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The Week in Gaming Apps
The long holiday weekend here in the states is perfect for getting together with your relatives. Mobile gaming is the perfect way to take your mind off that horrible possibility. Let’s see what we’ve played this week, shall we? Only four games were showcased this week instead of the normal five, but one of them…
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Hulk Hogan’s Kinect Game Teaches the Fine Art of Wrestling Showmanship
Being a successful professional wrestler takes more than having the right moves in the ring, and no one knows that better than the legendary Hulk Hogan. That’s why the Kinect-powered Hulk Hogan’s Main Event focuses as much on winning the crowd as it does winning the match. Terry Gene Bollea didn’t become one of the…
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Fishing Cactus Resurrects Artificial Life with Creatures 4
The adorable Norns return as Belgian development studio Fishing Cactus announces Creatures 4, the first new entry in the popular artificial life simulator series since 1999. The free-to-play game will be available this winter for iOS devices, PC and Mac.
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The Life and Times of a Star Wars: The Old Republic Trooper
Long before the clones started fighting the robots, Republic Troopers roamed the galaxy, keeping the peace with the aid of the finest weapons and sexiest armor this side of a Bounty Hunter. Let’s take a look at how Troopers progress in Star Wars: The Old Republic You don’t start out with the good stuff. You…
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It’s Nice to See Mortal Kombat Putting Skin On for Once
As reported yesterday, the new Mortal Kombat‘s first dose of downloadable content delivers new skins for the game’s wacky human ninja crew, in honor of the early 90’s law of ninja costume conservation. In order to keep this from being the laziest collection of downloadable content ever, the MK team has also brought three classic…
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Reviews
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: The Kotaku Review
The stench hits me first. Before the gurgle and hiss, the skittering of twisted claws against bare stone, the stale air of the abandoned mine delivers a stomach-churning whiff of the creatures’ breath, the miasmal scent of spoiled flesh between rotting teeth. Rotfiends. Eaters of the dead. They overwhelm two of my senses, so I…
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Hydro Thunder Go is Definitely a Must-Have Windows Phone 7 Game
After launching out of the starting gate with an impressive collection of titles the release of quality Xbox Live-enabled games for the Windows Phone 7 slowed to a trickle. Now Microsoft speeds things up a bit with six weeks of “Must-Have” Windows Phone games, and what better way to increase velocity than with the action-packed…
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The Dark of the Moon Shows a Brighter Side of Transformers Multiplayer
Transformers: War for Cybertron got online multiplayer right, treating the Autobots and Decepticons like soldiers rather than children’s toys. The problem was the setting of Cybertron didn’t exactly lend itself to varied battlegrounds and colors other than red and purple. Movie tie-in Dark of the Moon fixes that. The other problem with War for Cybertron…
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This is What Alice Looks Like Before She Tears You a New Asshole
If you happen to wander across sweet Alice during her travels in Wonderland and she should happen to flash red, white, and red all over, you’re probably going to die. This is Hysteria. Similar to the powerful effects of the Rage Box from American McGee’s Alice, the Hysteria power in Alice: Madness Returns infuses our…
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Resistance 3 Knows You Love Retailer-Exclusive Preorder Bonuses
Want to play as Resistance and Resistance 2 hero Nathan Hale in Resistance 3‘s online multiplayer? You’d better enjoy shopping at Best Buy. What other retailer-exclusive goodies has Sony got up its sleeves? We hate them, but the publishers and retailers seem to like dangling unique shiny prizes in from of gamers faces in order…
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A-ha Takes on Red Faction: Armageddon‘s Sketchy New Game Mode
When the ancient alien plagued colonized of the planet Mars meet a popular Norwegian New Wave band, there can be only one outcome: Pipe wrench fight! THQ and Volition tap 80’s pop sensation A-ha to demonstrate Red Faction: Armageddon‘s delightful Sketch Mode, created in order to “celebrate the Martian passion for hypercolor and keyboard solos”.…
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Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Reveals Fresh New Details
In Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood our friend Ezio’s travels take him to Constantinople, heart of the Ottoman Empire, where no man’s feet need touch the floor while seated. We know he’s following in the footsteps of Assassin’s Creed‘s Altair, but why? Ubisoft promised us answers, and they’re slowly letting them trickle out as we build to…
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The Red Faction: Armageddon PC Demo is an OnLive Exclusive
In another big win scored in the name of internet streaming gaming, PC players looking to give THQ’s Red Faction: Armageddon a try before the game’s June 6 release date are going to have to sign up for OnLive. Don’t bother looking on Steam or Direct2Drive, at least not until June 6. Until then the…
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It’s Okay To Be Jealous of Europe’s Arcana Heart 3 Super 3D Boobie Edition
All we saw of Examu’s girl-on-girl fighting game Arcana Heart 3 in North America was a lousy downloadable PlayStation 3 exclusive. Not only does the game come on both the PS3 and Xbox 360 in Europe, it’s packed with simulated breasts. Curse you, Europe! Limited to the other side of the pond and weighing in…
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Let Us Mourn the Games We’ve Loved and Lost
Commenter Shin Lord was so certain his post about video games and consoles we regret trading, selling, or losing would make it into Speak Up on Kotaku he made his own image. Cocky bastard, isn’t he? Parting ways with a video game or console is easy for some, but traumatic for others. Since gaming is…
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Diablo III‘s Skill-Transforming Runestone System in Action
When it was first explained to me way back in 2008, the power-enhancing rune system of Diablo III sounded like it would lead to countless permutations of every skill and spell in the game. Now it’s only five, but they’re still pretty spectacular. This slimmed-down runestone system made its debut at last year’s BlizzCon. Rather…
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Does This Experiment Prove That Violent Games Increase Aggressive Behavior?
In a University of Missouri study sure to be cited by anti-gaming pundits for years to come, researchers provide what could be considered solid proof of the link between violent video games, aggression, and wearing funny hats. Associate professor of psychology at the University of Missouri Bruce Bartholow and his colleagues have seen studies claiming…
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