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iTunes Chart Toppers: EA Will Not Be Undersold
EA’s big holiday sale brings Scrabble, Monopoly, and Madden back into the iPhone fold, knocking off promising newcomers like last week’s Rage and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 29 1 2 Smurfs’ Village (Capcom)…
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Show Them You Care With A Homemade Sonic Sackboy
Getting handmade gifts for Christmas was a real drag as a child, but now that we’re older we can appreciate the work that goes into creating a custom Sonic the Hedgehog Sackboy. Can you do-it-yourself? Pig Corner’s GoldenJellyBean gives us all of the tools we need to craft our own Sonic plushie out of nothing…
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The Nintendo Download: Two Cave Stories Are Better Than One
Nicalis’ adorable retro adventure Cave Story returns to the Nintendo Download in two new flavors: A double-screened DSiWare version and a free WiiWare demo. Only a raccoon playing disc golf could make this week any better. If you own an internet connected Wii console and haven’t downloaded Cave Story yet, you should probably get right…
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Black Friday Week Was Very Good To Nintendo
Fueled by new hardware colors and special holiday bundles, Nintendo had a very happy Black Friday week indeed, with 1.5 million video game systems finding their way into the hands of gaming-hungry shoppers. What systems sold the most? Nintendo’s handheld gaming systems won the week of Black Friday, according to the company’s own internal sales…
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Empire Strikes Back Director Irvin Kershner Dead At 87
Irvin Kershner, the director behind what many consider the finest of all the Star Wars films, has passed away at the age of 87. Irvin Kershner didn’t want to direct The Empire Strikes Back. When George Lucas asked him to take on directorial duties for the second Star Wars film, Kershner initially declined, only to…
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ReviewsReview: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn Relives The Glory Days
In the first two Golden Sun games the Heroes of Vale restored the awesome power of the Golden Sun, saving the world of Weyard from impending doom. Are their children up to the task in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn? Thirty years have passed since the events of puzzle-heavy role-playing games Golden Sun and Golden Sun:…
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GoldenSunDarkDawn Visual Thing
Psynergy is the power of the elemental forces in Golden Sun, used by characters in battle and to solve environmental puzzles. All about Djinni. These are Djinni (singular Djinn). How could you not collect them? Meet the new Heroes of Vale, same as the old Heroes of Vale, mostly.
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A Visual Guide To Racing Games
Whether you feel the need for speed or the need to make the car you’re driving sounds as close to the real thing as possible, The Kotaku Genre Guide to Racing Games has you covered. We’ve covered role-playing games, first-person shooters, and real-time strategy games in our ongoing genre guide series, so naturally the next…
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The Tester 2: Episode 4: “No Tiers In Testing” Liveblog: Why Am I Here?
I may be on vacation this week, but The Tester 2 liveblog waits for no man. Will EA executive producer Greg Goodrich throw a brick at Big Fazeek’s head while gently reassuring War Princess that she’s awesome? Probably not! Thanks to Michael McWhertor’s starring role as a guest panelist on The Tester 2, I am…
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The Patch That Changes World Of Warcraft Forever
In two weeks, World of Warcraft gains Goblin, Worgen, and a healthy dose of high-end content, but first the world must die. WoW lead systems designer Greg Street talks us through the rebirth of Azeroth coming in tomorrow’s massive patch. Street makes one point perfectly clear: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is not the expansion pack…
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Frankenreview: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Ezio might have a few underlings helping him out in his second outing, but the the video game reviewers in the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Frankenreview are legion. Ezio’s back and he’s heading to Rome to do some strategic killing in the name of all that isn’t Templar in the world, and he’s brought friends along…
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Unboxing OnLive’s Streaming PC Gaming Console
OnLive’s streaming PC game technology comes to gamers’ televisions when the OnLive Microconsole TV Adapters begin shipping early next month. Want to see what $99 buys you? OnLive’s Microconsole TV Adapter went on sale yesterday, with units expected to begin shipping the first week of December. It consists of a smallish black box that acts…
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Your Personal Jetpack Is Almost Ready For Purchase
Martin Aircraft Company’s “Segway for the sky” is about to go into production. Can anyone lend me $100,000? The long wait will soon be over, and in no time we’ll be able to add ‘rich jetpack owners plummeting from the sky’ to our list of pet peeves. And don’t think I’m calling it the Segway…
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Totilo Talks The Top Games Of 2010 On Fox’s Strategy Room
Stephen Totilo has left the building, and is as we speak making a beeline for Fox News studios to talk the top games of 2010 in the Strategy Room. Who wants to watch? Does four appearances on Fox News’s Strategy Room make Totilo a regular guest? Will we soon have to start referring to him…
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Sub-Zero’s Moves Are So Very Cold
You’ve seen the reason Sub-Zero fights, now check out the chillingly brutal moves the ice ninja is bringing to the next Mortal Kombat. Sub-Zero has always been one of my favorite Mortal Kombat characters. Not only can I pull off most of his freezing moves, I appreciate the fact that even if I don’t manage…
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What Will Your Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 License Card Look Like?
What exactly is a Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 License Card? It’s the key to knowing the strengths and weaknesses of your online opponents, while learning a little something about yourself in the process. Every Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 player gets a License Card, and on that License Card is everything an opponent needs to know…
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Lord Of The Rings Online Is Taking Your Hobbits To Isengard
The good news? Free-top-play MMO Lord of the Rings Online expands next fall with the Rise of Isengard expansion pack. The bad news? Guess where the traitorous wizard Saruman is hanging out lately. The epic tale continues in the fall of 2011, when Turbine finally makes it to Isengard in it’s epic massively-multiplayer online Hobbit…
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Man Jailed For Life Over Murder Of Xbox-Interrupting Child
Gary Alcock was playing video games in his girlfriend’s flat in Oldham, England in January when the woman’s 15-month-old daughter interrupted him with her crying. His reaction was swift, brutal, and ultimately deadly. That evening Alcock struck young Violet Mullen in the stomach hard enough to rupture her internal organs, placed her back in her…
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Free Nuclear Annihilation Coming To R.U.S.E.
It’s no trick; Ubisoft is delivering three new maps and two new game types to its deceptive strategy game R.U.S.E. next month as part of the free Manhattan Project Pack. The Manhattan Project was of course the name given the secret program that led to the creation of the first atomic bombs duiring World War…
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