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The Bit.Trip Saga Reaches Its Final Destination
After five wonderfully retro-tastic installments, the Bit.Trip series comes to a close with the release of Bit.Trip Flux in this week’s edition of the Nintendo Download. CommanderVideo’s final WiiWare adventure is a return to form, in this case, paddle-form. After spending the previous five games steadily evolving, the Commander is back in the ball-bouncing form…
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An Indie Answer To Angry Birds On The Xbox 360
There is currently no way to play Angry Birds on the Xbox 360. Indie developer FrozenSoft fills the gap as best it can with FishCraft, the epic battle between forces aquatic and feline. It’s not all unoriginal! To the untrained eye, FishCraft may look like nothing more than a clone of Rovio’s ridiculously popular bird-flinging…
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Age Of Empires Online Switches Developers In Mid-Game
With two civilizations under its belt, Robot Entertainment tags in Chris Taylor’s Gas Powered Games to handle further development of Microsoft’s eagerly anticipated strategy game Age of Empires Online. What gives? Made up of former members of Ensemble Studios, dissolved by Microsoft after creating Halo Wars for the Xbox 360, Robot Entertainment was formed in…
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Astronomers Bear Witness To The First Planet Birth
Astronomers are abuzz over what could be our very first glimpse of a planet being born in the dust surrounding a young star some 350 light-years away from the earth, but don’t start passing out cigars just yet. The star T Chamaeleontis (T Cha) is only a faint dot in the small southern constellation of…
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Good? Bad? He’s The Guy With Electricity-Based Superpowers
Nothing changes a man like a pair of female embodiments of order and chaos. Check out the changes Cole undergoes in inFamous 2 as his morality gets twisted about, along with a peek at his brand-new ice-based powers. That tingling sensation? That’s not electricity, it’s the excitement building for Sucker Punch’s super powered sequel, due…
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SOCOM 4 Strategically Releases $150 Full Deployment Edition
Sony gives SOCOM fans a chance to gear up for the new age of motion-controlled shooters with the $150 Full Deployment Edition of SOCOM 4. What’s inside? One of the high points of the recently-released Killzone 3 was the brilliantly implemented support for the PlayStation Move controller and Sony’s new Sharp Shooter gun peripheral. With…
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Is It Time For Modern Warfare 3 Yet?
With glowing green numbers counting down to five days from now and the 2011 Game Developers Conference kicking off on Monday, it looks like we might be getting our first look at the next Modern Warfare on Wednesday morning. As many of you have noticed (OmegaSpartan noticed first), FindMakarov.com is ticking away like a time…
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Setting The Terrifying Tone Of F.E.A.R. 3
Have we seen all there is to F.E.A.R.? In this behind-the-scenes video the Day 1 Studios team explains how it’s keeping the experience and the terror fresh in F.E.A.R. 3. I am intrigued by this notion of wide-open spaces in what is essentially a horror first-person shooter. Ever since the original Alien I’ve felt the…
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Trolling This Post Would Be In Incredibly Poor Taste
Today’s edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku features a heartfelt plea from commenter GeshGav to keep the term ‘Troll’ from being rendered impotent due to overuse. At least I think that’s what he’s saying. Comments are one of those seemingly necessary evils of the blog business. Almost every news-blog has a comments section heaving with observations…
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The Ultimate Douche Gift For The Underperforming Student Gamer
What’s that, little Billy? You say you want a fancy Xbox 360 for your birthday? I’ve got something even better! I remember the days when good grades were the great motivator, the difference between getting the video game system you always wanted, and getting something like this. Don’t worry, parents; it’s called the Cool Gamer…
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This Powerful Pokémon Is Only Available For A Limited Time
The countdown begins when Pokémon Black and Pokémon White launch on March 6, giving trainers a little over a month to catch mythical Pokémon Victini before it disappears. Fire and psychic powers come together for the first time in Victini, the Pokémon so mythical it’s Pokédex number is 000. Players purchasing Pokémon Black and Pokémon…
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Fable III Journeys To Traitor’s Keep Next Week
Only the best-dressed adventurer will survive the three new levels for Fable III in Traitor’s Keep, the new downloadable content pack coming to the Xbox 360 on March 1. Ravenscar Keep, Clockwork Island, and the Godwin Estate will open to Fable III players for the price of 560 Microsoft points ($8.00) on the first of…
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Halo: Reach Players Get Defiant On March 15
Microsoft has nailed down a March 15 release date for the Halo: Reach Defiant Map pack, punctuating the announcement with a set of fresh screens showing off the three maps you’ll be paying $10 for. Let’s take a visual tour of Condemned, Highlands and Unearthed, the three new maps that make up the Defiant Map…
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Rift Might Not Be Ready For Rift
Due to overwhelming response, hundreds of hopeful players of Trion Worlds’ Rift have just had their afternoon totally screwed. Trion is opening new servers on the fly, so if yours is full, try another! This message brought to you by the guy waiting three hours to play.
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Create Your Own Online Co-Op Campaign In SOCOM 4
SOCOM is a series that’s all about cooperation, and in SOCOM 4 Zipper Interactive hands control of cooperative online multiplayer missions to the players, giving them free reign to create custom co-op campaigns. SOCOM 4 players will be able to choose from a selection of missions designed specifically for online co-op, tweaking enemy density and…
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Are You Ready For Rift?
The head start program for Trion Worlds’ fantasy MMO Rifts launches today, and with more than one million registered accounts to date, things are bound to get a little crowded. As of this writing there’s only a half-hour before the land of Telara is officially opened up to early start customers, with countless players staring…
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Age Of Empires Creators Declare Orcs Must Die
What can a lone War-Mage do against a never-ending horde of orcs hell-bent on invading his castle? Quite a lot, actually. We’ll find out for ourselves later this year, when Robot Entertainment releases its new action-strategy game, Orcs Must Die! Robot Entertainment, founded in 2009 by former members of Age of Empires and Halo Wars…
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Some Game Characters Need To Keep Their Big Mouths Shut
In today’s silent-but-deadly episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Inspector-Jones quietly sings the praises of video game characters that have nothing to say. Today I was arguing in defense of Valve keeping Chell silent in Portal 2. A few commenters remarked how they want Chell to speak, or commented on how Valve was lazy for…
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The Boisterous Shapeshifters Of Guild Wars 2
What’s eight feet tall, transforms into a wolf, bear, snow leopard, or raven, is unafraid of anything, and can drink you under even the shortest of tables? Meet the Norn, the biggest, baddest, and loudest race in Guild Wars 2. The shamanic barbarians of the North, the Norn are the most outgoing player character race…
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Bulletstorms, Storytelling, And Double Babies All The Way
Since this is the first chance I’ve gotten to do one of the new video day notes, I figured I’d demonstrate why I shouldn’t be allowed to do these ever again by showing off baby pictures. Really early baby pictures. The Marvel Edition Versus Fighting Pad Is Hideously Wonderful The Marvel Edition Versus Fighting Pad…
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