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Why Male Spiders Prefer Virgins
It’s Friday, so I picked something lighthearted and fun for the daily Kotaku science post. Did you know male wasp spiders snap their genitalia off inside the female during sex? Don’t worry, they have two sets. The animal kingdom is a funny place, filled with odd little discrepancies that keep people like University of Hamburg…
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Assassin’s Creed Ascendance Bridges The Gap to Brotherhood
What has assassin Ezio Auditore been up to during the time between Assassin’s Creed II and Brotherhood? Find out in Assassin’s Creed Ascendance, coming November 16 to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. From Ubi Workshop, the folks behind the recently released Assassin’s Creed: The Fall comic book series, Ascendance is an animated short film…
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Preorder Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded And You Get these Things
Square Enix dropped us a line today to show off the wonderful preorder incentive for Kingdom Hearts Re: coded available at GameStop and Amazon.com. What is it? According to Square Enix PR, this is a lovely set of stickers. Yes, either it’s the late 80’s again and no one told me, or stickers are back…
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The Michael Jackson Experience Makes The View Audience Scream
If you can stomach the sounds of Whoopi Goldberg talking with her mouth full, you see an impressive demonstration of The Michael Jackson Experience on the Wii and an audience overcome with the thrill of free stuff. Guinan chokes down a cookie while presenting Ubisoft’s Michael Jackson Experience for the Wii on ABC’s The View.…
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Rock Band 3 Catches Night Fever, Starts Jive Talkin’
Harmonix might be up on the selling block, but Rock Band 3 is stayin’ alive, with a six pack of tunes dropping next week from the Bee Gees. You shall now overflow with joy. I used to get the Bee Gees and The Beatles mixed up as a child, thanks to the former’s appearance as…
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This Uncharted Movie Rumor Cannot Possibly Be True
Goodfellas Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro reuniting for the Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune movie, with Mark Wahlberg potentially on board as well? A story about antiquities dealers in New York? That’s just crazy talk. Isn’t it? Could the dynamic duo from GoodFellas, Casino, Once Upon a Time in America, A Bronx Tale, and Raging Bull be…
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ReviewsReview: FlingSmash Nearly Lives Up To Its Name
For ten bucks more than the cost of a Wii Remote Plus you can pick up the new Nintendo controller with a copy of FlingSmash, Artoon’s paddle-ball platformer. Is it worth it? Let’s see. FlingSmash is a rather ballsy name for a game on a platform that began life plagued with television-damaging controller throwing. When…
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Know Mega Man’s Evil Robot Masters
With ten installments of the main Mega Man series and several spinoffs, it’s hard to tell one evil Robot Master from the next. That’s where Udon’s Mega Man Robot Master Field Guide comes in. The Mega Man Robot Master Field Guide, due out in March of next year from frequent Capcom collaborator Udon Entertainment, compiles…
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You Don’t Need Two Arms To Play Kinect
Chris Erickson’s brother found himself without the use of his right arm following a tragic accident, but that hasn’t stopped him from enjoying Xbox 360 Kinect games. Here we see one of the direct benefits of controller-free gaming. He might not do quite as well with some of the more limb-intensive Kinect games like Dance…
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Sorry Dora, You Are Not Top Chef
Dora the Explorer and Top Chef host and professional hamburger eater Padma Lakshmi hang together at the New York City launch party for Nickelodeon Fit for the Wii. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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Science Proves We Can See The Future
Is the flow of time constant, or can events that haven’t occurred yet influence our behavior? A new paper provides scientific proof that humans can see into the future. You probably saw this coming. Can we see into the future? It’s a power claimed by soothsayers, oracles, witches, astrologists, and prophets since time began flowing…
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Shogun 2: Total War Returns To Japan In March
The bow monks have notched their arrows, the boats have been launched, and the footmen are stirring nervously in anticipation of the newly-revealed March release date for Sega’s Shogun 2: Total War. Drawing on the wisdom of Master Sun Tsu and the experience of doing these sorts of games for more than a decade, The…
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This Is Apparently The Ultimate Gaming Advantage
Behold The Avenger, an Xbox 360 controller prosthesis that promises to improve your accuracy and reaction time. Steven says “It’s almost like having extra fingers.” We say “Who the hell is Steven?” Steven’s quote appears on the front of the web page for The Avenger, and while I suspect he is one of the many…
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There’s A Little Final Fantasy In Mario Sports Mix
The upcoming character-driven Wii sports compilation Mario Sports Mix is being developed by Square Enix, which explains how five iconic Final Fantasy characters have made it into the game’s roster. Who made the cut? You tell me, Kupo! No, it’s not Cloud and Sephiroth. Square Enix decided to go even more iconic than that for…
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How Square Enix Plans To Fix Final Fantasy XIV
It’s no secret that the second MMO to bear the Final Fantasy name has issues. Square Enix today lays out plans for massive patches in November, December, and early 2011 to fix the game. What’s changing? After many below average reviews and negative player feedback, Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada came out and said it:…
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Frankenreview: Call Of Duty: Black Ops
An elite force of soldiers that operates beyond the boundaries of any law. They are shadows, waiting for the perfect time to strike. They are the assembled video game critics, and this is the Call of Duty: Black Ops Frankenreview. There’s a new Call of Duty game in stores, and regardless of what the critics…
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Leona Lewis Launches Kinect With Her Voice
The UK pop singer responsible for the English theme song to Final Fantasy XIII, Leona Lewis helped launch Kinect in England yesterday during an event at the Natural History Museum. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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More Than Two Million Felt The Need For Speed Demo
A new Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit title is bound to get some attention, but more than two million downloads of the demo in two weeks? That’s a huge number, and EA has more where that came from. Two million demo downloads in two weeks is quite impressive indeed, and I was right there with…
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The Large Hadron Collider Eats Lead
Move over protons, now there’s something meatier. Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland have swapped out protons for electron-stripped lead atoms. Why? To see the beginning of the universe. It only took four days for researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider project to…
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Vietnam Vet Calls Black Ops Release Timing “Tacky”
Vietnam veteran and East Kildonan, Winnipeg resident Ron Parkes is angry, and Activision is to blame. The Vietnam veteran accuses the company of purposefully releasing Call of Duty: Black Ops to coincide with Remembrance Day. For those of you in the United States, Remembrance Day is a holiday observed in Commonwealth countries that remembers the…
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