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The 2011 Into the Pixel Collection Celebrates the Finest in Video Game Art
Every year experts from the fine art world and the interactive entertainment industry bestow upon video game artists the highest honor they can receive — inclusion in the Into the Pixel art collection. Let’s take a look at the seventeen pieces that made the cut this year. The Into the Pixel collection is a joint…
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GLaDOS Begins Aural Testing with Free Portal 2 Soundtrack Downloads
While the brilliant and mostly dead scientific minds at Aperture Science aren’t busy coming up with new ways for robots to kill you, they like to kick back and relax with a little testing music. Now you can too, with the first of three “downloadable aural stimulus packages” featuring the music of Portal 2 Get…
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Behold the Shrunken Glory of MineCraft Running on an Android Phone
We’ve all seen the picture, now let’s drool over how well MineCraft Pocket Edition runs on the Xperia Play. Making its big debut at E3 2011 early next month, MineCraft Pocket Edition is the portable block building game you’ve all been waiting for. Shown here running on Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, this tiny version of…
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Show Her You Love Her With a Pus-Filled Zombie
Women love jewelry. Women love large, shambling, goo-filled undead creatures. Combine the two and you’ve got a one-way ticket to a night of messy romance, thanks to this charming Left 4 Dead Boomer necklace. Video game jewelry artist DeadlyPretty is a big fan of Valve’s Left 4 Dead series, and as it happens she creates…
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Aion Stays Alive with Update 2.5
Today NCsoft’s massively-multiplayer online game Aion upgrades to version 2.5, Empyrean Calling, delivering a host of new content, features, and tweaks aimed at pleasing players current and lapsed. Is it enough to lure fresh MMO fans to the game? NCsoft seems to think so, choosing today’s major update as the launching point for the game’s…
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The Best Feature of the Xperia Play is Kristen Schaal Acting Ridiculous
Kristen Schaal’s web ads were the highlight of the launch of the Xperia Play, the device previously referred to as the PlayStation Phone. Sony Ericsson prolongs the magic with a series of outtakes from the actress and comedienne’s commercial shoot.
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Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville Online
After 34 years as a song enjoyed by drunk people wearing loud Hawaiian shirts, Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville becomes a virtual online playground for drunk people wearing loud Hawaiian shirts. No, the Hawaiian shirt is not optional. Magaritaville Online is a virtual buffet of Buffett coming to Facebook and iOS devices this fall courtesy of THQ…
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The Joy of Making Video Gaming a Family Affair
Commenter Madammina‘s tale of playing through Kingdom Hearts with her little brother reminds us how much fun it is to play video games with our loved ones in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. As very few of you know, I’ve been playing Kingdom Hearts with my baby brother. He wanted to play Kingdom Hearts 2…
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This Is Definitely Not Nintendo’s Project Café
Mario does not approve. Sketch comedy group 20 Second Power-Up created this clip as a sort of “bizarre Marvel Comics ‘What If?’ scenario” celebrating the impending unveiling of the next Nintendo console. Here’s hoping they’re way off the mark.
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The Beast Arrives in Infamous 2, and You Will Not Be Ready
Towards the end of inFamous, Cole MacGrath is given a vision of The Beast, an all-powerful world destroyer that only he has the power to stop. At the beginning of Infamous 2, he fails. Infamous lovingly sets Cole up for a fall in Infamous 2. As the game begins The Beast arrives in Empire City,…
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Fear the Positron Blades of Anarchy Reigns‘ Leo
Amidst all of the bizarre characters introduced thus far for Platinum Games’ online beat ’em Anarchy Reigns, Leo is by far the most human-looking. So it makes sense that he’s a cyborg. Standing at six feet, seven inches and weighing in at 362 pounds, Leo is a state-of-the-art cyborg with four limb-mounted “Positron Blades”, perfect…
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What the Sharp-Dressed Heavy Will Be Wearing in Tribes: Ascend
Hi-Rez Studios continues to tease Tribes fans with concept art from its upcoming online multiplayer sequel Tribes: Ascend. Here’s a look at the heavy-class armor Diamond Sword and Blood Eagle troops will be sporting once the game drops.
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Sit Back and Listen to a Tale of The Witcher
In a dreary encampment outside the small town of Flotsam the inhabitants gather nightly to listen to legendary tales of heroism. You don’t need to visit, but if you’re passing through you’d do well to stop and sit awhile. I must have run through this camp a dozen times before I stumbled upon this storytelling…
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Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong Now That Duke Nukem Forever Has Gone Gold
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. A gold master containing the culmination of fourteen years of game development is now in production, discs filled with action, toilet humor, and attitude rolling off the line in preparation for Duke Nukem Forever‘s June 10 release. Gamers’ collective hearts skipped a beat when Gearbox Software delayed Duke’s return…
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Two Ninjas Converge in a Snowy Wood in Mortal Kombat: Legacy
Episode seven of director Kevin Tancharoen’s live-action Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series touches on the origin of two of the video game franchise’s most iconic characters, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Why did they use two actors instead of just palette swapping? It’s easy to forget the tragic tale of Scorpion while you’re busy harpooning your enemies…
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Digital Storm’s Newest Gaming Rig Swaps Choice For Affordability
Why are custom gaming rigs so expensive? There’s no such thing as a bulk discount when a company has to order each part individually. For players not picky about parts, Digital Storm’s new line of affordable pre-built gaming PCs might be the answer to pricey PC gaming. When last I touched base with Digital Storm…
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Let’s Help a Gamer Get Into Anime
Commenter SecretMoblin has yet to experience the joy of sitting in a darkened room at 3AM sobbing hysterically over a Japanese cartoon. He needs anime suggestions, so its time to Speak Up on Kotaku. I’ve never seriously watched any anime, and I’m looking to start. I’ve seen a couple episodes of Ranma and a couple…
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