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Ubisoft Queues Up Assassin’s Creed, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell Movies
Launched earlier this year, Ubisoft’s motion picture arm is wasting no time at all getting the game developer’s biggest franchises onto the silver screen, with 3D features based on Assassin’s Creed, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell in the works. Ubisoft is finally putting into motion its long-standing plan to transform itself from video game developer…
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The Day That Xbox Live Customer Service Cared
We only ever hear negative things about customer service, because a satisfied customer rarely spends time gushing over their experience on the internet. Commenter KillerIri5h is an exception, raving about his Xbox Live customer service experience in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. So like many people, I’ve fallen on hard times financially. I’m an artist…
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Chrono Trigger Warps Your Wii Back to 1995
The Wii Virtual Console travels back in time this week to a time when a much softer Square made games that were consistently excellent. It’s not that Square Enix doesn’t put out good games. There are plenty of excellent modern games out there bearing the company’s brand. It’s just that back in the days when…
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The Week in Gaming Apps
From a role-playing game without a story to a gory falling death, full-featured football to the future of music gaming, this Week in Gaming Apps has something for everyone, even if they prefer sheep. Writing up this round-up of our daily gaming app posts really helps put into perspective the staggering variety of gaming apps…
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Who Steals Video Games From a Physically Challenged Seven-Year-Old?
Seven-year-old Michael Suhy of Rochester, Pennsylvania, suffers from a form of muscular dystrophy that leaves him confined to a wheelchair. One of his only outlets is his Nintendo DS, at least until it was stolen and traded in at GameStop for cash. According to police 23-year-old Derrick Durant, the ex-boyfriend of Michael’s older sister, stopped…
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This Handheld Shadow of the Colossus is a Beautiful Dream
Kotaku reader Maxwell passed along this wondrous mixture of old and slightly less old without any sort of source, so I’ll just assume it sprang forth from the unspoken desires of gamers everywhere. Update: Maxwell says this is a project he’s working on, and offers us another tantalizing glimpse.
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A Sworcery-Style Farewell to Electronic Arts
EA Tiburon online software engineer Ben Burbank quit his job today, but not without leaving a pixelated postcard to the people he met along the way, inspired by iPad adventure game Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Leaving a job is never easy. Our jobs are a major portion of our life, often taking up more…
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Explore the Halls of Asgard in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online
Just in time to help curb your child’s urge to run about the house smashing things with hammers, the family-friendly free-to-play MMO Marvel Super Hero Squad Online expands into Asgard, the home of Thor in all his many forms and splendor. I mention his many forms because this first expansion to the cutesy Marvel MMO…
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The Real Reason Behind Zelda’s Sheik Disguise
Relationships flourish on trust, but if you had the opportunity to hide in plain sight and observe how your significant other behaves when you aren’t around, would you take it? Zelda sure as hell would. Dorkly missed an excellent opportunity for a “Well excuse me, Princess!” gag here, but it’s okay. We forgive them.
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This is All You Really Need to See of Uwe Boll’s Latest Bloodrayne Movie
Next month Phase 4 Films releases the latest movie in Uwe Boll’s epic Bloodrayne series on Blu-ray and DVD, Bloodrayne: The Third Reich, starring Natassia Malthe and her breasts. Instead of purchasing it, why not just look at Fangoria’s exclusive images and make up your own story? Once upon a time there was a half-vampire…
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Behold the Terrifying Dark Power of The Old Republic’s Sith Inquisitor
The Sith Inquisitor class in Star Wars: The Old Republic is the living embodiment of the darkest shadowy corners of the Force. BioWare seduces players to the Empire’s side with sexy new details about these dark sorcerers and assassins. In traditional role-playing terms, The Old Republic‘s Sith Inquisitor is both a rogue and a caster,…
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What Strange Gaming Habits Have You Picked Up Over the Years?
In today’s installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Vlyke615 wonders what strange gaming habits we’ve developed over the years. It’s sharing time! Any of you that played games as a kid have a habit you still do to this day while playing any game? This one in particular is just with racing but I…
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When You See F.E.A.R. 3‘s Wall of Death, You Fucking Run
A gauntlet of enemies stands between your team and freedom. Behind you a rolling wall of instant death, relentlessly advances on your position. What do you do? You fucking run. Warner Bros. and Day 1 Studios like to use a pair of asterisks when referring to the most compelling multiplayer mode in next month’s F.E.A.R.…
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This Turkish Rendition of Super Mario Bros. Music is Definitely Dance-Worthy
From the Republic of Turkey comes this wonderful impromptu rendition of the Super Mario Bros. theme song, a familiar tune in an unfamiliar place. Unfamiliar that is unless you live in Turkey, where Çağrı Ulusoy on the darbuka and Emre Kaya on clarinet add a distinctively Turkish flair to the song that propelled a million…
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By the Time the Army of Darkness Reached the iPhone It Was Too Late
Nineteen years ago Bruce Campbell and his time-displaced chin took on the forces of evil in a movie that generated a good fifteen years’ worth of amusing quotes. Today Backflip Studios releases Army of Darkness Defense for the iPhone. Bruce Campbell is Ash Williams, one asshole of a retail employee teleported via ancient evil book…
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The 50 Worst Voices in Video Game History Meet One Hilarious Face
Behind every badly-read line of video game dialog there is an equally horrific voice actor. Face actor Dean Lauderdale channels fifty of the worst, possibly redeeming them in the process. From The Legend of Heroes to Resident Evil: Director’s Cut, Lauderdale lends his hyper-elastic face to some of the worst video game performances since they…
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A Five Minute Guided Tour of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
If you’ve not seen this walkthrough video of 38 Studios and Big Huge Games’ Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, you might have the impression that this is a generic action RPG. Once you see the video you’ll definitely have that impression. I want to believe that the combination of author R.A. Salvatore’s words, Spawn creator Todd…
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Could a Video Game Save Your Life During a Natural Disaster?
Could a video game mean the difference between life and death the next time the planet decides to violently erupt near a heavily populated area? That’s the question Geeks Without Bounds plans to answer with GameSave, a five week long hack-a-thon event aimed at creating the ultimate disaster relief video game. Video game website Gameranx‘s…
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5th Cell’s Cover Shooter Hybrid Innovates Itself into 2012
Hybrid, the cover-focused Xbox Live Arcade shooter from the creators of Scribblenauts that made a splash at GDC earlier this year, has been pushed back into 2012, the extra time used to “create the highest quality title possible”.
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An Innocent Sandwich Died to Create Weapons for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North developer Snowblind Studios takes its weapon creating seriously in this behind-the-scenes video, and an innocent lunchtime treat gives its life for the greater good.
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