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Don’t Call This New York Arcade an Art Exhibit
Is it art, or is at an arcade? Kunal Gupta, the co-creator of New York City’s underground indie games exhibition explains why Babycastles is more arcade than art. Stephen Totilo visited Babycastles back in October of last year, providing us with a brightly lit view of the exotic arcade cabinets created to showcase indie game…
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Telltale Plans More Episodic Adventure on the Xbox 360
Aside from the first two Sam and Max seasons and its CSI games, Xbox 360 adventure game fans have been missing out on Telltale’s particular brand of episodic fun. No longer! Today Telltale reveals that it has signed an Xbox 360 publisher licensing agreement with Microsoft, collecting the final piece of a set that already…
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Do Video Games Need an Incredibly Easy Button?
Sometimes Easy Mode just isn’t enough. In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Sullyville begs game developers for an option to skip the harder sections of games altogether. So I always choose to play games on Easy for a reason. I am not so good at them. I love games to death, but usually death is…
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How Much Money Did Game Developers Make in 2010?
Most people that express a desire to enter the video game industry profess to not care how much money they can make doing something they love. Those people can probably skip the annual Game Developer Salary Survey results. The rest of you can read on to see who’s making the most money in the business.…
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior Aims for the PlayStation 3 in June
After a relatively successful run on the PC and Xbox 360 last year, City Interactive’s Sniper: Ghost Warrior hits the PS3 on June 28 with improved graphics and gameplay, exclusive missions, and new multiplayer modes. Camping is highly recommended.
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How The Witcher 2 Transforms You into a Monster-Hunting Machine
After playing several hours of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, I can confidently say the game improves on the original in every way. After seeing this combat video for the game, I realize I’ve only scratched the surface of what the game has to offer. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is the sequel…
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Johnny Cage Comes Alive in Mortal Kombat: Legacy
The live-action Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series takes a lighter turn this week, taking a break from shattered arms and broken faces to focus on Hollywood’s sweetheart, Johnny Cage. Electric Playground’s Victor Lucas kicks off episode three of Mortal Kombat: Legacy with a look back at the life of Johnny Cage, complete with a cameo…
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Madden 12 Promo Video Spoils the Bills’ New Uniform Surprise
A teaser trailer for EA Sports’ Madden 12 shows off the game’s unparalleled eye for detail, right down to the new uniforms the Buffalo Bills weren’t quite ready to show the world. ESPN has confirmed with sources within the National Football League that the Bills uniforms seen in a teaser trailer briefly available last night…
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World Of Warcraft‘s Rise of the Zandalari Patch Feeds The Trolls
The Zandalari tribe once sided with the Alliance and Horde against their troll brothers in Zul’Gurub and Zul’Drak. In World of Warcraft patch 4.1, their sympathies have changed. Coming soon to a World of Warcraft server near you, the Rise of the Zandalari patch brings sweeping changes to the once-friendly troll tribe. Now fighting to…
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What Can Terrorists Learn from Video Games?
Gamification is the act of applying video game-like rewards to non-gaming situations as a form of motivation. Imagine earning experience points for taking out the trash, or scoring well on a customer service survey, or learning how to create homemade explosives for use in terrorist acts. The same mechanic that shows so much potential for…
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In Search of a Massively-Multiplayer RPG that isn’t World of Warcraft
Commenter ValeriaHeart is looking for suggestions for a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game to play with her partner that isn’t World of Warcraft in today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku. Won’t you help her? Are there any MMORPG players out there that are playing something that isn’t WoW? How is that game? Would you recommend it?…
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It Sure Looks Like Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is Coming to the 3DS
The magazine scans reader David points us towards are ridiculously blurry and the images vague, but three things are certain: That spiky-haired character is holding a Pokéball, the game is on the 3DS, and that’s Agate Village from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness For more than a decade now, Pokémon fans have been clamoring for…
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It Really is Time for the Wii 2, According to the People who Robbed Me this Weekend
There may be no clear winner in this generation’s console wars, but there is definitely a clear loser, at least according to the people that broke into my apartment this weekend and stole every piece of electronic equipment they could get their hands on. While they took every other gaming console hooked to my television,…
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A Little Catherine Art Makes Everything Better
Nothing brightens up a bad case of the Mondays like a batch of new screens and character art for the upcoming North American version of Atlus’ sexy erotic horror puzzle-platformer Catherine It’s lovely to see this PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 beauty with English text at the bottom, isn’t it? After all of those months…
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Remember, Rampage Monsters Are Naked People Too
What happens to the gigantic monsters from arcade classic Rampage after they’ve transformed back into their unclothed human selves? That all depends on what sort of naked human you revert into. I remember playing Rampage in the arcades as a young man and feeling just the briefest wave of titillation as Lizzie reverted to her…
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Our First Look At Phantasy Star Online 2 In Action
Sega’s reveal of Phantasy Star Online 2 at last year’s Tokyo Game Show was nothing more than a logo. It’s about time we got some game play footage and screenshots, isn’t it? Sega delivered the goods this weekend at the Infinity Gran Prix event in Japan with an extended look at the game in action.…
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Section 8: Prejudice Brings Dedicated Servers To The Xbox 360
TimeGate Studios’ downloadable first-person shooter Section 8: Prejudice becomes the first Xbox 360 game to allow players to rent dedicated PC-hosted game servers. Fully configurable ranked and unranked servers for up to 32 players are now available through GameServers.com
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