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Fantastic Pets Grants You The Flying Unicorn You So Richly Deserve
Forget Homefront, Fantastic Pets for the Xbox 360 and Kinect is where THQ is going to make the big bucks. What other game projects a flying unicorn or robot cat into your living room? Before we begin, no, that’s not a pegasus. A pegasus only has wings. This mother here has wings and a horn,…
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Behold The Zelda-Riffic Joy Of Spiral Knights
Earlier this week I told you about Spiral Knights, the upcoming free-to-play online space dungeon crawler from the creators of Puzzle Pirates. Now watch me play through the game’s Training Grounds and, if you’re lucky, try it out yourself. When I posted the news that Spiral Knights was coming out on April 4 courtesy of…
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This Is Why We Don’t Play Board Games Anymore
Lacking anything more sensible to do, the team at GlazeBros crafted a crude board game with painful consequences, and then tested it out on themselves. Ladies and gentlemen, The Waxing Game, family fun that will leave you hairless. If the GlazBros think this terrifying tale of hair removal is painful, just wait until they actually…
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NCsoft Makes A Massively Multi-Million Dollar Donation To Japan Disaster Relief
Amidst the flurry of game developers stepping up to offer aid to Japan in its time of crisis, Korean MMO developer NCsoft has pledged an amount equaling one month of the revenue of its Japanese arm – roughly 6.3 million dollars. While NCsoft is a pretty big deal in the United States, in South Korea…
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And Then BattleBlock Theater‘s Opening Movie Went Whoosh
While fans eagerly await the eventual release of the third game from Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth, the studio teases us all with the stick puppet filled opening cinematic for BattleBlock Theater. Coming to Xbox Live Arcade and possibly other platforms sometime this year, BattleBlock Theater is a competitive and cooperative platformer in which the…
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Japan Disaster Coverage Invaded By Rampaging Pokémon
With the recent release of Pokémon Black and White, those mischievous pocket monsters are popping up all over the place, including some places they probably shouldn’t, like all over British free daily newspaper Metro’s coverage of the disaster in Japan. The partial Nintendo takeover of an issue of the free daily Metro might have been…
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Are The Basic Building Blocks Of Knowledge Built Into Our Brains?
How does our mind generate memories and store information? While many neuroscientists believe that memories are jumbles of neurons shaped by experience, one scientist believes that neurons act like LEGO bricks, the building blocks of knowledge. How is memory created? On the surface level our memories and knowledge are gained through experience. But do the…
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Meet Anarchy Reigns‘ Blacker Baron And His Super Sexy Fists Of Fire
The latest fighter to join the cast of Platinum Games’ multiplayer brawler is Blacker Baron. a giant black cyborg with a pimp hat, fur-collared vest, gold chains, a diamond-studded belt buck, and a pair of stolen golden fists. He calls them the “Super Sexy Fists of Fire.” They have Phoenix-shaped hood ornaments on them, which…
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Rainbow Six Infiltrates The iPhone
The squad-based shooting action of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six series finally makes it to the iPhone and iPod Touch, as Gameloft releases Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard, complete with three-player online co-op play. Shadow Vanguard is a completely original game in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six universe, built from the ground up for play on…
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When Multiplayer Betas Are Better Than The Real Game
Is commenter Cursed Frogurt alone when he says he enjoys multiplayer betas for games like Halo: Reach and Gears of War 3 better than full retail multiplayer? That’s the subject we’re testing out in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. This may sound strange, but I’m really anticipating the Gears of War 3 beta, much moreso than…
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Ar Tonelico Qoga Doesn’t Skimp On The Sexual Innuendo
The Ar Tonelico series features a mechanic in which the main character dives into the psyche of his female companions, unlocking powers by travelling deeper into their subconscious. Developer Gust takes advantage of this feature to make incredibly dirty puns. I’ve only been playing Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel for the PlayStation 3…
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Anarchy Reigns‘ Mathilda Has Curves And Spikes In All The Right Places
She’s one part Bayonetta, one part purple people beater. She’s Mathilda, and she’s ready to enter the blood-soaked multiplayer ring of Platinum Games’ Anarchy Reigns. Platinum Games and Sega continue rolling out characters for the upcoming brawler also known as Max Anarchy, and each new character is more intriguing than the last. Mathilda here is…
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Game Boy Puts The Bomb In School Bus Bomb Scare
Police responding to a bomb scare this morning on a school bus outside of the Northside Intermediate school in Milton, Wisconsin, discovered an 11-year-old boy in possession of a video game system dressed up with wires and batteries to look like an explosive device Milton Police Department Lieutenant John Conger confirmed with Kotaku that the…
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What Is Chessboxing?
Chessboxing is an activity that combines the physical demands of boxing with the mental discipline of chess. Competitors alternate between rounds of chess and rounds of boxing, kicking things off with a four-minute round of chess and alternating with fisticuffs until 11 rounds have passed, or one competitor jams a rook in the other’s eye.…
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The Large Hadron Collider Might Also Be The World’s First Time Machine
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, propelling charged particles to high speeds and smashing them together in the name of science. It also might be a time machine. At least that’s what a long-shot theory put forth by Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho suggests. If this wacky…
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Keeping The HD-DVD Dream Alive
The other day while watching my high-definition copy of Blade Runner on my Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, I received an Xbox Live message thanking me for keeping the dream alive. Oh come on, where else can you buy a copy of The Bourne Identity for $2.39? They called us foolish for supporting HD-DVD over Blu-ray,…
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Twelve Years Later EverQuest Still Soldiers On
Today marks the twelfth anniversary of the original EverQuest. What keeps one of the original big massively-multiplayer fantasy games going after all these years? Ask a hardcore EverQuest player why they’re still playing a 12-year-old game, and they’ll shower you with stories of their fantastic adventures, anecdotes that are only humorous to folks that have…
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Microsoft’s Kodu Cup Contest Rewards Underage Game Developers
Today Microsoft fully launches its kid-friendly PC game development tool Kodu Game Lab, along with a contest that could win your child $5,00 cash, a new laptop, and a trip for two to New York’s Imagine Cup. We got our first look at Microsoft’s Kodu Game Lab back in 2009, finding it to be a…
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Ar Tonelico Qoga‘s Intro Is A Wonder To Behold
Last night I picked up a copy of Gust’s newly-released Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel for the PlayStation 3, slipped it into my console, and watched the introductory movie five times in a row. We’re in the midst of a Japanese role-playing game drought. With a strong emphasis being put on developing games…
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