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Fallout: New Vegas Is Rolling In The Dead Money
Dead Money, the first batch of downloadable content for Fallout: New Vegas, is now available on Xbox Live, and we’ve got a lovely screenshot gallery so the PC and PlayStation 3 gamers can play along. Fallout: New Vegas players that scraped up the 800 Microsoft point asking price for the Xbox 360-exclusive Dead Money are…
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Drinking And Gaming Can Kill A Man’s Best Friendship
My pre-holiday vacation is over, and our daily Speak-Up on Kotaku returns! Today commenter Gaston explores the very real dangers of drinking and gaming. Let me tell you about the promise I made. Typical weekend night. Got home late, but not too late. Drunk, but not too drunk. Tired, but not tired enough to sleep.…
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inFamous Gets The Comic Book Series It So Richly Deserves
Sucker Punch’s inFamous for the PlayStation 3 was a comic book superhero origin story without a comic book. Thanks to DC Comics, there is now a comic book series on the way, with Doug Mahnke cover art to boot. inFamous always wanted to be a comic book. It was evident in the comic book-style cut…
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Let The Steam Holiday Sale Commence
Steam is ringing in the season with ridiculous savings on some of the best games available for the PC and Mac, with weekly and daily specials from now through January 2. Now how much would you pay? I don’t feel I’m exaggerating in the least when I call the sale prices Steam is putting on…
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The Key To Lifelike Faces Lies In The Eyes
What makes a virtual face appear alive? According to a recent study published in Psychological Science the eyes are the most important factor in imparting life to the lifeless. You can apply all the photorealistic textures you want to a 3D model, animating even the smallest facial tics, but without lifelike eyes your virtual human…
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Marvel Versus Capcom Versus Sony Versus Sackboy
LittleBigPlanet 2 beta user POLLOIZARRARAZ43 puts the Marvel, Capcom, and Sony character Sackboy costumes to good use, creating the ultimate fantasy cross-over fighting game: Sony Vs. Marvel Vs. Capcom. So the voice over needs a little work, and the constant screaming is a bit nerve-wracking. It’s still a nifty concept, and one that could expand…
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Go Back To The Future On Wednesday
Marty McFly’s epic time traveling adventure continues this Wednesday when Telltale Games releases the first episode of Back to the Future: The Game for the PC and Mac, picking up six months after the end of the original trilogy. It’s been six months since Back to the Future III, and Doc Brown’s lab is on…
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Lara Croft Shows Off The “World’s Largest iPhone”
Lara Croft’s face adorns the 56 iPads that make up the “world’s largest iPhone” at London’s St. Pancras International station. Once the installation was completed the devices were given away to celebrate the iPad release of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and…
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The Nintendo Download: Power Pick Got
Twas the Monday before Christmas, and all through Nintendo’s house several creatures were stirring, including an afro-wearing robot hell bent on rescuing his five foxy girlfriends from the man. While the Virtual Console gets a little love with the release of Mario Party 2 and DSiWare adds Dragon’s Lair II and a Christmas-themed installment of…
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Nintendo Download Gallery
Mario Party 2 Original platform: Nintendo 64 Publisher: Nintendo Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Violence Price: 1,000 Wii Points Description: Get ready to party like it’s the year 2000 all over again, complete with fancy costumes, bags of surprises and games galore. Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom friends return for a new…
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This De Blob Cake Better Not Taste Like Ink
Few things are important enough to pull me away from my vacation time to post on Kotaku. The one and a half foot tall De Blob cake that just arrived on my doorstep from THQ certainly qualifies. Since I began writing for Kotaku back in 2006 I’ve seen more than my fair share of video…
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De Blob Cake Gallery
This is officially the first game-related cake I’m going to get to eat, but how do I carve up art? Rice Krispie treats covered in fondant. Yum! I’ve almost never wanted to eat something’s fingers more. Happy holidays? Mission accomplished. Dynamic Blob action shot! Crane shot. De Blob has absolutely no ass.
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World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm MMO Log Part One: The Dog And Pony Show
It’s been a week since Blizzard unleashed the Cataclysm in World of Warcraft, and I spent the past seven days getting to know the Goblins and the Worgen. Which one did I prefer? Kotaku’s MMO reviews are a multi-part process. Rather than deliver day one reviews based on beta gameplay, we play the game for…
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The Tester 2: Episode 7: “Trouble With Trivia” Liveblog: Smoochies
Who will go home in this week’s episode of Sony’s The Tester 2? Who cares? We’ve got a picture of War Princess and guest panelist Adrianne Curry kissing. What were we talking about again? Kawaiizilla passed along this picture of Tester 2 contestant War Princess and this season’s guest pretty person Adrianne Curry sharing a…
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ReviewsReview: Tron: Evolution’s Glow Quickly Fades
Between Disney’s 1982 classic Tron and its flash 2010 sequel lies Tron: Evolution, the video game that seeks to bridge the gap between the two films. This is one shaky bridge. Tron: Evolution puts players in the digital shoes of Anon (short for Anonymous), a faceless system monitor that gets caught up in the struggle…
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This is Where Minecraft Is Made
Minecraft creator Notch gives us a peek inside the offices of Mojang Specifications, where Jens Bergensten (left), Daniel Kaplan (middle), and visitor Martin Jonasson are hard at work watching the Starcraft 2 semifinal, as seen on The Word of Notch Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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