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Ubisoft Expects Minimal Impact from PlayStation Network Downtime
While the PlayStation Network security breach and subsequent downtime has had significant impact on many PlayStation 3 publishers, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says he expects his company’s cost to be minimal. Speaking today during Ubisoft’s fiscal year 2011 financial results conference call, Guillemot spoke about how the PlayStation Network’s security-spawned hiatus was affecting his company.…
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Street Fighter X Tekken Has Sexy British Legs and Knows How to Use Them
Though the latest teaser video for Capcom collaboration Street Fighter X Tekken takes the teasing to the extreme, there’s no mistaking the blonde braid and camouflaged flanks of Britain’s own Cammy White. With Ryu, Ken, Guile, Chun-Li, and Able already confirmed for Street Fighter X Tekken, it’s quite obvious to me that the Capcom side…
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It’s About Time Chrono Trigger Made it to the Wii Virtual Console
When a role-playing game is as centered on time travel as the Square classic Chrono Trigger, you really can’t argue when I call it one of the greatest RPGs of all time. Guess what I’ll be playing come Monday? You can Final Fantasy fanboy all you want, Squaresoft was at its absolute best when it…
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Why Play an MMO You Know One Day Will End?
In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Kain’s Legacy asks a poignant question: Why do we invest so much time in massively multiplayer online games that will one day cease to be? I was reading the article about the Lineage servers closing and it just got me thinking. I’ve thought about his before, but I…
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The Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection is Three Digitized Fighting Games in One
Warner Bros. is rolling out the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection this summer, bundling together Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in one downloadable package for the PlayStation3, Xbox 360, and PC. Shouldn’t that be Arkade Kollektion?
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CHiPs is Supposed to Protect Xboxes, Not Steal Them
Back in my day the men and women of the California Highway Patrol were a shining beacon of hope, justice, and racial diversity. The sort of organization that would never have one of their own arrested for allegedly stealing an Xbox from a Target store. Things sure have changed since 1983. Today 36-year-old California Highway…
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The Best Place to Loiter in Guild Wars 2
Every massively multiplayer online role-playing game needs a place for players to hang out, shout their auctions, and bitch about the development team working on the game they’re currently spending every waking hour playing. For Guild Wars 2, that city is Lion’s Arch. The city of Lion’s Arch was a hub for adventurers in the…
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Brink Takes a Swipe at Console Gamers while Deleting PC Gamers’ Characters
Oh those silly console gamers. They couldn’t possibly handle the advanced PC gaming concepts like objective-based teamplay. Why, if there was a bug in the game that say, deleted their characters completely if they exited the game too early, console gamers would be beside themselves. Wait, there is? The screen above, pulled from my copy…
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The Universal Wrist Gadget Charger Arms Your Electronics with Extra Life
In the age of smartphones, MP3 players, tablet PCs, and high-quality handheld gaming devices, people need all the electricity they can get their hands on, even if they have to strap it onto their bodies to carry it around. Now there’s an idea… And where there are nifty gadget ideas, online retailer ThinkGeek is generally…
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Play Angry Birds Online, Right Now, for Free
Google isn’t above killing a little productivity to prove the power of its web browser. The search engine king has released a special free browser-based version of Rovio’s avian-flinging sensation Angry Birds on the Chrome Web Store, just to prove it can be done. Announced earlier today at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco,…
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Thoughts Born of Ten Hours with Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Quintin Smith recently got a chance to play ten hours’ worth of Eidos Montreal’s latest cyberpunk thriller, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Rather than exhaustively regurgitating every minute, instead he shares the thoughts playing the game put into his head. Thoughts like, “I am SUCH a badass. Watch this!” Oh admit it, you’ve…
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Fallout: New Vegas‘ Honest Hearts Laid Bare in New Trailer and Screens
The unspoiled wilderness of Utah’s Zion National Park shines in the first trailer and screens for Fallout: New Vegas‘ Honest Hearts downloadable content, coming May 17 to the Xbox 360 and Steam, with the PlayStation 3 version coming whenever the PlayStation Network decides to start cooperating. The first of three new installments of downloadable content…
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What We Know So Far About Soulcalibur V
Since last night’s sneak peek at Soulcalibur V during Namco Bandai’s Dubai press event, game director Daishi Odashima has been Tweeting like mad, revealing fresh information about the sixth installment of the beloved fighting game franchise. Mind the 17-year gap! In his mad post-event Twitter rampage, Odashima ironed out some of the details of the…
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Hey Kids, Stealing Video Games is Not Cool
It seems like it should go without saying, but commenter CornflakeJustice felt like saying it anyway, and since this is Speak Up on Kotaku and not sit quietly and say nothing on Kotaku, here we are. When did it become cool to pirate games? Lately, I’ve been noticing a lot of people outright admitting to…
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Pulse: Volume One is a Fantastic Marriage of Music and Motion
While it may look like just another tap rhythm game for the iPad, Pulse: Volume One‘s concentric circles set the stage for a whimsical musical journey with limitless potential. If Auditorium developer Cipher Prime has proven anything it’s that they don’t make your average music games, so at first I was taken aback by the…
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You’ll Never Believe What Hitman‘s Barcode Really Means
Kotaku has confirmed the findings of a Reddit user who deciphered the hidden meaning behind the barcode appearing in the first teaser trailer for Hitman: Absolution IO Interactive revealed earlier today that Agent 47 would be going on a deeply personal journey in Hitman: Absolution, but I never thought it was this personal; this deep.…
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If You’re Going to Cosplay Lost Planet 2, You Might-As-Well Have a Working Mini-Gun
I was only mildly impressed with this pair of cosplayers’ efforts to recreate a scene from Capcom’s Lost Planet 2, at least until the mini-gun started spinning. I knew there was a good reason for the crazy female outfits in Lost Planet 2. Capcom’s Shawn “Snow” Baxter yanked this costumed couple out of a link…
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In Which Noob Saibot Lives Up to His Name
If you’re going to play a character named Noob, why not act the part? Mortal Kombat‘s Noob Saibot got his name from the last names of game creators John Tobias and Ed Boon spelled backwards. So it really was a stroke of luck that he get stuck with such an unfortunate first name. Noob gained…
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The War on Horror is Not Going So Well
In Capcom’s latest viral video for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, an unprofessional news anchor completely loses his head when a remote report on the “war of horror” goes awry. In less completely silly news, Capcom today revealed Rebecca Chambers as the seventh playable character in the 3DS version of Resident Evil 4 and 5‘s…
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