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What’s Wrong With The Mortal Kombat Strategy Guide?
To go along with last week’s release of Mortal Kombat, Prima Games released a lovely hardbound collector’s edition strategy guide to teach new players with an extra $35 how to play the game in style. Why is this man so angry about it? A fighting game fan from the United Kingdom, Scott picked up a…
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Let’s Play The Dream Video Game Sequel List Game
It’s Monday morning, and Speak-Up on Kotaku is feeling a little playful, so we’re going to play commenter Wocalax‘s little dream video game sequel game. If you could have a sequel come out in 1 year, one in 6 months, one in a month, and one in a day, what would you want? (all of…
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The Best Nintendo Downloadable This Week Isn’t A Game At All
Riding on a wave of WiiWare demos, word searchers, and puzzle games, this week’s most intriguing downloadable offering comes from Flat Black Studios, the animation and software company behind the films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. You might not know Flat Black Studios, but chances are you’ve seen their work, whether it be the…
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A Trip Through Pokémon Black And White‘s Online Dream World
With the Pokémon Global Link service, Pokémon Black and White players can sync their game data with their PC and enter a magical world that exists in the dreams of pocket monsters. Join me on my first trip to this Pokémon Dream World. I haven’t played much Pokémon Black since I picked it up on…
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The Many Faces Of Max Payne 3‘s Hard-Boiled Hero
In a series of screens you might have seen in the latest issue of Edge Magazine, Max Payne shows himself to be a man of many faces, outfits, and hairstyles. As the Edge Magazine story explains, the narrative of Max Payne 3 takes us to various points in our gritty detective hero’s life, from his…
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DreamWorld Gallery
Here’s is your house, which serves as your base of operations in the Pokémon Dream World. Spend berries in the Dream World to purchase furniture for your house, which also features a board that keeps track of the Pokémon you befriend in the game. Unlike previous Pokémon games, you can’t grow berries in Pokémon Black…
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This Is What A Dead Kinect Looks Like
It is with great misplaced pride that I report that I am the first Kotaku writer to suffer from a dead Microsoft Kinect. Also, it’s incredibly difficult to get a close-up picture of the Kinect with the sensor powered on. All things considered, I’ve had rather good luck with my video game consoles as far…
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Conduit 2‘s Timing Is Downright Depressing
Amidst the swell of hype over Nintendo’s next console and the release of Valve’s latest masterpiece, Sega and High Voltage Software release Conduit 2 for the Wii. Have you ever gone to the video store or browsed through Netflix titles and discovered a movie with a name that’s similar to an existing big-name blockbuster but…
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Are We Expecting Too Much Of Game Developers?
In today’s absolutely flawless, perfectly scupted edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Kadin wonders if gamers have set their expectations so high that no developer can ever hope to satisfy them completely. Do we expect too much out of developers these days? Think about it for a second. Minecraft is a perfect example of this…
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Church Bribes Easter Service Attendees With 3DS And Other Electronic “Crap”
Elk River, Minnesota Pastor Eric Dykstra has “no problem bribing people with crap in order to meet Christ,” which is why hitting up The Crossing Church for Easter Sunday services could win you a Nintendo 3DS. Easter Sunday should be one of the biggest church days of the year. When I was younger it was…
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Play Kalei Twists Your Photos Into Endless Entertainment
Thanks to its wonderfully convenient camera, most iPhones are home to dozens if not hundreds of random photos, depicting everything from smiling friends’ faces to particularly interesting bits of plastic. These photos are the fuel for Chillingo’s twisted new photo game Play Kalei. Crafted by casual game developer LoadComplete for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and…
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Discover New Ways To Play In Hunted: The Demon’s Forge
“Hunted is running through dungeons and killing monsters with really cool swords, really cool weapons, and amazing spells,” says developer inXile’s president Matt Findley. That’s enough of a description for me. The rest of you should watch this behind-the-scenes trailer. It may look like just another hack-and-slash dungeon crawler, but Hunted: The Demon Forge has…
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Aksys Sees Catherine‘s Sexy And Raises Record Of Agarest War Zero
When Atlus put out a call for fans to appear in the next trailer for the sexy Persona spin-off Catherine, they probably never expected Record of Agarest War Zero publisher Aksys Games to respond. Thanks for sharing, Jeff!
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Section 8: Prejudice Versus The Video Game Critics
Can TimeGate Studios possibly succeed with the downloadable sequel to a retail first-person shooter that nobody played in the first place? Find out in the Section 8: Prejudice Frankenreview. Release in the fall of 2009 for the Xbox 360 and PC (a downloadable PlayStation 3 version came later), Section 8 was a first-person shooter with…
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The Gods Must Be Defending The Ancients In Hi-Rez’s Smite
Who would win in a fight, Zeus or Anubis? Hi-Rez Studios, the creators of Global Agenda and the upcoming Tribes: Ascend are taking a divine stab at the defense of the ancients genre with Smite, full-on arena battles between mythical gods. Hi-Rez sure has their hands full these days, between running their free-to-play MMO shooter…
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The Royal Wedding Is Much More Entertaining In The Sims 3
The royal wedding between Prince William and his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton on April 29 will be a lavish spectacle of celebrity and ceremony, a once-in-a-lifetime celebration that will be remembered for decades to come. That doesn’t mean it will be more entertaining than the Sims 3 version. Unless Prince William and Kate start making…
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How TERA Online Plans To Step Up Your MMO Experience
When you’re the North American publisher of a Korean MMO like TERA Online, the biggest hurdle you have to face is convincing the western audience that your game isn’t just another pretty grindfest. Here’s En Masse Entertainment’s attempt. Developed in Seoul, Korea, by Bluehole Entertainment, TERA, also known as The Exiled Realm of Arborea, sets…
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Stand Up And Be Counted, Video Game Cheaters
In today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Phantomlink wants to know all about your deeply buried video game cheating past. Were you a cheater? Are you a cheater? Don’t be shy. Who here are cheaters? A pretty simple question. We’ve all had the temptation at one point or another, and everyone has given it…
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