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Fallout: New Vegas’ Voice Actors Speak
No matter how many times I see the names together, seeing Matthew Perry alongside Ron Perlman, Wayne Newton, William Sadler, and Kris Kristofferson still feels weird. I suppose it’s because Ron Perlman has always been the narrator, Wayne Newton is nearly synonymous with Vegas, and Kristofferson is the go-to-guy for grizzly older men. Matthew Perry…
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A Different Sort Of Card-Based Gaming
Flickr user Dr. Von Krakenstein finds a novel new use for Magic: The Gathering cards, using basic land to create this pixelated Link, along with a nifty Mario and a passable Companion Cube. Dr. Von Krakenstein’s alter-ego Jose Armallis fuses two geek passions into three card-based works of art. In a way it’s a metaphor…
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Two Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Stories
With all the character reveals, beta testing, and viral websites, one could almost forget that Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has a strong single-player story mode. Here’s a trailer to help us remember, and another story to go with it. Speaking of brotherhood, I drove with my older brother Saturday to GameStop to preorder his copy of…
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The Nintendo Download: The Worst Final Fantasy
In 1992 Square released a special simplified Final Fantasy game on the Super Nintendo in hopes of popularizing the role-playing genre with the masses. It did not work. Now it’s on the Wii Virtual Console. Final Fantasy fans in North America were just fine and dandy with Final Fantasy for the Nintendo Entertainment System and…
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30 Million Accounts And Other Impressive Steam Numbers
What’s Steam been doing in the nine months since Valve last released detailed statistics? Adding another five million users and more than 200 new games, for starters. Steam exploded in 2009, and that explosion continues to expand well into 2010, with a record number of users driving a record amount of sales. With more than…
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Fallout: New Vegas’ First DLC Will Be Xbox-Exclusive
As if there was any doubt, Bethesda Softworks reveals plans to support Fallout: New Vegas with downloadable game add-ons, with an Xbox 360 exclusive pack coming out first. Hopefully they’ll work this time. Having released several downloadable add-ons for Fallout 3, it comes as no surprise that Bethesda has big plans for Fallout: New Vegas…
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You Might As Well Be A Robot As Far As Babies Are Concerned
It’s time for our mostly daily Kotaku science post! Today we take a look at an important scientific study that has found that babies can’t tell human beings from humanoid robots. I firmly believe that any scientific study that brings together babies and robots is worthy of our attention. This is mainly because it tickles…
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Vampires Head To The Blood Bowl
How did a game called Blood Bowl take this long to introduce an all-vampire team, and why aren’t they turning to dust during day games? The Blood Bowl Legendary Edition is on track for release at the end of this month, which seems like as good a time as any to introduce the bloodsucking undead…
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World’s Highest Gamerscore Reaches Half A Million
Stallion83 holds the Guinness World Record for the highest gamerscore in the world, and he’s just reached 500,000 gamerscore points. Think you can catch up? After a day filled with Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade games, Stallion83 finally hit the 500,000 gamerscore point mark by scoring a 20 point achievement in episode 4 of…
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The Young Jonas Brothers In Controller Confusion
Young Nicholas and Joseph Jonas are seen here playing a PlayStation 2 and a NES during the recording of Nick’s early solo album, as seen on robinod134’s Flickr stream Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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The Bit.Trip Fated To Continue October 25
The penultimate chapter in Aksys Games’ Bit.Trip saga opens on October 25, when rhythm-based on-rails shooter Bit.Trip Fate makes its WiiWare debut. Beat, Core, Void, Runner, and now Fate. The fifth game in the six-game Bit.Trip series hits WiiWare on October 25, with CommanderVideo facing off against his greatest challenge yet. The Mingrawn Timbletot has…
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Super Street Fighter IV 3DS Has Special Move Hotkeys
Street Fighter IV for the iPhone mapped your special moves to a single button. Super Street Fighter IV 3D for the Nintendo 3DS simplifies things even further. Rather than a single button for your focus or special moves, Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition gives you four panels on the touchscreen of the 3DS to…
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Wait, Did He Just Say “Sexy-Jiggly Boobs?”
NIS America’s random dungeon grindfest Z.H.P: Unlosing Ranger VS. Darkdeath Evilman is coming to the PSP October 26, and it’s bringing the “sexy-jiggly boobs” with it. Click to view Dying is as much a part of Z.H.P: Unlosing Ranger VS. Darkdeath Evilman as those sexy-jiggly boobs are. You’ll die over and over again in your…
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Final Fantasy XIV Free Trial Period Extended, Big Changes On The Way
In the face of overwhelming criticism of the game’s current state, Square Enix is extending the free trial period for Final Fantasy XIV Online from 30 days to 60 days and outline plans to make the game more user-friendly. If you’ve been following my weekly Final Fantasy XIV MMO logs leading up to next week’s…
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Atari Confirms The Return Of Star Raiders
In 1979 Atari introduced the joys of first-person space combat with Star Raiders. Next year Star Raiders returns, bringing team-based multiplayer space combat to the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. First released for the Atari 8-bit series of computers in 1979, Star Raiders was one of the first first-person perspective space combat games, and…
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Watch StarCraft II Being Controlled By An iPhone
In August we told you about an app that would let StarCraft II players control the game using their iPhone or iPad. Now we’re showing it to you. Dan Hellerman’s RTS Gameboard for StarCraft II was supposed to see release last month, but missed the mark due to some play testing and optimization. Now it’s…
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ReviewsReview: Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes Of Light
Four unassuming adventurers set forth on a journey to save a magical kingdom in Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light for the Nintendo DS. Now where have I heard this story before? Take four unseasoned heroes and toss them into a world-spanning adventure filled with mythical creatures, powerful magic, and twisting dungeons with turn-based…
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FF4HoL
The Hat System Combat This guy is a real game-saver. The concept art looks nearly as beautiful in-game. Guest characters join your party from time to time, like Torte, the pink mouse. Combat, which you watch after pressing buttons. Here’s the character status page! It’s a light-hearted romp. Mini-games like this shopping challenge can earn…
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Graphics Transform 600-Year-Old Clock Tower Into A Virtual Masterpiece
Using a technique called video mapping, the Macula project takes the 600-year-old Astronomical Clock on Old Town Square in Prague and transforms it into one of the most impressive things we’ve ever seen. See for yourself. The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo We stumbled across this video earlier today and each one of…
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