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Remembering What Never Happened
What if your most treasured memories from childhood were false? A shocking new study finds that one in five people fondly recall events that never actually happened. When I was seven -years-old my family and I had a black and gray cat named George Washington. I thought George was a boy, but then one day…
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Castlevania Puzzle: Encore Of The Night Review: Alucard’s Puzzle Quest
Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night takes the classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and transforms it into a puzzle role-playing game. Can they do that? I consider Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to be one of the greatest 2D action role-playing games ever created. It has everything: Responsive controls, an engaging storyline, Metroid-style item-based…
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Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game Looks Wonderfully Complex
From the creators of the World of Warcraft and StarCraft board games comes Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game, the second board game inspired by the addictive turn-based strategy game. Sid Meier borrowed concept for the original Civilization video game from an Avalon Hill board game of the same name, so it seems a no-brainer…
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Frankenreview: StarCraft II: Wings Of Liberty
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted a good old-fashioned Frankenreview, so we’re bringing it back with a game that hasn’t seen a sequel in over a decade – StarCraft II. StarCraft II is the sequel to what many consider the greatest real-time strategy game of all time. It continues the epic tale of interstellar conflict…
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Choose Your Own Fable III Villager
Get a head-start on populating the world of Fable III with the Fable III Villager Maker, an easy way to add a new non-player character to your game without having to be a virtual slut. If you played Fable II like I did, by the time the game was over, 80% of the non-player characters…
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BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Gets Two Special Editions In Europe
Are you a North American BlazBlue fan that’s upset that Aksys didn’t offer a collector’s edition for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift? If so, then these UK/European exclusive special editions will really piss you off. Like many North Americans, I was slightly disappointed that I didn’t have the option to pick up a collector’s edition of BlazBlue:…
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Afterlife’s Chris Redfield Needed A Resident Evil Montage
The actor behind Resident Evil: Afterlife’s Chris Redfield isn’t a gamer, so how did Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller prepare to play this iconic character? With a montage – a Chris Redfield montage. MoviesOnline.ca caught up with Wentworth during the San Diego Comic-Con earlier this month, where the actor admitted he’s never been much of a…
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God of War: Ghost Of Sparta Walks The Earth This November
Experience the origin of everyone’s favorite vengeful god slayer on November 2 when God of War: Ghost of Sparta hits the PSP, with “the ultimate DLC pack” offered up as a sacrifice to preorder customers. With 25% more gameplay than Chains of Olympus and the ability to render up to nine enemies on screen at…
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The Nintendo Download: It’s Not BlazBlue, It’s BlayzBloo
Aksys plays it fast and loose with the names in this week’s Nintendo Download, with BlayzBloo: Super Melee Action Battle Royale for the DSi and Deer Captor, a game where you “capture” animals with guns and crossbows. I suppose Aksys is showing its range, but I suspect the DSiWare BlayzBloo: Super Melee Action Battle Royale,…
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StarCraft II Heaven’s Devils Book Review: Humble Beginnings
Before Jim Raynor was the leader of his own paramilitary organization, blazing across the galaxy righting wrongs and fighting the good fight, he was the son of dirt farmers on a Confederate fringe world. This is where William C. Dietz’s StarCraft II: Heaven’s Devils begins. 18-year-old Raynor is plucked from his world by a recruiter…
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Project: MyWorld Is The Vision Crackdown And APB Were Built Upon
How did developer Realtime Worlds go from creating violent free-roaming shooters like APB and Crackdown to working on the massive social gaming undertaking Project: MyWorld? They don’t. It was the other way around. Realtime Worlds’ debut of the ambitious Project: MyWorld on Wednesday took a lot of people by surprise. Known for violent shooting games…
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How To Add West And Wesker To Lost Planet 2
Previously unlockable only by having older game saves on your console’s hard drive, a generous Capcom has divulged the secret to unlocking Dead Rising’s Frank West and Resident Evil’s Albert Wesker to Lost Planet 2, game save-free. Perhaps Lost Planet 2 didn’t live up to sales expectations because it required game saves from Resident Evil…
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There’s A Battlefield 3 Beta Invite In Your Medal Of Honor Limited Edition
EA sweetens the deal for players picking up the limited edition of the modern-day Medal of Honor reboot on October 12, with a beta invite for DICE’s highly anticipated Battlefield 3 in every package. We’ve heard nary a peep regarding Battlefield 3 since EA COO John Pleasants mentioned it back in June of 2009. All…
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Do You Think You Could Kill Lynch?
Don’t worry, I highly doubt the murderous psychopath Lynch was directing the question towards you in the latest ultra-violent trailer for the upcoming Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. At least I hope he isn’t, because that would mean he then refers to you as a “little shit,” and no one calls Kotaku readers little…
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Hot And Cold Running Game Controllers
When you play with thermoelectrics, you’re bound to get burned, or possibly chilled. Researchers from the at the Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that certain something that’s been missing from every video game that’s ever featured lava and ice levels: ThermoGame, a video game interaction system that delivers sensations of hot and cold to the…
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Three Hundred Dollars’ Worth Of Left 4 Dead 2 Tank
After teasing the first statue in their Left 4 Dead 2 line on Wednesday, Gaming Heads sends us detailed pictures of their grotesque Tank statue, along with a $300 price tag, and that’s the cheap version. The blurry picture released earlier this week did not do Gaming Heads’ rendition of Left 4 Dead 2’s Tank…
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All Three Dragon’s Lair Games At Once, All For Wii
Were Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace, and Dragon’s Lair II: TIme Warp too hard for you? Then you’ll want Destineer’s Dragon’s Lair Trilogy for the Wii, featuring a beginner moves guide and Watch Mode, so you don’t even have to play. Dragon’s Lair property owner Digital Leisure continues to try and milk as much money from…
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The Old Republic Visits Nar Shaddaa, A Good Place To Be Bad
The Star Wars universe has its fair share of wretched hives of scum and villainy, but Nar Shaddaa, the crowning jewel of the underworld, is a rather lovely hive of scum and villainy. Ah, The Smuggler’s Moon; doesn’t it sound so romantic? Orbiting the Hutt home world, the sprawling upper cityscape of Nar Shaddaa is…
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