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Remember, Remember The Robots Of Movember
It’s Movember, the time of year when males spend 30 days growing facial hair to raise awareness of men’s health issues. The team at Age of Empires Online developer Robot Studios prepares to do its part. Track their progress here Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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Who Should Be Responsible For Keeping Violent Games From Children?
A Gallup survey conducted over the weekend finds that while Americans believe the greatest responsibility for keeping violent games out of children’s hands lies with parents, they aren’t opposed to the government stepping in to help. With oral arguments in the Supreme Court hearing over the California video game law that would outlaw selling violent…
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Twice The Bug-Killing In Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
What could be more fun than sitting on your couch taking on giant insects and aliens with more than 300 different weapons in Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon? I don’t know, but here’s a shot of the game’s split-screen co-op. D3Publisher and developer Vicious Cycle’s follow-up to Earth Defense Force 2017 sees the return of…
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World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Launches On Pacific Time
East Coast World of Warcraft players fondly remember previous expansion pack launches when they could start playing three hours ahead of the West Coast. Blizzard evens the playing field when the Cataclysm expansion launches on December 7 at 12:01AM Pacific. Blizzard nailed down the launch time for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm today in a statement…
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What’s The Story With Catherine?
Grisly murders, deadly nightmares, and a marriage proposal followed immediately by a one-night-stand? What exactly is going on in Atlus’ Catherine? the game’s official website gives us the skinny. The Japanese website for Atlus’ Persona side-story Catherine has updated its story section, and Japanese gaming website Adriasang has translated the details, shedding light on what…
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Both Sides React To The California Game Law Supreme Court Hearing
Oral arguments were heard this morning in the Supreme Court case regarding California’s violent video game law, and Stephen Totilo was on the scene to get reactions from California Senator Leland Yee and video game industry lawyer Paul Smith. First up is lawyer Paul Smith who, along with Entertainment Software Association president Michael Gallagher seemed…
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Knights Of The Crystals Is Final Fantasy For Facebook
Square Enix takes the winning formula from Zynga’s Mafia Wars and applies it to Final Fantasy to create Knights of the Crystals. Will you party up, or spend some quality time breeding chocobos in Chocobo’s Crystal Tower? Yes, it’s Final Fantasy: Mafia Wars, more or less. Players complete quests using action points, leveling up and…
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Frankenreview: Fable III
If there’s one thing compiling the Fable III Frankenreview has taught me, it’s that even the most powerful monarch is subject to the court of popular opinion. In this case the court of popular opinion features the opinion of the assembled video game reviewers, who seem to have mixed feelings when it comes to the…
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Vagina Shooter Scores Penis Enlargement
Zombie Cow Studio’s vagina-based shooter Privates grows a pair and then some next year, when the free game finally gets its inevitable dick-based downloadable content. Set loose upon an unsuspecting world last August, Privates took gamers on a horrific journey deep inside a woman’s reproductive organs, controlling a crack squad of condom-headed commandos as they…
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Scientists Discover A Way To Erase Bad Memories
Science fiction takes another step closer to reality today as scientists discover a way to delete traumatic memories from the brains of lab animals. Your fear of Kotaku’s regular science posts may soon be a thing of the past! As human understanding of how the brain works expands, so does the number of delightful little…
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Super Street Fighter IV’s Latest Costume Pack Is A Day Late
Yesterday would have been the perfect day for Super Street Fighter IV’s Ryu, Ken, Dan, Gouken and Akuma to play dress-up with the new Ultra Shoryuken Pack. At least PlayStation 3 players can pay $3.99 today for these striking new costumes. Xbox 360 players will have to wait until tomorrow to put their 320 Microsoft…
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Mortal Kombat’s Scorpion Shows Off His Most Brutal Moves
Simply having access to Scorpion’s brutal move set in next year’s new Mortal Kombat isn’t enough. It’s in the way that you use them. This is obviously a video of someone who knows what they’re doing controlling one of Mortal Kombat’s most iconic anti-heroes as he punches, kicks, and grabs his way through a host…
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Project Gotham Racing Making A Comeback
Project Gotham Racing’s engines have been stalled since Activision bought developer Bizarre Creations in 2007. Is Microsoft warming up European development studios for a potential PGR revival? “Trusted sources” tell game development website Develop that Microsoft is currently courting several independent European studios to revive the franchise that was the definitive racing experience on the…
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Bejeweled 3’s Zen Mode Will Put You In A Trance
Bejeweled ‘s Endless mode is soothing enough to put players into a blissful trace. With subliminal positive affirmations, fine aural tones, and breath modulation, Bejeweled 3‘s Zen mode could have players slipping into puzzle-induced comas. After spending countless hours arranging gems into groups of three or more in previous iterations of Bejeweled, I would argue…
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Burger King Is Giving Away A Kinect Bundle Every 15 Minutes
Burger King is giving away a 4GB Xbox 360 Kinect bundle every fifteen minutes between now and November 28, and all you have to do is order a Whopper extra value meal. Is it worth it? It’s Kinect release week, and Microsoft has teamed up with Burger King to give customers a shot at winning…
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The Nintendo Download: Post Halloween Sugar Crash Edition
Nintendo knows that any sudden excitement might cause us to lose the candy-coated contents of our Halloween-stressed bellies, so they’ve gone easy on us in this week’s Nintendo download, with six titles that won’t upset our sensitive stomachs. It’s the beginning of November, and the start of the resting period between Halloween’s sugary embrace and…
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When An MMO Dies
A tricked-out dune buggy busts through a mural made up of post-apocalyptic imagery and battered road signs in the front of NetDevil’s Colorado offices, a lasting reminder of a world that came and went in the blink of an eye. Traditional video games are timeless. As long as one has the right equipment and their…
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