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Prototype 2 Does Not Make for a Very Heartwarming Mother’s Day Card
Activision picked a rather awkward game to help remind players that Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 8. I guess they are trying to say make your mother happy this Sunday, or consume her later and experience her disappointment first-hand.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be Steam-Powered
Square Enix partners with Steam for the digital release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution this August, offering a standard version and an Augmented Edition with digital artbook, soundtrack, and a download of the Deus Ex Game of the Year Edition
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The Saints Row Initiation Station Will Let Players Create Ninja Sex-Slaves Early
THQ doesn’t want players spending too much time creating their custom sleazeball character when Saints Row: The Third hits the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC this holiday season, so they’re releasing a standalone character creator before the game ships. Available in advance of Saints Row: The Third, the Saints Row Initiation Station is a…
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Comic Legend Alan Moore Teases Video Game Project
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Watchmen writer Alan Moore is famous for not wanting to see the properties he creates for comic books taken outside of the medium, but what about properties created with multiple mediums in mind? At a recent question and answer session celebrating his magazine Dodgem Logic, Moore hinted that such…
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Wikileaks Suspect Bradley Manning Found Inspiration in Video Games
In The Washington Post’s in-depth profile of the alleged source of classified information passed to WikiLeaks, a childhood friend discusses how computer games played a part in introducing Bradley Manning to the world of ideas. Bradley Manning is the soldier that was arrested in Iraq in May of last year on suspicion of passing classified…
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Should Video Game Retailers Screen Their Employees for Fanboyism?
Should video game store employees be allowed to let their personal preferences influence which products they suggest? That’s the question commenter Uncle Jesse asks in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Fanboys are everywhere, but do some of you who work at retail shops and try to influence your customers? Just because you love something, doesn’t…
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Enigmo is Good to the Last Drop on Windows Phone 7
While Pangea Software’s dripping liquid puzzle game may have been around in one form or another since 2003, Enigmo is brand-new to Windows Phone 7 users, and it’s making a splash. In Enigmo, various liquids (water, lava, oil) fall from droppers and bounce about each levels platforms. The player is tasked with utilizing various mechanisms…
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Russian Witcher 2 Calendar Bares All in the Name of Marketing
Poland celebrated the upcoming release of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with a virtual Triss Merigold Playboy shoot. The Russian publisher of the game takes the promotion a step further with a real-life naked Witcher 2 calendar. Be warned: The accompanying video contains naked lady parts. Ukrainian model known Klodi Monsoon lends her talents…
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When Pokémon Meets Dr. Seuss
What do you get when you mix Pokémon with the wonderfully twisted work of Theodor Seuss Geisel? Geek art mash up site Draw2D2 gives us several colorful answers. Every two weeks the artists of Draw2D2 tackle the task of combining a pair of geek references into a single image. They’ve mixed The Avengers with The…
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Assassin’s Creed Revelations Brings the Ezio Trilogy to a Close in November [Update]
After a week or so of vigorous teasing, Ubisoft finally lifts the curtain on Assassin’s Creed Revelations, the third and final chapter in the Ezio trilogy, coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC this November. In Assassin’s Creed Revelations Ezio Auditore embarks on a journey of self-discovery and revelation in the footsteps of…
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Tomb Raider Movie Reboot Raids Iron Man Writing Team
The Angelina-free 2013 reboot of the Tomb Raider movie franchise picks up steam today, as GK Films taps Iron Man movie scribes Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby to write Lara’s latest big screen adventure. The first Iron Man movie had some rather snappy writing, so Tomb Raider fans should be pleased by the news that…
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Comics and Gaming Collide in Square Enix’s Imaginary Range
The iPhone and iPad are great for reading comics. The iPhone and iPad are great for playing games. Square Enix taps top talent to combine the two in Imaginary Range, a new sort of interactive comic available free in the iTunes App Store. Imaginary Range is a digital comic with a difference. Written by Souki…
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Getting in Line with Linear Gameplay
In today’s fairly straightforward episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur Froid wonders why so many people have a problem with linear gameplay. Why do so many people dislike linear gameplay? If I’m going to buy a game, then I want for it to have a good story as well as good gameplay. Movies…
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Sega Saturn Classic Guardian Heroes Coming to Xbox Live Arcade
Sega is bringing an enhanced version of Treasure’s Saturn beat-em-up Guardian Heroes to Xbox Live Arcade this fall, complete with enhanced HD graphics, online cooperative play, and an online versus mode supporting up to 12 players at once. Rejoice!
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Player One or Player Two? Chimps Can Tell the Difference
Using the vast power of science, researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have found another good reason for a chimpanzee to play video games: to determine if they are self-aware enough to know which pixel represents their primate self. Self-awareness isn’t just for humans anymore. Sure, it’s a major feature of the human brain and…
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Donkey Kong Doesn’t Have to Do Anything, He’s a Gorilla
What’s so terrifying about a short Italian plumber that would make an 800 pound gorilla flee instead of facing him? As it turns out, absolutely nothing. Dorkly’s latest game-inspired video hits the barrel on the head. Even as a young boy, something struck me as odd about the dynamic between Mario and Donkey Kong. Mario…
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Mass Effect 3 Thrusts Its Way into Early 2012
Remember the first trailer for Mass Effect 3? The one that teased us with a “Holiday 2011” release date? Consider it invalidated, as the game’s executive producer scootches its release into early 2012. When a trailer comes out more than a year in advance of a game’s release, you can generally assume that the date…
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Next Week’s Rift Update Opens a Rift to the Plane of Facebook
If you’ve lost friends to Trion Worlds’ massively-multiplayer online role-playing game Rift, prepare to get them back in an annoying fashion next week, when the 1.2 update hooks its claws into Facebook. Now that the rifts from the Plane of Death have been sorted out, it’s time for Earth and Fire to have their go…
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