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Brink Teeters at the Edge of Critical Failure
In Splash Damage’s Brink, rival factions do battle over the fate of a post-apocalyptic floating city called The Ark. Judging by the critical reaction of some video game critics, The Ark may have already sunk. Brink‘s intriguing combination of class-based team shooting a free-running movement have kept it high on gamers’ radar throughout its lengthy…
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Agent 47 Steps Out of the Shadows in Hitman: Absolution
Betrayed by the only people he trusts and hunted by the police, the beautifully bald and barcoded Agent 47 navigates a vast conspiracy in Hitman: Absolution, the latest adventure for IO Interactive’s killer-for-hire. IO Interactive makes the game official today, after a trademark filing outed the name of Hitman: Absolution late last month. According to…
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Rift Launches Free Trial and Ascend-a-Friend Program
You’ve had two months to look at videos and screenshots and complain about how much of a World of Warcraft clone it is. Now you can try Trion Worlds’ Rift for free and potentially score your Rifting friends a virtual puppy in the process. Today Trion Worlds launches two new initiatives to get more players…
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Someone Tell This Guy How Good Chrono Cross Is
In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter SecretMoblin openly admits to never having played the PlayStation classic Chrono Cross, and wonders if it’s even worth playing. It’s education time! So I know I’m really, really late to the party on this one, but I just started Chrono Cross yesterday having never played it when it…
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World of Warcraft Suffers Post-Cataclysmic Drop in Subscriptions
Six months after buzz for the Cataclysm expansion drove World of Warcraft numbers to an all-time high, Blizzard reports the lowest subscription figures for the massively multiplayer game since December of 2008. During the Activision Blizzard first quarter 2011 financial results conference call today, Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime told us that as of…
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Beachhead Project is an Important Part of This Year’s Call of Duty Game
Today’s Activision Blizzard first quarter 2011 financial results call came and went without specific mention of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, but talk surrounding Beachheads buzzword-powered online digital platform indicates it will play a strong role in the next Call of Duty game. Earlier this year Activision revealed that a new internal studio called…
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Diablo III Welcomes Players to Beta Hell This Summer
Fans around the world have been waiting for their chance to play Diablo III since the game was announced back in June of 2008. During today’s Activision financial results conference call, Blizzard boss Michael Morhaime pinpointed a three-month window for the Diablo III beta. “The game is looking great,” Morhaime said during the conference call,…
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Low Resolution Pixels are the Height of Fashion
If I were a fashion critic present when designer Kunihiko Morinaga debuted his fall/winter 2011/2012 fashion line, I might have described the pieces as something my Nintendo Entertainment System had thrown up, and I would have meant it with love. Pixels were on parade when Morinaga showed off his 8-bit designs during Japan’s fashion week.…
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Proof That Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will be a Blockbuster Hit
Wondering if the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film has what it takes to be a blockbuster? Look no further than this On Stranger Tides trailer for LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean. There are blocks busting everywhere.
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Rocksmith‘s Preorder Bonus is a Guitar Center Coupon
Ubisoft’s real music gameRocksmith will require a real guitar to play this fall. GameStop doesn’t carry real guitars, so every Rocksmith preorder comes with a $25 voucher good towards the purchase of your dream axe at Guitar Center. Rock on.
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This Life-Sized Portal Turret Replica Has Its Laser Eye on You
Complete with a red laser eye and motion-sensing sound bytes, video game replica prop master Ryan Palser’s latest creation is only one assload of bullets away from being a really bad idea. Palser has spent month’s putting together this replica of my favorite characters from the first Portal game, and all of his hard work…
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The Happy Cloud Speeds Up Video Game Downloads, But is Faster Better?
Within a minute of logging into my trial account at games-on-demand service The Happy Cloud I was playing the full PC version of LEGO Batman. “Instant gratification” is a phrase the company likes to toss about, and it certainly fits the bill. “Happy Cloud brings gamers instant gratification,” says Eric Gastfriend, Vice President and General…
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Do You Crave Sequels or Something Entirely New?
Commenter Monsieur Froid returns to Speak Up on Kotaku once more to ask readers whether they want daring new intellectual property or games that build upon the tried and true. Alrighty, Speak-Up, here’s a question to tickle your brains. Which do you prefer: continuations of your favourite series or new and original IPs? I’m looking…
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BioWare’s First Third-Person Shooter Comes to WiiWare
While BioWare may be known for its epic role-playing games, back in 2000 the developer was responsible for crafting the sequel to one of the greatest third-person shooters of all time, MDK, and today that sequel comes to WiiWare. The original MDK, developed by Shiny Entertainment of Earthworm Jim fame, followed the adventures of Kurt…
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The Week in Gaming Apps
Another week in gaming apps has passed, giving us a chance to chomp with Pac-Man, grind some Gears, take our pig for a stroll, and do whatever it is you do with a Destructopus And what do we have there at the end? Is that a Windows Phone 7 game in our list? Why yes,…
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Video Games are Artistic Enough for Federal Grant Money
For years the National Endowment for the Arts’ has been doling out millions of dollars to innovative television and radio projects about the arts or that could be considered works of art. Starting next year, video games are eligible for some of that sweet, sweet federal grant money. The National Endowment for the Arts has…
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