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Speed Is Most Definitely A Necessity In Crysis 2
Stealth and strength are great when it comes to plowing through difficult situations, but with speed and agility you can avoid them altogether. Crysis 2’s “Be Fast” trailer demonstrates the benefits of speedy delivery. Streaking and leaping through the damaged wilds of New York City, Alcatraz’s moves are so impressive I can almost ignore the…
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Major Comic Talent Brings Rage To The Page
Crack open a case of ammo and take to the post-apocalyptic wasteland of id Software’s Rage, you’ll be able to crack open a comic book to uncover a dark secret of the game setting with Dark Horse Comics’ Rage miniseries. The three-issue Rage comic book series tells the story of one woman’s struggle to uncover…
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Watch A Robot Go From 1to50 In 6.6 Seconds
In popular free iPhone app 1to50, players have to sequentially press the numbers one through fifty as fast as they possibly can. No one is ever going to be this robot’s score. 1to50 is a game that’s all about counting. The timer starts and you’ve got to count with your fingers to press randomly placed…
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The PlayStation Network Gets Its First Free-To-Play MMO This Month
After nearly two years in operation on the PC and Mac, Sony Online Entertainment finally brings it’s family-friendly, free-to-play massively multiplayer online game Free Realms to the PlayStation 3 on March 29, making it the first free-to-play console MMO. A colorful clash of social gaming and massively-multiplayer world, Free Realms was originally announced for the…
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Without This Guy There’d Be No Mortal Kombat
When Shao Khan threatened to merge our reality with his, the thunder god Raiden appealed to the Elder Gods to give EarthRealm a fighting chance. Where would we be without his timely fight-to-the-death suggestion? This story video for the new Mortal Kombat has me wondering what would have happened if Raiden had been a bit…
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Ten Minutes Of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Gameplay
You saw still images of Fuelcell Games’ Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet yesterday. Now bask in ten minutes of deliriously gorgeous gameplay footage direct from PAX East in Boston. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is due out on Xbox Live Arcade not damn soon enough this year.
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Our First Fleeting Glimpse Of The New Tribes Game
Fans of the deep, strategic, jetpack-powered combat of Tribes have been clamoring for a new game since the 2004 release of Tribes: Vengeance. Hi-Rez Studios delivers this year with Tribes: Ascend, a downloadable game for Xbox 360 and PC. Hi-Rez already had a pretty good head start on creating a Tribes game in their massively-multiplayer…
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The Frustrating Fiscal Resilience Of Nintendo Games
In today’s exciting episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Cupids_Hitman waits and waits for prices on first-party Nintendo games to drop, but they never do. What’s up with the pricing of Wii games? My family got a Wii this past Christmas, and so I’ve been looking to play some 1st party Nintendo games, but they’re…
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The Guild Wars 2 Thief Is A Rogue Like None Other
Most massively-multiplayer online role-playing games have some sort of rogue class, but none are quite as roguish as the newly revealed Guild Wars 2 Thief. Kotaku spoke to developer ArenaNet about what raises this stealthy stabber above the rest. When ArenaNet initially announced the Thief class last week, the image that came to the mind…
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Seized European PlayStation 3 Systems To Be Released Into The Wild
While the Blu-ray patent infringement lawsuit between electronics manufacturer LG and Sony rages on, a court decision in the Netherlands has halted the confiscation of PlayStation 3 systems entering Europe, with the more than 300,000 units already seized ordered returned. The confiscations began last month, when a civil court in The Hague, Netherlands ordered a…
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Microsoft Invalidates Stolen Point Codes, Considers Punishment For Exploiters
An algorithm that allowed the generation of working Microsoft point codes resulted in the unauthorized acquisition of what some claim could be as high as $1.2 million in virtual currency. Microsoft tells Kotaku that they looking into punishing those that took advantage. Microsoft points might not be real money but they are purchased with real…
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Want To See What A Hacking Attempt Looks Like?
Contrary to 1995 movie Hackers, breaking into a computer system does not involve colorful cartoon characters. The act can be accurately represented visually, however, as proven in this excellent video created by Ben Reardon of Dataviz Australia. Reardon’s visualization transforms the act of hacking a voice over IP server into a strategic dance. The hacker…
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The Secret World Takes You On A Terrifying Trip Around The Globe
Funcom takes us from New York to Egypt to do battle with everything from demons to dinosaurs in the epic Game Developers Conference trailer for its upcoming modern day supernatural MMO. In The Secret World Earth is Funcom’s playground. Setting a massively multiplayer online game on a modern day version of our own planet gives…
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Lightning Strikes In Dissidia Duodecim‘s Downloadable Prologue
Final Fantasy stars battle once more when Dissidia Duodecim hits the PSP on March 22, but first Final Fantasy XIII’s Lightning strikes out on her own in Dissidia Duodecim Prologus, the downloadable prologue that brings Aerith back to life, kinda. Pink-haired powerhouse Lightning makes her Dissidia debut on March 15, when Square Enix releases Prologus…
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Xbox Live Labs Exchanges Your Time And Bandwidth For Avatar Goodies
Microsoft wants to enlist your help in testing the Xbox Live network, rewarding volunteers willing to donate up to six hours of Xbox 360 time with crazy mad scientist goodies once the testing’s done. Here’s how to participate. Xbox Live Labs is really a brilliant idea. Microsoft needs to test its network, so why not…
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Updating Kills The Joy Of Broken Games
Remember back when broken console games stayed broken? Commenter Don’t forget to bring a towel! does, pining for the pre-update era in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. Enough updating. It seems nearly every game I play these days requires lengthy updates every other time I play them. The frequency of being updated is so absurd that…
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Get Your Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild Started Right Now
BioWare has launched Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Guild Headquarters, a place where players can get their groups organized well in advance of the massively-multiplayer online game’s launch. Are you and your friends ready to adventure in a galaxy far, far away? While Star Wars: The Old Republic isn’t due out any time soon, BioWare…
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The Fantastic Mr. Star Fox Takes A Look Deep Inside Himself
“I’ve been flying through silver rings for 18 years, and I never once stopped to ask why.” When Nintendo’s classic space shooter meets visionary director Wes Anderson, The Fantastic Mr. Star Fox is born. And then he questions his existence. Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox ranks as one…
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