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Everybody Have Fun Tonight, Everybody Shang Tsung Tonight
Long before the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung discovered a portal to Outworld and pleged his service to Shao Kahn, he was known to take his baby by the hand and make her do a high hand stand. True story. Back then he was so in phase and cool on craze, but it was a different…
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Have Review Score Farms Changed The Way You Buy Video Games?
Nine out of ten reviewers will enjoy today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, in which commenter Wocalax wonders if review aggregate sites like Metacritic make it easier or harder to decide which games to buy. Kotaku, I haven’t asked you a question in a while, but I think I have a decent one: Have sites that collate…
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Now You Can Shop GameStop On Facebook For Some Reason
Why bother going to GameStop.com and having the whole of the video game retailers’ inventory at your fingertips when you can visit a severely limited GameStop Facebook store instead? It’s got ‘Like’ buttons! GameStop’s new Facebook store doesn’t hold a candle to GameStop.com. It features a limited selection of sale items, bestsellers, new items, and…
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Everything Is True In The Secret World
Every legend; every myth; every conspiracy theory; they’re all real, at least in the twisted realm of Funcom’s massively multiplayer paranormal paranoia game The Secret World. Check out this latest trailer to see which of your wild beliefs hold true.
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Of Course We Had To Check Out A Game Called Lesbian Spider-Queens Of Mars
The Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim flash games might not always be wonderful examples of gaming goodness, but they generally have pretty good names. Case in point, Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars. How can you not play that? Well I couldn’t resist trying it out, and I found a game that wouldn’t have been out of…
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Live-Action Mortal Kombat: Legacy Launches Next Week
The short Mortal Kombat film that set the internet on fire last year bears fruit on April 12, when the first episode of Kevin Tancharoen’s Mortal Kombat: Legacy debuts on Machinima.com. Check out a clip from the series here. Fame director Kevin Tancharoen created a live-action Mortal Kombat film short last year featuring actor friends…
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Four New Fighters Enter The Ring In Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition DLC
The console version of Super Street Fighter IV catches up with its arcade counterpart with the Arcade Edition downloadable content, delivering four new challengers to Capcom’s fight fest and a whole lot more. Street Fighter fans have been eagerly awaiting news about how Capcom was planning on adding the four new characters in the Japanese…
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Red Faction: Armageddon‘s Kara Smuggles Cleavage Into The Martian Colonies
Life is hard in the underground Martian colonies of Red Faction: Armageddon, especially when you’re a former Marauder turned smuggler with a heart of gold and the need to flaunt your cleavage amidst a cast of fully-covered men. In the latest trailer for Red Faction: Armageddon we meet Kara, a lady smuggler that’s formed a…
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Taking The Cosplay Too Far: Surgically Altered Elf Ears
Elves are sexy. Vulcans are sexy. Pointy ears in general are sexy, but not so sexy that we’d carve ourselves up to get them. ABC News reports on the latest fad among young adults, getting your ear cartilage cut open and sewn into points. While the body modification procedure for creating ears that are more…
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Corruption Runs Rampant In L.A. Noire‘s Latest Trailer
Back in the days of Rockstar’s L.A. Noire, the Los Angeles Police Department was a haven for corruption, where bribery, cover-ups, and extortion were common practices. Thank goodness detective Cole Phelps got that all cleaned up. This is official L.A. Noire trailer number three, just released by Rockstar, giving us a glimpse at some of…
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Global Agenda Is Going Completely Free-To-Play
The mid-April Free Agent update for Hi-Rez Studios’ online multiplayer shooter Global Agenda will drop the game’s purchase requirement, making it free-to-play for anyone that has the urge. Original planned as a subscription-based MMO, in June of last year Hi-Rez dropped plans to implement monthly fees, only requiring that players initially purchase a retail or…
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It’s An All-Star Legend Of Zelda Triforce Jamboree
The stars of some of our favorite YouTube shorts and music videos converge in this spectacular musical tribute to The Legend of Zelda. See CorridorDigital, Freddie Wong, Jimmy Wong, and a host of the internet’s finest musicians celebrating all things Zelda. What, you thought CorridorDigital was all about making funny live-action Minecraft films, and Freddie…
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In Case Sega Forgot, Fans Still Really Want A Shenmue Sequel
Today we give the Speak-Up on Kotaku podium over to commenter Ryohumar, who wants to let Sega know there is still hope for redemption in the form of Yu Suzuki and Shenmue 3. You know, since SEGA was taken over by Sammy, the company has lost a lot of what made it so special. Having…
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There’s Double The Hedgehog In The Next Sonic Game
Appearing in a blue blur on a hedgehog’s Facebook page this morning, the first teaser trailer for Sega’s next Sonic game features blue blurs both old and new. Is this Sonic Generations? Signs point to yes. After all, Sega did say they’d be celebrating come April 7, and they have recently registered the website domains…
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The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile Is A Wonderfully Bloody Mess
What’s black and white and red all over and it’ll stretch a bloody smile across the face of any hack-and-slash gamer’s face? It’s Ska Studios The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, and if you’re fast enough you might find your own copy lurking in this article. In 2004 James Silva was a dishwasher, a position I myself…
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The Triumphant Return Of The Commodore 64
As a child I spent many hours hunched over the loudly clicking keyboard of the Commodore 64, typing out programs in BASIC and saving them to cassette drive. Commodore brings that wonderfully noisy keyboard back, only this time there’s a hard drive as large as one terabyte hidden inside. This is what I’ve been missing,…
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Last Chance To Hop Off The EA NFL Class-Action Lawsuit Train
The Madden NFL-inspired Pecover Vs. EA federal class-action antitrust lawsuit picks up steam, as law firm Hagens Berman notifies class members they have until June 25 to be excluded from a potential payday. Considering the eligibility requirements to be a class member in the Pecover Vs. EA lawsuit, we’re likely looking at a pretty large…
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