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Battleheart Is A Touching Take On Strategy Role-Playing
Bringing together a party of four diverse fantasy adventures on the field of battle has never been quite as touching as it is in Mika Mobile’s Battleheart for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Battleheart isn’t a full-fledged role-playing game, nor is it a feature-packed real-time strategy game. Instead, it distills those two genres down…
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Can You Beat A Computer At One Of The World’s Oldest Games?
As the world continues its love affair with Watson. the Jeopardy champion computer, The New York Times creates a simple online game that demonstrates how an artificial intelligence can outsmart a human at a slightly simpler game. Rock, Paper, Scissors has been played in some form or another since China’s Han Dynasty (206 BCE –…
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See Wonderland Torn Apart In Alice: Madness Returns
After seeing countless teaser trailers and bits of concept art of American McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns, how does the gameplay footage stack up? It’s even better. Can Alice: Madness Returns play as good as this twisted gameplay trailer looks? Find out tomorrow, when we’ll have a full preview of Alice: Madness returns tomorrow based on…
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Harrison Ford Helps Create Eco-Friendly Facebook Game
The man that brought Han Solo, Indiana Jones, and countless important men with kidnapped families to life takes a stab at game design, helping game studio Talkie create Ecotopia, a Facebook city building game that’s all about going green. Along with being many a gamer’s childhood hero, Harrison Ford also acts as the vice chairman…
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Gaming Before Bedtime Could Be Ruining Your Sleep
Texting, watching television, and playing games before bed could be responsible for 63 percent of Americans not getting enough sleep. The latest study from the National Sleep Foundation has experts suggesting an electronics curfew an hour before bedtime. It’s sad that I’m not sure what I would do in the hour before I go to…
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One Man’s Endless Love Affair With Pokémon
Today on Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Komrade Kayce isn’t ashamed to explore his deep and lasting love for everyone’s favorite pocket monsters. So, I just walked into work an hour ago. Store didn’t open till 10, but I was there at 9. I walk around behind the counter, completely empty store, rip into Pokémon Black.…
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WiiWare Draws Heavy Fire And Bomberman Gets Heroic
Nintendo delivers an impressive selection of downloadable Wii and DSi games this week, perfect for anyone that isn’t too busy catching new Pokémon to care, including a hardcore shooter and Bomberman’s mediocre Nintendo 64 adventure. One of two shining stars of this week’s Nintendo Download games, Heavy Fire: Black Arms from Teyon is the continuation…
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The Presidents Of The United States Of America Book Sweet Pokémon Launch Gig
Forget Red Rock or Caesar’s Palace. The only true indicator that you’ve made it as a band is when Nintendo asks you to play the launch of its new Pokémon game in New York. Welcome to the big time, Presidents! The alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America once prophesized(on the…
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Homefront Multiplayer Destroys A Perfectly Good White Castle
I don’t care which players are playing which side in this new trailer for THQ’s Homefront; when a White Castle goes up in flames, everybody loses. We don’t have White Castle here in Georgia, so I’m forced to pretend to care about video game events held in states that do house the fine establishments in…
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Keyboard-Friendly Robotic Hand Is Probably Harmless
One thing ever fledgling robotic killing machine needs is a good pair of hands, deft enough to type but strong enough to choke the life out of its victims. Virginia Tech’s DART is a good start. Robotic hands have been around since the dawn of artificial man, but they haven’t been very good. They get…
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A Role-Playing Game That Makes You Pay For Your Party Members [Update]
During my play through of role-playing game Hyperdimension Neptunia I am delighted to welcome a new character into my party, but the NIS America-inspired Nisa won’t fight with me or gain experience. She just sits there, until I pay. Nisa is one of two game developer-inspired characters (along with Gust) that join your party on…
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The Old Republic‘s Bounty Hunter Doesn’t Shoot First
Was Boba Fett a Powertech or a Mercenary? BioWare has updated its Star Wars: The Old Republic page with everything you need to know about Bounty Hunters, the class Empire players will turn to once they’re done waving lightsabers around. Star Wars: The Old Republic will allow bounty hunter hopefuls to don the distinctive armor…
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Why All The Call Of Duty Hate?
Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter WhoKnew? wants to know where all of the Call of Duty hate is coming from. Is it just because it’s beautiful? So, Kotaku-ians, why all the Call of Duty hate? Sure, people don’t like Kotick and his DLC antics. Sure, the games been running on the same engine since…
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Oh How They Danced, The Starter Pokémon Of Stonehenge
At last night’s Pokémon Black & White premiere party in London the starters batted cleanup for vocal group One Direction, taking the stage to show off the sort of moves no trainer can teach. There’s only so much dancing one can do while stuffed inside a giant Tepig, Oshawott, or Snivy costume, but these three…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Once there was an official Kotaku forum, where gamers could talk about gaming, but only the wisest and most beautiful readers could even see posts related to it. Congratulations! Thanks to reader ARYXANDRE for today’s Marvel Vs. Saints 3 image. Submit yours to #TAYpics. (Grab this month’s source image here and feel free to present…
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The PlayStation Move Can Control Robots Too
Yesterday Sony unveiled Move.Me, a software application that allows hobbyists and academics access to the Move controller to do things like operating robots remotely. Today, we see the Move operating a robot remotely. While not quite as impressive as some of the things we’ve seen hobbyists do with Microsoft’s Kinect, moving a robot around remotely…
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One Of L.A. Noire‘s Murder Mysteries Is A GameStop Exclusive
There are a million stories in this naked city, but the Naked City story for L.A. Noire is only yours if you preorder the game through GameStop. Since L.A. Noire’s particular flavor of police investigation action is episodic, standalone cases make excellent preorder gifts. That’s what Rockstar Games is doing with Naked City, which sees…
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A New Guild Wars 2 Class Emerges From The Shadows
Slipping through the shadows unseen, striking from the darkness with a relentless barrage of melee attacks, one could easily mistake the latest class revealed for Guild Wars 2 as some sort of assassin – and they wouldn’t be far off. So far we’ve seen two different flavors of casters and two heavily-armored fighter professions revealed…
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Microsoft’s SideWinder Gaming Hardware Isn’t Dead Yet
Has the long-lived SideWinder line of gaming-centric computer peripherals finally bitten the dust? Microsoft says it isn’t so. Microsoft’s been releasing computer gaming peripherals under the SideWinder brand for the better part of two decades, pushing out everything from flight sticks to elaborate force feedback steering wheels. The line was put on hiatus in 2003…
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