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Tanya Jessen Talks Us Through The Gamescom Bulletstorm Demo
Remember the on-stage Bulletstorm demo we described while liveblogging EA’s Gamescom 2010 press conference? It’s much more entertaining with commentary from Epic Games producer Tanya Jessen. My favorite part of the demo Epic showed off at Gamescom was the running dialogue between the two main characters, which you pretty much completely lose once Jessen starts…
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Florida Man Accused Of Using Xbox 360 To Solicit Child Porn
A 22-year-old Florida man faces 16 counts of possession of child pornography, after allegedly soliciting a 10-year-old boy for pictures via Xbox Live. Police say Polk City resident Timothy Hammerstone confessed to receiving naked pictures of a 10-year-old boy from California after asking him to join his online gaming group on the Xbox 360. According…
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Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Single-Player In Action
You read about the demonstration of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood’s single player I saw at Gamescom, now see the demonstration for yourself. Ubisoft could have saved me a great deal of writing by simply sending this video out last week, but I enjoy the writing, so I don’t mind having written out a long explanation of…
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Wii Balance Board Powers Baby-Moving Robot
Children and adults with movement impairing handicaps have access to many devices to help them get around, but what about disabled infants? Researchers have come up with a baby-moving robot that uses a Wii Balance Board as its guide. A team of researchers from Ithaca College in New York have developed a rather clever way…
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Might & Magic Heroes Kingdoms Opens For Business
Ubisoft proudly launches its first massively multiplayer online game today, as the free-to-play Might & Magic Heroes Kingdoms goes live in your web browser or on your iPad. Might & Magic Heroes Kingdoms is an excellent way to wait out next year’s release of Might & Magic Heroes IV. This first installment of the franchise’s…
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No Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep For PSP Go Owners
Are you a big Kingdom Hearts fan? Did you trade in your normal PSP for a sleek and shiny PSP Go last year? Then you won’t be playing Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep any time soon. Amidst rumors that the latest entry in the Kingdom Hearts series, due for UMD release next month, would not…
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Experience Medal Of Honor With Fallen Angel
In part one of EA’s Medal of Honor experience video series, titled Fallen Angel, there’s a great deal of running, shooting, exploding, and colorful language. Last week at Gamescom, Crecente got to play through a level of Medal of Honor flying a gunship. Now EA lets us explore the more down-to-earth aspects of the title’s…
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Capcom Ups The Ante With The Dead Rising 2 High Stakes Edition
If the North American special edition of Dead Rising 2 wasn’t good enough for you, you’ll likely love Capcom’s High Stakes Edition, packed with swag and available now for preorder via the Capcom Store while supplies last. This is the ultimate collector’s edition for Dead Rising 2 fans, and it’s only available in extremely limited…
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The PAX Nerd Orgy Needs Women
What could be more exciting than a Friday night nerd orgy at PAX next weekend in Seattle? How about a Friday night nerd orgy with actual females attending? A Seattle-area Craigslist ad is calling for “like-minded adults” to attend “a friendly adult party” in a hotel room at the Penny Arcade Expo next weekend. “A…
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Becoming A Templar In The Secret World
Funcom has released a new trailer and screens showing players what it’s like to become a Templar, one of the three factions in the upcoming real-world supernatural massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Secret World. New York has the mysterious Illuminati, Seoul has the manipulative Dragons, and London gets the Templar, the most militaristic of…
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Red Dead Redemption’s Liars And Cheats Pack Is Two Packs In One
Because platform networks have issues with giving things away, Rockstar rolls its planned free Free Roam pack into its Liars and Cheats Pack, releasing one massive chunk of new content for Red Dead Redemption on September 21. What’s inside? Rockstar originally planned four downloadable content packs for Red Dead Redemption: Legends and Killers, which has…
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A Look At Flight Control HD On The Move
If ever a game begged to be controlled by a stick with a glowing ball on the end, it’s Firemint’s iPhone sensation Flight Control. Take a look at how the HD version for the PlayStation Move is shaping up. I was in Germany when the news dropped that Flight Control HD was coming to the…
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Xbox Live Indie Clips: Gravitron360
Today on Kotaku’s Xbox Indie Clips, we’ve randomly selected Gravitron360 by Ron Bunce, a gravity-based vector graphic shooter amidst a sea of vector graphic shooters. Sure it’s a clone of countless other games involving landing on strange planets, rescuing scientists, and battling with gravity, but at least it’s colorful, and it’s got amazing planet names.…
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Target Is Taking Game Trade-Ins Too
After telling you about Best Buy’s new trade-in program this morning, Target dropped us a line to let us know that their new electronics trade-in program will handle game trade-ins as well. Is anyone not offering game trade-ins? Where Best Buy is offering trade-in for your used video games, systems, and accessories, Target’s new electronics…
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Learn To Shred While You Sleep
A new Canadian sleep study had students Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, used the power of video game rock to determine the effects of a good night’s sleep on motor learning. Video games have long been touted for promoting strong motor skills in players, so what better what to determine how sleeping effects motor learning…
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This Could Be The Most Adorable Murloc Shirt Ever
The gaming t-shirt people at Jinx have released their fall World of Warcraft clothing line, and fans of the game’s most popular aquatic enemies really have something to gurgle over. While the new “Fear Hogger” tee brings particularly fond memories, the star of Jinx’s latest line of World of Warcraft-branded apparel is definitely the Murloc…
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Super-Skrull and Amaterasu Get Hyper In The Latest Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Clips
The Fantastic Four-infused Skrull and Capcom’s painting wolf show off their level 3 Hypers in two new clips from Capcom’s Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, also starring Dormammu, Thor, and Viewtiful Joe. None of the new characters were available to play at Gamescom, but Capcom makes up for it with two new clips showing off what…
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Best Buy Launches Nationwide Video Game Trade-Ins – Update
Electronics retailer Best Buy has rolled out its new video game trade-in program nationwide, offering a $20 gift card with select titles to help offset the fact that GameStop gives more credit on average. Update: Forget the extra gift card. Best Buy’s new trade-in program goes wide this week, launching in nearly 600 locations around…
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