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Women’s Tears Are A Real Turn-off
In today’s Friday fun edition of the daily Kotaku science post, scientists in Israel make women cry and then make men smell their tears. Surely that’s got to be fun for somebody. Making women cry is something that men do on a regular basis, often without any idea how or why they are doing it.…
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Your Computer Must Be This Powerful To Run Shogun: Total War 2
Shogun: Total War 2 has been dropping jaws with its gorgeous visuals since it was revealed at E3 last year. Surely such lush graphics come at a steep price? Let’s see what the official PC specs say. It doesn’t take that beefy of a PC to simply play Shogun: Total War 2. The biggest hassle…
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“I Made A Video Game Where You Can Blow Out A Man’s Asshole”
Hear Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski utter the words that could one day appear on his tombstone in the latest installment of Bulletstorm’s Bulletpoints video series. Not safe for work, unless you work at a proctologist office. At least this video didn’t call me dick tits
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No Love For Store-Exclusive Bonus Items
Commenter Curly Haired Boy rages against retailer-exclusive bonus items in today’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku. What’s the deal with retailer-exclusive bonus items? Fans hate missing out on them, they create more work for developers, and then the market awareness of a title just gets increasingly muddled. The completionist in me gets incredibly annoyed when,…
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If You Act Now, Dragon Age II’s Exiled Prince Is Free
Today BioWare dishes out details on The Exiled Prince, the first installment of downloadable content for Dragon Age II that players get for free – as long as they preorder the game within the next four days. The Exiled Prince, much like The Stone Prisoner downloadable content for the original Dragon Age, introduces players to…
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Pockie Ninja Mixes Naruto With Bleach, Unofficially
After weeks of teasing something called Project Ninja with images of tiny Naruto and Bleach characters, online game operator NGames reveals Pockie Ninja, a web game featuring characters “inspired by” those popular anime series. So far all I’ve seen is bits of character art and this trailer, released today with the reveal of the game’s…
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One Valid Excuse For Sucking At Fighting Games
Do you suck at fighting games? So does Kotaku commenter Masterage, but he actually has a valid excuse. Feel free to borrow it! I love fighters, but they don’t love me. I’ve just been told that my dyscalculia could actually be stopping me from correctly remembering complex combo chains. Would explain a lot, actually, as…
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The History Of The House That Built Guild Wars
Guild Wars’ developer started out with three former Blizzard employees working out of a spare bedroom. See how far they’ve come in this video retrospective celebrating ten years of ArenaNet. With the eagerly anticipated Guild Wars 2 on the horizon, ArenaNet could become bigger than it’s three founders ever imaged. It’s astonishing to think that…
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Flying Hamster Teaches Us about The Beer And The Bees
If you missed out on The Game Atelier’s fur-flinging shooter Flying Hamster when it came out as a PSP mini, the iPhone brings you closer to the heroic tale of beer, bees and bullets than ever before. Flying Hamster has its sense of humor in the right place. One moment it’s simply colorful and cute,…
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Gaming Technology Helps India Prepare For Terrorist Attacks
This 3D model of Bangalore’s Garuda Mall would be right at home in a modern video game, but it’s much more than that. It’s part of a simulation aimed at helping emergency response teams deal with the all-too-real possibility of a terrorist attack. Terrorism is a major issue in India. Over the past year alone…
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Mafia Wars Feels The Sting Of The Green Hornet
Wherever there is crime you’ll find the Green Hornet and Kato, and that includes Zynga’s popular social mobster game Mafia Wars, where players can unlock one hell of a ride if they play their clicks right. Zynga teams up with Sony Pictures Entertainment for the first theatrical tie-in for its hit game Mafia Wars. Between…
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This Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Magazine Cover Has A Secret
Game Informer has revealed the cover for its February issue, dedicated to Bethesda’s recently-revealed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and while the front is rather classy and subdued, there’s a mysterious party going on around back. What looks like a rather plain cover the print version comes with a special ultraviolet coating that gives the…
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War II – Retribution Plays The Race Card
Do you love all six races in Dawn of War II – Retribution enough to get the $39.99 Collector’s edition, or are you so preferential you’ll preorder one of the special race packs? THQ’s latest strategy foray into the Warhammer 40,000 universe is coming in March, which gives players plenty of time to decide where…
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Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Gains Marvel Girl And Mayor Man
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3’s big release is only a little over a month away, but Capcom still has some characters up their sleeves. Final Fight’s wrestler-cum-mayor Mike Haggar joins the battle, and Phoenix rises from the ashes once more. Mike Haggar’s inclusion in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 was pretty much a given, with pictures of…
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Sony’s CES Keynote Ends With Elvis
We may have gotten the same old song and dance from Sony regarding the PlayStation Phone and PSP2 last night following their CES press conference, but the event ended with a completely different kind of song and dance. Cirque du Soleil performs Elvis Presley’s Bossa Nova Baby from its production of Viva Elvis, closing out…
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What About The PlayStation Phone And PSP2, Sony?
Two notable absences from Sony’s CES 2011 keynote were the long-rumored PlayStation Phone and PSP2. In the question and answer session following the conference, Sony’s head of home electronics Mike Abary gives fans the old no comment. Abary was fielding questions that poured in from Twitter, Facebook, and the UStream TV chat room that hosted…
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The Green Hornet Demands A Kato Combat Video Game
Sony kicked off its 2011 CES keynote with some spectacular fight scene footage from The Green Hornet. If we don’t get to play Kato in a video game, something is terribly wrong with the world. As an added bonus, here’s Sony’s Sir Howard Stringer and the stars of the movie, plugging the movie. Follow our…
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This Is One Intense Music Video For An iPhone Game
Com2uS goes all out for the impending release of Inotia 3: Children of Carnia, hiring Korean indie band Dear Cloud to appear in this lavish music video for the second sequel to an iPhone role-playing game. This is the sort of treatment I’d expect a big console game release to get, not an old school…
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Doctors Say The 3DS Is Safe, Potentially Beneficial To Children
Nintendo warned that its new 3DS portable gaming system might have negative effects on young children’s vision. Now the American Optometric Association steps forward to say that using 3D technology could have a positive effect on children’s eyesight. How so? Nintendo was covering its bases at E3 last year and again in December when it…
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Some StarCraft Player Has The Best Girlfriend Ever
Adrienne Baginski’s boyfriend loves StarCraft II. Adrienne Baginski loves him, so she made him the most adorable plush rendition of a Protoss Probe she possibly could for Christmas. Lucky bastard. There are handmade plushies, and then there are handmade plushies. This is no “Oh look, I sewed two pieces of colored felt together and stuffed…
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