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A Little Splatterhouse To Cleanse The Palate
Had your fill of becoming the controller? It could be worse. You could be Rick Taylor, transformed into a rampaging juggernaut by a mystical mask and forced to fight in vicious survival arenas, as seen in these new Splatterhouse screens. When he isn’t busy hunting for Jennifer or trying on his nifty alternate masks, Splatterhouse’s…
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The Ultimate Guide To Xbox 360 Kinect
This is your guide to everything you need to know about Xbox 360 Kinect: how it works, what it costs, and what games you can play on it. What Is Kinect? Microsoft calls Kinect a hands-free motion control device for the Xbox 360. It allows players to control games using a combination of body movement…
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Microsoft Is Beta Testing An Episodic Xbox Live Poker Game Show
It looks as if the studio that brought us Xbox Live’s 1 Vs. 100 has a new episodic game show in the works, as beta test emails go out for Microsoft Game Studios’ Full House Poker. A reader-forwarded email from Microsoft Game Studios indicates that Full House Poker aims to bring live poker to the…
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior Gets Prettied Up For The PlayStation 3
City Interactive brings the head exploding fun of Sniper: Ghost Warrior to the PlayStation 3 next year, with updated graphics and plenty of exclusive content for Sony sniping fans. Sniper: Ghost Warrior saw mostly mediocre reviews, but people bought it anyway because it’s a game dedicated to one of the gaming world’s most enjoyable pastimes:…
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Apple Patent Takes Augmented Reality Games To The Next Level
Apple explores the awesome potential of augmented reality in a patent application that describes a multiplayer shooter that allows players to track each other for real using networked iPhones. Augmented reality is more than simply overlaying video game graphics on the real world using a camera. Sure, Invizimals is a hoot, but when it comes…
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ReviewsReview: Bit.Trip Fate
Gaijin Games compromises my ability to deliver a concise game description with Bit.Trip Fate, a rhythm-based on-rails twin stick bullet hell shooter. I guess that wasn’t too bad. Bit.Trip Fate is the fifth installment of Gaijin and Aksys’ Bit.Trip series, which combines ’80s graphics with modern game design to create unique experiences. In the case…
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Sonic Colors Gets A Chilly Reception In New York City
Sega celebrates the impending release of Sonic Colors in New York City tomorrow evening with an ice skating party in Bryant Park. Need a reason to care? How about free hedgehog hats? The first 300 guests to arrive at the Sonic Colors launch party at the at Citi Pond at Bryant Park in New York…
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Marvel Vs. Capcom Vs. Atlanta
The Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 models were in fine form last week during Capcom’s Fight Club in Atlanta, Georgia, which I missed due to being deathly ill. See more of what I didn’t see at Capcom Unity Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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Holographic Technology Is the Next 3D
Who needs flat 3D when you can have 360 degree holograms? Researchers at the University of Arizona have created a method to produce holographic images that refresh every two seconds, and say that 30 frames per second is within reach. Holograms have captured the imagination of scientists and science fiction writers for years, The video…
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Lovely Blanka, Meter Maid
You really don’t want to let the meter expire in a town where they employ World Warriors as meter maids. The constant fighting has to come to an end sometime, and then what will Street Fighter’s World Warriors do? Dorkly’s idea is solid enough, though most municipalities would rather lose a buck or two in…
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LittleBigPlanet 2’s Creatinator Spews Everything
The Creatinator is a magical hat in LittleBigPlanet 2 that fires sharks, missiles, cupcake icing, cows, and just about anything else your twisted imagination can come up with. The Creatinator is one of the new tools Media Molecule introduces in LittleBigPlanet 2 to give level designers easier ways to be creative. This unassuming looking mining…
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Marky Mark And Microsoft Bring Kinect To All The Good Boys & Girls Clubs
Actor Mark Wahlberg teams up with Microsoft today to help deliver a funky bunch of Xbox 360 and Kinect gaming hardware to thousands of Boys & girls Clubs across the nation. The Boys & Girls Clubs of America have been helping underprivileged children become productive, caring, and responsible adults for more than 100 years. Today…
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Now Movies Are Advertising In FarmVille
Tomorrow all 17 million plus players of Zynga’s Facebook game FarmVille will be getting a new neighbor: The villainous star of DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind, opening in theaters this Friday. DreamWorks Animation and Zynga team up for the first-ever feature film integration in the ridiculously popular Facebook game FarmVille. The self-described “incredibly handsome master of all…
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Hulk Hogan Plays Def Jam Rapstar, Flashes His Junk
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, daughter Brooke, and Jimmy Hart are having a wonderful time paying tribute to The Notorious B.I.G in Def Jam Rapstar, until the Hulkster decides the cameraman wants to see his penis. Thank goodness for censor bars. Not even during the height of Hulkamania was flashing Hulk Hogan’s privates a winning marketing…
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Dragon Age II Gets A Facebook Tie-In
Before you enter the Free Marches in BioWare’s Dragon Age II in March, enter them in EA 2D’s Facebook strategy role-playing game Dragon Age Legends and unlock phat loot for the main game. EA 2D augmented the original Dragon Age with Dragon Age Journeys, a browser-based prequel to the award-winning RPG. The studio returns to…
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The Kick-Ass Game Is New And Improved
Remember that Kick-Ass video game that came out with the movie back in April? There’s a “new and improved” version coming out next week that makes that one look like a beta version. Isn’t the digital age grand? It’s a sign of these digital times. Nearly seven months since WHA Entertainment introduced the Kick-Ass video…
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LEGO Universe MMO Log One: Some Assembly Required
Join me as I take the first steps in a four-week journey into the colorful candy world of NetDevil’s LEGO Universe. Kotaku’s MMO reviews are a multi-part process. Rather than deliver day one reviews based on beta gameplay, we play the game for four weeks before issuing our final verdict. Once a week we deliver…
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The Tester 2: “Series Premiere” Liveblog: A Brave New Cast
It’s time for the second season of Sony’s The Tester, and there’s a whole new group of eager job applicants this time around, along with a brand-new liveblogger covering the festivities. Join us, won’t you? With McWhertor becoming a downloadable television star this season, it’s up to me to track the weekly progress of The…
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MindJack Projects Itself Into January
While we’re still not 100 percent sure how Square Enix’s upcoming telepathic third-person shooter MindJack works, we do know when it’s coming out, as the publisher gives the game a January release date. Remember those scenes in The Matrix when the agents would leap from civilian body to civilian body? MindJack is sort of like…
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