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Thought Demon’s Souls Was Hard? Dark Souls Will Be Even Harder
Demon’s Souls was a challenging game, and while some thrived on that challenge, others shied away. That cowardly bunch will find no succor in the game’s follow-up, as Dark Souls promises to be even more difficult. More difficult than Demon’s Souls. To some that seems like an impossible thing, yet that’s just what Dark Souls…
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ReviewsThe Intercooler STS Is One Sleek And Sexy Cooling Solution
Last year Microsoft introduced the Xbox 360 Slim, a darker, skinnier, and prettier version of the Xbox 360. A body that sexy needs a cooling solution to match. Here comes the Nyko Intercooler STS. Specs Price: US$19.99 Platform: Xbox 360 What’s in the box: The Intercooler, and that’s all. There was a time when the…
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Scientists Working On Alien Communication Standards
After 37 years of broadcasting assorted human garbage to the universe at large, scientists are working on a protocol to insure future messages to extraterrestrial intelligences are more efficient and well-received. Can’t we just use Twitter? The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico broadcast its first messages into space in 1974, beaming a stream of…
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Japanese Homefront Might Make A Villain Out Of Canada
In THQ’s Homefront the United States of 2027 faces an invasion by North Korea. For the Japanese release North Korea has been replaced with “A Certain Country to the North.” Damn you, Canada! In order to comply with Japanese rating board CERO’s guidelines regarding the portrayal of existing people and countries, Homefront’s Japanese publisher Spike…
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The Man With The Double Chainsaw Arm
If nothing else, PlatinumGames’ multiplayer brawler Anarchy Reigns is another chance to get up close and personal with Jack Cayman, the chainsaw-limbed hero from the Wii-exclusive Madworld. What’s black and white and red all over and might keep your arm after a vigorous high-five? Not Madworld’s Jack, at least not anymore. He’s traded his monochrome…
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Creating Death Star-Level Crises In Star Wars: The Old Republic
The Old Republic world designer Jesse Sky and his team are responsible for creating Flashpoints, moments of group-based galactic crisis in the game on the same level as the Death Star battle. No pressure. We got our first look at Flashpoints last week in a video highlighting the team-based instanced adventures that punctuate key moments…
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And Now A Spooky Kinect Ghost Story
In today’s spooktacular edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter HeyCarl relays the twisted tale of the Kinect player that wasn’t there. Okay, my sister was telling me about her friend who has a Kinect. One night recently she was playing it (not sure what game though) with her son and after some time the son…
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The 3DS Will Probably Not Make You Bleed Out Of Your Eyes
Despite Nintendo’s various warnings, I very much doubt the 3DS will cause spontaneous bleeding from the player’s eye sockets. Impassioned Nintendo loyalty speeches, on the other hand, are a sure thing. If the Nintendo 3DS did wind up damaging a player’s eyes irreparably, I would hope it did so with Ark of the Covenant-level eye…
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Open-World Zombie Survival Shambles Slowly Towards Xbox Live Arcade
Code name Class3 is not an action game with zombie targets. It’s an open-world zombie survival game, and it’s coming to the Xbox Live Arcade courtesy of Undead Labs and Microsoft Game Studios. What’s the difference between a game with zombies in it and a zombie game? A game with zombies in it could just-as-well…
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Distracted Ten-Year-Old Games Himself Off A Railway Platform
A ten-year-old boy in Italy is saved from possible death by a heroic off-duty policeman after walking off a railway platform while playing his PSP. This is why we do not walk and game at the same time. Technology may truly be the downfall of man, or at least this small boy and that woman…
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Humanity Poised To Take Its First Steps On Fake Mars
Following up on one of our earliest daily Kotaku science posts, the Mars500 Project is now in orbit, with three crew members preparing to become the first humans to set foot on fake Mars. In an experiment that began in June of last year, six men – three Russians, a Frenchman, a Columbian, and a…
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Anarchy Reigns’ Big Bull Nails You With The Jet Hammer
You want a piece of Big Bull, the latest competitor unveiled for PlatinumGames’ Anarchy Reigns? Oh he’s got a piece for you, and you’re not going to like it one bit. Big Bull is something called a Cybrid, a cyborg in which the only remaining human tissue is the brain. So there’s something human lurking…
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Team Fortress 2 Freebies Packed Inside An Online Fantasy Game
There isn’t much of a crossover audience between a first-person like Team Fortress 2 and the online role-playing game Rift, but that could change now that a Steam preorder of the MMO scores players exclusive content for both games. Here we see one of the benefits of being a company that develops games as well…
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A Disgusting Way To Introduce The PlayStation Phone To The World
This creepy little clip is supposed to be the first commercial for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, aka the PlayStation Phone. I’d say we found out what’s become of the advertising team behind those PlayStation 3 baby ads While Sony Ericsson still hasn’t officially outed the Xperia Play, everyone and their brother has either seen…
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How Do You Budget Your Gaming Time?
How do you find the time to game? Kotaku commenter Bloodpudding shares his gaming regimen with us in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. Why not share yours? I motivate myself to wake up early by letting myself play video games for one hour each morning. That is to say, I wake up an extra hour earlier…
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These Lovely Ladies Are Waiting For You In Yakuza 4’s Hostess Clubs
Sega didn’t think North America was ready for the female-companionship-for-money mechanic of Japan’s hostess bars in Yakuza 3. They aren’t making the same mistake twice. Check out the pretty ladies in “the most controversial trailer for Yakuza 4 yet.” I’m still not sure why Sega balked at including the hostess bars in Yakuza 3. The…
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