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How Planetside 2 Will Blow the Roof Off the Massively Multiplayer Online First-Person Shooter Genre
When it comes to blowing the roof off a video game genre, one couldn’t aim for a more low-hanging, flimsily constructed covering than that of the massively multiplayer online first-person shooter market. The concept is certainly a compelling one. Thousands of players battling in a never-ending struggle for control over vast amounts of territory, constantly…
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The Cost of One Man’s Irrational Fear of Turn Based Role-Playing
Commenter Mudson has spent his life in fear of the glory that is turn based role-playing games. Now he’s overcome that silly fear and wants to know what he’s been missing in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I’ve been playing Chrono Trigger recently. I was a late gamer starting with the Gamecube so I missed…
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The Origin PC EON17-S Laptop Births a New Respect for 3D Gaming
The first full day I spent actually playing games on the Origin PC EON17-S gaming laptop was a day filled with the wonders of 3D PC gaming, NVIDIA 3D Vision glasses only leaving my face during brief trips to see my newborn sons at the other end of the hospital. I hadn’t planned on spending…
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From Wii Beginnings Comes an Outstanding iPhone Real-Time Strategy Game
Originally intended to be released as a flash game, Ronimo Games’ 2D side scrolling joint Swords & Soldiers wound up hitting Nintendo’s WiiWare service in 2009 as what many consider one of the best real-time strategy console games of all time. Now its Chinese, Viking, and Aztec warriors invade the iPhone and iPad, and they’ve…
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Take a Good Hard Look at Planetside 2
The countdown has ended and Sony Online Entertainment has pulled back the curtain on Planetside 2, the sequel to the ambitious 2003 massively multiplayer online first-person shooter. While we’ll have more on the new game tomorrow morning, from the assets alone you can easily determine that the three factions from the original game – Terran…
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The Secret World’s Seedy Underbelly Doesn’t Care if You’re Peeing
In the latest trailer for Funcom’s The Secret World, a wannabe John Constantine discovers that the dark and gloomy things lurking just outside of the corner of your eye aren’t too worried about invading your personal space. Funcom actually showed this trailer for the upcoming supernatural MMORPG to the press back at PAX East 2010,…
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There Are No Words to Describe Cross-Platform Mobile Scrabble
Scrabble fans might want to sit down before reading this news. During EA’s live summer preview event, EA Mobile demonstrated a live round of Scrabble played across four different platforms: iPad, iPhone, Android, and Facebook. You’re probably floored right now. Catch your breath and read on. Kicking off with next week’s release of the free…
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It Takes One Deep Breath to Change the World in From Dust
Breathe in, drain a lake. Breathe out, flood a valley. The battle between god-graced humanity and unforgiving nature is distilled down to two simple actions in Ubisoft’s From Dust An ancient spirit tasked with protecting its tribe and helping its people to advance, The Breath is fully capable of reshaping the world as it sees…
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L.A. Noire Trapped in the Vile Clutches of Reefer Madness
In 1940’s Los Angeles, cannabis was not the subject of comedy movies. It was serious business, and Cole Phelps aims to take that business down in Reefer Madness, the next downloadable content case for L.A. Noire These days smoking pot carries far less of a stigma than it did in the 1940’s. I attribute this…
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Just Jam, Qix, and Fortified Zone Are Part of This Complete Nintendo Download
This week’s Nintendo Download is here, bringing with it a double dose of overpriced Game Boy classics and a load of other things you’ve probably never heard about. Let’s get right to it, shall we? When I first heard that the Nintendo 3DS would allow gamers to download and play classic Game Boy titles, the…
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Dishonored Is Bethesda’s New First-Person Action Game
Developed by Arkane Studios and slated for release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC in 2012, Dishonored is a first-person action game, and that’s all we’ll know until the new issue of Game Informer comes out. Thanks, Bethesda.
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Why Won’t These Legend of Zelda Characters Talk To Us?
Today’s Speak Up on Kotaku actually involves speaking up, as commenter Tengen Toppa Duck Face laments over the lack of voice acting in the latest Zelda game. To be totally honest, I’m really disappointed that (The Legend of Zelda) Skyward Sword doesn’t feature any voice acting. In my opinion, Skyward Sword will be the best…
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The End of the World is the Beginning of Rage
The latest developer documentary for id Software’s Rage demonstrates just how similar the story of this game is to a Fallout title. The world is ending. You’re packed inside an underground vault to ride out the apocalypse, only to awaken as the sole survival of your particular ark. You wander the wastelands, fighting mutants and…
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Game Store Owner Sentenced To 290 Years in Prison for Making Child Porn
Leland Beasley, the 43-year-old owner of the Gamestation Sector 19 video game stores in St. Louis County, Missouri, has been sentenced to 290 years in prison for the possession and production of child pornography, videos he recording during all-night gaming sessions at his place of business. In the harshest federal sentence for child porn ever…
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Touch Mai With The King of Fighters iPhone
Available now for the iPhone in Japan, The King of Fighters I delivers three-on-three team fights and one-on-one battles between 14 different fighters, with SNK Playmore promising six additional characters by October. Read all about it at Adriasang
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Who Said Plants Are Immune to the Zombie Plague?
When you get bitten by a zombie, you turn into a zombie. It’s one of the cardinal rules of the undead, but what if you’re a sentient plant? Are you immune? Says who? Well, says Popcap, obviously. In its smash hit Plants Vs. Zombies, plants don’t seem to be able to catch the undead plague.…
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A Musical Celebration of 15 Years of NiGHTS
The astoundingly talented community at OverClocked Remix have released NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming, a free album featuring twenty-seven tracks and tons of artwork celebrating the 15th anniversary of Sega’s beloved NiGHTS into Dreams. Download and love all over it
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Soon Your Kinect Space Requirement Woes Will Be a Thing of the Past
Come August 23 I will no longer need to move my couch in order to get my Just Dance on, thanks to Nyko’s Kinect clip-on Zoom device. How much would you pay to cut your Kinect’s space requirements by 40 percent? I’ll tell you how much you’ll pay. You’ll pay $29.99 and you’ll love it.…
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Gods & Heroes Looks Just As Exciting As It Did In 2005
Heatwave Interactive recently released Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising, a massively multiplayer online game that’s been in development since at least 2005, and it looks just as good as it looked back then. Unfortunately it’s 2011 now. Some of my earliest posts on Kotaku were about Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising, a promising massively multiplayer…
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Drinking And Gaming Can Kill a High Score
In this alcohol-soaked edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Ducce wonders how many of you break out the booze when it’s time to get your game on. Today during my lunch break I read this article in a magazine claiming that males between the ages 15-30 has been drinking less and less amounts (volumes…
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