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Dead Space 2: Severed DLC Reunites Players With Some Old Friends
Visceral Games’ first batch of downloadable content for Dead Space 2 is Severed, a single-player add-on starring Gabe Weller and Lexine Murdock from Dead Space Extraction. Severed will hit the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live in the coming weeks.
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Killzone 3 Lays Waste To PlayStation Home
The Central Plaza of Sony’s PlayStation 3 virtual playground PlayStation Home has never looked quite as attractive as it will this Thursday. To think all it needed was an alien invasion. Killzone 3 is coming on February 22, but the Helghast are touching down in PlayStation Home a little bit earlier than that. Starting Thursday,…
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This Is What Super Meat Boy Success Feels Like
Super Meat Boy is a 2D game with relatively simple graphics. That’s what it looks like, at least. This action-packed fan film by Joseph Manalaysay captures what beating one of the game’s brutal levels feels like. As anyone that’s been playing games since the Atari age will tell you, video games don’t need elaborate visuals…
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The Cheaper, Better Tasting Alternative To The Nintendo 3DS
In today’s short but sweet episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter 100Tacks spends a dollar on a portable Nintendo product that does 3D without the aid of special glasses. I got my 3D’S today for one dollar! About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have to say…
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Dead Space 2 Steam Purchasers Are Dead In The Water
Dead Space 2 became available for pre-purchase on digital download service Steam yesterday. It went live early this morning. So why aren’t Steam users able to play it yet? Several readers have alerted us to an issue with invalid serial key errors when trying to activate newly-purchased copies of Dead Space 2 on Steam. The…
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Kosmo Spin Is A Heroic Tale Of Breakfast And Balls
If you want to protect your breakfast from aliens, you’re going to have to take a few balls to the head. Kosmo Spin is much cuter than I’m making it sound, trust me. Kosmo Spin is a simple little game in which the player tries to save a little creature’s breakfast from an alien hell-bent…
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Is This The Battlestar Galactica Video Game Fans Have Been Waiting For?
A raging Battlestar Galactica fan was looking over my shoulder as I watched this official gameplay trailer for Bigpoint’s browser-based online combat game based on the hit science fiction series. She was not impressed. My fiancée was drawn to my work desk by the haunting sounds of Bear McCreary’s original score, ears perked up in…
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Putting A New Face On Sudoku’s Ancient Ancestor
One of the world’s most ancient math puzzles, the magic square has traditionally been a numbers game. Electrical engineer Lee Sallows gives the ancient construct shape, creating an entirely new sort of puzzle in the process. If you’ve played Sudoku, then you’re familiar with the concept of the magic square. It’s a grid filled with…
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Excitebike’s Bikes Weren’t All That Exciting, Were They?
In 1985 Nintendo kept North American children glued to their consoles via the magic of poorly designed motocross bikes. We were so stupid back then. Trying to apply real-world logic to classic video games is silly. They weren’t built for realism back then. They were a form of easy entertainment, and sometimes developers had to…
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The Nintendo Download Delivers Hot Girl-On-Girl-On-Skates Action
Have you ever wondered why there aren’t more officially licensed female roller derby video games? Jam City Rollergirls for WiiWare is here to help. Frozen Codebase fills a gap many of us didn’t realize existed today with the release of Jam City Rollergirls, the first official roller derby console game I can personally recall without…
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Nintendo Download Gallery
Jam City Rollergirls Publisher: Frozen Codebase Players: 1-2 ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Animated Blood, Comic Mischief, Mild Violence Price: 1,000 Wii Points Description: Blast off into the wild world of roller derby. Lace up your skates and join up with real-life roller derby teams the Texecutioners, Dairyland Dolls, Brewcity Bruisers, Rat…
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Stop This Senseless Video Game Console War
Why do we scream at each other? That’s what commenter Manly McBeeferton wants to know in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, recalling a simpler time when we used to play video games instead of arguing about them. Hardcore. Casuals. Gamers. Lend me your ear. It’s time to put a stop to console wars. It’s time to…
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Gaming Skills May Have Saved This Man’s Life
When a semi-truck carrying 30 metric tons of sand jackknifed through the concrete barrier into oncoming traffic on Ontario’s Highway 401 Friday morning, driver Matthew Krizsan narrowly escaped what might have been a fatal accident. Krizsan and a female companion were driving along the highway on Friday morning with a dashboard-mounted video camera running when…
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There’s A Dragon Age Prize In Every Copy Of Dead Space 2
Are you a Dragon Age II fan that wasn’t planning on purchasing Dead Space 2? Perhaps a free limited edition suit of armor can change your mind. Arise, Sir Cross-Promotion! Back when Mass Effect 2 came out, players that had also played the original Dragon Age: Origins scored a special suit of Blood Dragon armor.…
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Teaching Robots To Walk The Baby Way
Why do human children learn to walk so much easier than robots do? Because babies learn to crawl before they walk. University of Vermont robotics expert Josh Bongard demonstrates how robots develop faster when their bodies change with their brains. Walking is harder than it looks. Do a YouTube search for walking robots and you’ll…
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ReviewsThe Chameleon X-1 Wireless Gamepad Mouse Gets It Half Right
It’s a wireless mouse. It’s a wireless gamepad. The Shogun Bros. Chameleon X-1 is both of these devices rolled into one. Are these two great tastes that taste great together? Specs Price: US$55 Platform: PC What’s in the box: Mouse/Gamepad Device, Instructions, Driver Disc, USB Wireless Dongle, 1 AA Battery. Combining two or more devices…
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1,000 Spikes Is More Than Enough To Kill You
Rarely has playing through a game for Kotaku’s Xbox Live Indie Clips hurt quite as badly as playing through Aban Hawkins & the 1,000 Spikes hurt me. I’m sorry for the language, should any crop up in this video. I can’t quite remember if it did or not, and I don’t want to look, as…
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