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A Video Game Pirate Trades Sails For Steam
Kotaku commenter Heyitsguy was once a video game pirate, downing PC games for free via the internet. Now he is not. He tells you why in today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku. 2011 will be the year that I stop illegally downloading games. It began just a few years ago when I discovered torrents. I…
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Super Mario Mushrooms Served 120 Ways
Super Mario Bros. has mushrooms that change your size, grant you extra lives, and even poison you. That’s not enough fungus for deviant artist MyBurningEyes, so he came up with 120 new types of Mario mushrooms. You may have seen some of these creative Mario mushrooms before. Hell, you may have seen all of them…
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Get A Taste Of Diablo III Arena Combat With Bloodline Champions
The Arena player-versus-player system coming in Diablo III blew fans away at BlizzCon 2010. Stunlock Studios’ newly-released free-to-play PC arena combat game Bloodline Champions feels a lot like Blizzard’s competitive multiplayer mode. I couldn’t get enough of Diablo III Arena combat at BlizzCon. Bringing the fast-paced, mouse-drive combat of Diablo into a competitive multiplayer game…
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Cooking Mama Barges Into Café World’s Kitchen
Every day thousands of players flock to Zynga’s Café World, clicking on food and serving it to the virtual masses for experience points and in-game coinage. That’s some sweet action right there, and Cooking Mama wants a piece of it. Majesco makes its Facebook debut today with Cooking Mama Friends’ Cafe, weighing Mama’s charm against…
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LittleBigPlanet 2 Gunning For World Records No Other Game Could Win
Guinness is handing out the video game world records left and right, and now it’s Sony’s turn. They’ve assembled a crack team of LittleBigPlanet 2 players to take down fabricated records next week, and you can watch. At this point we’ve resigned ourselves to the fact that the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition is nothing…
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Which Console Is Best For First-Person Shooting Racists?
In order to determine which video game console you should play, you must ask yourself a few questions. Are you a gamer? Do you prefer first-person shooters? Racist or non-racist? Dorkly’s handy flowchart insults and informs. Judging by this graphic, I should be playing games exclusively on the original PlayStation. I have absolutely no problem…
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Zac And Snoop Play the Charity Game
Snoop Dogg and Zac Efron spent last night at the H.O.M.E. Foundation’s STIKS Celebrity Video Game Challenge in Hollywood, where Efron battled fellow actor Michael Strahan in Madden NFL 11 for the I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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This Video Game World Record Will Blow You Away
Yesterday Guinness awarded Jesse Moerkerk of Dutch gaming magazine N-Gamer a world record certificate for playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 for 18.52 minutes. Oh, and he did it while free-falling. It’s a brand new Guinness world record, but a world record nonetheless. From within the confines of an indoor skydiving tunnel, something I didn’t know…
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Scientist Plan Probe To Study Uranus
Uranus is a cold and distant world that hasn’t been seen up close for 25 years. British scientists propose a plan to launch a satellite in that could shed new light on the mysteries of the frozen planet. The seventh planet in the solar system and the third largest, Uranus was first discovered in 1781…
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Not Even Superman Can Defeat Mother Nature
Sony Online Entertainment’s massively multiplayer superhero game DC Universe Online launched yesterday, and I was not there to see it. What diabolical villain kept me from playing a major MMO release on day one? What you are looking at is enough snow to cause a major metropolitan area to grind to a halt. It may…
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Was Modern Warfare 2 An Act Of Sabotage?
Was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 a “silent rebellion” on the part of Infinity Ward, an early shot in the big Activision legal battle? Kotaku commenter Shibuya ESPer explores the possibility in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. Has anyone ever considered the ridiculous possibility that (Modern Warfare 2) was actually a premeditated “silent rebellion” type…
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This Is Not The Right Outfit To Wear In A Firefight
This is what passes for well-protected in SG Interactive’s newly-launched free-to-play online first-person PC shooter Project Blackout. Nothing says “I’m combat ready!” like a camouflage crop jacket, Daisy Dukes with fishnet stockings, and a padded orange thermal bikini top.
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Batman Would Completely Dominate World Of Warcraft
Billionaire Bruce Wayne uses his fortune to fund his never-ending war on crime. If events had played out differently, perhaps he’d be a gamer, using his fortune to fund a never-ending war against the Lich King. In this video mash-up created by Justin Herrera, the Dark Knight spends his considerable resources to create the World…
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Limbo Leads Developers Choice Award Nominations
BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 is nominated for five of ten awards at the 11th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Rockstar’s western epic Red Dead Redemption is up for six. Playdead’s downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game Limbo has them both beat. Limbo’s stark visuals, thoughtful puzzles, and purposefully vague story captivated players last year, and they…
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A Touching Rendition Of Secret Of Mana
Porting a turn-based role-playing game to the iPhone is simple. Nailing the controls on a classic action RPG like Secret of Mana is another thing entirely. How did Square Enix do? This is a pretty faithful recreation of the original classic on the iPhone (or iPad, in this case), and the controls are about as…
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What If Princess Peach And Zelda Just Like Being Kidnapped?
How do two strong-willed, independent women like Peach and Zelda wind up abducted all the time? College Humor presents the only answer that makes sense. Click to view This makes perfect sense. Ganondorf and Bowser always seem to go great lengths towards making sure their captives are as comfortable as possible. There’s certainly never any…
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Journey Creator Breathes His Game To Life
From his mouth to the screen, as seen in the PlayStation blog interview with thatgamecompany’s Jenova Chen about the artistic inspirations for his upcoming PlayStation Network game Journey. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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Pokémon Black And White Are Going On Tour
The Pokémon Company International is taking over shopping destinations across the U.S. to celebrate the impending release of Pokémon Black And White, with giveaways, free movie screenings, and people in uncomfortable costumes at every stop. Will they hit your mall? Pokémon Black And White hit the Nintendo DS on March 6 in North America, potentially…
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Would You Play A Game Starring The Man With The Golden Voice?
You’ve all heard the story of Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden voice. Now play the imaginary video game. Ted Williams: U-Talk is obviously not a real game. If it were, we’d all fail at it, because anyone with a voice like Ted Williams is either homeless or raking in the big bucks…
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