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Kameo 2 Artwork Hints At The Pretty Sequel That Might Have Been
In 2005 developer Rare graced the newly-launched Xbox 360 with Kameo: Elements of Power, a cartoon-styled action-adventure game starring a fairy with the power to transform herself into various magical creatures. Slow sales killed its rumored sequel, but the art lives on. The launch of the Xbox 360 and Kameo heralded the beginning of the…
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Rebellion Has Sniper Elite V2 In Its Sights For 2012
It’s been six years since the last time Rebellion took us to the high perches of World War II Europe in Sniper Elite. I’d say it’s high time for another, wouldn’t you? 2005’s Sniper Elite for the PlayStation 2, original Xbox, Windows PC, and (eventually) Wii was a mouthful of tightly held fresh air for…
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Man Pleads Guilty To Killing His Cousin Over Scarface: The World Is Yours
22-year-old Alejandro Garcia of Corpus Christi, Texas, will spend the next 15 to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to the 2007 shooting death of his younger cousin over whose turn it was to play Scarface: The World is Yours. Garcia and his then 17-year-old cousin George Flores were taking turns playing Scarface: The…
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What’s The Hardest You’ve Worked To Obtain A Video Game?
In today’s hard-working edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Kadin regales us with his epic quest to purchase an imported copy of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and challenges you to top his tale. What’s the most work you’ve gone through to obtain a game? I’m going to date myself here but…
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Till All Are At Least Ten
Farewell, Old Friends | One last transformation before they hit storage. (Photo by Michael Fahey) Bedtime Stories World Exclusive First Look Under the Hood of the Next Unreal Engine You’ve seen the sexed up trailer showing what games based on Epic’s Unreal Engine will look like in the coming generation. Now join Kotaku and Gizmodo…
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Sequence Lets You Kill A Yeti With Dance
How the hell do you mix an RPG with a rhythm game? Iridium Studios’ Jason Wishnov shows us how upcoming Xbox Live Indie Game Sequence works. I’ve been looking forward to Iridium Studio’s Sequence since I first heard about it earlier this year. I’ve also been a bit confused. How does dancing cast a spell?…
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Fan-Made LEGO Mega Man Leaps Into Action
Now that he’s created renderings of LEGO Mega Man and the evil Robot Masters, 3D artist Raphael Phillips lets our blocky robot hero exercise his newfound power against a series of unfortunate training dummies. Curse 8-Bit Cubist’s Raph for making a crossover between LEGO and Mega Man look so damn appealing. Mega Man isn’t a…
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Live Virtual Life To The Fullest With The Sims 3 Generations
EA Play adds life to The Sims 3 this spring with the Generations Expansion pack, letting players explore the stages of virtual life on a much deeper level than ever before. With the Generations Expansion, childhood and the teenage years become much more than stepping stones toward adulthood in The Sims 3. Children will be…
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PopCap’s New Studio Creates One Very Unpleasant Horse
PopCap Games, the creators of small-ish casual games such as Bejeweled and Plants Vs. Zombies, has created a new studio to make games even smaller than those. Unpleasant Horse is one of those games. 4th & Battery is PopCap’s new small games studio, named for the Seattle, Washington intersection where the PopCap headquarters is located.…
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How Powerful Does Your PC Need To Be To Make The Witcher 2 Look This Good?
With only six weeks to go before The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings explodes on the PC gaming scene, CD Projekt Red releases the system requirements for the epic role-playing game, along with some screenshots to show off what you’ll be missing if you don’t meet those requirements. The Witcher was one of the best…
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Buy Dragon Age II, Get Mass Effect 2 Free
BioWare celebrates the success of Dragon Age II by giving fans that purchase and register a copy of the game online before April 30 a free copy of the PC version of Mass Effect 2. How does the offer work? It’s simple! If you’ve already activated the Online Pass that came in your copy of…
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Aperture Science Introduces The Portal 2 Turret, Consumer Edition
When you’ve got a product that works as well as Portal’s Turrets, you can’t limit them to purely military use. Aperture Science boss Cave Johnson proudly presents the Turret consumer edition, now available in countless designer colors.
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The Past, Present, And Future Of Resident Evil
Has it really been fifteen years since the S.T.A.R.S. team took their first steps inside of a zombie-filled mansion on the outskirts of Raccoon City? This 15th Anniversary video celebrates the past decade and a half of Resident Evil, while giving us a taste of what’s still to come. Man, those original games haven’t aged…
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Brink‘s Special Abilities Make Your Character Even More Special
Now that we’ve gotten to know Brink’s Medic, Soldier, Engineer, and Operative, let’s take a look the special abilities each class can unlock as they progress to make the game feel even more like Team Fortress 2. Brink is a team-based first-person shooter with a slightly exaggerated cartoony vibe and class-based multiplayer progression, so the…
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Gamer Problems: Being Stalked By Children
In today’s very special episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Hongo deals with an issue that every gamer faces at some point: Children think we’re pretty damn awesome. I have no problem with most little kids. My cousin’s cousin asked me for my PSN ID because he wanted to add me as a friend on…
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It’s Not A Green Lantern Party Until The Giant Fist Shows Up
Give a man one of the most powerful weapons in the known universe, and he’ll create a giant version of his own hand. These latest screens for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters summarize mankind’s contributions to the war on interstellar crime. Slated for release a week before the live action Green Lantern flick, Double…
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The $50,000 National STEM Video Game Challenge Winner Will Make You Sick
Last year U.S. President Barack Obama challenged video game developers young and old to develop a game that encouraged the learning of science, technology, engineering, and math. The winners of the STEM Video Game Challenge have been announced, and the grand prize winner is a game that teaches children how to spread disease. Filament Games’…
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