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The Week in Gaming Apps
This week our gaming apps had the rhythm of PaRappa the Rapper‘s creator, the controversy of illegal immigration, and the dubious honor of being the iPhone’s first true World of Warcraft clone. This week’s gaming apps were all iOS-centric, but we’ve constantly got our eye out for important games on other mobile platforms. Considering my…
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Building a Better Elise in the New SSX
We’ve all seen the screenshots of the sleeker, more realistic look EA is giving blonde bombshell Elise Riggs in the new SSX game. Now let’s take a look at how she was created, from concept art to modeling her sleeker, more realistic panty line. When I posted the screenshots of Elise’s new SSX look, several…
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Did Ubisoft Just Leak the Next Assassin’s Creed Game?
A message appearing briefly on the Assassin’s Creed Facebook page lead NeoGAF users to a Flash file urging fans to “Spread the Word” to reveal an exclusive look at the next Assassin’s Creed game, and lurking within the Flash file was this logo. What is Assassin’s Creed: Revelations? The Facebook message appeared for only a…
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Dark Horse Digital Comics Debuts with Dungeon Siege III
The comic book publisher behind Hellboy and The Umbrella Academy have launched a digital Dungeon Siege III comic book series, and you can read the first issue right now courtesy of the newly-opened Dark Horse Digital. So they’re a little late to the party. What matters is they made it. Dark Horse Comics launched its…
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The Sith Wear the Best Outfits in The Old Republic
The Jedi use their mystical powers for good. The Sith? The Sith use their mystical powers for sexy. Check out what the well-dressed Sith Warrior will be wearing in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic If Star Wars has taught me anything, it’s that the bad guys always look way cooler than the good guys.…
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Need for Speed The Run Brings The Story Back To Street Racing
Yesterday we posted the leaked trailer for the next installment of Need for Speed, The Run. Today EA makes it official and tells us what’s so special about this round of illicit, high stakes racing. As McWhertor surmised yesterday, The Run is indeed the next installment of the Need for Speed series from EA’s Black…
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Why Do Video Games Hide Their True Endings?
In today’s slightly spoilery episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter 黒人 laments the games that require a player complete countless complicated steps in order to see their “true” endings. I have a bit of a distaste for “real endings” in games. This doesn’t apply to all games with multiple endings where one of them is…
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Marvel Pinball Celebrates 50 Years of the Fantastic Four
The family that stays together for 50 years plays pinball together as well. Zen Studios adds to its highly successful Marvel Pinball series with a Fantastic Four table featuring Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing, and…wait, where’s Spider-Man? I guess a product celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Fantastic Four needs to stick with the original…
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Just How World of Warcraft Is Order & Chaos Online?
Gameloft has finally turned its uncanny game mimicking powers to World of Warcraft and the result is a surprisingly enjoyable iPhone MMO with a great deal of potential. But is it a clone? There are definitely elements of Order & Chaos Online that seem ripped directly from World of Warcraft. The characters, for instance, do…
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Redbox Video Game Rentals Go Nationwide In June
After nearly two years of testing video game rentals in its ubiquitous crimson movie rental machines, Redbox is ready to take its game national, offering game rentals at more than 21,000 locations nationwide starting June 17. Redbox began testing video game rentals in its DVD rental kiosks back in August of 2009, slowly adding locations…
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One of the iPhone’s Best Role-Playing Sagas Continues in Zenonia 3
In 2009 Zenonia changed my idea of what an iPhone role-playing game could be. 2010’s Zenonia 2: The Lost Memories further refined the series’ winning formula. Now Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story arrives, and it looks to big the biggest Zenonia yet. The third installment of Gamevil’s action-RPG sees players adventuring as one of four…
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Hide from Big Brother’s Roaming Eye with Pixelhead
You can’t take two steps in the world these days without having your image captured. Everywhere you turn there are people with cellphone cameras, traffic cameras, Google Streetview vehicles. How can we remain anonymous in this digital age? Why, with digital camouflage, of course. Enter Pixelhead. The brainchild of artist Martin Backes, Pixelhead is a…
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It’s Frightening How Persistent a Child Predator Can Be
In December of 2010, 18-year-old Alex Trowell of Idaho was on his way to visit his 12-year-old World of Warcraft girlfriend in New Mexico. Alerted by the girl’s mother, New Mexico police called Trowell and had him turn his car around. Last week, Police in Nampa, Idaho arrested Trowell after discovering the girl with him…
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Celebrating Seven Years of City of Heroes
Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. Let’s celebrate seven years of heroes and villains with a colorful infographic and nostalgia-laden anecdotes! I fondly remember the day City…
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Binary Domain is a Prophetic Vision of the Robot Apocalypse
Behold our first glimpse of gameplay from Sega’s Binary Domain, a cautionary tale in which humanity must fight for survival against the highly advanced robots we created with our own hands. I bet Watson is behind this. It’s the same old story I’ve been shouting from street corners for years. “Stop making robots!” I’d yell.…
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Exploring the Most Beautiful Video Game Worlds
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid urges us to sit back, relax, and get lost in the wondrous landscapes of the most gorgeous virtual worlds gaming has to offer. What are some of the absolutely best video game worlds out there? I think I know what I love best about a video game, and…
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What’s on the Menu? The Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack
I was wondering when Activision was planning on returning to the dual pistol-wielding line cook from that live-action Call of Duty: Black Ops commercial. Welcome back, old friend. Things have escalated since we last met. What we have here is a quick look at the five new maps coming to the Xbox 360 by way…
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Blizzard Turns up the Heat in World of Warcraft Patch 4.2
World of Warcraft‘s Cataclysm expansion brought the forces of Ragnaros the Firelord to Mount Hyjal, threatening to destroy the all-important World Tree. Now, the Horde and Alliance take the battle to the Firelord. Blizzard’s Cory Stockton talked me through the upcoming 4.2 patch, from the Firelands dungeon to the new legendary weapon casters will be…
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