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Lemmings Meets Mario In The Delightfully Puzzling Kami Retro
Take Mario’s platforming, Lemmings’ life-saving gameplay, add a hint of urgency and colorfully pixelated 3D graphics, and you’re just scratching the surface of Kami Retro, the must-play puzzle platformer for the iPhone and iPod Touch. There are several different ways I could describe Kami Retro. You know those running games, where you have to jump…
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A Captain America For Every Console
When Captain America: Super Soldier hits on July 19, he’s hitting hard, carrying America’s flag to five different game consoles. Here’s a look at four of them. Only the Nintendo 3DS is unrepresented in this gallery of shots of the Captain America movie tie-in, coming in July from Sega and Next Level Games. In each…
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A Game That Will Terrify Your Kids Into Never Going Outside Again
Spring has returned, a time when children across the country turn off their video game consoles and venture out into the woods, building tree forts and rolling about in the underbrush. That is, until they play Tick Tackler. Then they’re never going outside again. Did you know there are tiny bugs lurking outside, waiting to…
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There Are Many Ways To Play Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s Adam Jensen doesn’t have to be a cold-blooded killer. Using a combination of stealth, technology, and social skills, Jensen can go through the entire game only killing bosses. Narrative game designer Mary DeMarle shows us how. There aren’t many games that give you the freedom to play as you want to…
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What Do You Get When You Cross An Xbox 360 With An Atari 2600?
Modder supreme Ben Heck marries Microsoft’s current-generation console with an Atari 2600 to create the lovable monstrosity known as the Xbox 360 1977 Edition, making us wonder why faux wood paneling ever went out of style. Ben Heck (AKA Benjamin J. Heckendorn) is an expert at taking existing consoles and giving them the sort of…
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Check Out Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy‘s Super Moves
Tomorrow marks the release of the second game in Square Enix’s Final Fantasy-flavored fighting series for the PSP. Check out the special EX Burst moves FF’s finest will be pulling off when the game drops. EX Bursts are Dissidia’s equivalents of Street Fighter’s super moves, spectacular character-specific powers pulled from the very games the characters…
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Space Games Don’t Have To Be Cold And Lifeless
Kotaku commenter Jezuz feels that games set in outer space have become too cold and sterile. He shares his idea on how to liven up the airless void in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. I have recently become active on EVE Online, which is most certainly not my first foray into space simulators, but it did…
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Wrestling With This Week’s Nintendo Download
With less than a week before the Nintendo 3DS hits north America, Nintendo keeps things low-key for this week’s Nintendo Download, with a Super Nintendo game from 1994 topping a short list of downloadable titles. When Natsume Championship Wrestling for the Super Nintendo is the most exciting title in the lineup, you know it’s a…
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Spines Shatter When Mortal Kombat’s Thunder God Steps Into The Ring
There’s gonna be big trouble in Little China when Raiden tosses his wok-shaped hat into the Mortal Kombat tournament. We all know Raiden’s story. After failing to take down Jack Burton during the Little China incident, Raiden transformed from inept villain to slightly more ept do-gooder, talking the Elder Gods into letting humanity battle the…
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Order & Chaos Online Is Gameloft’s Answer To World Of Warcraft
Known for its shameless copies of popular games, Gameloft takes copycat gaming to a whole new level with Order & Chaos Online, a massively-multiplayer World of Warcraft clone for iOS. Gameloft has managed to pull off quality copies of everything from Halo to StarCraft on the iPhone and iPad, so it was really only a…
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Mercury Didn’t Have A Satellite, So We Gave It One
The planet closest to the sun better be on its best behavior, because we’re watching it. As of last night NASA’s Messenger probe is the first man-made satellite ever to orbit the planet Mercury. What do we hope to find? After a journey of nearly seven years, 96 million miles, and two fly-bys, NASA’s Mercury…
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Get A Taste Of The High Life In L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire’s 1947 Los Angeles setting isn’t all about dead bodies in dirty back alleys. Above that seedy underbelly is the seedy upperbelly, where the idle class while away the days in high-end mansions and exclusive restaurants. Money is power, and with great power comes great responsibility. Those that can’t handle the power and prestige…
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Melbourne Gunman Felt Like A Computer Game Hero During Two-Day Crime Spree
Last June 19-year-old David Rowntree grabbed a sawed-off shotgun and went on a two-day criminal rampage, stealing two cars and committing multiple burglaries. Now Rowntree tells a Melbourne, Australia, court that he felt like a computer game hero. Rowntree’s 2010 rampage was impressive, to say the least. The young man forced a lockdown around the…
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What Classic Gaming Achievements Have You Unlocked?
Today in a very special episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenterQuiddity looks back on the achievements he would have unlocked had their been achievements when Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country 3, and Final Fantasy VII came out. Do you ever wish achievements were implemented in the earlier generations? To have all the accomplishments of your…
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The Final Mass Effect 2 Mission Arrives On March 29
Commander Shepard travels to the edge of the galaxy to rescue an undercover operative that could have evidence about an impending Reaper invasion in Mass Effect 2’s Arrival downloadable content, coming March 29 to the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. This final batch of downloadable content for Mass Effect will set the stage for…
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