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This Is What CCP Does With All Of That EVE Online Cash
The dynamic duo of Sveinn Jóhannesson Kjarval and Hinrik Haraldsson return with “Keep Clickin”, the follow-up to CCP Games in-house band’s 2009 hit “Harden the Fuck Up.” If only EVE Online were this exciting! This is one of those moments when I’m extremely glad I get to type and don’t have to actually pronounce any…
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Final Fantasy V Coming To The PlayStation Network
Square Enix announced today that Final Fantasy V, the Super Famicom game that didn’t make it to the states until 1999’s Final Fantasy Anthology for the PlayStation, is in development for the PlayStation Network, enhanced by exclusive CGI cut scenes.
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If You’re Scared Of Spiders, Bees, And Ticks Do Not Play This Game
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon is a simple shooter that raises one of life’s great questions: Which is worse, giant-sized bugs or normal-sized bugs? Spiders terrify me. When I think of evil, they’re the first thing that comes to mind. I’ve been told all my life how they help regulate the insect population and are…
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The Fighter Rolls 20s In Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale
Watch the Fighter class hack and slash his way through the forces of evil in the latest trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale, bringing the pen-and-paper role-playing module model to Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network, and PC later this year.
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See The First Spectacular Trailer And Amazing Screens For Spider-Man: Edge Of Time
In order to help the Amazing Spider-Man save the future, Spider-Man 2099 has to save the past. That’s the kind of convoluted story you get when you start messing with temporal physics, but who cares when it looks this good? Activision and developer Beenox of Shattered Dimensions fame showed off Spidey’s latest time-twisted adventure this…
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Battlefield Play4Free Pulls The Trigger On Open Beta
The war between the United States and Russia escalates today as EA’s browser-based shooter Battlefield Play4Free enters open beta, allowing gamers everywhere to enter the fray with the default equipment or pay to play the tricked-out way. Signing up for an EA account and a quick download is all it takes to get started in…
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What Music Stirs Your Ancient Gaming Memories?
In today’s edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Arok_Lazarus wonders what music transports us back to the games we used to play. So I’ve been listening to a lot of Queen lately again. It has also been bringing up lots of gaming memories for me. Back when Star Wars: Battlefront II came out my best…
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Big-Headed Caveboys And Infinite Adventures In This Week’s Nintendo Download
While we patiently wait for the 3DS Virtual Console to arrive, Nintendo continues to deliver fresh new and old content to the Wii and DSi, with the ginormous cranium of Hudson’s Super Bonk headlining this week’s offerings. Yes, North America finally gets a Virtual Console release of Super Bonk, the side-scrolling caveman platformer that hit…
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Big Time Gangsta Takes Back The Portable Streets
Fresh out of prison and back on the streets, it’s time to gather your gang and reclaim your ugly, run-down, drug plagued neighborhood block-by-block. Glu Mobile is so gangsta. Big Time Gangsta for the iPad and iPhone takes the formula established in Facebook games like Sony Online Entertainment’s The Agency: Covert Ops, strips out the…
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Pirates Of The Caribbean‘s Charm Is Recharged In LEGO Form
The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie was a refreshing sea breeze that’s grown ranker with each subsequent sequel. In swoops TT Games with a blast for fresh ocean air in LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean. I’ve grown weary of Captain Jack Sparrow. I am tired of Johnny Depp acting like a fool. I am…
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It’s Your April Fools’ Day Round-Up
Never trust anything you read on the internet, and that goes doubly today. It’s April Fools’ Day, and we’re rounding up the very best and very worst of what the gaming industry thinks is funny. Bookmark this page and keep checking back, as April 1 is generally the longest 24 hours of the year on…
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Atlus’ Fake Rock Of Ages Ripoff Gathers No Moss
If a game company is going to do something silly for April Fools’ Day, we might as well all get a free game out of it, right? Today Atlus accuses developer ACE Team stole the idea for action-strategy game Rock of Ages and used it to make a 2D game that you can play right…
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Sega Makes No Apologies For This Thor Wii Trailer
While the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the upcoming Thor movie tie-in game embrace the thunder god’s movie appearance, Red Fly Studios’ version looks a bit more like World of Warcraft exploded in New York City. Graphics aren’t everything, of course. I’ll take a fast-paced cartoony game to a slow and stuttering graphically…
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Addictive Is The New Epic
In this addictively epic edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage the Skilled Furby is having trouble dealing with the video game industry’s ever-changing buzzwords. Apparently, “addictive” is the new “epic”. A while back we started seeing that every game included an “epic” storyline where the fate of the universe rested in the balance. Now,…
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Watch The Lovely Ladies Of Mortal Kombat Beat Each Other Skinless
First we got an all-ninja round of Mortal Kombat tag team action, and now Netherrealm Studios gives us an all-female battle royale. It’s all fun and games until the crotch skin comes off. Which is better, Mortal Kombat ninja battles, or this video of the Mortal Kombat ladies in action? It’s a trick question, really.…
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These New Shots From Skyrim Are No Laughing Matter
There’s nothing funny at all about the latest screenshots from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, unless you count the amount of time I spent making sure no one hid penises in them. No one is safe on April Fools’ Day. We’ll spend as much time today verifying our stories are true before posting them as…
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This Is Not The Next Guild Wars 2 Character Class, But We Wish It Was
ArenaNet’s upcoming massively-multiplayer online game Guild Wars 2 has warriors, magic-users, and rogues. What’s missing? Elite military commandos. For one day and one day only, that role has been filled. Imagine playing through a SOCOM mission with your buddies and finding yourself in World of Warcraft. That’s the idea behind ArenaNet’s Commando class for Guild…
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