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Frankenreview: Halo: Reach
Is Bungie’s final game in the Halo series a masterpiece, or is that a bit of a reach? We turn to a crack squad of video game reviewers for the answer. It’s been a long road from Halo: combat Evolved to Halo: Reach, and along the way Bungie has done a lot of growing. This…
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Hidden Gems: Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to run an item shop in a Japanese role-playing game? EasyGameStation’s Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the fast-paced world of RPG commerce. Capitalism, ho! Ever since Recettear appeared on Steam last week, fans of the game have been bugging us to give…
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Company Of Heroes Designer’s Widow Tells Her Story
Erin Wood, the widow of Company of Heroes Online lead designer Brian Wood who died tragically in a car crash earlier this month, appeared on NBC’s Today this morning to discuss the accident and how she’s coping with her loss. Click to view Seeing Erin talk about the accident that claimed Brian Wood’s life earlier…
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Game Obsessed Woman Neglects Children, Kills Dogs
When officers arrived at a house in Swanley, Kent, earlier this year to investigate appalling conditions reported by a neighbor, the game obsessed homeowner’s two dogs had been decomposing in the dining room for two months. The unidentified 33-year-old widow living at the residence with her three children tried to bar officers from entering the…
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The Hook Brings You Back To LittleBigPlanet 2
In LittleBigPlanet 2’s Adventures of the Amazing Grappling Hook, Media Molecule demonstrates once again how anything can be greatly improved by strategic application of a grappling hook. It’s true! The grappling hook is the ultimate accessory, whether you’re a sackboy or a movie character that never actually touched a grappling hook during the film you…
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The Nintendo Download: Staying Out Of Harm’s Reach
This week’s Nintendo Download features three games that probably won’t suffer much from tonight’s midnight release of Halo: Reach, along with the long-awaited tan version of Nnoo’s myNotebook. Rejoice! After working on the Nintendo Download just about every week since Nintendo started offering downloadable titles, you start to see trends. For instance, when a huge…
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Even Emirati Can’t Resist Kinect And Lady Gaga
Kotaku reader Anas in Dubai was surprised to find a Kinect display at his local GeeKay Games, and even more surprised to see an Emirati getting down and funky to a little Lady Gaga. If you’re worried about looking silly while playing Dance Central on your Xbox 360, then you probably shouldn’t do it in…
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Researchers Teach Robots To Be Decepticons
Robots will soon be weaving tangled webs as researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology grant robots the power to deceive, which sounds like a perfectly good idea to me. People tend to get angry when I casually mention the theoretical robot apocalypse, so I generally avoid the subject. Realistically, robots are simply machines, limited…
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My Favorite Moment In Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
My favorite moment in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is a cameo by a very special alternate universe version of Spider-Man. Don’t click play if you don’t want to spoil the surprise! I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for this particular version of Spider-Man. Maybe I’m just a sucker for this sort of thing.…
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How Health Works In Diablo III
Think you can just stock up on healing potions to keep your character alive in Diablo III? Think again. Blizzard has released an in-depth guide to how health and healing help promote strategic play in the eagerly anticipated sequel. Sure there are potions in Diablo III, but they are both rare and on a timer,…
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Frank West Takes A Trip To Fortune City For Dead Rising 2
A blurry “photo” that’s appeared on Dead Rising 2’s Tape It Or Die blog shows the game’s protagonist Chuck Greene getting a little help from a journalist who has been known to cover wars. While it’s pretty difficult to tell from the screenshot, we’re pretty sure that blurry guy busting heads with Chuck is none…
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Reviews
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Review: Broken Mirrors
What could be better than a video game featuring the amazing Spider-Man? How about a video game featuring four amazing Spider-Men? The Tablet of Order and Chaos has been shattered, and the Spider-Men from four different dimensions must act together to retrieve it before reality completely unravels. Rather than the free-roaming sandbox Spider-Man games of…
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Gimli And Samwise Talk Lord Of The Rings: Aragorn’s Quest
“My name is John-Rhys Davies and I play the role of Gimli in this splendid game, Aragorn’s Quest.” I don’t know about you guys, but I’m sold. I love John-Rhys Davies’ voice. I’ve loved it since I first saw him in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and while the actor himself might not have the…
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Vehicular Combat Plus Zombies Equals Blood Drive
Armed and armored vehicles do battle in a post-apocalyptic wasteland while laying waste to hordes of zombie strippers in Blood Drive, coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this November from Activision Publishing. To be fair, it’s not just zombie strippers. There’s also undead frat boy, cops, and “bachelorette partiers” roaming the streets as…
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Nine Minutes With Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
Insomniac Games’ North Carolina studio director Chad Dezern walks us through nine minutes of gameplay footage from the upcoming four-player co-op Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, showing us creative ways to hurt our friends. We can pretend that Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, introduced at GamesCom last month, is all about cooperation. It…
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Building Robots And Stages In Mega Man Universe
It’s a little less Dr. Light and a little more Dr. Frankenstein in Mega Man Universe, where you’ll choose from a wide variety of pre-made parts to create your own personal Something-Man. Players will build their own robots using a selection of colorful parts that look like they’ve been salvaged from the remains of dead…
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The Laws Of Physics May Vary By Jurisdiction
The laws of physics describe basic behaviors of nature that are, to our knowledge, universally constant. According to a new study conducted by astrophysicists based in Australia and England, these universal constants might not be as universal as we thought. The laws of physics are handy little things that help scientists make sense of a…
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Valve Figured Microsoft Would Fix The Xbox Live “Train Wreck”
In an interview with PC Gamer, Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the lack of updates for the Xbox 360 version of Team Fortress 2, saying the team figured Microsoft would fix the “train wreck” that is Xbox Live’s downloadable content rules. Putting your faith in Microsoft to change its rules seems like a losing strategy, and…
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Need For Speed World Goes Free
More than a million users have signed up to drive around in massively multiplayer online racer Need for Speed World, and EA shows its appreciation by removing level restrictions for non-paying customers, making all current and future content free-to-play. When EA’s Need for Speed World launched earlier this year, anyone could create an account and…
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