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Think L.A. Noire Has Impressive Facial Animations? Check This Out
It’s true that work that Team Bondi has done animating the faces of real life actors in Rockstar’s L.A. Noire is nothing short of astounding, but Janimation’s facial recognition technology creates virtual faces so real you can almost smell their stinking breath. Kotaku reader and Janimation employee Trevor Hykes passed along this incredibly impressive technology…
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Resident Evil Movie Director Spends Days Watching Other People Play Resident Evil
How does director Paul W.S. Anderson keep coming up for ideas for new entries in the Resident Evil film franchise? According to his wife, series star Milla Jovovich, “professional video game players” do his research for him. Paul Anderson doesn’t have time to play through the Resident Evil games himself. He’s far too busy doing…
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Do You Enjoy Reading Your Video Game Dialog?
In today’s episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Korio8 wonders if anyone else prefers subtitles in their video games, even if they can hear every spoken word perfectly. Do most of you people have the subtitles turned on when gaming? It has become my habit to watch movies or play games with subtitles since…
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Mortal Kombat: Legacy Puts the Thunder God Through Hell on Earth
In the latest episode of director Kevin Tancharoen’s live-action Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series, the Thunder God Raiden choose a particularly inconvenient place to make his first appearance in the realm of mortals. No one is ever going to believe you when you tell them you are a god. You could be decked out in…
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Cybernetic Augmentations from Sarif Industries Will Change Your Life
Sarif Industries: Building better people for a better tomorrow. What could a human augmentation company that’s done so much good possibly have to hide? This lovely little viral video for Sarif Industries, the fictional biomechanical augmentation company that plays a central role in Deus Ex: Human Revolution leaves my limbs and eyes aching for the…
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How a Daredevil Photographer in a Biplane Helped Bring L.A. Noire to Life
To recreate modern-day Los Angeles in a video game, all one has to do is load up Google Earth and go to town, so to speak. To recreate the 1940’s Los Angeles of Rockstar’s L.A. Noire, one man had to hang out of a biplane. Team Bondi might be making a name for themselves creating…
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Altair Misses the Haystack in The Witcher 2
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Altair from Assassin’s Creed missed one of those graceful swan dives into conveniently placed bales of hay? The Witcher 2 has your answer. Sometimes the hay bales just aren’t as dense as you expect them to be, as proven by this morbid cameo from one of Ubisoft’s…
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Let’s Hope Barry Doesn’t Get Blackmailed in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
Resident Evil and Resident Evil 3 veteran Barry Burton is ready to kick ass as the latest character revealed for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D for the Nintendo 3DS. Just make sure his family is somewhere safe before you play. Otherwise Albert Wesker might use them against Barry again, just like he did in the…
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The Witcher 2 Wastes No Time Getting Naked
All great sword and sorcery epics have an element of romance to them. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings gets the romancing underway within the first ten minutes of starting a new game. Be warned: I’ve misplaced my censor bars. How soon you get to this scene in CD Projekt’s latest PC role-playing game depends…
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Has Aging Changed the Way You Game?
Commenter Sumada feels he doesn’t appreciate games as much as he did when he was younger. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku we explore how aging has changed the way you play and appreciate video games. Lately I’ve been thinking about why I don’t appreciate games as much as I did when I was younger.…
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Plants Vs. Zombies Singer Only Wants You Gone
Plants Vs. Zombies songstress Laura Shigihara was so impressed by Jonathan Coulton’s ending theme “Want You Gone” that she recorded what might be the most adorable version of the song committed to YouTube video. Laura Shigihara takes the musical talent she demonstrated while penning and performing the Plants Vs. Zombies ending theme “Zombies on Your…
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We’ll Forgive Another Take on Catherine‘s Scantily-Clad Actress for Not Being Good at the Game
Launching day-and-date with Atlus’ sexy Persona spin-off Catherine, Another Take on Catherine is 70 minutes of Japanese gravure idol CoCo demonstrating how much she looks like the game’s title character both with and without clothes. Just don’t ask her to play the game. Another Take on Catherine is one of the latest releases from Studio…
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Dragon Age Legends: Remix 01 Delivers Hack-and-Slash in a Flash
Dragon Age Legends developer EA2D turned over all of the assets to its Facebook strategy role-playing game to acclaimed Flash game developer Pixelante, and the action-packed Dragon Age Legends: Remix 01 is what they got back. Pixelante’s Evan Miller isn’t one to create slow, Facebook-style strategy role-playing experiences. EA2D already made that game, so when…
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Before Playing Gotham City Impostors Read Batman: Impostors
Want to get more out of Monolith Productions upcoming downloadable multiplayer game Gotham City Impostors? Then you’ll want to read Batman: Impostors, an epic four-issue story arc that first appeared in Detective Comics last year. Gotham City Impostors is a cunning way to deliver a multiplayer Batman experience without having to worry about who plays…
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Darius Mason Didn’t Mean to Get All Those Martian Colonists Killed
In Red Faction: Armageddon, Darius Mason does indeed open up an ancient shaft on the surface of Mars, awakening a long-dormant alien race from its slumber to kill his fellow colonists in droves, but it’s not his fault. He was tricked. It’s all Adam Hale’s fault, though technically the blame lies on Darius’ grandfather Alec…
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Now You Know Your Video Game ABCs
A is for alien, B is for Bomberman, and C is for Chun-Li. Do you know your video game ABCs? Artist Fabian Gonzalez knows his ABCs. He’s created a series of colorful character-specific alphabets featuring superheroes and Simpsons characters ,and now he focuses his talents on creating 26 video game themed letters for your viewing…
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Catherine Asks “Are You Committed?”
Last month Atlus asked Catherine fans to send in their video responses to questions about love and marriage. Those answers are now part of a brand-new trailer for the game, laced with some sexy new footage and packaged with new screens for those that could care less about other people’s marriage habits. I’m perfectly fine…
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Reviewers Detect Something Wonderful in L.A. Noire
As players prepare to lead Detective Cole Phelps through the seedy underbelly of 1940’s Los Angeles, game reviewers have already cracked the case of L.A. Noire‘s worthiness wide open. When Rockstar Games isn’t busy pushing out award-winning entries in its wildly successful Grand Theft Auto franchise, the studio likes to explore settings that aren’t normally…
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