing Nexon’s adorable side-scrolling MMO MapleStory for years, hiding your age behind your joyously big-headed avatar. It’s time to finally share your secret passion with the world via Facebook’s MapleStory Adventures The next exciting chapter in the story of Maple World will be broadcast on your Facebook wall for all the…
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Catherine Charms the Pants Off Video Game Critics
Catherine first caught gamers’ eyes last year largely due to sexy half-naked images of its title character. Months later the game is on store shelves, and we’ve all gained a deeply profound appreciation for sexy half-naked images of its title character. Hopefully the assembled game critics got beyond that bit. Catherine is a sexy horror…
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These Two Indie Games Are Worth $250,000 to Activision
While not actively engaged in being an evil video game empire, Activision engages in a little independent game developer philanthropy in the form of the Activision Independent Games Competition, the first and second prize winners of which just received a massive influx of development capital. Meet Dstroyd and Rigonauts: Broadside Activision Publishing created the Activision…
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